How a Nuclear Sub Disaster Impacted This Soviet Operation
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A reactor failure on a K-19 nuclear sub in 1961 ended up killing several crew members due to radiation poisoning. It was a horrifying episode that would have ramifications for a later, top-secret Soviet operation.
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@jordanburns9831
5 жыл бұрын
Yup
@rafaqatullah6770
4 жыл бұрын
Yup
@Ken-no5ip
4 жыл бұрын
I believe these are clips from longer documentaries
@phucu5638
4 жыл бұрын
Yes
@scavengerx101
4 жыл бұрын
We should have longer vids so that it is more interesting
The idea of getting locked up with anything nuclear already scares me off. Let alone doing repairs on it.
@shepherdlavellen3301
5 жыл бұрын
not to mention made in Russia all over the place
@JohnDoe-on6ru
4 жыл бұрын
Dat glowing reactor
@indangilang7940
3 жыл бұрын
Me too
@busharaca9637
3 жыл бұрын
Yup same
@adiangameingandcrafts6688
3 жыл бұрын
Yup same to mee
how the hell you gonna have a nuclear sub without any radiation gear inside?
@chrisortega9947
6 жыл бұрын
I know right
@walka3210
6 жыл бұрын
amnesiai the warehouse that supplied them with it ran out, it tells you all about it in the movie which is pretty good
@Acc0rd79
6 жыл бұрын
Russians don't need gear, they are strong like bear!
@AarmOZ84
6 жыл бұрын
Russian reactors do not fail so no need for emergency equipment. If they do fail, it was because the reactor watch team clearly weren't loyal comrades to the Mother Land!
@skolnation4206
6 жыл бұрын
Aiden Walker what’s the movie called ??
one sailor received 54 sieverts... It's 10 times more than average lethal dose
@eriktruchinskas3747
6 жыл бұрын
a mockingbird and lived?
@antoniofranco333
5 жыл бұрын
Erik Rasmussen if he did not for long radiation stays and will eventually kill you timing depending on the dose
@vadersmustache5588
5 жыл бұрын
a mockingbird yea, though 10x might be low balling it; 2 sieverts could be considered lethal. I’m throwing up just thinking about 54 🤢🤮
@gabethedoge8661
5 жыл бұрын
@@vadersmustache5588 Are you sure you aren't throwing up from the radiation?
@derekwall200
5 жыл бұрын
or about 5000 rads of radiation, basically enough to kill a person within a few days
does whoever edits these know how dark the stories are and still puts that outro on regardless
@vito7428
6 жыл бұрын
They use the outro to label their videos? I can make a show about WW2 and make an episode about a tragic battle and still put on my outro with some action filled music at the end because it's what makes my show,my show.
@cxzmyc
6 жыл бұрын
SS Obersturmbannfuhrer yeah but this outro is fucked up. Plane crash kills 490 passengers and crew and outro cues *It’s brighter here*
I love how the stories on this channel are so dark and full of death and war, but they put the outro on every time
Could you imagine being put into that position? Having to choose to go into that reactor and sacrifice yourself so that the hundred or so other people on that sub would live.
@natez9059
5 жыл бұрын
Not just a hundred, but the whole world! If that reactor would have melted down, it could have started World War Three.
@asyncasync
5 жыл бұрын
@@natez9059 why?
@natez9059
5 жыл бұрын
@@asyncasync Good question. A reactor without any cooling water with eventually melt down and caused a massive explosion. The USA and her Allies would have seen this accidental explosion as the Soviets launching a nuclear bomb against the Western World. The USA would have attack back to defend herself. The world would have turned into one massive graveyard with no one left.
@baconatoromg6062
4 жыл бұрын
@@natez9059 reactor explosions look nothing like nuclear and are no where near as powerful. All the US would have done is laugh at the Soviets for losing a new sub and they'd also figure out their plan to head for Cuba.
@tidan4575
3 жыл бұрын
@@baconatoromg6062 May have put a good amount of radiation into the ocean though. (though I've heard a story they just dumped the damaged core in the ocean anyway after they returned to port)
Interestingly, another Soviet submarine, the K-219, had a similar problem somewhat later. An explosion in the missile room caused the reactors to fail, resulting in a similar overheat scenario. There’s an excellent book about it, called Hostile Waters.
Smithsonian: “8 men die to radiation poising from the reactor” Also Smithsonian: Its BRiGhtEr HerE
Damn russians, always half assing everything, nuclear waste? Just dump it in a lake. Nuclear meltdown? Just cover the building with cement. Build a nuclear submarine? Provide rain jackets as safety gear
@bobmcmurtry7609
5 жыл бұрын
@Reunite The British Empire But cement isn't the longest lasting solution, and if it fails it causes a huge leak of radiation which is extremely dangerous.
@bobmcmurtry7609
5 жыл бұрын
@Reunite The British EmpireIt still does not takeaway the pint that if that dome fails then it releases huge amounts of radiation and again concrete isn't the longest lasting material for this.
@bobmcmurtry7609
5 жыл бұрын
@Reunite The British Empire No the radiation is in fallout, small dust, imagine how much dust would rise up if this dome fell.
