"A reactor was damaged" Understatement of the century...

@dorarouzi

6 жыл бұрын

Lies and understatements like this are typical in communist countries.

@WillyDantas

5 жыл бұрын

Just the USSR being USSR.

@kcholden5180

5 жыл бұрын

This is what life was like in the U.S.S.R. why people would embrace communism is beyond me.

@MsWickedGirl

5 жыл бұрын

KC Holden You think our own country never has, does not, and would not lie and prevaricate in the same way with us? That would be naive of you if you truly feel that way. You think we have had the truth about Three Mile Island? Or any other topic our dear government does not think we would understand or need to know about? Governments are in power to be in power. They are not there to take care of the people beyond the extent that it serves the wealthy and privileged to "take care of" us...to maintain their workforce and keep the money coming in...to THEM.

@kcholden5180

5 жыл бұрын

@@MsWickedGirl I guess you weren't alive then. We are allowed to have a free mind. If anybody living in the Communist countries said anything bad they would be killed. You obviously don't like this country. You can move to Venezuela. Also read the comments from the other people saying the same thing. The U.S.S.R was the king of Communism. GROW UP

"And the Soviets have admitted it happened" sent chills through my spine

@dontsaymynameunlessyouknow8775

7 ай бұрын

Why

@ifwemadeit

6 ай бұрын

​@@dontsaymynameunlessyouknow8775 Cause the soviets/Russians lie.

@dontsaymynameunlessyouknow8775

6 ай бұрын

@@ifwemadeit do you live there ?

@jackh9054

6 ай бұрын

@@dontsaymynameunlessyouknow8775 it’s a well known thing the d official death toll is still listed as only 31

@MichaelJ44

5 ай бұрын

@@ifwemadeit And the US dont?

34 years ago, this day, i remember it i was at my grandma, playing outside in back garden with the chickens A policeman entered the garden, knock on the door, spoke few moments with her Shortly after , she start yellign at me "Get inside, get inside now, god get inside" Later in evening, someone from dispensary came and gave us iodine. We took it, my grandma didn't had a tv so we were listening to the radio, i didn't understood much. Then sirens start howling. Time passed, in 2011 my mother got diagnosed with 2 cancers. Colon and uter. In the block of flats where I am living now, every two floors has at least one person who developed some sort of cancer. 34 years ago....i still remember the smell of air.

@harryblock_3826

4 жыл бұрын

You reckon that radiation is why cancer massively rose in recent-ish years?

@MegaRoFLL

4 жыл бұрын

@@harryblock_3826 yes in eastern europe is such a huge issue atm with cancer, especially thyroid cancer and bone cancer, mostly caused by polution and radiation. Chernobyl had a lot to do with this, as they said, the effects will start to fully present themselves after 25 years or so.

@icelandisacoolcountry925

3 жыл бұрын

God Bless your mother

@dhepaksomu

3 жыл бұрын

Do you taste metal?

@soldmumforLSD

3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow....😶😨😔

Peter Jennings was one of the best news anchors of all time, it was a damn shame to see him go so early

@highplainsdrafter595

2 жыл бұрын

You're kidding, right? You sweet summer child. He's a lightweight compared to those whose shoulders he stood on.

@chris587124

8 ай бұрын

He was an honest man and golden boy back in the day

The Soviets have admitted that it happened That was the beginning of the end of the USSR

@mikeo.1593

4 жыл бұрын

Yes gorbachev was even quoted saying that accident ultimately led to the fall of the Soviet Union

@theidiot5496

3 жыл бұрын

chernoybl was not the reason the ussr fell there many reasons the ussr falling and chernoybl just added to problem even if it didn't happen the ussr would fall anyway

@gwen6622

3 жыл бұрын

wait till the united states starts admitting to all the things that it's tried to cover up

@j.f.fisher5318

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like a big part nobody talks about is that the officials who tried to hide the truth showed the leaders that the closed system worked both ways. It didn't just hide the truth at the top from those lower down, but hid the truth lower down from those at the top. But the alternative, glastnost, was something the Soviet state so long corrupted by secrecy could not survive.

@lockheedmartinf-22raptor73

2 жыл бұрын

@@gwen6622 give me an example of something we don't know.

Sweden . ILEGALY HIGH ! lol

@c02615223

5 жыл бұрын

hey man, this is like eh erm private property dude

@kevtuff1038

5 жыл бұрын

@@c02615223 ???????????????????????????????????????

