If you’ve done any amateur research on this disaster, this guy’s inaccuracies will be obvious and alarming. Why he even bothered with a q and a is beyond me. He knows nothing.
11:58 The material that congealed was sand. It mixed with molten concrete, uranium and graphite creating a unique substance called Chernobylite that exits nowhere else on Earth.
11:58 The material that congealed was sprayed into the atmosphere by choppers. It is specifically designed to attract lead molecules as it fell. Then this substance was subsequently cleaned by the liquidators.
Is was silver iodine. Yes there was chernobylite made which is nowhere else on earth unless in Fukushima which you won't find out about cuz its still being covered up but you're wrong about what you say it was.
+mike powers Silver Iodine is what they used in artillery shells to prevent the radioactive cloud from spreading to populated areas. I'm not certain that is what they sprayed with choppers, to pull the vaporized lead out of the air.
23:18 signs across Europe have that, the front side of the sign shows the town you are arriving in. The crossed out name naturally is facing the town and just says to motorists that they are now leaving. Derp
The meaning of the red stripe on the names of the villages is that when you enter the village(from the main road) you see the name(without a stripe) and when you leave you see the other side(the one with the stripe)indicating that you leave this area.
The memorial of road signs. It's standard across a lot of eastern Europe (in my experience of living there) villages/towns have the name on them as you enter the town, and as you leave the sign again with the name crossed out to indicate you're leaving. There's no deeper significance of the crossing out.
Correction the Ukraine was a Soviet State of the USSR. They were a part of the Soviet Union. Countries such as Poland, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia we're satellite states also known as Warsaw Pact countries.
Worker or Soldier..same shit back then in former USSR - Who cares anyway ..They poluted the world with the freaking system of the C party and now they paying for it...well not realy ..EU are 21 Bill Euros to save the planet building that crap tent.......USSR no more thank good
Having to been to the site and seeing much research I admire the speaker. He gathered info and presented it well. Many facts continue in dispute to this day. And, he said in beginning he is traveller, not scientist. Good job.
Love watching presentations like this, nicely done! thank you!, the substance used at 12:00 was dubbed 'burbur' which is a sticky liquid that coagulates with radioactive dust and plasters it to the ground.
They started to bury radioactive rubble until they realized it put it closer to the water table. After that they left it above ground. Kopachi is the only village that was buried, and one building remains. Workers in Chernobyl village work and live there for 2 weeks, and then away for 2 weeks. All food for workers in the exclusion zone is imported from outside the Chernobyl zone. Only the last remaining residents still eat radioactive food.
nuclear accidents only remembered at anniversaries, like with Chernoby -10, 20, 30 years were time for books, documentaries and publications. In Russia and Ukraine when person dies their relatives will have commemoration dinner right after funeral, next such dinner will be in 9 days, another one in 40 days and final dinner is to mark one year since person died. This one year commemoration dinner is last, after that family and friends will never meet all together for the special occasion of remembering this person. Our Chernobyl 30 years anniversary was like this last commemoration event. It is last chance for people to remember and discuss it. After that Chernobyl will become history. It will be filed and sent to archives. No more anniversaries... this was our last commemoration dinner.
53:36 they do function. I witnessed one trip multiple times for shoes being contaminated. There was mud underneath and the sensor for the foot went crazy. They had shoe wash stations outside of the building and they were cleaned and everything passed. It was extremely stressful.
The radiation increases happens due to the graphite rod which covers the u235 fuel burns & melts the uranium into open atmosphere. Corium is so hot when it gets contact with water converted to super heated steam with hydrogen gas at high pressure which is extremely flammable . Two operators from N°4 went inside the highly radioactive water pond to drain the water inside reactor which was poured to put off by fire department to put off the strange fire.
the crossed out side of the town name signs means you are now leaving said town, it is not a negative thing they probably gathered the signs from the towns and place them there, one would be on each side of the road as you drove out of town you would see the town name with a cross going through, indicating you are now leaving said town.
Interesting presentation but this guy could really get few facts right. The 2nd massive explosion wouldn't happen just because concrete cracked and whole thing collapsed but because there was water in the basement of the reactor which would turn into superheated steam. 2nd thing is the remaining reactors didn't shut down but remained to operate. last one shut down in 2001.
Matt Gorzka I think your right. There is a lot of misinformation in this vid. There are many better vids concerning Chernobyl. Bionerd23's channel comes to mind.
This "10 times larger than the Hiroshima bomb" claim is bullshit. There could have very well been a steam explosion if the molten nuclear fuel had made contact with the water and it certainly would have dispersed more radioactive material but there's no way in hell that explosion could have been equal to 150 kilotons of TNT. You can not possibly generate that kind of explosion from a non-nuclear steam blast. Even nuclear fuel in the reactor can't do it - the uranium is far lower of a grade than what is used in atomic bombs. Nuclear reactors can explode under the right the condition but but orders of magnitude less severe than an atomic bomb. It's utterly impossible to ever get an atomic bomb sized blast from a nuclear reactor. And even if by some miracle this 150kT blast could happen, there's no chance it hell it would destroy Minsk, 300km away. The blast radius from a 150kT is a mere 3km. This guy is off on his numbers by several orders of magnitude.
I have heard other numbers mentioned but I guess they mean that the nuclear fallout would have been that much worse, not that the actual explosion would be that big. The 1000 train cars prepared to evacuate Minsk have been mentioned before. Check out Battle of Chernobyl from 2006 with interviews with Gorbachev and Hans Blix.
+Matt Gorzka Glad you noticed this as well. Several statements he made are incorrect. I credit it to him not really having done research on this mishap but rather a tourist seeing the results and basing most statements on what he was told by guides. He made a good attempt but too much misinformation.He also failed to mention a very important detail about the disaster. This mishap was caused by an experiment they were conducting that kept getting delayed. Their 1st shift personnel were to handle to experiment since they had scientists, engineers, and a very well trained crew running the reactor but then the project got pushed to 2nd shift that wasn't nearly as informed on the operation and risks posed. If I remember correctly, most of the issues happened during the 3rd shift that really was clueless on what was going on. I may be getting some details mixed up since I last researched this disaster many years ago and have since forgotten quite a bit.