@bobmcmurtry7609
5 жыл бұрын
@Reunite The British Empire But the concrete dome is specifically stationed over the failed reactor. That is the most radioactive place there.
@allahsnackbar9915
5 жыл бұрын
@@bobmcmurtry7609 you can all relax, chernobyl power plant has received a new sarcophag over the old leaky one and is now rad proof for another 100 years
Vasili Arkhipov ended up saving the world from nuclear disaster.
@ver93
3 жыл бұрын
@@senpaichicken9408 search up his name alongside Cuban missile crisis
just use a radaway and a couple stimpacks
@M-Maxentius
5 жыл бұрын
+ Radex , and Brotherhood of steel gear
@YEETMAN-dt9mb
3 жыл бұрын
Just put on some regen potions and drink milk when you come out.
@pencil42_43
3 жыл бұрын
Bunch of nubs.
The outro is so misplaced. They're telling a story about how these sailors had to fix their nuclear reactor knowing that it would kill them and that we're heading to their deaths and then the the outro says "it brighter here"
3:18 The cameraman: “Wait why am I in here???”
Poor guys.. That's a bad way to go.
@jonasplett172
4 жыл бұрын
hunter brand ya it’s apparently horrible.
So Chernobyl almost happened in a soviet sub too. Great soviet engineering.
@jonasplett172
4 жыл бұрын
RedLuckOG lol wouldn’t have been even close to the magnitude. Also the US navy has lost two as well......
@banditsigma4107
2 жыл бұрын
They were the first to make MIG
Man you gotta give those men credit!! You had to have balls of steel to enter that radiation chamber! especially after they seen the first crew come out in such bad shape! That was back in the day when the boats were wooden and the men were steel! But nowadays the boats are steel and the men are wooden!! 🤣
@outrider425
3 жыл бұрын
pretty sure that sub was made of steel
Fitting end music
The door to the nuclear core sounds like the exit door on the rear of a movie theater.... hahahaha.
Is this a short version
That was a real tragic history when Soviet team saved America from nuclear pollution.
@lilgravyvert9991
6 жыл бұрын
Dr Victor Fursov - Entomologist Beekeeper Teacher saved them selves from a nuclear war, imagine what would happen if the US found the remains of the sub that spread radiation all across the coast, Basically giving the US free blueprints of weaponry. That’s not really Soviet of them 😂😂
@supremereader7614
5 жыл бұрын
You deserve to be stuck in Russia for life. Enjoy the cold 🥶
@kashmirha
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, it was a personal tragedy. But they did not want to save Americans, you can be sure about that. They wanted to save the sub.
This story is told with amazing detail of what was happening to whom! I enjoyed it, too.
Confusing... is this about B59 or K19?
Hell below is not available in Google play store in my country(Thailand) sad
Full episode please :(
They made a whole movie about this sub. Called the widow maker. It’s really good
I'm pretty sure that the submarine was not riding out 40 meter swells (120+ foot swells). I work in the maritime industry and am quite familiar with the north Atlantic oceans during storms.
For how many min they stayed inside the reactor room?.vodka would fix radition posioning?
Saw the movie. So tragic. Very brave men.
They had nado filters on gp-5 gasmasks not the gp-5 filters
How bad is the radiation? About the equivalent of a chest X-ray. So if you're overdue for a check-up...
the soviets tried to convert older diesel boats into nuclear, this was there undoing. Harrison ford movie k19 the widow maker
Submarine captain is Sergei britanov Ivan not Sergei person who saved Atlantic from explosion was Sergei premnin an reactor engineer completed engineering and joined Soviet navy with respect
Please post videos with more backing to them I feel most smithsonian videos aren’t worth my time because there’s not enough context
@vito7428
6 жыл бұрын
Line-ah Blue Then why the hell are you watching them when they're not worth your'precious'time.
@tommymezzo5973
6 жыл бұрын
Line-ah Blue damn. I think these are like previews for a paid membership. I’m might be wrong tho. Solid comeback tho lmao
@MrElis420
5 жыл бұрын
These are clips from their full shows, why would they post full episodes unless you buy it? Just pay the $9 for Season 2 of Hell Below.
@line-ahblue9100
5 жыл бұрын
MrElis I had no idea that’s what these snippets were, thanks for the heads up
@Lxmer_nce
4 жыл бұрын
If you have a problem with these videos, then an advice: "Pay for the episode" if not, then wait until an episode maybe comes on TV.
WE WANT LONGER VIDEOS
Wasnt there a movie about this?
Russians and radiation poisoning. Name a more iconic duo. I'll wait.
They may be Soviet eta sailors and at the time an enemy. But you have to salute the bravery of the men who went into that reactor- knowing they are going to die horrible deaths.
this.. reminds me of a recent event
I wonder how sea sick they got 🤔
where was the flex seal mate
Submarine: almost blows up Smithsonian: Its Brighter Here 😀
Imagine waking up for your shift and all of a sudden out of the darkness these gas mask monsters emerge from a shadow and are slightly glowing green. It would scare the shit out of you
@jonasplett172
4 жыл бұрын
George radioactive things do not glow in the dark - not by themselves anyway. Radiation emitted by radioactive materials is not visible to the human eye. However, there are ways to"convert" this invisible energy to visible light. ... This is called Cherenkov radiation.
