Chernobyl (2019) Nuclear Reactor Explosion Scene
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Quite ironic.
Now i dont wanna explode roblox innovation lab games-
Like im not tryna be mean it just now makes me realise if this was real life and how much damage i would of caused.
Im terrified about those games it just seems real and seeing explosions in real life makes me feel terrible about myself-
Seven years of bureaucratic red tape. Seven years.
@@lurkingcarrier8736 ok
conspiracy theorists crack me up
"Because it's cheaper"
You didn't say shit like that in the Soviet Union unless you wanted to disappear. The fact that this man said that to a group of Soviet decision-makers shows how dire things were.
This man's admantium balls had their gravitational pull.
he's already in death's door cuz he was the lead scientist to oversee the containment operation of the reactor 4. He was exposed with so much radiation that pretty much slashed his life in half.
Actually it was known & well discussed in the scientific community... Noone just foresaw such an extreme situation occuring
Thanks to his vastly shortened lifespan from being in proximity to the nuclear disaster he helped handle, he is completely out of f$#@s to give in regards to being Unpersoned.
Actually this scene is fiction. In reality Legasov didn't actually attend the trial. You can google it yourself if you want to. Still an incredible scene and a show though
"It's cheaper."
In two words, he told the entire Soviet Union that he sees right through their bullshit.
why didn't your comment get heart???
He really did
To be fair, that WAS the Soviet Union in a nutshell.
'Cheap' has two definitions: low price, or low quality.
This was both. Horrifyingly.
@RADIO-MAST1970 Good question. Care to supply an answer? 😳
“You are dealing with something that has never occurred on this planet before.”
that quote still gives me goosebumps to this day
To their credit. digging the tunnel underneath and placing a heat exchanger under the concrete may have saved humanity; otherwise the molten fuel would have burned through said concrete and detonate with the ground water. The whole of Europe would have been doomed, and many other countries.
@@amramjose No one is Saying otherwise
Glory to the Chernobyl liquidators.
@@amramjose Digging the tunnel was useless - the melt solidified well before melting through the concrete foundations.
And in the event of corium contact with groundwater, no insane detonation would occur - the notion that it would is not scientific and it was not considered by the scientists who worked on this disaster. The whole HBO show is riddled with inaccuracies because its source is a popular sensationalist book on Chernobyl, not actual documented facts. As much as the show has realistic scenography and the general feel of SSSR, it's just painfully incorrect in so many important things.
Something that never happened in any planet in the Solar System.
"its cheaper"
A statement more deadly than the radiation.
Newer technology is safer
I will never get tired of watching scientists call politicians out on their bullshit
Rigel communism, capitalism, globalism, corporatism, fascism, dictatorship, monarchy, and totalitarian... they all have one thing in common. They like to prove the one in charge is right
Just for the record: Legasov was a very active member of the Communist Party. Yes, he was much more scientist than politician, but he definitely belonged to the Nomenklatura.
Me neither, it’s great.
@Kenny Strawser Other scientists lmao
Fuck them both😂
Everybody gangsta till the control rods start dancing
Everybody gangsta till the core go gangsta, Uh oh...
They dance the coffin dance
Yeeeessss my guy
somebody put @MEH over that
Music starts playing instead of an alarm
3:15
I love how often the shots make the reactor look like some kind of eldritch horror leaking out death. Which, in a way, it was.
What is this things?
@@ashenone6967 The reactor
I mean, a weird rock that melts your cells with invisible energy if you stare at it for too long is very eldritch, if you ask me.
@@DonVigaDeFierro Ikr. Sometimes reality is weirder and scarier than fiction
Reminds me of a Lovecraftian monster that has been unleashed in this world
I think the funniest part about the Chernobyl disaster is that the other 3 units were still in operation. Everyone in those must've looked out the windows and been like "Oh those idiots in #4 are at it again..."
Apparently the leader of 4 tried to set the power generation to 200mw, and took out the control rods, which caused the cap to be launched thru the roof, and boiled all the steam (which caused the lif to pop) and it then exploded AGAIN
@@HeiseiDestoroyah All while the sounds of Dyatlov's hardbass mix echoing through the turbine hall.
No but seriously... The other 3 units were in operation for years after that. Hell, they were in operation DURING the post-explosion cleaning operation. I want to know how they were operated. What was done to keep the workers there safe? How did they got in and out of no-go zone? How was the Dunning of units 1-3 organized? I've been looking for this information with zero succes....
Dyatlov and Rogozhkin signed an order to shut down Unit 3 that night. HBO doesn't tell of any the good Dyatlov did because they needed a villain.
@@terezacervenakova3512 They shut down the units until late 1986 before they were then opened up.
Moral of the story don’t be cheap when it comes to building a power plant.
i totally agree with you
The fact that Homer Simpson works at a nuclear powerplant
I will never see this fact the same way again
Actual moral of the story, we were right to dissolve the soviet union.
@@jamesshore3191 Moral of the story: when people protect their ideology and ignore the real world, eventually there will be a HARD collision with reality.
Don't perform idiotic tests in the middle of the night.
The control rods bouncing might be the scariest shit here.
How about the 1000 tons UBS shield Flying like a butterfly ?
@@vacciniumaugustifolium1420 thats the second scariest.