Yeah, they're talking fallout because the reactor had tons and tons more radioactive material. The fire alone was spreading fallout over quite a large area. Adding A LOT more would just make it a lot worse. Half of europe would be uninhabitable at the least
I was 9 when Block IV went to hell.. I still remember instructions what we can eat, what we cant, what we need to wash and so on.. Cabbage was a big no no for example. spinach as well etc... Btw, substance mentioned around 12:00 ( after question) is boric acid mixed with sand and lead and some other things.
Boric acid was also realised to be a bad decision. It turns solid waste into liquid waste, which is much more difficult and costly to handle and process.
The pictures of what happened to the animals completely breaks me because it's so heartbreaking that animals who never did anything wrong to this planet had to suffer like that.
3:32 They just don't decided to test. The plant already failed three tests, which consisted in stop running the turbine to simulate a strike, and firing the diesel engines, to get the water going being the goal to be less than 75 sec. to get the engines running at nominal speed. It wasn't to save energy, that is incorrect. I'm glad he is in the lumber business, he should stay there.
Omg i never knew that but i have always been convinced my mothers cancer was a result of chernobyl - i always remember at the time of the disaster and the weeks after my mother here in Scotland had been doing a lot of gardening and sitting out in the back garden because the weather had been nice - a couple of days she remarked that there was a strange smell in the air - after this she began to feel unwell and despite going to the doctors many many times they could find nothing wrong - this went on for a long while until she was told she had terminal stomach cancer and had 1 year to live - she died 1 year later - i always had the chernobyl thing in the back of my mind but you think people would never believe it - im so shocked to see your post after all these years
p.s it all came back to me recently ( which brought me to click on this video) because of the recent trouble at the plant and now the recent illness being found in children in the UK which is not Coronavirus related they say and unexplainable - it just made me think is it possible ...
WOW. I have so many questions. like how you got so close to the reactor and were you worried you might get sick? I want to know why they would build a museam in the exclussion zone if it is in the exclusion zone were they worried about getting sick when they built it and who they thought would visit it? I want to know about the mayday celebration was that it chernobil or held in the exclusion zone? did they hope people would stay inside instead of going out into the contaminated air? thanks I am SOOOO interested and who is the biggest source of funding the clean up the site?
Just found this, really happy it's here. I attend a lot of their lectures and this one was easily one of the best. Fascinating subject very well presented. In the little bit of research I did on nuclear disasters after seeing this (got me curious!) I found that there is a lot of disagreement on exactly what happened and exactly what the long-term affects are, and will be. Like a lot of things, I guess.
thank you this was absolutely an amazing resourceful presentation. No one will ever know each and every fact and there will always be more to any stories but you sir have done an amazing job and i to one day hope to visit chernobyl as it has been a long awaited dream of mine also. Thank you and I appreciate your work
I lived in Sovjet union till 1990... Than moved to Germany with my parents. Only in Germany we realised what really happened... Everybody were asking us how we dealed with it there. We didn't know what they were talking about.
I've got to agree with you there! Who would be brave enough to lie and hold back crucial information from the top party officials including the Boss Gorbachov in the Soviet Union? They sat on their hands , procrastinating, hoping it'll just go away. Rather like in 1941 with Op. Barbarossa?
15:53 That plank was only used to point out the most radioactive parts, for priority clearance. They used normal spades to actually clear it. Why not shovels? Possibly because a spade would pick up less weight*, allowing the men to keep their fulcrum hand at a greater distance. (Unless spades just happened to be what was in the nearest stockpile.) *Ballpark - a solid shoebox size chunk of nuclear graphite might weigh 21kG (~46lb)
@Lebo leigh Leigh calm down rude fucker! I was born in 78, I lived 700km from it, I drank Lugols not to get thyroid cancer, I lived in a country that was contaminated after torrential rain all week after explosion. Did you? We're your parents being afraid of buying vegetable and fruit for two years? Did you ever had thyroid scan at the age of 15, 19 and 23, when the doctors "didn't like it looked"? DID YOU? So shut the fuck up yourself.
This was informative in many ways, but there were a number of errors. First, the primary purpose of this RBMK reactor was not power production, but to make plutonium for Soviet nuclear weapons. A reactor made primarily for electric power production would neither have a graphite core (intended to slow neutron for bombardment of U238 to make plutonium) or be fueled with U238 - which does not fission. The RBMK reactor produced electrical power.as a byproduct One other glaring mistake: the speaker said words to the effect that American aircraft overflew Chernobyl and photographed the reactor explosion. Actually, it was a U.S. Landsat 5 satellite that detected and photographed the fire at unit 4. The speaker said something about refueling the reactor which caused the accident: it was a power test to determine whether residual steam could provide sufficient electrical power until auxiliary generators could start, produce sufficient power, and be brought online to power water pumps that would cool the reactor in the event that power from outside electrical sources was lost and could not power reactor cooling pumps. The speaker attributed the second explosion to be caused by steam. Actually, runaway prompt supercriticality occurred, with the internal physics being more similar to the explosion of a fizzled nuclear weapon, and that this failed/fizzle event produced the second explosion. The speaker said that the Chernobyl exclusion zone would not be safe to live in for 20,000 years: actually, the half-life of PU239 is 24,000 years. For the area to be free of lethal levels of plutonium will require hundreds of thousands of years to pass as very small amounts of plutonium are deadly.. The primary fuel used for the RMBK reactor was U235, which has a half-life of 703.8 million years. As there was U238 present in the fuel rods of Unit 4 for the conversion to plutonium, the half life of U238 is 4.5 billion years. Look it up. There were many other inaccuracies, but these were the earliest and some of the largest mistakes the speaker made.
Lmao omg it gets even worse! That's not the red forest...lol. That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. Honestly if a junior high school student presented this to me I'd give him a C+
@@SpenserRoger "Let's start out saying that I am a traveler. I am not an academic, neither am I a historian." Now let's hear your correct facts and how you would give grade's to anybody (including yourself)
@@troelskristensen2000 Huh? Do you want me to go through and point out each of his mistakes? I can assure you there are many of them---and there's no excuse for it---the information is readily available. Also if you want me to grade your comment: I give it a C-.
I don't understand why people are giving this guy a hard time. He explained according to official data. The number that died according to authorities, not according to conspiracy theories. He even explained that "yes, the unofficial death estimates are much higher than that".