@bs13a

5 жыл бұрын

My fav kind of high

@ahah1785

4 жыл бұрын

Swedes are like that cowardly and very square...personal experiences...

@crowtservo

4 жыл бұрын

I was gonna run the safety test, but we got high, we were gonna make sure everything was safe, but we got high. Now the nuclear power plant is blowing up and I know why. Because I got high, because I got high. Because I got high.

Rip Of Those Who Died In Chernobyl Disaster 🌹🌹🌹

@lunalgaleo1991

3 жыл бұрын

This needs more likes.

@CruisinBen

2 жыл бұрын

I’m sure the first thing on their minds was hoping they wanted to have such a touching tribute via youtube comment

Little did they know back then but they showed the man responsible at 1:34, Anatoly Dyatlov is the big dude in the middle

@benhaenraets4369

Ай бұрын

It's highly contended who is at fault. Dyatlov is one piece in the puzzle

I was born in 1982. The is the first major news event I can remember. In fact I remember seeing this exact broadcast when it first aired.

“You didn’t see graphite because it wasn’t there!”

HBO used this clip in their new miniseries on the disaster.

@DASCO2136

4 жыл бұрын

Why should they be concerned? The radiation level is only 3.6 roentgen

@TubesForNoobs

4 жыл бұрын

DASCO2136 😂😂

@mikeo.1593

4 жыл бұрын

Should limit shifts to six hours but other than that... should be fine

@christiancruzmd1270

Ай бұрын

​@@mikeo.1593not great not terrible

I was 8 when this happened and remember it all. This and the Challenger disaster were some of the first big world news events I remember paying attention to.

I was just 6 years old and remembered this day. our neighbor came over and told mom about the news, we kids were outside playing. I remember my moms reaction... she and the neighbor were very calm about it and took us kids in side. I think ppl were feeling hopeless and just left it up to God. Now it's been 37 years and I thank God it didn't affect us in any huge way.

@davidnorman4786

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing that.

@Spex212

Жыл бұрын

Were you in Europe or in the ussr ?

@I_Lemaire

2 ай бұрын

It affected us. Autism.

As bad as the Chernobyl accident was, it could have been 1000 times worse. After the initial explosion, it was determined that the core could potentially melt through the bottom of the reactor and contact water pooled beneath. They then worked day and night to fill the area under the reactor with cement. Had they not done that, and the core had melted through to the water, a resulting steam explosion could have rendered Europe uninhabitable.

@thefanification

9 жыл бұрын

***** it was't gorbachev's fault, anatoly dyatlov was the one man most at fault he kept insisting the reactor was completely fine, even after seeing the gaping hole in the building, and he told the kremlin just that, so they all thought it was fine. he shouldn't be killed for being made ignorant by the actions of others. he should be killed for being a commie though... all commies are scum if you ask me... :/

@user-zr1zf2ou7n

9 жыл бұрын

thefanification Коммунисты - хорошие люди, я жила при коммунизме в стране советов в СССР и мне нравилось там жить, при коммунизме все были добры и счастливы! В том что случилось в Чернобыле виноваты глупые ученые проводившие эксперимент на ядерном реакторе - они отключили все защитные механизмы ядерного реактора.

@user-zr1zf2ou7n

9 жыл бұрын

***** в том что произошло в Чернобыле виноваты не коммунисты а глупые украинские ученые, а Горбачев счастливо живет в России.

@thefanification

9 жыл бұрын

Ирина Сергеева I disagree with you, I am anti communist, because no one can do it right. but I am a fair man, it WAS the scientists fault, they built a shitty reactor just so they could have one at all. the commies also hid the fact that it was a shit reactor from EVERYONE so very few people knew it was poorly designed. so yes TECHNICALLY the Russians and Ukrainians are ALL at fault, but people like dyatlov mislead those in power, and once things became clear the USSR government managed to efficiently get it taken care of.

@user-zr1zf2ou7n

9 жыл бұрын

thefanification Реактор №4 который взорвался в Чернобыле не был "дерьмовым", это был обычный реактор, в тот день 26.04.1986 украинские ученые проводили эксперимент - они отключили все системы защиты и разогнали реактор до предела из-за этого он и взорвался, видимо вы этого не знаете.

Imagine seeing this for the first time and not realizing how big of a deal this would turn out to be.

"every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth"

@Florin20D

Жыл бұрын

“Sooner or later that debt is paid”

@personwhogivesfacts5244

2 ай бұрын

@@Florin20DWhat is the cost of lies?