@@andrejbusin3508 or the reactor exploding
@@Anxmaly666 that too
@@vacciniumaugustifolium1420
What is UBS shield?
the iron balls on this scientist telling the politburo they cut corners and it was all their fault is nobel prize worthy in of itself.
Usually would result in spending the rest of your life in prison or you would "disapear"
I really couldn't believe he literally said that shit.
@@xxch4osxx At this time in the USSR, dissidents faced internal exile, only Legasov never did anything that warranted an exile because he never spilled any beans.
I don't think a lot of people realize, but Pripyat was actually a model city in the ussr, a little soviet utopia. It was specifically built for the workers of the powerplant, it was founded in 1970 only. Housing engineers, nuclear physicists and such, it was actually a high esteem to live there. It had a lot of facilities for a small city of 50.000 like cinema, 3 swimming pools, a lot of cafeterias, schools, malls, theme park, stadiums, gyms, etc. You can guess that not many of the soviet towns had such a lively atmosphere.
Even if those block of buildings look sad (especially now, uninhabitated), it was actually one of the best and most modern places to live in the ussr, and I assume it could compete with western cities as well. Not just a random town got destroyed by those faults.
“Because it’s cheaper” understandable have a great day
Yeap, the root of every problem.
⭐️communism⭐️
But this scene is a deep fake
I bet no Soviet guy would ever have done that
Its not true,ir made of grafite to help Control the reactor better,they were never ment to removed so many so far
Bruh its made in *china*
The fact that this really happened is the scary part.
Invictus agreed. The series was absolutely amazing though. I literally could not stop watching it. Of course Hollywood had to put their twist on it but still my main point is that this was a true event. But the only thing that made me laugh was the biggest flaw. They used British actors with British accents hahahahahaha.
@@freakerhunter8857 The creators addressed this, I forgot the statement exactly but they said something like - at the end they felt as if they made the actors take on a fake eastern European accent, that would be more distracting/comedic than just having them speak in their native accent. Its also why you don't hear any American accents in the show.
@@freakerhunter8857 absolutely disagree. the decision in an English language show to use accents that make sense to English speaking viewers is the best decision they could have made. Accents communicate just as much about a character as dialogue, so having fake, Russian, English-speaking accents makes no sense, unless you're trying to differentiate a character by their Russian-ness (they aren't.) Using accents that English speakers are familiar with lets you add character to your characters that otherwise would not be there. Akimov is soft-spoken but firm. Dyatlov speaks as if he knows authoritatively what he is talking about. Legasov carries the air of a professor; somebody who actually knows what he's talking about.
@Spastik It did happen in real life
@Thomas Cibula exactly why we should convert to geothermal for power grids
Man I wish people who are against nuclear power plants would watch this series, not only does it state that explosions are damn near impossible, but it also shows that the explosion produced by Chernobyls power plant was caused by incompetence, cheap materials and a lack of funding.
It even states that reactors in the west are/were better equipped for the worst(this)
I mean, those reactors are also quite safe (except for the lack of containment buildings), the issue is that they rely on the human factor in a much bigger way for that safety. This becomes a problem when, for example in Chernobyl's case, an experienced and generally competent head engineer gets cocky and decides to wing it and violate multiple safety protocols when things arent going his way instead of following procedure.
Many things are incredibly safe in theory, but when the profit margin comes into play, you can throw all your theories out the window.
Things get fucked up all the time, everywhere, just because it is cheaper.
Even the so called communist sovjet union was driven by money and profit, not safety.
And just look at the US. Tens of thousands, if not millions will have their lives permanently impacted because ultimately a railway company wanted to cut costs.
It doesn't matter how safe something is. If the potential behind the technology is highly destructive, humankind WILL find a way to fuck it up if it isn't regulated to death.
It’s literally anything but those reasons.
This aged badly after the train detailing. Corporations/ government will take the easy route to save a few bucks. History has shown this several times
@@friedibarti8070 facts. You're incredibly right. Especially about the Ohio situation, so fucked upn
It's crazy they blew up Chernobyl again just for this HBO show. True dedication.
Friendly reminder that the roof of the reactor weighed several tons, and it got flipped like a coin.
Jesus.
6 miilion pounds to be exact.
@@21owlgirl72 i think thats 2000 tonnes
Not sure im likely wrong
@@plotsky_ not even close
@@21owlgirl72
*6M Pounds = 2721554.22 Kilograms.*
*which means... 2721.5 Tons.*
*(That much weight🤔?)*
This show turned millions of people into instant nuclear scientists
They wish 😂😂
I wouldn’t say that. For me, I have general definition or idea on how a reactor works and makes electricity and what goes on that makes the steam for said electricity. But again. A general understanding I have.
@@Rogerv1032 exactly. No matter how good TV show is, it's meant for entertainment. Documentary are same with mix of learning something new
Lol
Funny that for years before this show I either watched the documentary on this or el reno lol
There is a saying in Brazil that says "The cheaper always cost more", this is it.
or a buck chasing a dime?
in Peru we say 'buy quality, not quantity'.. it could be related to what you are saying..
in russia it's "the miser pays twice"
Exactly
In urdu it is "buy cheap, and you always cry. Buy expensive, you cry only once"
The simple line yet complex delivery of "It's cheaper" couldn't have been done much better.
I can’t believe they didn’t just unplug it for 30 seconds and plug it back in that usually does the trick
This is real life, not a joke you dumbass. Your phone doesnt work the same as a nuclear reactor!