I have actually ridden those playground cars (34:07) ALOT as a kid in early 90's. Not in Chernobyl but in other town...they were exact copies and were installed all over the soviet union... they were maintained until 1996 or so then i guess they've run out of spare parts...
Fukushima is an issue that is still being covered up and with the continued shaking and quaking in the pacific ring of fire, I sense that we are closer than ever to an extinction level event.
A lot of Japanese told me that that the USA exploded submarine nuclear device in the pacific to cause the Sunami in The eastern coasts of Japan. I do not know the truth but this kind of devastating Sunami is exceptional.
About the food being grown for consumption. Most foods don't absorb the cz137 to whay would be considered dangerous levels. Things like mushrooms do however absorb high amounts, and not like people eat it but the moss absorbs tons of cz137.
Well, excluding the factological error at the beginning which would invalidate all this effort in academic circles, the presentation is interesting. The test was not about saving energy, nobody cared for energy efficiency in USSR :) It was a safety test in the case of loss of power in the cooling system. Ironically, the failure of the test is not what went wrong, but there are a lot of documentaries around explaining the details.
He says that Gorbachev found out from Sweden about the accident, but another documentary(The True Battle of Chernobyl Uncensored / Chernobyl full documentary) has Gorbachev himself saying he got a phone call regarding an "accident" at the plant.
@23:09 - the signs with the city/village's names are actual signs. when leaving the place you see the crossed out side. this is common in czech republic, for example. here they are presented with a double meaning. sad and beautiful.
I can't speak for the buying power but the currency exchange rate was .7135 Rubles to a USD. So 800 rb would have been the same as about $1121 in 1986, or $2613 in 2019 dollars 2019 ..so you the Q going .why on earth did they do it .....well the answere is easy ...Lov of the Contry ....same reason you love Donalad The drumpher might me the answere
There is something amiss here. Chernobyl was not the cause of the Glastnost policy. Gorbachev called for Glastnost in a speech dated March 11, 1985, more than a year before Chernobyl. Chernobyl was a humiliating and expensive defeat catastrophe for the Soviet Union, but it was only one of a great number of internal factors that pushed the USSR over the edge. It was the total effect of the inefficient planned economy and political repression. Externally, it was indeed American pressure, after Reagan deployed medium range nuclear missiles in Germany, and especially after American supplied rebels moved over the Afghan border and began operating in the Soviet Union itself, threatening the whole stability of the Caucasus. I have met several Russian emigres who have said it was Reagan who killed the Soviet Union. Even Tip O'Neil admitted after the fall that only Reagan was right; the rest of the world was wrong. I really do not like the revisionism that is going on here in the West.
Carter started the war against the Soviet Union by supplying weapons to the Muzzheedins or Pakistani army dressed up in tribal dress in Afghanistan to create Vietnam for the SU. Reagan continued with massive finance and weapons for Pakistan who invaded Afghanistan in 1974.
With regard to thyroid cancer, the biggest threat is iodine 131, which has a half life of about eight days. Administration of several hundred times the recommended daily allowance of stable iodine saturates iodine receptors in the thyroid gland which prevents uptake of Iodine 131. Prompt administration of stable iodine could have prevented most cases of thyroid cancer.
@ 2:33 Correction: Ukraine and Belarus weren't "satellites" of the former Soviet Union. They were actually two of fifteen Soviet Socialist Republics (SSRs) that constituted the USSR.
I'm don't understand how can some magma(molten nuclear fuel) coming in contact with some water cause a explosion so big it can raise a city 150 plus miles away?
Waoooo how the F can you tell hes delusional....did you escape from USSR swiming to latvia pr to Chernobyl fu-k up or what - The man in this video is a member of World Affairs Council of Western Michigan - He got all the facts up straight....You def not got it bro ,,,,Swim back to USSR and Mins or even better Pripyat...grow some Vegis and have a good BRIGHT LIFE
45:30 according to the slide, 3 mile island was mechanical failure. naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah Although the initial problem was mechanical failure of a pressure release valve, the plant would have automatically shut down and become safe if it weren't for the meddling of the plant operators.
An acquaintance of mine, Kathleen Mallon Bell, visited that area in 1991 as a horticulturist and city/town planner. She gave birth prematurely to baby girl. She brought back some yellow potatoes from the area. Kathy died from breast cancer fifteen years later at age 55.
2019 Agolf Twitler's Great cusing Donald The Orange Twitter . posted a Twitt shit.....Im behind you all !! Like you would like that man behind you in ant sort of poss
Belarus and Ukraine were constituent countries of the Soviet Union not satellite countries. Example of a satellite countries would be Poland and East Germany.
Uncle of my wife, after his retirement from the diplomatic service of the USSR, took part as a volunteer pilot of helicopter to put concrete on the Chernobyl nuclear plant after the accident as he was during his youth was a test pilot in the Soviet Air Force. He knew that as a result he would get cancer. That was the spirit of the people of the Soviet Union. He died after a few years in cancer.
I know a Ukrainian man who remembers pushing his baby daughter in a stroller in Kiev on that May day. He remembers the metallic taste of Iodine in his mouth as he walked around...it was radioactive Iodine of course.
I really liked your presentation! I have been to Chernobyl 4 times during Grad school. I am a nuclear engineer and it is not only my work but a absolutely fascinating hobby! The RBMK reactors were very interesting, Very well done! Kudos from Philadelphia! ( U of Penn)
Well first of all - If you now are a nuclear - (well i despite that ) tink you are a key bord worrior with lots of mouth and now show..-- You say that the nucluer work is not your only work you got you Idiot.... ....Silly bugger- why on earth do you need two works if you are a nucluer dud,,,,,This is not MC. Donalds you know.... Drag your Indian ass off the wellfare and get som shooling before you start posting crap like this ...I do hope you reply to me - I do work with Physics on a high level
I guess they should do firebreaks now - gates free of vegetation or when the whole place has a wildfire then it would spread wildly out of control and they have to force somone to fight the wildfire.
Also, that picture claiming to be the Red Forest is fake. It's from a website with pictures from around the zone put through a filter to turn the trees blood red. The actual forest is coloured a rather dark orange.
