Bro i really hope your joking because, they were russian the youtuber who created this put the translation into british. It was so you can understand what their saying. Your not being serious right?
@@mrdarker0778 the name of it is 'chernobyl: the final warning' released back in 1991, a TV movie that was broadcasted on TNT, with known actors Jason Robards, Sammi Davis, and Jon Voight
Interesting Topic for some reason. Radiation I guess. There was a fire and the plant roof caught on fire in 1991? This is about 1986 Meltdown it looks like. Too bad there wasn't a lot of cameras back then. No one really knows what that explosion looked like u can just guess on the colors?
2:05 "Quaid...stop the reactor...!" (Seriously, though, that actually does appear to be reused footage from "Total Recall"-possibly unused trim of effects shots, but it does match up, even down to shadow and light patterns.)
This was a made for cable TV movie. I think it was made by and shown on TNT. It starred Jon Voight as a US diplomat. Looking at it now it is very cheesy compared to the HBO miniseries, but 30 years ago it was decent. They even got the 'A-ZED-5' button right! Those were indeed shots from _Total Recall_ being used for the inside of the reactor.
There are so many great versions of this. The BBC made one n the late 2000s (I think) that was so well acted and so well done that I was a bit surprised when I first learned that HBO was going to have a go at it.
There was also "Zero Hour, Disaster at Chernobyl" in 2004. It had been filmed at Chernobyl reactor 3, so the closest you can get to the real location, and the actors were perfect lookalike of the real people involved.
@@CMILF I visited control rooms of Unit 3 and Unit 2 only. My colleagues told me that the control panel of the fourth power unit looks the same as the other three.
This IS that movie that scared the fuck out of me as a kid! My father worked at a nuclear generation station outside of NYC and thought it might be educational. Little did he know it would spark a life-long commitment to learning everything I could about the incident itself.
My daughter is like that too, she is only 8 and her first obsession was the Titanic, when she learned as much as she could about that she’s now moved onto September 11th which has become a very big obsession for her. We live in New Zealand and she’s never been to the USA so no one here has any connection to September 11th she reads everything she can about it.
@@ytzpilot I honestly hope that some day she can get to the States to the see the memorial, both in NYC but also in Washington. I'm a born and bred New Yorkers, and sometimes I can't even think about it :( I give her all the props in the world for being able to study and learn everything she can about the event.
Kinda interesting my father worked at Shoreham Nuclear Plant on Long Island I watched this movie as a kid and became fascinated with Chernobyl and anything Nuclear.
those cameras were not installed at the time and were thus not in use on unit 4. another thing to note is that flames were not visible between channel caps, instead, the ~700 pound caps began to lift up in down due to extreme pressure, followed by explosion of the core.
@@festivelad5079 There is proof that actually the 700 pound caps didn't weigh that much at all, and in fact they never lifted off until the moment of the explosion.
@@TheTrueMichael these caps are used to help keep the channel seals closed when the reactor was not being fueled, they were very heavy. also yes they never lifted until moments before the explosion, this was due to extreme steam pressure attempting to escape the core, as well as mechanical force from the rapid rupturing of the steel channels inside the graphite blocks.
@@TheTrueMichael the caps? yes they partially were, but they were mostly used to keep the refueling caps closed. most of the radiation protection was done by the upper biological shield, which sits several meters below the channel caps. the individual caps wouldn't be a super effective radiation shield as they are not very large (only around a meter in length) and are loosely grouped together so a crane can remove them for refueling access.
There was a reactor fatal design flaw that would only kick in under certain conditions, and those conditions occurred because of the gung-ho ham-fisted operators. But in fairness to them, they thought hitting the AZ-5 emergency shutdown button would avert disaster. It didn't.
I don't know all the details, but apparently there was a 'possibility' that, when the AZ-5 button was hit, the control rods would descend but not properly enter the reactor core; rather, when they touched the edge they would cause a power surge which would cause them to jam barely half-in and not doing much good. The power surge however would cause even more problems to the rest of the atomic power station. This 'statistical possibilty' was known to the original designer and also a few big-wigs high up in the Politburo but it had been buried in an official report and not made widely available. Certainly the every day staff at Chenobyl never knew of the risk/possibility of it all going pear-shaped.