Jk
@@darnit1944 damn i was about to r/woosshhh you
Well the one guy wanted to shut it all the way down, but his boss forbid it
Haha fr
@@darnit1944 not does it have the same consequential events
This actor did a tremendous job in this entire series, every sentence spoken was with conviction, he showed fear in scenes he needed too, this guy is underrated
He’s great as Holmes’ archenemy, Moriarty, in Game of Shadows.
Honestly, I don't think you can name a single bad casting in the entire cast, its so well done and not a single moment wasted or out of place.
if you want check out the first season of the series "The Terror" he plays the main character too and he is really good in that as well, i saw him there and it was the main reason i decided to give Chernobyl also a go
His father would be proud.
I was riveted to that scene. I seriously need to see this movie ASAP.
Legasov: "The final reading was over 33,000."
Famin: "Another faulty meter, you're wasting our time."
viktor says that not fomin but still funny
That face when he said “it’s cheaper”. That what a real bombshell dropping looks like, everyone’s to taken aback by what was just said to have an outburst.
HBO created more nuclear scientists in a single weekend than all of the worlds colleges have in 70 years.
honestly the show explains it better than any school has explained it
@@theduck3876 If you think that, then I bet you think RBMK reactors can't explode.
@@TheJMBon well i mean even then it's still better than what my school taught me, they hardly taught shit abt it XD
@@theduck3876 The show is a drama, not a documentary. It is not meant to educate you, and indeed it doesn't: much of what it shows about the events and how radiation works is nonsense.
Matthijs van Duin And much of the events are actually what happened...
We were all wondering why they didn’t show the initial explosion in episode 1 now we know why. What a way to tie it all together in the finale this miniseries was a masterpiece. 11/10.
I agree with you :)
I agree as well :)
lovemesexy1001 I like it. It lets the viewer feel like information was being kept secret until its big reveal, which makes them sympathize with the people it’s revealed to.
When I watched the first epidsode I was annoyed they wouldn't bother explaining what happened or what lead up to it, I figured most people wouldn't get it and tune out in confusion (or they would just a bad job in general) but I was loving what I saw otherwise. Now at the end I am so glad they let us be confused, scared, and trying to figure out who to believe at the start just so they can tie everything together so well at the end. Game of Thrones may of set a city on fire at the end but a button pressed and a reactor exploding was far more thrilling to lead up and terrifying.
And it’s amazing how it has had an immediate impact on viewers not only in America but Russia as well.
Each of those containers weighed close to 800 pounds, so for them to be jumping up and down like that would've required an insane amount of force.
That sounds like a lot but never underestimate the power of steam.
Steam can easily move a 40k ton ship. A steam explosion can easily push a several ton lip off
@@martinmcclure1066Remember Yamato is 72000 Tons and it was powered by Kampon Steam Turbines
>3430 N of force to be exact.
"it's cheaper" two words, yet so profound
3:04 That lid weighed 1000 tons, or 2 million pounds. 2. Million. Pounds. And it shot off like it was a champagne cork.
*wow*
Imagine that going straight at you at the speed of sound from above when your just taking a stroll.
@@Scazoid your wouldn’t be able to imagine lol death on contact
@@dances_with_myself9305 I think you would just be turned into mush.
@@sukunaego9714 death on impact lol
Can you imagine an explosion so powerful that it could throw a lid that weighs 2 million pounds?
@King Ghidorah 2025
????????
Or 2000 tons that is the biological shield and the fuel caps horrifying
It's very difficult to wrap our heads around but we're aware that there're several explosives that can exceed that of Chernobyl
@@ironphoenix5145 the biggest nuke ever made
Hiroshima...
I like attention to detail.
Pre-irradiated Dyatlov has mostly darkish hair. But during the court you can see his new hair has completely turned white.
When you wanted cheap nuclear power but instead opened a portal to Hell.
RazorBeak and ironically ended up being the most expensive nuclear power ever. *that's why you never cut corners!*
Where’s the doomslayer when you need him?
Doom (2016)
It was a matter of time
In case anyone was wondering, that lid weighed over 2 MILLION pounds. And it shot off like it was a champagne cork. That alone is terrifying.
nuclear power is well... powerful
@@turquoisegreene9625 it was the steam that blew it off. The nuclear explosion came after oxygen entered
@@jabronis33 there was no nuclear explosion. It occurs in nuclear weapons, not reactors. Reactors use less enriched uranium, they are only capable of putting out lots of power, but not all of it in microseconds like a nuclear weapon. The second explosion was chemical in nature, the first one was caused by the pressure.
@@zoltankurti Yes but that thermal explosion happened, and was so powerful because of energy transmitted from nuclear energy.
@@zell863 still not a nuclear explosion. Very different from a nuclear explosion. When a nuke goes off, most of the energy is radiated out as xrays, and the sorrounding air turns into a fireball. That didn't happen at chernobyl. And every proper nuke explodes with at least many kilotonns of energy (before some smartass thinks to fuck with me again in the comment section, I know about the suitcase bomb, I also know about the kricket). Just because the energy came from fission, it is not a nuke. All fossile energy can be traced back to fusion energy, yet nobody says their car is a hydrogen bomb. The energy in the reactor was produced over many seconds, not microseconds, and it exploded like a faulty steam engine. In my opinion you guys are idiots. Some moron before me wrote about some bullshit nuclear explosion after the first explosion, and so I wrote down how nonsense that is. And here you are insisting on Chernobyl being a nuclear explosion. Pathetic.