Well presented and well done for the tour as I'd not like to tourist myself due to the health aspect. But after a well presented presentation I think the q and a is like answering questions down the pub rather than polished like the slides. The reporters here seem like children asking daddy a question. You don't answer everyone with 'I Guess' you should know or establish 'In my opinion' Respect anyway to everyone
lol at TVs and stereos in every country house = poor/old person house in a Ukrainian village-like small town in USSR years (: That's just projecting western way of life onto a whole different system of living.
i dont know why - but i could listen to this man for hours. if school were (back in the days) just as interesting Chernobyl - i would graduate anything lol
I can't speak for the buying power but the currency exchange rate was .7135 Rubles to a USD. So 800 rb would have been the same as about $1121 in 1986, or $2613 in 2019 dollars 2019 ..so you the Q going .why on earth did they do it .....well the answere is easy ...Lov of the Contry ....same reason you love Donalad The drumpher might me the answere
Same with three mile Ilse. Same with Fukushima. Same with Chelyabinsk Makes you wonder about the accidents that they were able to keep secret. All people. No matter what nationality or culture or political denomination Hate to admit the truth. Hate to take responsibility.
Some wrong info here. For example his statement about second explosion. It was possible but would not destroy Minsk or Kiev. It would be underground explosion of about 200 Kt. Such bomb can destroy 10 km(5 miles) around. And Minsk is 100 Miles away. Another example, He stated that 600 pilots got 6 times the death dose(like 30 Sv), but in reality only 20 or 30 died because of radiation. Among them was reporter who took photos of burning reactor(from helicopter).
Yes it was a test at low power to confirm how long the turbines would continue to generate power and provide critical power to things like the water transfer pumps. It was not a test of a self fueling system. I just got back from Chernobyl on the weekend and was inside the new safe confinement and in the control rooms of reactors 3 and 4 and got some great insight from very knowledgeable people there, including one person who has been there for 25 years. A few innacuracies here but he's just presenting off stuff on the net etc that is not all correct.
Right....But ppl do refer the story to Chernobyl ...well it was call .. the great Ass dump of Lenin or some shit... who cares 2020 ...they killed mill of ppl ...150k today ..and not to mention all of the kids deformed or died in child birth ...same shit going on today ....Sweden got the best reports of that...and Scanners....no wonder they hit the bell first
No, incorrect, they were doing a regulatory test with the night shift team of inexperienced engineers on the closed circuit plant when they accidentally retracted too many probes and also pumped too much water into the reactor which did not generate enough steam to drive the turbines which in turn would drive the pumps to cool down the reactor, it overheated and then exploded.
If you’ve done any amateur research on this disaster, this guy’s inaccuracies will be obvious and alarming. Why he even bothered with a q and a is beyond me. He knows nothing.
Absolutely right-this guy has no clue and had so many things wrong,it’s ridiculous
11:58 The material that congealed was sand. It mixed with molten concrete, uranium and graphite creating a unique substance called Chernobylite that exits nowhere else on Earth.
11:58 The material that congealed was sprayed into the atmosphere by choppers. It is specifically designed to attract lead molecules as it fell. Then this substance was subsequently cleaned by the liquidators.
Is was silver iodine. Yes there was chernobylite made which is nowhere else on earth unless in Fukushima which you won't find out about cuz its still being covered up but you're wrong about what you say it was.
+mike powers Silver Iodine is what they used in artillery shells to prevent the radioactive cloud from spreading to populated areas. I'm not certain that is what they sprayed with choppers, to pull the vaporized lead out of the air.
Daniel May not to mention Lead that they dumped from Helicopters .
Pha Q it was Boron and sand that they dropped from the helicopters
23:18 signs across Europe have that, the front side of the sign shows the town you are arriving in. The crossed out name naturally is facing the town and just says to motorists that they are now leaving. Derp
The meaning of the red stripe on the names of the villages is that when you enter the village(from the main road) you see the name(without a stripe) and when you leave you see the other side(the one with the stripe)indicating that you leave this area.
Thought it was because there were villages but are no more due to the disaster
Lmao they do that in my country's cities and villages
The memorial of road signs.
It's standard across a lot of eastern Europe (in my experience of living there) villages/towns have the name on them as you enter the town, and as you leave the sign again with the name crossed out to indicate you're leaving. There's no deeper significance of the crossing out.
true. that's it and it is very common across Europe
Good reason why not go to Russia - cant trust them road signs anymore
Don't you think In this case there IS deeper significance of the crossing out though?
These signs, grouped together, OBVIOUSLY signify something more ominous. You'r not just leaving a single town.
Correction the Ukraine was a Soviet State of the USSR. They were a part of the Soviet Union. Countries such as Poland, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia we're satellite states also known as Warsaw Pact countries.
that sign says "Let the Atom be a Worker, not a Soldier" there is a lot of inaccuracy in the video i must say.
That’s for sure.
@Fred C. Scroll
No nuclear?
Know nuclear,
think Thorium.
Chernobyl was a contributing factor in the end of the Soviet Union. The main one was the fall of the Berlin Wall.
He's delusional. Get him out of here.
Worker or Soldier..same shit back then in former USSR - Who cares anyway ..They poluted the world with the freaking system of the C party and now they paying for it...well not realy ..EU are 21 Bill Euros to save the planet building that crap tent.......USSR no more thank good
Having to been to the site and seeing much research I admire the speaker. He gathered info and presented it well. Many facts continue in dispute to this day. And, he said in beginning he is traveller, not scientist. Good job.
No you didn’t
Nearly every single sentence this guy says is wrong in one way or another.
Spenser Roger Explain?
@@The_Joker_ I mean the guy in the video.
Spenser Roger Do you mean the sketchy statistics?
Love watching presentations like this, nicely done! thank you!, the substance used at 12:00 was dubbed 'burbur' which is a sticky liquid that coagulates with radioactive dust and plasters it to the ground.
They started to bury radioactive rubble until they realized it put it closer to the water table. After that they left it above ground. Kopachi is the only village that was buried, and one building remains.
Workers in Chernobyl village work and live there for 2 weeks, and then away for 2 weeks.
All food for workers in the exclusion zone is imported from outside the Chernobyl zone. Only the last remaining residents still eat radioactive food.
