That 1986 footage of Gorbachev on TV took me right back to my 15-yr old self. I remember that footage like it was yesterday. The whole thing was a big flippin' deal here. We couldn't eat anything from our gardens, in particular things like lettuce. Farmers had to throw away their milk, and those that had just harvested their spinach, had to bin the lot. The Chernobyl accident was a very sizeable nail in the coff*n of the Soviet Union, to say the least. It was one huge bill they could ill-afford. I truly enjoy these videos, although I do miss the reactor-y bits a little^^ Maybe some day you can do a video on how they have improved the RBMK's safety after the accident? 😇 The more I see about the new game, the more stoked I am to play it. Keep up the excellent work!
Yeah, me too - rather from the history lessons, but I was born close to it :-) As for the more technical episodes - sure! But probably much later, now we will focus more on the upcoming game and maybe return to those later, after the first, "hot time" will pass ^^
Well, actually... a lot can be said too that the current war is a result of the accident in an indirect way. Countries like Germany and also Netherlands and Belgium have been getting more and more dependend on natural gas and the pipelines for it from Rusia were build to get the cheap gas from Rusia here. Without it, we would have probably continued on the paths that were started to continue building and expanding on nuclear fuels and green energy. This would have made us much less dependend on gas from Rusia. Both not expanding investing money to get the gas from Putin - and paying for the war-building - but certainly also have rejected more things from Putin like just taking over the Crim from Ukrain and probably investing more into letting Ukrain in our union and trades. Since this war has very big economic and polical effects, well the costs and impacts of the disaster have been huge, even a lot more then you tell about in this video. Very hard to calculate though.
Exaclty - even with an event of this magnitude is impossible to precisely calculate how much did it impact us today exactly. It's like a butterfly effect - the connection of so many entangled events is impossible by changing just one. So it calculating the cost of the disaster that happened almost 40 years ago :-)
