we have a saying in russian - если хочешь быть отцом - закрывай яйцо свинцом ( if ya wanna be a dad, cover eggsack with some led) no joke like to this day

Homie has the headset/headphones dent in top of chrome dome 😘👌

i wish it was socially acceptable to just want to casually research nuclear energy fission has been so interesting since 10th grade chemistry i would spend 90% of my time learning about this if i could

After the SL-1 disaster, the three workers killed in the excursion were buried in lead coffins and the whole area was fenced off.

I've read repeatedly that a containment building would have contained the excursion of Chernobyl. Are they, in fact, strong enough?

My first reaction after watching the show was, it happened because it was in the USSR, but the remedy like getting all of this or that , or getting miners to do the job, was only possible because it happened in the USSR. I was in Europe at that time, with the lie that the nuclear cloud, stopped at the border (lol), but like many men during that period, my Thyroid Gland stopped working, at the time it was an “epidemic”. Then I discovered that I was allergic to iodine, so the next incident I would not be able to use it against radiations.

Yorkshire accents. Sheffield is in Yorkshire, I should know as an Englander.

I still can't believe Von Neumann wasn't in the movie 😭

To think the only nation ever to use atomic bombs delivered two within 6 days. A nation of abhorrent behaviours.

A burning nuclear reactor is probably as close as we can get to Lovecraft's stories in the "incomprehensible horror that kills you when you look at it" angle

You mean, it should not have been considered to be a literal fission or fusion nuclear bomb. Instead, were the reactor to explode again, once again, radioactive material would once again become airborne, further increasing the contamination to the territory in and around Pripyat, as well as further afield across the Soviet Union, elsewhere in Asia and Europe, and worldwide, for that matter.

Both the mother and her fetus were affected by the radioactivity from the Chernobyl emissions. The infant was more severely affected its exposure to the radiation because it was developing so rapidly in utero. Its cell were repeated dividing and developing as human organs and tissues, so the fetus’s radiation exposure subjected the fetus to repeated exposure to the genetic and tissue damages of ionizing radiation. This occurred during the explosion and release of radioactive materials into the air and onto the surfaces in and around Pripyat before the mother was evacuated. Because at the cellular level, the fetus’s cells were growing, dividing, and differentiating rapidly simultaneously while the mother’s cells were growing, maturing and dying far more slowly, because she was a mature organism, while her fetus was in the process of becoming a sufficiently developed organism capable of surviving outside the womb.

Yes, but previously, at Hanford, WA, the government did operate reactors that simultaneously produced electricity for the northwest’s power grid and also materiel for the Defense Department’s nuclear weapons program. You can bet and be sure that there was considerable information that was highly classified about those reactors and related equipment and that program in general. Those facilities were definitely owned by the 16:19 US Federal government. There were numerous federal employees as well as contractors involved with these facilities. The Hanford facilities were long ago declared to be Superfund sites for cleanup purposes.

You can take a look at the channel called Chernobylite where the narrator goes into other factors that were going on in the Soviet Union that had a direct impact on the construction of the nuclear reactor.

Another fix after this accident was mechanically blocking the controlrods from withdrawing the final 1.25m, meaning the displacers no longer have the ability to move into a void that may have formed underneath them.

Can you (or someone) explain something to me? If graphite is an inefficient moderator as compared to water and water cooled/graphite moderated reactors are inherently less safe due to the positive void - why on earth would you use graphite as a moderator. You mentioned something about RBMKs used as breeders and something about less enriched uranium but I didn’t track it exactly. Is there any fringe benefits from using graphite?

Halfway through this video I noticed your shirt, now I can’t stop laughing

I love your t-shirt that is great nerd gear

Ty for the video.

WHY DO U PAUSE THE MOVIE AFTER 6 SECONDS? I DON'T CARE WHAT MEANS THINGS, I CARE THE MOVIE, NOT THE EXPLANQTION FOR THINGS

The main thing i understand (and the easiest), nobody deserves to die from radiation sickness... it just feels and look wrong on so many level my God i don`t even want my worst enemy to die like that.

As far as the concern about the tanks exploding, I don't think they were worried about the pressure. I think they were worried about the heat splitting the water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen, obviously both extremely flammable. When I was in the Navy and we learned damage control, we learned that in the worst fire, a Class D, the fire is burning so hot that the metal itself is burning, and you cannot spray water on it, because the heat splits the molecules before the water hits the fire and actually gives the fire more fuel. You use a special chemical mixture called Aqueous Film Forming Foam, or AFFF. The concern here, I think, is the same. I don't know how hot the fuel would be sitting at, but I imagine they are concerned about the hydrogen molecules being exposed to a hot mass (which is the more likely concern given that the mass would already be exposed to oxygen). Now, the spontaneous ignition of hydrogen is dependent on several factors, but Class D fires usually burn at over 1000 degrees Celsius, and that is the point at which it is considered dangerous to spray water. This would be in an unpressurized environment. Assuming the tanks in this instance had lost all power, the water within them is under the same criteria. And from what I understand, the nuclear "lava" they are referring to is burning at around 1500 degrees celcius. From what I understand, its a very real concern for them, especially considering it is impossible for any of them to actually go into the facility and see everything first hand. I gave this comment my best shot, but I would love to get your response to it. With the "lava," do you think that's possible?