Now go research the lead ,nuclear waste breeches, fluoride in America's water tables
nuclear accidents only remembered at anniversaries, like with Chernoby -10, 20, 30 years were time for books, documentaries and publications. In Russia and Ukraine when person dies their relatives will have commemoration dinner right after funeral, next such dinner will be in 9 days, another one in 40 days and final dinner is to mark one year since person died. This one year commemoration dinner is last, after that family and friends will never meet all together for the special occasion of remembering this person. Our Chernobyl 30 years anniversary was like this last commemoration event. It is last chance for people to remember and discuss it. After that Chernobyl will become history. It will be filed and sent to archives. No more anniversaries... this was our last commemoration dinner.
"Oxana is a code name but here is a photo of her. And here is another."
Sounds a lot like Deanna Troi's mother! (But much better looking, I have to say.) (Oh, we men ARE such pigs, aren't we?)
I really have no idea what makes these videos so satisfying but it's very interesting to watch the documentaries on CZcams.
53:36 they do function. I witnessed one trip multiple times for shoes being contaminated. There was mud underneath and the sensor for the foot went crazy. They had shoe wash stations outside of the building and they were cleaned and everything passed. It was extremely stressful.
Awesome narrator and accurate information, great job man and thank You for publishing :)
The radiation increases happens due to the graphite rod which covers the u235 fuel burns & melts the uranium into open atmosphere.
Corium is so hot when it gets contact with water converted to super heated steam with hydrogen gas at high pressure which is extremely flammable . Two operators from N°4 went inside the highly radioactive water pond to drain the water inside reactor which was poured to put off by fire department to put off the strange fire.
This was an amazing presentation . Very informative
the crossed out side of the town name signs means you are now leaving said town, it is not a negative thing they probably gathered the signs from the towns and place them there, one would be on each side of the road as you drove out of town you would see the town name with a cross going through, indicating you are now leaving said town.
Interesting presentation but this guy could really get few facts right. The 2nd massive explosion wouldn't happen just because concrete cracked and whole thing collapsed but because there was water in the basement of the reactor which would turn into superheated steam. 2nd thing is the remaining reactors didn't shut down but remained to operate. last one shut down in 2001.
Matt Gorzka I think your right. There is a lot of misinformation in this vid. There are many better vids concerning Chernobyl. Bionerd23's channel comes to mind.
This "10 times larger than the Hiroshima bomb" claim is bullshit. There could have very well been a steam explosion if the molten nuclear fuel had made contact with the water and it certainly would have dispersed more radioactive material but there's no way in hell that explosion could have been equal to 150 kilotons of TNT. You can not possibly generate that kind of explosion from a non-nuclear steam blast. Even nuclear fuel in the reactor can't do it - the uranium is far lower of a grade than what is used in atomic bombs. Nuclear reactors can explode under the right the condition but but orders of magnitude less severe than an atomic bomb. It's utterly impossible to ever get an atomic bomb sized blast from a nuclear reactor. And even if by some miracle this 150kT blast could happen, there's no chance it hell it would destroy Minsk, 300km away. The blast radius from a 150kT is a mere 3km. This guy is off on his numbers by several orders of magnitude.
I have heard other numbers mentioned but I guess they mean that the nuclear fallout would have been that much worse, not that the actual explosion would be that big. The 1000 train cars prepared to evacuate Minsk have been mentioned before. Check out Battle of Chernobyl from 2006 with interviews with Gorbachev and Hans Blix.
+Matt Gorzka Glad you noticed this as well. Several statements he made are incorrect. I credit it to him not really having done research on this mishap but rather a tourist seeing the results and basing most statements on what he was told by guides. He made a good attempt but too much misinformation.He also failed to mention a very important detail about the disaster. This mishap was caused by an experiment they were conducting that kept getting delayed. Their 1st shift personnel were to handle to experiment since they had scientists, engineers, and a very well trained crew running the reactor but then the project got pushed to 2nd shift that wasn't nearly as informed on the operation and risks posed. If I remember correctly, most of the issues happened during the 3rd shift that really was clueless on what was going on. I may be getting some details mixed up since I last researched this disaster many years ago and have since forgotten quite a bit.
Yeah, they're talking fallout because the reactor had tons and tons more radioactive material. The fire alone was spreading fallout over quite a large area. Adding A LOT more would just make it a lot worse. Half of europe would be uninhabitable at the least
I was 9 when Block IV went to hell.. I still remember instructions what we can eat, what we cant, what we need to wash and so on.. Cabbage was a big no no for example. spinach as well etc...
Btw, substance mentioned around 12:00 ( after question) is boric acid mixed with sand and lead and some other things.
KuvDabGib hi where were you at that time ? Around Prypiat?
Boric acid was also realised to be a bad decision.
It turns solid waste into liquid waste, which is much more difficult and costly to handle and process.
This is a sad moment in history. Thanks, this video is informative and well done Sr. I enjoyed watching.
The pictures of what happened to the animals completely breaks me because it's so heartbreaking that animals who never did anything wrong to this planet had to suffer like that.
Fascinating, thanks very much for sharing this.
Excellent video! Thanks for sharing 👍
3:32 They just don't decided to test. The plant already failed three tests, which consisted in stop running the turbine to simulate a strike, and firing the diesel engines, to get the water going being the goal to be less than 75 sec. to get the engines running at nominal speed. It wasn't to save energy, that is incorrect. I'm glad he is in the lumber business, he should stay there.
More precisely they hoped that the kinetic energy of the Turbine would be enough to power the cooling pumps while the diesels came online.
Does this guy know what he is talking about? Many things he states does not match other stories?
No.
there was also a rise in unusual illnesses and cancer related deaths in the west of scotland sometime after chernobyl..
Omg i never knew that but i have always been convinced my mothers cancer was a result of chernobyl - i always remember at the time of the disaster and the weeks after my mother here in Scotland had been doing a lot of gardening and sitting out in the back garden because the weather had been nice - a couple of days she remarked that there was a strange smell in the air - after this she began to feel unwell and despite going to the doctors many many times they could find nothing wrong - this went on for a long while until she was told she had terminal stomach cancer and had 1 year to live - she died 1 year later - i always had the chernobyl thing in the back of my mind but you think people would never believe it - im so shocked to see your post after all these years
p.s it all came back to me recently ( which brought me to click on this video) because of the recent trouble at the plant and now the recent illness being found in children in the UK which is not Coronavirus related they say and unexplainable - it just made me think is it possible ...