I was a college student running around Europe right after this. We really had no idea. I remember being in Berlin and seeing tons of vegetables dumped against the Berlin Wall. It was all deemed unsafe to eat. That was my first inkling that this might actually be really bad. Knowing what we know now, I look back at the moment and I'm just terrified.

I was 5 when it happened. Apparently the effects of it were felt in the UK.

@bfaymous

8 жыл бұрын

This is true. Crops and field where registering dangerously high levels of radiation

@jackcatchpole4404

6 жыл бұрын

Gordon Hotchkiss Has the effects of the radiation from Chernobyl worn off?

@tntfreddan3138

5 жыл бұрын

My mom was 20 at the time and they weren't allowed to pick berries or hunt animals here in Sweden in order to not risk the populations health.

@commentingpausedtoprotectus

4 жыл бұрын

We were told to stay indoors or Chernobyl falloff.

@mattia8327

Жыл бұрын

In italy u were only allowed to eat for example potatoes and carrots, only foods which grew under the ground.

It’s rare to hear them talk about “Soviet Union” and “Soviet people”, it’s somehow nostalgic.

@tomamberg5361

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, like "nostalgia" for a Ford Pinto! Everything, EVERYTHING about the USSR just outright sucked.

I worked as a salesman and was in Kiev when it happened, there were no warnings whatsoever, luckily i had to leave the next day...before the radiation cloud turned around...Only to find out several weeks after what really happened....

@theraber7780

3 жыл бұрын

I know ur a 10 yo geez. No one uses ... ... ... ... this much

@HeidiCavalier

Жыл бұрын

@@theraber7780 Actually this ... almost makes it more credible! The only people I know who use ... too much are boomers 😄 It lends their messages a sense of tragedy and seriousness ... like they're thinking of all they have lost ... even when its just ... a grocery list ...

They all seem surprisingly...not alarmed.

@JoachimLevel

5 жыл бұрын

The Americans? Why would they be this far away

"Sweden...illegally high." lol

USA be like: Dat concrete bro

@sasatek

6 жыл бұрын

arcticridge that thicc concrete

@KaputOtter

4 жыл бұрын

@@traydevon The absolute irony of this statement. A "false sense of hope and control" is exactly what caused Chernobyl in the first place. It is not just an American way or any one people's way. That is human nature, right there. Let's not fool ourselves.

@qadirahisrath751

3 жыл бұрын

Spicy concrete ✨✨✨

sweden: the radiation is illegally high radioactive clouds: *understandable, have a great day.*

@3:30 They could not imagine that it wasn't a meltdown but the core had exploded and was exposed open to the air.

brings back memories watching these old news cast.

Was this JUST the news ? Simpler times

All fun and games until the radiation levels are "illegally high" 😅

I’m amazed that 50 nuclear power plants only provided 11% of their power. I thought they put out more power than that.

@eriklakeland3857

2 жыл бұрын

That’s more of a reflection of their large population. 99 reactors provide 20% of US electricity.

@robscafidi4070

7 ай бұрын

@@eriklakeland3857 They weren't that much larger, the Soviet Union had 275 million people in 1986, the United States 240 million, and the Soviet economy had a GDP of $2.5 trillion vs $4.9 trillion in the US. I think likely the reason is that many of their reactors, especially earlier ones, were fairly low power - 14 of the ones operating in 1986 were less then 700MW (13 were less than 500MW). The RBMK reactors were extremely powerful, in excess of 1GW, but there were only 16 of them operating, the newer VVER designs were also huge, but were only just starting to come online. That, combined with likely incomplete information on the full scope of the Soviet energy industry due to the classified nature of a lot of that, filled in with educated speculation by experts. Incidentally, US electricity was 15.5% from nuclear power in the mid 1980s, with the US having about 63 reactors operating at the time.

"There was nothing sane about Chernobyl."

They used this exact clip on the HBO series.

cant believe it was that long ago.... it was a terrible accident and I feel the high rise in cancers today in Europe are linked to that incident .this radiation leak effected people animals water crops etc.. I could be wrong of course.. great video..

@thefanification

9 жыл бұрын

the higher rates of cancer ARE due to Chernobyl actually with the zone most of the worst landed there, but after that the worst of it fell over most of Europe, Ukraine and Belarus getting the worst.

@thefanification

9 жыл бұрын

Ирина Сергеева david does make a good point in my mind though. chelyabnsk and a few other areas are so contaminated they won't be hospitable for centuries.