Friendly reminder a cone of 1000 tons, acting as biological shield also got yeeted into the air like it was nothing
Word for word
“Cuz it was cheaper.”
*china sweating intensifies*
They produce better reactors than the US does actually
@@thejfactor1 yeah
@@thejfactor1 because its a capitalist country at it's heart, take it from some who lives in china... the ammount of starbucks and mcdonalds, apple stores and so on. not to mention coca cola. i recommend checking out patriot act Coca cola corruption episode.
independent research it’s mostly because:
1. They have talented scientists and engineers,
2. They segment different portions of their nuclear business differently than that of US businesses, such that each segment is responsible for one thing and one thing only (site planning, balance-of-plant, primary system, etc),
3. Their supply chains are matured and they can produce all components domestically,
4. The US did most of the heavy lifting when it came to developing these reactors, and China is now fine-tuning these designs further,
5. Their country can commit to long term projects, unlike here in the US,
6. They don’t have anti-nuclear crowds blocking access to site workers during the construction phase
Much to the good fortune of the rest of the world, China doesn't have much of a nuclear energy program.
I love how he basically admits to everyone that the reactor was built to be cheap and dangerous
I mean, what left is there to lose? Almost, if not, no one in the building survived the accident.
Funny how everything still has to be cheap even in socialism, isn't this the main argument from leftists against capitalism?
@@danieldorn2927 Give me some citations that leftists' main argument against capitalism is that "everything has to be cheap". What the hell are you talking about? In regards to the environment, the argument is that things are too cheap right now, and too many environmental impacts are missing in markets. The USSR was always incredibly poor, Eastern Europe was much poorer than Western Europe going back centuries. Poor capitalist countries have many of the same problems, they are economically far behind and do things on the cheap out of necessity, some of it incredibly dangerous and environmentally destructive. Who the hell says that leftists want things to be cheap? In regards to single payer healthcare (which exists in many Western countries), the lower cost is the result of how much more efficient and simple the system is.
Having said that, the USSR (like many poor capitalist countries the US now supports, and increasingly like the modern US and many parts of the capitalist West) was an authoritarian system, and that did contribute to what happened at Chernobyl. Right now we are not just destroying one part of Europe, we are destroying the entire worldwide environment and many capitalist interests don't care because doing what is needed to be done would harm their profits, and would certainly require an entirely different economic system.
Like typical Americans, many are watching this and learning very predictable lessons. I, personally, think about what is coming for us in regards to the environmental crisis, I look at how authoritarian our system is, how incapable of change the political system is and the economic system on the whole, I look at a two party system in our country with many of the same deficiencies that we saw in the USSR, a media system dominated by a few powerful interests that spit out propaganda not radically different than the old USSR and I see a population that feels entirely cut off from what the state does because (as many studies how) what most people want has no impact on what the state does. People like you watch this and think, "Communism bad."
@@danieldorn2927 Socialism in the Soviet Union was worse than what it is in the rest of the developed world at the time and currently. They used it for ultra radical exploitation and manipulation
I have a friend that lives near Chernobyl, he has counted 13 historic inaccuracies on 1 hand.
I live in San Antonio. Ipso Facto I know everything about the Mexican-American war.
@@TheSkinnychef1620 1- spellcheck, use it
2- r/woosh
@@testickles8834 - Touché. Didn't see it at first. Well done you.
“It’s cheaper.” Soviet Union government were insulted by that statement, but it was the truth with national catastrophic result.
Everyone after watching Chernobyl
*You know, I’m something of a nuclear physicist myself*
I understood that reference... Norman ;)
Gotta say - Not claiming to be a physicist, but I feel much more educated as to the workings of a nuclear reactor than I was before watching the show's court scene.
Gets a million smoke detectors
Comrade Dyatlov receives Hero of Socialist Labor medal for completing the 5 year energy production plan in 0.1 seconds
He was a great hero. The hearts of the people of Pripyat glow in admiration of his greatness.
As do their skins, spleens, heads, nails, hairs, livers and eyes.
Good ones, mates! 😂😂 Pozdrav & greetings! 😎🍻
I shouldn't laugh but this
Ok. You get the medal for funniest youtube comment ive read this year!! Haha good one:)
Truly the hero of our generation. May he have a long and happy half-life!
Look at this place... 50,000 people used to live in this city. Now it's a ghost town. I've never seen anything like it.
You’ve gone there?
@@cosmo8218 it’s a quote from call of duty modern warfare 2
Nvm it’s from Cod 4 Modern warfare
@@cowerdnerddespacito9518 cod 4 modern warfare*
@@chrisarmendariz7707 shit you right
@@cowerdnerddespacito9518 Yeah. I remember that damn ferris wheel.
Terrifying part is that explosion was *very likely* an under exaggeration of just how bad the explosion truly was.
The terrifying part to me is that this wasn’t a nuclear explosion, just a traditional one. If it had been a nuclear explosion, Chernobyl wouldn’t be an exclusion zone; it’d be a crater.