Thank you so much for the updated info on the exclusion zone. Very well done.
WOW. I have so many questions. like how you got so close to the reactor and were you worried you might get sick? I want to know why they would build a museam in the exclussion zone if it is in the exclusion zone were they worried about getting sick when they built it and who they thought would visit it? I want to know about the mayday celebration was that it chernobil or held in the exclusion zone? did they hope people would stay inside instead of going out into the contaminated air? thanks I am SOOOO interested and who is the biggest source of funding the clean up the site?
Just found this, really happy it's here. I attend a lot of their lectures and this one was easily one of the best. Fascinating subject very well presented. In the little bit of research I did on nuclear disasters after seeing this (got me curious!) I found that there is a lot of disagreement on exactly what happened and exactly what the long-term affects are, and will be. Like a lot of things, I guess.
thank you this was absolutely an amazing resourceful presentation. No one will ever know each and every fact and there will always be more to any stories but you sir have done an amazing job and i to one day hope to visit chernobyl as it has been a long awaited dream of mine also. Thank you and I appreciate your work
This is incredible. Thank you so much for this. Very informative. I had no idea of the magnitude.
I lived in Sovjet union till 1990... Than moved to Germany with my parents. Only in Germany we realised what really happened... Everybody were asking us how we dealed with it there. We didn't know what they were talking about.
Gorbochov and KGB knew about everything from the beginning.
I've got to agree with you there! Who would be brave enough to lie and hold back crucial information from the top party officials including the Boss Gorbachov in the Soviet Union? They sat on their hands , procrastinating, hoping it'll just go away. Rather like in 1941 with Op. Barbarossa?
The KGB still knows everything. In fact, they are probably the only ones that still do, cause the other ones that know are dead.
15:53 That plank was only used to point out the most radioactive parts, for priority clearance. They used normal spades to actually clear it.
Why not shovels? Possibly because a spade would pick up less weight*, allowing the men to keep their fulcrum hand at a greater distance. (Unless spades just happened to be what was in the nearest stockpile.)
*Ballpark - a solid shoebox size chunk of nuclear graphite might weigh 21kG (~46lb)
Amazing work this, really enjoyed it cheers 👏
RADIOACTIVE amount of mistakes, lies, misunderstandings and underestimates. That what this guy presents.
A bit like the HBO series then?
@Lebo leigh Leigh calm down rude fucker! I was born in 78, I lived 700km from it, I drank Lugols not to get thyroid cancer, I lived in a country that was contaminated after torrential rain all week after explosion. Did you? We're your parents being afraid of buying vegetable and fruit for two years? Did you ever had thyroid scan at the age of 15, 19 and 23, when the doctors "didn't like it looked"? DID YOU? So shut the fuck up yourself.
to protect oxana you gave her a code name but yet you take pictures of her
They have A WEBSITE. If sommebody wants to catch them they don't need to know their name or appearance, they just need to arrange a tour with them.
SL33PIN S3XY do u know the website??
+SL33PIN S3XY Oxana is not the one who doesn't want her picture taken, the old woman living in the house doesn't want her picture taken.
Visionery1 They were not suppose to be in the building because another building had collapsed earlier. She would take them if he didn't say anything.
Yea I thought the same thing. Its one thing to show at a private lecture, but on YT?
WOW this guys presentation is the same as a documentary that is also on here called The Battle Of Chernobyl Uncensored.
Thank you, very good presentation.
This was informative in many ways, but there were a number of errors.
First, the primary purpose of this RBMK reactor was not power production, but to make plutonium for Soviet nuclear weapons. A reactor made primarily for electric power production would neither have a graphite core (intended to slow neutron for bombardment of U238 to make plutonium) or be fueled with U238 - which does not fission. The RBMK reactor produced electrical power.as a byproduct
One other glaring mistake: the speaker said words to the effect that American aircraft overflew Chernobyl and photographed the reactor explosion. Actually, it was a U.S. Landsat 5 satellite that detected and photographed the fire at unit 4.
The speaker said something about refueling the reactor which caused the accident: it was a power test to determine whether residual steam could provide sufficient electrical power until auxiliary generators could start, produce sufficient power, and be brought online to power water pumps that would cool the reactor in the event that power from outside electrical sources was lost and could not power reactor cooling pumps.
The speaker attributed the second explosion to be caused by steam. Actually, runaway prompt supercriticality occurred, with the internal physics being more similar to the explosion of a fizzled nuclear weapon, and that this failed/fizzle event produced the second explosion.
The speaker said that the Chernobyl exclusion zone would not be safe to live in for 20,000 years: actually, the half-life of PU239 is 24,000 years. For the area to be free of lethal levels of plutonium will require hundreds of thousands of years to pass as very small amounts of plutonium are deadly.. The primary fuel used for the RMBK reactor was U235, which has a half-life of 703.8 million years. As there was U238 present in the fuel rods of Unit 4 for the conversion to plutonium, the half life of U238 is 4.5 billion years. Look it up.
There were many other inaccuracies, but these were the earliest and some of the largest mistakes the speaker made.
This guy's conscientiousness with facts is similar to the Soviet's with nuclear safety: Close Enough is good enough!
Lmao omg it gets even worse!
That's not the red forest...lol.
That's not how this works.
That's not how any of this works.
Honestly if a junior high school student presented this to me I'd give him a C+
@@SpenserRoger "Let's start out saying that I am a traveler. I am not an academic, neither am I a historian." Now let's hear your correct facts and how you would give grade's to anybody (including yourself)
@@troelskristensen2000 Huh? Do you want me to go through and point out each of his mistakes? I can assure you there are many of them---and there's no excuse for it---the information is readily available.
Also if you want me to grade your comment: I give it a C-.
I am sure the World is impatiently waiting for His Excellency to share his priceless opinion of any matter.
@@troelskristensen2000 lol nice own
This is very well done.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I don't understand why people are giving this guy a hard time. He explained according to official data. The number that died according to authorities, not according to conspiracy theories. He even explained that "yes, the unofficial death estimates are much higher than that".
I love the pic you took of the empty city.
I have actually ridden those playground cars (34:07) ALOT as a kid in early 90's. Not in Chernobyl but in other town...they were exact copies and were installed all over the soviet union... they were maintained until 1996 or so then i guess they've run out of spare parts...
