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Communist lying about the facts and the figures actually being way different.... Shocking. They still do it to this day and it seems like most people still fall for it, at least until they we get slapped in the face with reality.

Victim? He accepted a position in a massive nuclear powerplant when he knew he was totally unqualified to do so. That is the action of a corrupt and dishonest person. Only in Russia could that be possible. And considering every attempt by Ukranian politicians since the 90s to have the files held in Moscow of the trial and records of the incident released have failed how come you claim to know what really happened? The 2 dimensional HBO "play" was sympathetic to Fomin and did not put any blame on him. You have watched it, i presume?

So doing your job causes crisis. And when everything tells you "this is the off switch". It actually became the trigger itself. There was no winning in this chain of failures and events. Just people stuck in it to play it out.

The sound quality of the voice over is very bad, almost unintelligible.

The incompetence, negligence, and corruption of the Communists party knows no bounds

Pelo menos foi rápido, e não por envenenamento radioativo. Que descansem em paz.

The state is never wrong. Top party members are protected.

The Communist/socialist paradise

To be fair to the operators, the AZ-5 was supposed to be their emergency shutdown switch, the idea of it making things worse is completely counterintuitive. I can't fault them for that action. I can fault them for starting the test late and doing it without the nuclear physicist who was supposed to oversee the test.

I have questions: My undestanding (please correct if wrong) 1- Boron = poison water = poison steam = fosters fission graphite = fosters fission 2- the control rods have graphite section at lower end and boron at upper end. so half insertion means graphite between fuel rods, and full insertion =- boron between fuel rods. (please correct the above if wrong). ----------- The Question: So at the time where their attempt to lower from 1600 down to 700mw resulted in it dropping down to 30mw (in part due to Xenon), shouldn't they have lowered the graphite into the reactor to increase reaction instead of lifting them out and filling the channels with water? or did their action just lift the boron out, leaving the graphite between the rods to get maximum possible reactivity to get power back up?

I don't think the reactor was a terrible design... It was reliable after design changes were implemented

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Your temperature measures sound wrong, not boiling water cant have 165 degree celsius, because water boils at 100 degree celsius, maybe your source is american and gives temperatures in fahrenheit which makes 165F = 74C which is a temperature where water doesn't yet boil. Anyway thumbs down, untrustworthy bad research or bad explanation.

Yes please a Duga / Chernobyl accident foil hat video!

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Not great, not terrible.

Nothing could have saved that reactor but hitting the Az5 button which lowed the borax control rod made of borax mite has dampened it but sense the soviet cut cost and tipped it graphite the reactors power output skyrocketed befor the borax could neutralize the reaction

I've heard it said that in order for a modern nuclear reactor to blow up like Chernobyl's did, someone would have to be in the control room *actively trying* to make it explode. It sounds to me like, in the case of Chernobyl, to have kept the reactor from exploding, someone would have had to have been in the control room actively trying to make it *not* explode.

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7:46 i mean the cables might have been invisible, but it struck just a few meters below the crane itself. The cranes must have been clearly visible, no? 🤔

Atomic playground

I’m only watching this to get the “other” side. You guys are making him to be the victim here.

That whole ordeal was so sad

I think it is unfair to even question did toptunov press THE button. It doesn't matter. The explosion was fault of the soviet union, not this one man.

The Chernobyl series focused completely on the radiation effects when they showed the crash. They showed the crane cables getting hit but all dialogue was about the dangers of radiation as the helicopter crashed and even after. They framed the crash like it was completely caused by the radiation and the crane was just something it crashed into after the helicopter was completely doomed. It is nice to see the true story behind that crash.

Thank you very much for the great video. I would also like to thank the many commenters for being sophisticated and very scientific. Both the video and the comment section were very entertaining and informative. Thanks.

Lots of power for the duga oth radar🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

0:14 moved what? 🧐

The issue with Chernobyl was the lack of transparency within the USSR’s upper management, as well as Dyatlov’s ignorance. I don’t think there’s really much to unpack. If the reactor was designed with safety in mind, the disaster wouldn’t have happened, and the same can be said of Dyatlov making the decision to cancel the test.

Salute to dyatlov when people had limited knowledge about rbmk reactor. He stood against irony of USSR boldly during interrogation, there you can see, person pleading guilty won't talk like that.

People need to remember one simple thing. In situations such as Chernobyl and many other such disasters, its almost always the case that individuals are not the ones at fault, systems are.

it was never advanced. not even for the time. the reactor setup was using unclosed water loops, directly connected to the outside, we dont do that anywhere else

Any idea to drop glue on a radioactive leak can’t go well 😬

Dumb question: why not launch the materials into the hole? I'm thinking modified artillery shells with no explosive, or even slinging sandbags from a trubuchet. Sure it'll kick up dust, but more than dropping loose sand from a helicopter? If you miss the core, you're still spreading the items around the contaminated area.

This video is just wrong, the solution is to make sure you have water flowing through the core

They are waiting for you, Anatoliy. In the test chambeeeeer..

People from the old days are so dumb. Just hit the power button like a ps2 and it will turn off. Hold it to reset it. U don’t needa be playing w control rods and shit

Read “Midnight in Chernobyl”. Just take a blood pressure pill before hand. So many failures in the RBMK. They knew about the problem. There was absolutely no reason to attempt this test. Zero utility. The minimum number of zircon moderation rods had been removed. So many stupid decisions.

I’m only at the beginning of the video and I clearly see the Helicopter strike the Crane cable. The anchor of the cable even drops the moment the blades hit. You really have to think low of people to try and say it was because of flying in a irradiated airspace

More than one nuclear power plant disaster could have been averted if the operators had just kept their hands in their pockets and not tried to 'save the reactor' (chernobly, TMI)

Probably the most inadequate nuclear design ever to depend on cooling water as a moderator.

odd choice of music

Great series on _Chernobyl._

Thanks for upholding truth and historical facts in a world of lies and deception, thanks for correcting their misinformation retcon propaganda

Now the sons of these great men are killing each other in a senseless fratricidal war..............madness ☹

Each time you say "novovorozhnev".. is like a bullet

Doesn't need silly piano music.

Nerd😅

Wait it was actually Dyatlov that said the Reactor was exploded?! How could the TV show get this imporatant detail so wrong?

This is enlightening, but how consequential is it in the big picture? It seems to me that regardless of what the xenon status was when they lowered the power from 700MW, the problem came later, when the power dropped to 30MW. At that point, they probably should have canceled the test and shut the reactor down. Instead, they tried bringing power back up. There is doubt over exactly how low ORM was at this time, but there is no doubt that it was low - most likely under 20. If the reactor is operating at 200MW with most of the control rods removed, then something is seriously wrong. If it wasn't xenon, then what was the cause for such low reactivity? I think the answer basically boils down to the RBMK-1000 being extremely unstable and unpredictable at low power levels, with things such as the temperature and flow rate of coolant being perhaps more of a factor in reactivity than movement of rods... and worse still, with so many rods fully withdrawn, the reinsertion of rods would likely dramatically increase reactivity in the lower part of the core. It was simply a seriously flawed design, that no operators could adequately control if things drifted too far away from their ideal ranges.