Everyone’s gangster ‘till the rods start jumping
*gangsta
THEN CABOOM
They be groovin
No gangtsa
Everyone gangsta till you steal a comment 🤦♂️
I love that they actually showed it blow up. This event is talked about over and over and over but you never actually SEE it happen. It was nice for them to show what it may have looked like in that room for a split second
yeah i really like that too
Because it was cheaper.
Damning sentence. They made that exploded reactor looks like the gate to hell.
For all we know, radiation might very well be from an unknown deeper circle of Hell
0:34 Dyatlov's face. He never expected for someone to tell the truth. He never expected someone to acknowledge that he HAD believed there was a failsafe, that these issues were systemic and didn't begin and end with his mistakes.
2:16 can't imagine the amount of fear and terror that man experienced in that moment when he saw those rods moving.
Seeing certain death
Yep each weighing 770lbs or 350kg, I would be very scared
@@xShareem "marvs spider scream" aaaiiiieeee
They are not control rods. They are the lids of the channels. There is either fuel channel or control rod channel under every lid. In emergency, the lids begin to work as relief valves. Each lid is 350 kg.
@@ulfvonweimuller4433 a powersurge I hate hate hate them and the reactor was thinking "oh shit you got scraming me"
"The chain of Disaster is now complete" might probably be one of the most scariest dialogues I have ever heard with a nuclear bomb blast as the background music.
3:02 if u want to watch the explosion scene again.
Right??? This whole scene was so intense!
3:18 *OH FUCK BOX 4 JUST EXPLODED*
3:12
That is easily one of the most harrowing scenes I've ever seen. It's like watching the birth of an eldritch god burrowing its way into our reality. And yet, it was something that came from this world, made by human hands. Ironic how simple science managed to create a horror far worse than what we can conjure from our fiercest nightmares.
I think a good saying that's been going around the internet for this is "manmade horrors beyond our comprehension"
Nuclear science isn't that simple but I agree with your words, it was all because of design flaw.
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” - Robert Oppenheimer
I deeply admire the fact that they saved the explosion for last. Like a big bright cherry, it had to wait until we'd digested the episodes about everything around it.
Code Lyoko fan spotted
I like the very last frame of Shcherbina.
He is looking at Legasov with this sort of defeated, empathetic look because he realized that at that very moment Legasov's life as he knew it was forfeit. He was watching his dear friend throw his life away for the sake of telling the truth.
Incredible acting.
'incredible' acting... yeah sure...
@@Xingmey if you think Stellan Skarsgard isn't a great actor you're fuckin trippin
@@Xingmey most sane weeb
@@Xingmey Either you're trolling or you're actually insane bruh
Dyatlov: Reactor cores don't explode.
Reactor: Hold my boron rods with graphite tips.
Nah the steam will do that
Given that a nuclear reactor is, at its most basic, a steam boiler, and those are known to blow up, it’s foolish to think that one can’t
@@artembentsionov don't worry this one is a special steam boiler with magic light rays that make you feel warm and cozy
Holy Crusader hmm, yeah, I do feel warm and cozy, except I keep wanting to say something...
*Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.*
@@artembentsionov you couldn't have said it better
Considering the Lid was 500 tons and was blown 50 meters into the sky you can imagine what kind of forces were already at play even before the whole thing went boom.
Steam is very powerful
It was 2000tons not 500
@@dustin1481 Word?
Last i checked it said 500 Tons in all the offical Documents.
To all the guys in the comments section having a problem with "Chernobyl Reactor 4 is now a nuclear bomb".
He used it METAPHORICALLY !!
Shows that something as dangerous as a nuclear power plant is not the place to be cheap. And this historic nuclear disaster proves it. Something that could've been completely avoided..
There's no such thing as a foolproof machine. There's always a fool bigger than the proof. That's as true with nuclear reactors as with everything else.
@@MaureenLycaon So the people who worked at the reactor are to blame? Not the people who cheaped out on building the building, put in no failsafes, and led to this disaster?
Your philosophical argument does not hold up to actual evidence and scientific proof. Maybe watch the clip next time.
Ye, but if it didn’t happen, they would have never fixed the other reactors
@@MaureenLycaon they were willingly cheap
@@stormcloudsabound Yes, the people who worked there do shoulder a fair bit of the blame for the disaster. If Bryukhanov hadn’t pushed to get the test done after a ten hour delay from when they originally planned, the explosion might not have happened. If the night shift staff had insisted on not performing the test when it became clear they didn’t know what they were doing, things might not have gotten out of control. If Dyatlov had pulled the plug when the reactor stalled instead of trying to get the power back, the control rods might have still been in the core before the power spiked. Not knowing about the graphite tips wasn’t their fault, nor was the cheap design of the building, but they absolutely shoulder a fair deal of responsibility for the accident.
The words “it’s cheaper” are probably the worst words in nuclear power plant history.
In any construction *
If there is one thing you should never ever do while building a power plant is go cheap
Nasa gives contracts to companies that can deliver the cheapest parts
The nuclear heat popped the lid. The hydrogen that formed from the super heat is what popped the whole building. The chemical reaction was the true big bomb
No shit lmao
Everybody a gangsta until they see the control rod caps bouncing
Reactor number 4 exists
AZ-5: I’m about to end this whole mans career
@KANYEda WESTaro China
AZ-5 buttons are doing their job on RBMK reactors to this day without major incident except this one time in Chernobyl when the operators ignored all protocol and essentially overcooked the reactor without knowing it before they pressed the button.