Fukushima is an issue that is still being covered up and with the continued shaking and quaking in the pacific ring of fire, I sense that we are closer than ever to an extinction level event.
David Scott "extinction level"? You sense a lot of bullshit.
The 2020 Olympics will not have many participants.
@@taunteratwill1787 and u seem to be a dikhead who knows nothing but shit
@@taunteratwill1787 You're really a cretin...
A lot of Japanese told me that that the USA exploded submarine nuclear device in the pacific to cause the Sunami in The eastern coasts of Japan. I do not know the truth but this kind of devastating Sunami is exceptional.
About the food being grown for consumption. Most foods don't absorb the cz137 to whay would be considered dangerous levels. Things like mushrooms do however absorb high amounts, and not like people eat it but the moss absorbs tons of cz137.
Well, excluding the factological error at the beginning which would invalidate all this effort in academic circles, the presentation is interesting. The test was not about saving energy, nobody cared for energy efficiency in USSR :) It was a safety test in the case of loss of power in the cooling system. Ironically, the failure of the test is not what went wrong, but there are a lot of documentaries around explaining the details.
Wow, what an inspiring lecture. This professor must be real popular at Western. I wasn't bored for a second !
He says that Gorbachev found out from Sweden about the accident, but another documentary(The True Battle of Chernobyl Uncensored / Chernobyl full documentary) has Gorbachev himself saying he got a phone call regarding an "accident" at the plant.
I guess its out of the question to ask you to provide a list of your sources...
@23:09 - the signs with the city/village's names are actual signs. when leaving the place you see the crossed out side. this is common in czech republic, for example. here they are presented with a double meaning. sad and beautiful.
I really enjoyed this presentation. I'm curious as to how long he was in the contaminated areas and how much radiation he was exposed to himself?
I can't speak for the buying power but the currency exchange rate was .7135 Rubles to a USD. So 800 rb would have been the same as about $1121 in 1986, or $2613 in 2019 dollars 2019 ..so you the Q going .why on earth did they do it .....well the answere is easy ...Lov of the Contry ....same reason you love Donalad The drumpher might me the answere
There is something amiss here. Chernobyl was not the cause of the Glastnost policy. Gorbachev called for Glastnost in a speech dated March 11, 1985, more than a year before Chernobyl. Chernobyl was a humiliating and expensive defeat catastrophe for the Soviet Union, but it was only one of a great number of internal factors that pushed the USSR over the edge. It was the total effect of the inefficient planned economy and political repression. Externally, it was indeed American pressure, after Reagan deployed medium range nuclear missiles in Germany, and especially after American supplied rebels moved over the Afghan border and began operating in the Soviet Union itself, threatening the whole stability of the Caucasus. I have met several Russian emigres who have said it was Reagan who killed the Soviet Union. Even Tip O'Neil admitted after the fall that only Reagan was right; the rest of the world was wrong. I really do not like the revisionism that is going on here in the West.
What???? Really?
Carter started the war against the Soviet Union by supplying weapons to the Muzzheedins or Pakistani army dressed up in tribal dress in Afghanistan to create Vietnam for the SU. Reagan continued with massive finance and weapons for Pakistan who invaded Afghanistan in 1974.
With regard to thyroid cancer, the biggest threat is iodine 131, which has a half life of about eight days. Administration of several hundred times the recommended daily allowance of stable iodine saturates iodine receptors in the thyroid gland which prevents uptake of Iodine 131. Prompt administration of stable iodine could have prevented most cases of thyroid cancer.
It can be determined by the radionuclide signiture, what nuclear accident, a tool or an article of clothing came from.
@ 2:33 Correction: Ukraine and Belarus weren't "satellites" of the former Soviet Union. They were actually two of fifteen Soviet Socialist Republics (SSRs) that constituted the USSR.
wow, im oing to fly up to Kiev from Italy in July....Any tips??
I'm don't understand how can some magma(molten nuclear fuel) coming in contact with some water cause a explosion so big it can raise a city 150 plus miles away?
Very interesting , thank you for sharing.
This Man Is Delusional - Get Him To The Infirmary.
Waoooo how the F can you tell hes delusional....did you escape from USSR swiming to latvia pr to Chernobyl fu-k up or what - The man in this video is a member of World Affairs Council of Western Michigan - He got all the facts up straight....You def not got it bro ,,,,Swim back to USSR and Mins or even better Pripyat...grow some Vegis and have a good BRIGHT LIFE
U sick dud ..get some Iodine pills now and swim back to work
@@JohnSmith-cy9tt No, he definitely did not get all the facts straight. See my long comment above.
I’ve watched that miniseries twice, so far!
Go back to HBO, cretin...
35:38 Back in the USSR they had civilian defense training course in high school. They were taught how to "survive" if a war ever struck.
32:11 what is a Vallery Codemanchuck?
I think the red line on road signs just means your leaving that town, i play to much DayZ and recognise it from that
45:30 according to the slide, 3 mile island was mechanical failure. naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Although the initial problem was mechanical failure of a pressure release valve, the plant would have automatically shut down and become safe if it weren't for the meddling of the plant operators.
An acquaintance of mine, Kathleen Mallon Bell, visited that area in 1991 as a horticulturist and city/town planner. She gave birth prematurely to baby girl. She brought back some yellow potatoes from the area. Kathy died from breast cancer fifteen years later at age 55.
"they knew that they were basically flawed"--------Agolf Twitler's friends did this!!
2019 Agolf Twitler's Great cusing Donald The Orange Twitter . posted a Twitt shit.....Im behind you all !! Like you would like that man behind you in ant sort of poss
Belarus and Ukraine were constituent countries of the Soviet Union not satellite countries. Example of a satellite countries would be Poland and East Germany.
But what happened to the liquidators? I mean if they just go back home somewhere else wouldn't they spread the radiation they carry?
No. Radiation will not spread as wild-fires or infectious desises.
The only thing that will spread is the FEAR
Can nuclear power plant be built in a bunker underground with a retractable roof? Smoke vent slightly above ground.
Not practical and expensive. Also, in the event of a Chernobyl type accident, the soil and water source would become contaminated.