You sure about the bleeding? That's put in the radiation dosage chart at 4 Sieverts and the guys who went to the core took that dose every minute. Also: The feedwater should absolutely not be radioactive ^^ I was a bit surprise you did not jump on that.

Not a nuclear scientist. But as a viewer of the movie, I figured the blooding was due to the heat rather then radiation. Both from the door and graphite. I assume they are extremely hot physically on top of being radioactive.

My theory for why civilian nuclear power became prohibitively expensive and new construction basically dropped off after 1990 was because the military was no longer quietly funding them following the collapse of the Soviet Union to breed plutonium and tritium. Same way the CIA and military intelligence quietly funds bio weapons research at civilian virology labs.

11:38 on what basis you say that? LoL on theories? cmon you cant say that :)) noone know about speed of light. PERIOD. all big words from so called ... scientists ... theorists ... LeL

Chernobyl wasn't just steam. There were two blasts. The first was steam. The second was the hydrogen that was generated from the heat exploding as well. Not much of a difference, but worth mentioning.

Just yesterday saw an inteview with a guy who worked at the moment of the accident in the reactor room 3. He didn´t understand what was happening and then saw a guy on a strecher being carried. His skin and clothes was all tattered, just horrible.

Korean 🚀🇰🇵🚀 Acupuncture is the Best Remedy For International Dis-ease called : ..... 🎃.NATO.🎃. 🧞 isn't it pravda that Ukraine Become a Pia-no keyboard for NATO Composer to play : (zeL+en+sky) style Symphony of Necropolis, For: Black Rock,💱 Black Stone,💱 Black Water,💱 In "White" House🚽. What a clowns.🆘.

You could see this guy out in public, or be standing behind him in a grocery store, and have absolutely no idea he’s a fucking nuclear engineer.

My dad was at the SL-1 accident... ( I was also born at that base )

Then, is that right to consider that radiations "break" your body in a way, then what people see of you declining are the logical failures & consequences of your own body while facing other threats like... being alive (lol) but without the "proper" and complete [human constitution] equipment you should have? Is this life becoming impossible with those "new parameters" and your broken circuits? Are the burns on hands, arms, legs etc linked to the fact that your body cant produce or maintain skin cells anymore? (Not a scientist at all, really not hahaha, just curious to know If I just found a deeper comprehension of how ARS works).

Basically it's like radiation destroying your body at the atomic level? :O

👍

The worker who started bleeding. He is a notably big fella and hauled that door open. The spots he started bleeding were mostly his contact points with the door and frame. Would the compressing pressure. he exerted on his skin and muscles or contact with those surfaces for a prolonged period contribute to bleeding so soon?

At 2:38, I'm pretty sure that's Coventry! I recognise the council house and the court. :D

Creepier still: All the music was remixed from actual sounds recorded in nuclear power plants. The background music is Chernobyl singing to us after death. 😮

This was an explosion of heat and gas, not an atomic bomb. Moreover, what really caused damage was not the explosion and the shock wave it emitted, but the radiation emitted by the reactor to the environment and atmosphere....

Communism wasn't the problem. The problem was that the whole USSR administration during Gorbachev was based on lies. Just like Legasov said in the show, it all happened beacause of lies. It's sad to see it happening again in real time in USA.

Деякі казали що це був паровий вибух і їх було два ,а слова про ядерну бомбу від Лєгасова було направлено на те щоб люди відчули жах . Це моя думка.

The surrounding buildings were on fire for a while. Pictures taken from the scene show huge plumes of smoke for at least twenty-four hours.

Well done. Learned a little about nuclear energy production.

Sadly, the show unfairly portrays Dyatlov as an arrogant “prïck” like you say.. when in reality he was highly intelligent, calm, stern yet never belittled or yelled at his peers even during the disaster. That scene where he’s having a tantrum, slaps the clipboard out of the guys hand in the control room never happened. Even after getting exiled to the gulag, he wrote papers attempting to exonerate his colleagues’ actions. He helped expose the ongoing flaws he had personally observed at the reactor prior to the explosion. How the HBO series depicts him is a reflection of Soviet propaganda - ironic & tragic considering one of the major themes was “what is the cost of lies”. RIP to a good man & scientist, the scapegoat of Chernobyl 🍸

So I know this an old video and maybe it’s been stated, if so forgive me. But remember this was the Soviet Union. Scientist knew they had to lie to get things done that actually had to be done just like the KGB or the military or any “career party man”. Even if they Valery and his team knew it would created a 2MT explosion, he knew the rest of the room didn’t and that was something the soviets greatly feared! Also remember the character of Ulana wasn’t a real person but rather a combination of dozens of scientists that Valery worked with during the whole process. But having 40 something actors saying things and wouldn’t be as memorable as one. Thanks for the videos I am enjoying your work. Cheers

CHARLIE MURPHY!

The scene showing the collapsed core, where there is bleeding through the skin, soaking into the clothing, may have been illustrating that those workers were in an environment saturated in droplets, highly radioactive, settling into fabric of the clothing and the pores of their skin.

Why didn't Chernobyl use Hydrogen instead of Graphite ?

You didn't mention the CANDU reactors

Everythings impossible till it happens

Hi Charlie, the plastic is to protect the firefighter, his immune system is destroyed and any infection will be lethal, much love from the UK