When hipsters post on youtube
Professor Legasov: "It's cheaper"
Everyone: (⊙_⊙;)
That's about right
Even Roose Bolton knew it was a risky answer! Lol
3:38 The ghostly blue glow of Cherenkov radiation hovering over the fresh corpse of a dead nuclear reactor. It's like the angel of death. That's my favorite erie part of this series personally.
This scene is absolutely perfect. There's no music accompanying the narrative: the narrator talks over an almost absolute silence of shocked and ashamed people. That silence makes any sound that happens ten times louder, because that's how we would have perceived it in real life. The way he narrates it in a controled, yet emotional way is just amazing, and the only moment we get a bit of music is when the tragedy happens, and it's a tune that mixes music with actual sounds of metal bending and breaking.
I don't think I'll ever get tired of this scene.
And the music in it is creepy af
10/10
You are bang on. In this case the adagium "less is more" absolutely applies. And if you happen to have a good home cinema set, I strongly recommend watching this scene with it running. When in episode one they came at the open reactor and you can hear it still fission, hissing and whistling whilst they look over the railing, it will send shivers down your spine. One of the scariest sounds I ever heard, and I've heard quite a few in my lifetime.
The music is composed of actual nuclear reactor power plant sounds. Hildur Guðnadóttir (the soundtrack composer) went to the Ignalina NPP and walked around for hours with her sound recording crew to record the various sounds of a working nuclear power plant. She has done a phenomenal job!
@@swokatsamsiyu3590 Wait, the music was done with actual nuclear reactor sounds?? That's amazing! I was wondering where those sounds came from. Incredible.
@@ZefDavenport
Yep, basically the entire soundtrack was made up with the sounds of an actual NPP (the now decommissioned Ignalina power plant which was a sister plant to the Chernobyl NPP. It used the same RBMK reactortype). She went in there donned in hazmat gear and recorded things like the turning on of a turbine, a pump starting. I even think she received an award for her outstanding work on this series.
@@swokatsamsiyu3590 yep,I watched the whole series in a day
Wore my friend's third hand studio headphones
And it was clapping in the other room so,it was awkward to get out
She was gone after I finished watchin,but he was still here
Dead Drunk on wine
Imagine watching 800 pound steel blocks doing the macarena as some horrible beast tries to claw its way out from under them.
“Because it’s cheaper”, wow, ended up being the most costly disaster of ALL time, over 500 billion.
It's suggested that it helped to bankrupt the SU and eventually its collapse in 91' only 5 years later.
Second only to the stolen 2020 election
@@beantown_billy2405 Stolen because young people decided to vote.
@@hobogrifter Often and early with those mail-in ballots
@@hobogrifter and dead people
Wtf is going to happen today that we are all suddenly drawn to Chernobyl videos today.
That is a very good question. But also, there’s really no need to worry because nuclear reactors nowadays are 50 times safer than Chernobyl.
@@machomanrandysandwich7625 Its not the reactors im worried about.
Fr
@@npswm1314Exactly! Russia is threatening to nuke Ukraine before and now they're currently offering a way out through surrender!
That's why you don't hire chefs to work at a nuclear power plant
those damn hats
Yes chef "you donkey"
lmao
oh dear oh dear gorgeous
Couple of facts
1: the lid flew through the roof and landed sideways over the reactor
2: the firefighters clothes in the basement are still radioactive
3: 2 of the divers are still alive today
4: the photo you see of the reactor fuel/corium is actually a phot through a mirror down a hallway
that is a myth, here's a link to an archive footage of going inside the remains of reactor no 4, along with the corium or elephants foot as its called, with elena (the bioshield you mentioned in point 1) and few other interesting bits
czcams.com/video/NkwEfbIBnDU/video.html&ab_channel=SomeStuff
The reactor lid that was tossed like a children’s toy weighed more than 2,000,000 pounds. Think about that.
More than 1 thousand tons. Jeez
@@fxnr1r Thank you!
Why do you think that guy who saw the rods dancing literally shit himself. That's basically doomsday level danger right there.
"If we show the explosion in the beginning, it comes off as action. If we tell it after we see the results and the cost. It becomes horrific"
Fantastic. 🤔
50,000 people used to live here now it’s a ghost town
Mw ?
Pripyat
No DUUUHHH Stupid
@@enchantresshela6327 r/wooosh
Never seen anything like it
2:52 I always laugh at Dyatlov's face here. The man knows exactly what those numbers meant. Man was in a full panic here.
Even better when one considers that it was also just the final reading before the systems ultimately gave out, a.k.a it likely went significantly higher still
@Lazaruz95 Most physicists who studied the disaster and it's aftermath agree the final power output before the explosion was around 300,000 MW. 100,000 times the optimal output for grid demand.
After watching this im never buying a pressure cooker
True dat.
I once bought a nuclear pressure cooker. They didn't like that.
The scene where the lid blew off the reactor was amazing. Remember, the actual weight of the reactor lid was 1 million pounds. Steam contained enough energy to blow the lid hundreds of feet into the sky.
True
2 million
2204622 exactly. (pounds)
2 million pound actually
the core is delusional, take it to the infirmary
Jmm
Let me remind you the lid weights roughly 2.2 million pounds that roughly the same weight as 125 full grown elephants, and it got tossed into the air like a coin. Yah scary huh.