Uncle of my wife, after his retirement from the diplomatic service of the USSR, took part as a volunteer pilot of helicopter to put concrete on the Chernobyl nuclear plant after the accident as he was during his youth was a test pilot in the Soviet Air Force. He knew that as a result he would get cancer. That was the spirit of the people of the Soviet Union. He died after a few years in cancer.
I know a Ukrainian man who remembers pushing his baby daughter in a stroller in Kiev on that May day. He remembers the metallic taste of Iodine in his mouth as he walked around...it was radioactive Iodine of course.
Bloke goes on holiday, does a talk about it.
The substance that congealed in the air was called 'burba'. I don't know the composition of the substance, but that's what the Soviets dubbed it.
I really liked your presentation! I have been to Chernobyl 4 times during Grad school. I am a nuclear engineer and it is not only my work but a absolutely fascinating hobby! The RBMK reactors were very interesting,
Very well done!
Kudos from Philadelphia! ( U of Penn)
Well first of all - If you now are a nuclear - (well i despite that ) tink you are a key bord worrior with lots of mouth and now show..-- You say that the nucluer work is not your only work you got you Idiot.... ....Silly bugger- why on earth do you need two works if you are a nucluer dud,,,,,This is not MC. Donalds you know.... Drag your Indian ass off the wellfare and get som shooling before you start posting crap like this ...I do hope you reply to me - I do work with Physics on a high level
. I understand buddy. You tube fights are your life.... The world needs people like you too. 😉
John Smith I got a brain haemorrhage trying to read that Sanskrit
I guess they should do firebreaks now - gates free of vegetation or when the whole place has a wildfire then it would spread wildly out of control and they have to force somone to fight the wildfire.
Also, that picture claiming to be the Red Forest is fake. It's from a website with pictures from around the zone put through a filter to turn the trees blood red. The actual forest is coloured a rather dark orange.
35:35 - the date on the paper ????????????????
Well presented and well done for the tour as I'd not like to tourist myself due to the health aspect. But after a well presented presentation I think the q and a is like answering questions down the pub rather than polished like the slides. The reporters here seem like children asking daddy a question. You don't answer everyone with 'I Guess' you should know or establish 'In my opinion'
Respect anyway to everyone
Sad how greed has turned people into morons...Why in the hell would you even touch those tvs and stereos....
lol at TVs and stereos in every country house = poor/old person house in a Ukrainian village-like small town in USSR years (: That's just projecting western way of life onto a whole different system of living.
poverty, fool
The name of the substance that the helicopters sprayed was bourda.... basically a sort of special slop like material .
i dont know why - but i could listen to this man for hours.
if school were (back in the days) just as interesting Chernobyl - i would graduate anything lol
Valery Legasov and Boris Shcherbina as well as all the other brave and selfless people involved saved Europe. NEVER FORGET THAT.
I was serving in the US army in Southern Germany at that time and I don't glow in the dark yet.
Stupid
he's been around the feed water all night
Wow, _the_ illustrious World Affairs Council of ... Western Michigan?
i can understand why he would wanna go there i oddly wanna just to see what its likw now
I can't speak for the buying power but the currency exchange rate was .7135 Rubles to a USD. So 800 rb would have been the same as about $1121 in 1986, or $2613 in 2019 dollars 2019 ..so you the Q going .why on earth did they do it .....well the answere is easy ...Lov of the Contry ....same reason you love Donalad The drumpher might me the answere
I remember when this happened, it was so bizarre that the news initially said everything was safe!
#CorruptionWinsAgain
Same with three mile Ilse. Same with Fukushima. Same with Chelyabinsk
Makes you wonder about the accidents that they were able to keep secret.
All people. No matter what nationality or culture or political denomination Hate to admit the truth. Hate to take responsibility.
Some wrong info here. For example his statement about second explosion. It was possible but would not destroy Minsk or Kiev. It would be underground explosion of about 200 Kt. Such bomb can destroy 10 km(5 miles) around. And Minsk is 100 Miles away. Another example, He stated that 600 pilots got 6 times the death dose(like 30 Sv), but in reality only 20 or 30 died because of radiation. Among them was reporter who took photos of burning reactor(from helicopter).
I didnt know they were testing a self fueling system. I always thought it was a rundown safety test...
Yes it was a test at low power to confirm how long the turbines would continue to generate power and provide critical power to things like the water transfer pumps. It was not a test of a self fueling system. I just got back from Chernobyl on the weekend and was inside the new safe confinement and in the control rooms of reactors 3 and 4 and got some great insight from very knowledgeable people there, including one person who has been there for 25 years. A few innacuracies here but he's just presenting off stuff on the net etc that is not all correct.
@@Bobskiboy85 wow! Lucky you 😀 I can't even imagine what it would be like to actually be there. Did you take pictures?
@@Bobskiboy85 Also, it's never a good idea to pass on misinformation. This video creator should have checked his facts.
and that sargofacus is smelting, there is now some cracks at the roof aswell
The town is not called "Chernobyl" It's called "Pripyat" Chernobyl is the name of the historical region in which the plant and town were build
The powerplant was called Chernobyl power plant, and the town Pripyat, he said it also in the video
There's also a town named Chernobyl some 5-10 miles to the south-east of the plant.
Right....But ppl do refer the story to Chernobyl ...well it was call .. the great Ass dump of Lenin or some shit... who cares 2020 ...they killed mill of ppl ...150k today ..and not to mention all of the kids deformed or died in child birth ...same shit going on today ....Sweden got the best reports of that...and Scanners....no wonder they hit the bell first
Theres also 2 nuclear accident cover up the United Kingdom and Mayak nuclear plant in Russia waste dumping into the water sources.
Learn where factories in your area, that work with radioactive substances are, and keep an eye on them and keep them safe. Report unsafe behavior.
I was that stoned when the reactor went bang iv just realised now my city is deserted
the red slash on the sign means you are leaving the village
18:00 this is not a real photo from the site in the 1986...
It's a bloody convention out there.
The room full of masks: told in a docu as it was cold war time, schools had masks there for children for the case of emergency.
No, incorrect, they were doing a regulatory test with the night shift team of inexperienced engineers on the closed circuit plant when they accidentally retracted too many probes and also pumped too much water into the reactor which did not generate enough steam to drive the turbines which in turn would drive the pumps to cool down the reactor, it overheated and then exploded.