@thefanification

9 жыл бұрын

Chelyabinsk was a combination of dumping waste AND failures though.

@thefanification

9 жыл бұрын

Ирина Сергеева small leaks I believe, its been a while since I read up on it Chelyabinsk is just as bad as Chernobyl, but Chernobyl happened instantly, Chelyabinsk happened over time.

@thefanification

9 жыл бұрын

Ирина Сергеева you make no sense... Chernobyl happened instantly... and what does meteorites have to do with anything?

I've been way too obsessed with Chernobyl since 2012; to the point where I've spent money on it and gotten National Geographic issues including an article about Chernobyl from October 1986. This video is interesting because it shows the way that the world was kept in the dark about what happened for months afterwards (until Slavsky and Legasov told the world what they knew in a press conference in Ukraine, not without consequences) and the worlds inability to trust what they had been told.

@esoterica73

5 жыл бұрын

Also interesting that they mentioned the Ozersk accident from 1958.

@user-zh2vw8zs8m

2 жыл бұрын

After the war stops i will go to chernobyl

@clay_freespirit

Жыл бұрын

@@esoterica73 You should start doing mini documentaries or like a commentation on your channel

Makes me nostalgic. Remembering being a junior high kid seeing these news reports.

@jenl1107

2 жыл бұрын

Same, I was in 8th grade. I don't remember to much when it happened but it still feels crazy

@Shorty_Lickens

2 жыл бұрын

I was in first grade. Didnt understand. But my parents were a little worried. they thought particle radiation would flood the globe.

@MrEkzotic

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. Depressing. I miss the 80s. I think I'm going to call some old friends.

Man is his own worst enemy

@MrLoowiz

4 жыл бұрын

That just goes to show how powerful humans are.

@evarodriguezalequin5705

3 жыл бұрын

Yess, indeed! I always say: "if there is danger, don't go there". Man has always been playing with dangerous stuff, this is the answer to it. All these countries wants to feel and be big as a nation, to proof how they are, but it can be very deadly.

Back when TV was good.

Ahhhhhh, the 80's, the days before crappy, made up journalism and reporting.

@raccoonmoustache

5 жыл бұрын

In France the news lied about the radioactive cloud. They said the cloud stopped at the German border. This cost the life of many.

@TubesForNoobs

4 жыл бұрын

Journalism was completely controlled in the east lol

@Benjaxiso

4 жыл бұрын

And full of homophobia and racism

@cryptidian3530

4 жыл бұрын

@@raccoonmoustache I love how radiation can't cross border air space. it's like a Pokémon weakness.

@dijoxx

4 жыл бұрын

@@Benjaxiso Oh please.

My grandad liquidated radiation. He worked on the roof of reactor

Who's trying to write "who's here after watching Chernobyl?'😐

Reactor: *explodes* Dyatlov: RBMK reactors CAN'T explode! This reactor is delusional take him to the infarmary!

50000 people used to live in this town… now it’s a Ghost town

Peter Jennings: not great, not terrible...

Far worse than the Three Mile Island incident. Not great. Not terrible.

This was a terrible nuclear catastrophe I don’t think we know even now the full impact. The explosion was so serious that it blew off the reactor’s lid & the so called bio shield which was only a concrete slab was flipped on its side causing nuclear fuel to seep under the reactor. Very bad indeed.

0:47 didn’t know David Bowie was a swedish scientist

I was a kid in the 80s and 90s. There is something nostalgic about the way TV was back then that i miss.

Not great, not terrible...

'damaged'.

Last few seconds of the video says everything about Russia -" in 1957, 100s of people died in soviet nuclear explosion which they denied, so if soviets r accepting there was an accident, it must a big one" and ever since Chernobyl is pop history, it was beginning of the USSR end

@iscander_s

4 жыл бұрын

Except it wasn't a "nuclear explosion", and nobody died because of that radiation waste leakage. But yeah, a lot of people get moved from their houses that was in contaminated areas.

This was a duel use reactor complex. It also produced weapons grade uranium. That was foolish.

50,000 people used to live here, Now it's a ghost town.

Chernobyl reactor: *explodes* Literally everyone else: *THats a lot of damage!*

@generalhorse493

4 жыл бұрын

You're confused, RBMK reactor cores do not explode

@AlonsoRules

4 жыл бұрын

its only 3.6 Roentgens

@icelandisacoolcountry925

3 жыл бұрын

You’re delusional, take them to the infirmary

@jeibear

3 жыл бұрын

You all are in shock.