It bounced off the roof and landed back onto the core on its side. I wish they didn't cut the scene when it blew. This is likely what killed Valery Khodemchuk who is permanently entombed there.
So that's about like one gorlock the destroyer
3:13 - That moment when the reactor no longer looks like anything that belongs on Earth. More like the twisting tentacles of some eldritch dark god. It is what I think when I hear the term Lovecraftian.
The best part about this series is that the horror of it truly Lovecraftian. There is this invisible force slowly killing you and most of the higher-ups of the USSR are either in denial or oblivious. And the worst part of all it: It's a real incident. A real life example of a Lovecraftian-esque horror story.
Lmao get off the internet..
@@tbn22 That was rude and unnecessary.
@@unicornman147 yeah that's the best part about this. That and the fuel rods jumping is what captivated me so much. I can only imagine how they all felt in that moment. The sheer terror. BUT all they knew about it was it exploded, they didn't know that radiation can destroy DNA rapidly and kill you, so maybe they weren't that horrified as one might imagine.
@@unicornman147 yeah it really was, I think he needs to actually 😂
"It's cheaper." How many lives have been lost in very preventable accidents due to that?
Ask Ford (the car manufacturer)
that's how a communist system works
@@strangebrew1231 Funnily enough, that's how capitalist systems work too.
@@jeburr24 At least under capitalism, you have options. If you don't like how companies manage their business, you can switch to others.
Well, under communism, you too have options:
a) The party.
b) Jail.
@@DonVigaDeFierro c) Gulag
“Because it’s cheaper” was true for almost EVERY BIT of the entire power plant. When Viktor (the plant manager) was sent in the supplies to start building it, they were cheap materials and even most times built wrong. It’s depressing to see that the entire plant was suppose to be as safe as possible and an important energy source for Pripyat yet the Soviet Union barely cared about how it was built, it just had to be cheap and quick
Akimov: *Presses AZ-5 to shut down Reactor 4*
Reactor 4: *GAS GAS GAS IM GONNA STEP ON THE GAS--*
When Legasov said "I'm not the only keeping secrets, there are many-" Scherbyna was like "Bruh, you're dragging all us in, I ain't mad, but it won't help you either..."
"RMBK reactors dont explode!"
Reactor 4 " hold my graphite "
@TheSystemGuy99 dyatlov hurt me
'The tips are graphite' is misunderstood by most people, the rods are like 6 meters long, the top 3 meters are made of boron, the bottom 3 meters are made of graphite, there is small water gap between the boron and the graphite. The reason the rods are designed in this way is that a column of water will reduce reactivity, so you replace that column of water with graphite to better modulate the reaction, and yes, this design is cheaper. When the graphite is fully inserted there is a water gap at the top and at the bottom of the reaction. When AZ5 was pressed, the rods dropped, and at the bottom of the reaction (where water was reducing reactivity) that was replaced by the graphite rod, which caused the localized spike which caused something to break, the rods to get stuck, and eventual disaster. 'The tips are graphite' was cheaper, and it was dangerous, but it wasn't just a random design error, it was purposely designed in this way.
However an easy fix which was implemented after Chernobyl was to not allow the rods to be moved such that the watergap appears on the bottom.
The flaw could have been fixed by design by just making the graphite tips the entire length of the core, or making the ends longer and out of steel, or something else that replaces the water there.
And to be fair, nobody expected some dickhead to turn off most safety systems, ignore most operating procedures, and then push that button...except it happened before, TO DYATLOV, and nobody did anything.
English please
@@devv3329 The tips are graphite' is misunderstood by most people, the rods are like 20 feet long, the top 10 feet are made of boron, the bottom 10 feet are made of graphite, there is small water gap between the boron and the graphite. The reason the rods are designed in this way is that a column of water will reduce reactivity, so you replace that column of water with graphite to better modulate the reaction, and yes, this design is cheaper. When the graphite is fully inserted there is a water gap at the top and at the bottom of the reaction. When AZ5 was pressed, the rods dropped, and at the bottom of the reaction (where water was reducing reactivity) that was replaced by the graphite rod, which caused the localized spike which caused something to break, the rods to get stuck, and eventual disaster. 'The tips are graphite' was cheaper, and it was dangerous, but it wasn't just a random design error, it was purposely designed in this way.
1986, i was five years old, chernobyl was 1.600 km far away from us, and i remembered i was playin outside in a sandbox, when my mother called us children to come inside. As a five year old you don´t realize, what just happened.
It’s hard to imagine how fast it happens when he’s just speaking so here ya go...
1:23:40 A3-5 pressed
1:23:42 sees caps jumping
1:23:44 steam blows channels apart
1:23:45 explosion
Crazy.
This is very nice, but you wrote 20 instead of 23 in the first time
1:23:45.. 12345 its like counting to 5 then boom. the reactor is gone
5 seconds
' 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦 '
Very powerful.
Everyone is gangster until the fuel rods start dancing
Everyone is communist until the fuel rods start dancing.
@@StsFiveOneLimaBro them fuel rods don't discriminate 😂😂😂
It was being honest one of the best documentaries ever made. There wasn't a bad actor in it. There wasn't a second anyone wasn't glued to the screen. Simple.
Agreed.
it was a great drama. not good at being a documentary.
I find it funny when he brings up that the emergency shut down had a fatal flaw, Dyatlov looks up and starts to really listen to what he has to say.
jonathan sparks I’ve gotta give that actor a lot of credit. He truly looked surprised and intrigued.