@@xj900uk To be fair and I am not saying this to defend them, but I guess the circumstances here have been pretty pecuilar in some sense due to the nature of the experiment they conducted and also under such conditions. Instead of using the day crew as planed they got to the night shift and a staff which was not really aware about the conditions. The fact that the reactor was runing for hours in a low state where it created Xenon inside the core. No one ever probably expected or thought that someone would run a reactor, on purpose, in such a state for so long. So the authorities knew there was a "risk" but they simply thought that it was not worth the hassle to "fix" it. Crazy.
@@CrniWuk More likely they thought the 'risk' of something bad happening again in such similar circumstances was so statistically low, it wasn't worth bothering about. Which, of course, meant that it was bound to happen again one day.
It's funny to watch this side-by-side with the HBO version. Lots of shots in the latter are clearly either stolen from or attributed to this movie. The direction of the control room. The guy running away from the reactor. The rods bulging up prior to the explosion.
@@C2H6Cd they did know though that once you shut down a reactor you have to wait a couple weeks to restart it, and in all the confusion and frustration of wanting to get the test done they over looked things that they shouldn’t. Yes this particular reactor type has several design flaws that were not explained the crew especially the leader Antonov should have known. He was a trained nuclear engineer
Actually the auto-safety system would have blown it up. They had pushed it into a dangerous state that was hard to back out of. The correct solution from this point was to lower the control rods one at a time. Among the many design flaws in this reactor, lowering the control rods momentarily increases reaction rate. Normally this is not a problem, but when they've built up so many three-day isotopes and are so close to prompt critical it's deadly.
I'm sorry, but in NO way does this compare to the real chills (I got) from the HBO 5-part mini-series (though, I admit, this little clip's all I've - so far - seen of the whole film), they've done 'typical' things, i.e., have background music for this, which, in the HBO scene, there's none during this whole sequence, only the eerie silence, punctuated by an alarm, or an ominous rumble, making it just pure nail-biting torture (in the first episode, the very beginning, when it's night, and we're in the fireman's apartment, the window's in the centre, and you can tell that the central part is the reactor. When there's an instantaneous beam of incredibly bright, white light, shooting straight up, most people (watching the film, as well as those, who were AT the real area of the tragedy) are caught off-gaurd by it. A few seconds later, there's a deep, powerful rumble, and explosion does it become crystal clear; the sound and noise were only part of it. The blast of white light was the other part, and that we've just witnessed a massive disaster. I don't know what the actor's (real) name who's playing the Anatoly Dyatlov part, but, here - though hey make him (obviously) 'in-charge', in HBO's Chernobyl, Paul Ritter was ruthless, uncaring to the point that he didn't even believe the data, unless he could somehow make it conform what he thought it should be. The disaster was caused by a string of terrible coincidences, and it's much more likely that - in the Soviet Union, people were less than 'people', but, more accurately just a small part (of whatever it was that they were involved in/with), and therefore, they didn't care about the totality - only that their small part was correct/efficient, etc, and, here the Dyatlov-character seems more human, and just...stupid, but, in the HBO mini-series, he was ruthless to the point that the entire plant could drop into the pit of hell, just as long as what HE was in charge of, DID asmthey were expected, and followed EVERY rule.
Notable difference. IN the 1991 movie, they have analog dials. In the 2019 HBO series, they have digital displays. Which is accurate? If the former is more correct, it would have been more effective for the HBO series to mimic the 1991 movie because how the heck can you read a huge wall of dials shown in the 1991 movie? Since I had a Texas Instruments digital watch in the late 1970s, I know the Soviets could have had digital displays at Chernobyl.
This relates to my dream where me and my dad explored the abandoned Chernobyl which is near California some how we explored the halls and the control room even the reactor he told me the story
Rave. In reality, everyone spoke in a calm voice. Emergency protection (AZ-5) was both to prevent the explosion and for the STANDARD stop of the reactor. After the experience was completed, the reactor was stopped PLANNED by clicking on AZ-5. The explosion is a consequence of the "end effect" - shortcomings of designers.
