Chernobyl (2019) Nuclear Reactor Explosion Scene 

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

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

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? 😳

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.

Newer technology is safer

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?

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

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

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.

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😂

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🤔?)*

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

Usually would result in spending the rest of your life in prison or you would "disapear"

what the guy above me said^^^ the real scientist speaking at the trial, Valery Legasov (who this actor is playing) was stripped of all his scientific credentials, all of his findings behind what caused chernobyl to explode were credited to other scientists, and his efforts in containing the disaster were also left uncredited. pretty sure he could not work in any field of science either. he killed himself exactly two years after the explosion at chernobyl happened. (April 27th, 1988).

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 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.

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

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"

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

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.

viktor says that not fomin but still funny

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*

*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

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

@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...

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.

yeah i really like that too

Yeah, the Soviets never agreed that it actually exploded. Also there are some survivors today who believe that no one went on that 'Bridge of Death', they believe that's a rumour.

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*

Word for word

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

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"

'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

No shit lmao

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

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.

*gangsta

THEN CABOOM

They be groovin

No gangtsa

Everyone gangsta till you steal a comment 🤦‍♂️

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.

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

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

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.

Great actor, such class, he's also in the movie: Sherlock Holmes

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!

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

Yeah I’m confused too

@@pinacoladaofficial ikr also its suspiciously strange

the accident happened 4 weeks and 38 years ago (rest in pieces)

Code Lyoko fan spotted

That's about right

Even Roose Bolton knew it was a risky answer! Lol

Fantastic. 🤔

@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

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

Yes, really looks like something is trying to escape

those damn hats

Yes chef "you donkey"

lmao

oh dear oh dear gorgeous

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

For all we know, radiation might very well be from an unknown deeper circle of Hell

Kinda doubt it, these people are actors and they will portray whatever reaction the producer and director demand of them, no matter what preceded it. Legasov might as well have said "The core is now turned into cotton candy" and everyone would start chanting in latin and then break into a dance number celebrating the death of Akimov, if that's what the producer and director wanted them to.

MW* what you wrote is a milliwatt ☝🤓

I only understand Jigawatt. And I know that 1.21 is the highest possible value.

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 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NkwEfbIBnDU.html&ab_channel=SomeStuff

Jmm

I can’t imagine how terrifying it would be to see that actually happening in front of you.

isn't it crazy they manage to make a nuclear reactor so fucking terrifying? The entire building seemed like a horror monster

True

2 million

2204622 exactly. (pounds)

2 million pound actually

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

Weird, me too!

Same wth

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".

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.

Mw ?

Pripyat

No DUUUHHH Stupid

@@enchantresshela6327 r/wooosh

Never seen anything like it

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

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

320 kilograms thats around 700 lbs, there are full size cars that weigh less than that

The sheer amount of pressure under that lid is just unthinkable. The amount of thermal energy required to create that scenario is… yeah, that’s nightmare fuel.

Welcome to the world of Soviet incompetence 👍

@@theneedle6785 yes only you westerners never fail at anything …..

@@42033 hit a nerve ? Just STFU Comrade Dominic. LOL

Test completed ✅

True dat.

I once bought a nuclear pressure cooker. They didn't like that.

And the worst part about it is that you won’t even know that you’re a dead man walking until your body starts dying.

The nuclear radiation spread everywhere meaning not a cell nor a bacteria survived. The bodies probably haven't even decomposed.

or is this just fantasy? caught in a nuclear megadisaster no escape from reality

...and the comrades in Moscow initially denied the outbreak for several days...

I think they dealt with it in the next scene. They said he would not be killed because Legasov was already a poster boy in Vienna, instead he would be made irrelevant and all the proceedings of the trial denied

AW Ah, ok. I have only watched clips of the show on RU-vid so that would make sense, thanks.

Legasov also committed suicide 2 years later which was the catalyst of more information being released

VoidX Three Mile Island is NOWHERE near Chernobyl. American reactors are some of the safest in the planet

@@literallynull I live a few miles away from TMI. They are thinking of shutting the plant down actually. Not sure what they are gonna do with the accident building. My dad went over 100 miles away to a 2 room cabin with 20 family members the day it happened. No one knew if it would blow. Didn't come back till Peanut president Jimmy Carter proved it was safe.

No one could make that decision. Panic envelops the whole facility and they were struggling with moral dillema. If you were in the higher ups you feel responsibility for damage mitigation to ensure the radiation can be minimzed. We knew it cant be contained anymore only because cherynobyl is the only example of this case ever happens out of human error

no. because i need money

​@@gpt-jcommentbot4759someone completely missed the point of the most terrifying accident of mankind

Worst part is the dude who fd it up didn’t care or even accept fault.

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.

Agreed.

it was a great drama. not good at being a documentary.

Steam is very powerful

It was 2000tons not 500

@@dustin1481 Word? Last i checked it said 500 Tons in all the offical Documents.

@TheSystemGuy99 dyatlov hurt me

Yup

Everyone is communist until the fuel rods start dancing.

​@@StsFiveOneLimaBro them fuel rods don't discriminate 😂😂😂

It's the only series I own. Acting, mood, cinematography, all insanely good. It being a recreation of a real life event is the cherry on top.

Between this and Band of Brothers, my favourite two TV series

In an age of crummy engineering and money above safety, maybe that's why. Or it's just really good television. Who knows.

Nuclear fears are a silent warning.