@@ornerypenguin8469 he really did. Like he was looking up thinking "what is he about to say?"
"Why?"
"Why? It's cheaper"
One of the reasons the USSR failed.
Yup
Remember kids never use graphite as a tip for control rods
You mean I’ve been buying all those pencils for nothing?! :(
@@donut3156 uhh
Plenty of reactors are still Graphite moderated
It’s Cheaper
The Chernobyl disaster is a great example of how a corrupt government falls under its own weight. Nothing lasts forever. They never wanted to admit their mistakes out of pride, but everything collapses by itself. There are many corrupt governments in the world that are perhaps facing their end, because chaos can never be eternally sustainable. It always explodes and falls. Unfortunately, that explosion takes innocent lives.
True
Amen
At this moment the corrupt ANC government of South Africa is ignoring all the safety warnings about containment breaches given in a report by nuclear power experts from France and going ahead with running the remaining functioning reactor. Cape Town and the entire Western Cape of South Africa is currently two steps shy of becoming Chernobyl 2.0. Pray for us.
Turns out cooperation and transparency, and other positive features of society, are additive or even multiplicative in benefit, whereas deception and other such things are subtractive and divisive.
Really the success of what we consider 'good', and the failure of what we'd call 'bad' is just an emergent property of the universe. Funny how that works out, aye?
A very popular saying in the USSR was "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work".
"The chain of disaster is now complete"
Chilling as Hell
The look on everyone’s faces when he finishes his “the same reason” portion of the speech. Nobody is shocked, nobody is surprised, they are disappointed. Because every single damn one of them *knows* that this is *exactly* the kind of thing their government would do. It’s exactly the kind of humiliating dirty little secret that permeated every aspect of the Soviet Union, and it explains everything about why this catastrophe occurred, and the USSR’s reaction after.
TLDR: I just feel that the “It’s cheaper” line is grossly underrated.
I'd argue that "cheaper" is merely a result. The real cause is an economic system of rationing resources where no true value of the materials and labor is ever an important consideration. This was communism.
keep believing in your fairy tales
@@CrossedSabresCOD But that's arguably *worse*. Because then that means that their government isn't just lying to them, it means that their whole ideology is a sham, and no better than the capitalists they compare themselves to.
I’ve watched the reactor explosion scene numerous times. I’m still absolutely mind blown by the fact that there was so much energy building up inside the reactor that it literally popped the 1000 ton upper biological shield off the reactor like the cork on a champagne bottle. Truly terrifying stuff.
The fact this series is banned in Russia speaks volumes.
@@fkyou2be It's banned from being broadcast dude
Where do you live
@@anhilliator1 you know I can't find any evidence for it being banned from being broadcasted except one vice article (there are calls from the Communists of Russia Party to ban it, but their demands haven't been accepted). Also it's been widely streamed in Russia.
@@anhilliator1 who said that?
I mean... Netflix is banned as far as I know, but not because of this series
@@garrysmodsketches Chernobyl isn't on Netflix, and Netflix isn't banned in Russia so much as it voluntarily suspended services in light of the invasion.
Sometimes it’s lost on us, but realize that it took all of FIVE SECONDS between Akiimov pressing AZ-5 and the explosion.
On the log it's actually 3 seconds.
The servos of the diagnostic computer recorded the rods failling to align one by one until the entire set recorded as dead.
I’ve heard three, five, and eight, so I’m just gonna go with five since it’s the average
@@ShadowXaenen You don't need to. Just see the log file for yourself, you should find it without much trouble online.
@@tywinlannister8015 oh, okay. Thanks
Five seconds to the first explosion, roughly eight seconds to the second one. I think.
1:32 “Cause it’s Cheaper” The Fall of the Soviet Union in 3 words.
Imagine the horror of just having pressed the one button meant to stop a complete nuclear meltdown and it doing the exact opposite of its one, singular function. Knowing that a massive disaster is coming and there's NOTHING you can do to stop it is terrifying.
And you cannot possibly get far enough away, fast enough.
People don't give enough credit to Dyatlov reactions here. Despite how arrogant he was, he still was a genuine experienced nuclear engineer. His complete denial of the explosion throughout most of the show isn't because of his arrogance, it's because, as a genuine experienced nuclear engineer, he knew that none of it made sense. He saw the AZ5 get activated, the reactor should have shut down not exploded. As far as he was concerned, he probably thought that the reactor had been sabotaged or that he was being scapegoated for someone else's actions because that's the only way he could make any sense of it. Which is why this is the first time in the show that Dyatlov looks guilty because he actually thought before this point that there was no way it could have been his fault. And in a way, it wasn't really his fault.
I don't know who you are. But I'm hoping you never get a job more complicated than pushing a broom.
@@UNKNOWNPERSON-kk9kdwhy?
@@billcastaneda6228 Because there's more to Dyatlov than this.
@@UNKNOWNPERSON-kk9kd Wow, you sure are a ball of sunshine, aren't you?
P.S. I'm stealing this insult because it's genius
You must have watched a different show then, because it addresses this. He's confronted on his actions, and other even more experienced nuclear engineers pointed out that it should have been obvious the reactor was drowning in xenon, and you can't run any test on it. He did this out of arrogance and greed, not because it didn't make sense to him.