Some say that this was the Dyatlov’s fault. The test needed to be performed at 700-1000 Megawatts as the instructions said, while Dyatlov, the deputy head of the boss of the power plant, Nikolay Fomin, said that it should be performed at only 200. He thought that he knows everything to the point where he may not follow the instructions. But he wasn’t reckless. He knew that sometimes the rules are contrary to reality, and you need to smooth out the edges to get the job done right. But this time it didn’t work
Some say that this was the Dyatlov’s fault. The test needed to be performed at 700-1000 Megawatts as the instructions said, while Dyatlov, the deputy head of the boss of the power plant, Nikolay Fomin, said that it should be performed at only 200. He thought that he knows everything to the point where he may not follow the instructions. But he wasn’t reckless. He knew that sometimes the rules are contrary to reality, and you need to smooth out the edges to get the job done right. But this time it didn’t work
Yes, I worked at a nuclear power plant in Maryland (now retired) when this disaster struck. Some time after it happened we had a meeting where the official report of what happened was read by our supervisor. From what I remember, they were trying to perform some type of test which required the reactor to be at a low level. Problem was, at that level it became unstable and was going to auto shut down. To prevent that, they disconnected the safety systems. Unexpectedly, the reaction increased rapidly to the point of the reactor exploding, so quickly it occurred - a matter of seconds - that they didn't have enough time to get the control rods inserted into the core. It was sheer stupidity on the part of the control room operators. The other problem was that the reactor building itself wasn't strong enough to contain the explosion and allowed the radioactive fire and contamination to blow out into the atmosphere.
What people forget is that due to politics, this station went online before it was fully commissioned, and this commissioning test should've been completed BEFORE the station was licenced to operate. The rest that say, is history.
when you realize they used american names instead of the original ukranian names like aleksandr akimov, leonid toptunov, valery khomdechuk, anatoly dyatlov, etc
@Glub_blub yeah, but theres no evidence to prove that the fuel channels actually jumped, even a book about chernobyl cited that the rods never jumped, anyway all of the foremen who oversaw the reactor are dead
0:01 low water 00:15 computer try to warn them 00:18 OVERRIDE IDC 1:59 OMG AZ-5 IN LEGEND(but why it has 2 button?) 2:00 control rods is lazy to drop fast 2:49 reactor:so (turn on subtitle)
If this was a Bill and Ted movie scene, Bill and Ted shuts down Chernobyl reactor. Bill: Ted, we must shut down the Chernobyl reactor before the plant explodes! Ted: Do not worry Bill, I told everyone I already did it for them. (Chernobyl plant shuts down) Everyone (Claps and cheers): Way to go Bill and Ted!
This why we have lot of safety systems as we do now if something were to happen like that again I think they have emergency shut off but I don’t if I’m right can any one correct me if I’m wrong
They did have an emergency shutoff. Problem was the reactor. A graphite-moderated water-cooled reactor with a positive void coefficient and graphite-tipped control rods and xenon-poisoned in a low power state. When the steam voids were cleared and xenon burned off, power sky-rocketed. Shutoff command was given, but neutrons were moderated by the graphite tips on the control rods before the rods could slow the reaction. Overheated cire produced hydrogen gas, ruptured the vessel, hydrogen explosion destroyed the reactor hall. We don't use graphite moderated reactors; our PWR's generally lose reactivity the hotter they get by design. Core melts can still happen, but a lot has to go wrong at once.
@@sechesin7111 well there wwas few catastrophic events. two explosions. but there was something more before those 2 explosions, breaking up fuel channels also were explosions but very small and unnoticable. fuel channels rupturing were causing hot steam to enter reactor vessel,more fuel channels break up,more steam less water when all water was gone reactor started melting but not all at once. there was separation from ELENA assembly first i.e all fuel channels shattered and reactor instantly bleed all steam to reactor vessel. first explosion is that ELENA jumped out of reactor drum,it was pushed upwards by steam. it crushed the refuelling machine crane and fell back to reactor drun on its side, then hydrogen and oxtgen go boom and destroy the reactor hall.
Its a made for TV movie, so the quality is going to be much lower than a theater movie. Lower budget for cameras plus household TVs can only look so good.
Yes. An employee at a nuclear power plant in Sweden got radioactive dust from Chernobyl on himself when he went outside. When he went back inside to work, he set off the radiation sensors. That's how the world outside of Russia first found out about it.
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