Pripyat is now deserted but is becoming pretty popular among nature and urban explorers as well as other tourists. Have you been there or are you planning to go? What's it like?
It's real eerie, I can tell you that much. I went there with two friends, and the emptiness of the place creeped us all out. It's not often that you walk in properly empty streets.
@gas mask finn There's the exclusion zone, which is kinda like the danger zone, but I'm pretty sure some areas initially affected are safe now. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Meanwhile people like Obama which have blood on his hand received a Nobel Peace. Not saying politically but every US Presidents have blood on their hands. Just disgusting how the real heroes never get rewarded properly but always the rich and famous who never done any goods for the world!
6:50 "he pursed a career in the same field" imagine going to another nuclear power plant for work and them being like "so what is your past experience" and you being like "oh I worked at chenobyl for a couple years before me and 2 other people saved half of Europe during the meltdown"
Its not just about bravery, many people even I would agree to sign up for the mission but the intelligence, calmness and self control along with the courage they had truly made them our valliant heroes.
"such a movie would be too depressing to attract hollywood financiers" - Chernobyl mini series then gets rated 9.7/10, the highest rating ever given to a show...
My dad tells us anout the Chernobyl disaster, he told us the about the liquidators and how they got approximately 200 years worth of radiation exposure
My grandfather helped clean up the damage and came down with pancreatic cancer 7 years ago, he fought it off and lived for 7 years cancer free. He recently came down with a violent relapse of the pancreatic cancer and slowly deteriorated and passed away last year in October. RIP Abram, I will love you till death.
@@nicolaskkkmitrache122 alexei is still alive- I saw an article where the author literally had the chance to interview him. Pretty sure wikipedia didnt even get his last name right soo
The liquidators were the unknown heroes. Some of them cleaned radioactive material directly with shovels, and knew they would die from exposure so they asked to stay so others wouldn't be exposed.
It is easy for the Americans to comment on Chernobyl disaster. The emergency crew and other people did not what they stood up against. The people do not count, the governments are wiling to sacrifying anybody to get their goals fulfilled regardless of political systems.
A plant worker: Why should we do this ? For 400 rubles ? Boris Shcherbina: You will do it, because it must be done. ... After that speech even I want to do it
I really love the transformation of Boris as a character in that show... He was such a self-centred man who just cared about his gain in political power to one actually for the people and doing his best in a bad situation and the look of dread on his face growing after each episode as he understands the gravity of it all.
Fritz you are correct, the closest city to the Plant of Chernobyl was the City of Pripyat, but there is a city just a little be father away from the plant also called Chernobyl, that city houses a museum of a lot of the robots used in the clean up of reactor 4.
@@hierstehtkeinname7092 it's uplifting and cheerful at least. and i am really happy the tune made it into the video. who would come here for actual information anyway?
@@aznbn88 the elephant's foot is still there. it hasn't moved because its a giant slab of corium. even now, its still hot. its still slowly eating through the basement floor. its "safer" now than it used to be to be around it, but that thing isn't moving
Actually blast disrupted the communication, not USSR, bcoz of the large emission and explosive effect, the name of the USSR is just a Dramatic effect, Actually one thing is correct they sure did not inform civilians at first priority basis
@@robinhood5627 Not true. While some did called it propaganda, many movie makers called it "Masterful work. And Professionally made and edited". Furthermore, it was praised for respecting the deceased and those who were involved.
If they died for their country, they're the hero who saved millions lives Never forget those people, thank them ⚰️🌷 Pay respects for the nuclear disaster heroes
There is town of Chernobyl and town of Pripyat. And the power plant Chernobyl. Pripyat is few kilometrin away to North from the plant, and the town Chernobyl about 25 kilometers south from power plant
I'm Scottish and if this happened in Scotland and I could basically save my country by shutting off water valves? Those valves are getting rekt. 🏴🏴
If it happened in Scotland, this would never be a problem as Scotland doesn't put nuclear power plants in warehouses and the meltdown would very likely be contained cause there are many many fail safes due to public concern. (which in the west where free speech exists, seems to be actually considered)
Nope just gonna roar as he cranks the valves, probably says an inspirational speech beforehand “Brothers today we shall grab Hell’s gates and Rattle it with our FURY FOR WE ARE SCOTTISH”
koolest kid you’re right, not many know that fact. It amazes me how we called it Chernobyl, as Chernobyl is a small town located downriver from the power plant. I’m confused on how we didn’t just call the power plant the Pripyat power plant.
Untrue slav, no the town was called Chernobyl. The nearby town to that was Pripyat and it was more of a small city than a town, the Power Plant was called Vladimir I Lenin.
Thank you for clearing up the myths about the divers. As of 2019, two of the three were still alive, and they are indeed absolute heroes. Luckily, there were several liquidators there to decontaminate the divers immediately upon their egress from the flooded basement. The water wasn’t drained right after they opened the drainage gate however. Several hoses had to be dripped down through the gate to pump the water out, which from what I have read took several days. The first hoses inserted even broke shortly after and had to be quickly replaced. There are a lot of great books out there. One of my favorites is called “Ablaze,” written by Piers Paul Read. He also wrote an excellent book on the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, the famous crash that stranded a rugby team in the Andes for 72 days.
Actually it would not have been a problem if not for human error, in fact nuclear power is the safest form of power, and yes that's right, that includes, solar, wind, and hydroelectric, yet just like planes when it goes wrong it goes very wrong, but it is very rare
The fact that Europe's uninhabitability would have lasted for thousands upon thousands of years is what chills my bone, and stills my breath, more than anything else.
They did not have pump lights actually, that was made up in the HBO series. No joke they actually managed to do the task in complete darkness after the lights went off. But it was not realistic for the series, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction
It’s worth noting that a nuclear power station will never, ever, ever explode like a nuclear bomb. It cannot happen. The reason for this is because the nuclear fuel is nowhere near enriched enough. Which is exactly what you want. You don’t want all your fuel releasing its energy in a split second. You want it to release its energy over as long of a period as possible, and for it to only release as much energy as is required to boil water and turn it into steam, that’s all. The quoted potential explosion would have been a steam explosion, nothing more. Power reactors do not go off like nukes, and that’ll never happen. This seems to be a common misconception of nuclear power.
DreamyWolf umm, no? It was decidedly not a nuclear explosion. It was a steam explosion. It is literally against the laws of physics for a nuclear power station to go off like a nuclear bomb. They are two completely different animals.
In the town of Chernobyl itself, there is a statue which was funded by the civilians of the area itself which is "dedicated to the men who saved the world", the workers, firemen and of course, these 3 chaps.
"It took hours to totally put that raging fire out". Hours To put out a blaze being fueled by an out of control nuclear reaction? Ok seems logical, It took more like 10 days for the fire to be completely smothered
“This ain’t Hollywood, this is real life” cannot describe how horrific this event was. These men put themselves last to save Modern Europe. Words cannot express how heroically brave these men were.
Boss Romos yeah but it was also a town. The plant took it names because when they were building it it was the closest town. They eventually built Pripyat afterwards.
@@goldnopportunity Chernobyl is a town 15km from Chernobyl NPP(about 18km from Prypiat) The NPP got it's name from town it was closest to when they started building.