@richardhall9815

2 жыл бұрын

RAISE THE POWER TO 700!

Back when news was credible

@custosnocte1528

2 жыл бұрын

Not in USSR.

3.6 roentgen not great, not terrible

@vishalvsr330

3 жыл бұрын

😂

I was getting an eye operation when this was first reported. I was 7. Seems like yesterday.

@sqlma

3 жыл бұрын

Yo u still there dude? Your comment is very old

“Had to be very bad” they had no idea

What I find fascinating is how accents have changed over time. This was an excellent news report, though

i was 2 months old when this happened

it burned long.long time, wide open and sweden probably got the most downfall,knew people that has died of chernobyl

Once upon a time in America, we actually had real news reporting!! Unlike the hyper partisan editorializing that goes on today.

@w4lr6s

2 жыл бұрын

Although to a foreign ear, it does have some hint of American propaganda. (There is a tone to it, not too obvious, but yeah) But well, it was the 1980s.

@noobovsky420

2 жыл бұрын

I miss it

@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo

2 жыл бұрын

I can actually explain that! It really bothered me before, why there was such a difference in news. It's because news shifted to 24/7, so they needed something to talk about that long. Enter opinions, propaganda, guest speakers, etc.

@sdot5389

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact - Peter Jennings was Canadian.

Sorry man I just couldn't help it. I just wish I could go on a exploration to their is all. The way the place looks it's just so gloomy and has a hypnotic vibe to it.

"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."

Man they just hit the nail on the head with their guessing...

I was just 10 years old when this happened. I'm still thinking about this now

HBO Chernobyl mini-series sent me

Yeah I never understood that game quote until I did some research on the horrid event. It's interesting to learn all the things that led up to that event.

I remember Jay Leno walking into Johnny Carson's show in a yellow hazmat suit.

All they had to fuckin' do was build concrete around it

2:55--RBMK-1000 Reactor No. 4 before the explosion

@thecodaze

4 жыл бұрын

this is the Reactor No. 1

@PCCphoenix

9 ай бұрын

​@@thecodazethe design was very similar nonetheless.

I met the guy who was first to find out about the matter in the US. He told me a US spy plane was taking pictures over the area and he spotted smoke on one of the pictures, when he zoomed in he had found out what happened.

Not great not terrible. I've seen worse.

I never knew this, only until Vsauce mentioned it, about the 1986 disaster

I kinda remember these news reports from back in the day. I was 8 yrs old when this happened.

Boris Johnson's yokel brother at 4:01

@indayteray8647

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

Bu kadar güzel bir şehir neden Kendi hâline bırakılmış çok yazık üzücü bir durum

So this is where they snapped up the clip from Dark Station's "Heroes" song.

Seems like a small accident but it was hugely impact full

Finnaly Sweden in a news report

@cybersecurityguy

3 жыл бұрын

lol 😂

Its weird to think that people didn't even know about it because the soviet union didn't tell everyone else. That wouldn't happen today

I was only 5 years old in 1986, I don't remember this happening in real life. Maybe my parents remember from watching the news

Harrisburg. Or the EBR-1 Meltdown. Or the Simi Valley Meltdown. Or the SL1 Meltdown. Or the S.P.E.R.T. destructive tests. Or the Fermi Meltdown.

Very informative

“Sweden ILLEGALLY HIGH”. Tonight on cops…. Bad boys what cho gon what cho gon do….

What’s scary is that these flawed RMBK reactors designed in the 50s, 9 of them are still in use in Russia today. 👀

@danielbishop1863

9 ай бұрын

The crazier thing is that the Chernobyl power plant itself remained in partial operation until the year 2000.

...wow..

But little did they no the depth

I remember this on the news. 😮

Not great, not terrible.

When the Soviets admitted something went wrong and they were at fault you best believe it’s more serious than they said

Larry Speakes!!!

April 28, 1986.

Intro scared tf outta me

Peter Jennings :(

4:02 Larry Speakes "The Spokesman" is speaking.

The most chilling thing were the reports of injuries from a nuclear accident. Just as people were wondering how that could even happen the first pictures of the destroyed reactor building came out and the world gasped a collective “holy fu**”.

that damn feed water again..

1:27 there's a Soviet Life Magazine?!?!

I remember that day in Sweden.

4:02 "Larry Speakes" is the perfect name for a spokesman

Must have been the grain alcohol during lunch