"Thank you for your sacrifice Conrad..."
Poor Comrades
Then what happened??!! 😡
They say he will never forget it at the end a as if they were gonna have him come on and talk about it or something
Random guy comes out of the nuclear reactor and starts to vomitLiterally everyone we no longer serve you
Nuclear powered submarine - No radiation proof gear -- Ussr
Wish they woulda just not rushed it and tested the design, before literally throwing it in the deep end. That can be said for a lot of military projects though
1:07 isn't that pewdiepie?
@jonasplett172
4 жыл бұрын
Austin hilsenbeck don’t think so
Brave men...
Ok I didn’t understand what was leaking trough the reactor
@TheMeanConservative
5 жыл бұрын
uranium
@jamesblackwell1154
5 жыл бұрын
it was a coolant leak, nuclear reactions give off an enormous amount if heat that is used to boil water to turn turbines and create power, but if you allow that heat to build it can cause cascading reactions that burn through the safeguards around the reactor, similar which is very very bad, there is nothing that can withstand direct exposure to that kind of heat and radioactive bombardment for long, so in order to control the temperature of the reactor so that it is containable and usable there are self-contained systems designed to cool the reactor, however that coolant is exposed to powerful radioactive rays and in turn becomes radioactive itself, if you have a pressure loss or in this case a crack in the coolant system, the coolant flashes into radioactive steam that fills compartments. basically think radioactive steam.
@sidharthcs2110
5 жыл бұрын
Molten core
@shadowteam9943
5 жыл бұрын
The coolent. So they needed to repair the coolent. But in this case they used the drinking water.
Damn man get them hazmat suits or something ya’ll don’t need another Chernobyl
@milesrowe2263
6 жыл бұрын
Random Nobody this was before
@bru4296
6 жыл бұрын
aba blanco I know that,I didn’t see what happens next
@ceu160193
6 жыл бұрын
Hazmat suits can't shield you from radiation, they only help to protect you from getting contaminated.
@vito7428
6 жыл бұрын
The Hazmat suits wouldn't have helped them. They were around too much radiation for too long.
@bru4296
6 жыл бұрын
ArchieP Gaming but a raincoat and a gas mask isn’t any better
Radiation exposure is a common situation in video games now. Radiation can hurt you.
@josephb.3841
5 жыл бұрын
GregoryTheGr8ster tiny doses are fine Bananas are radioactive but they don’t kill you beacuse the amount of radiation is too small Large doses like a nuclear reactor can kill you
my friends dad told me about this, this is the closest the world came to an all nuclear war
Incredible and double incredible!!🇺🇸
Fucking hell, it’s not that hard to find some hazmat suits, just search some crates.
Why do you have raincoats on a submarine?
@starikpohabych7363
5 жыл бұрын
Because it's not a raincoat but chemical protection suit.
Anatoly dyatlov from pripyat was been in this submaribe too if i didnt know wrong
40m waves...this lady isn't a seafarer
My dad said he would love to be in a submarine xD, HELL NA
@trauntualafigghtetr6209
6 жыл бұрын
yo those dont got flippin nuclear shiz you stinjker
b59 is a foxtort class de sub lol
I bet these men were treated as heroes among the crew.
I been on b-39......
Talks about nuclear submarines, but in 1:16 uses a WW2 German submarine Diving documentary
1:20 Anatoly dyatlov? It looks like him
They saved the crew but they couldn't save themselves
Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.
How can you not have proper radiation suits onboard a nuclear submarine? Sounds like the Soviets skimped on more than just the reactor funding.
Same as K-19... these people don’t learn from their mistakes??
They used raincoats probaly because it somewhat looked like a hazmat suit
1:20 Pavel in his young years
2 things that don't go together very well is nuclear power and submarines
When it occured
K19 Widowmaker..
It's the guy from prison break
I’m glad I’m not Vasili Occupoff or however you spell his name
I hope they got extra rubles for sailing in a submarine " made in the Soviet Union".
2021, April 22 || Pray for indonesian submarine KRI NANGGALA 402.
Vasilly Arpikov Is The Same Guy In That Sub That Have That Nuclear Torpedo
Converted diesel boats into nuclear ones , not a good idea
K-19 Widowmaker
You Didn’t see graphite
so this is not k19
@Lxmer_nce
4 жыл бұрын
Yes it is. Many people said this is K109 but K109 is a complete other sub.
Just like k-19 which that is based off of this
K19 - The Windows Maker
Very brave men. God bless them!
that crew was very sacrificial
@Lxmer_nce
4 жыл бұрын
Oh, yes they were!
@Sembel-xh9vq
Жыл бұрын
Well they had no choice: Die in nuclear accident or die repairing reactor
Cool
*dozens of men die trapped in a submarine while having extreme amounts of radiation leak in* Smithsonian chanel:its brighter here!
Why is everyone always sweating in these videos
Kursk?
one of the russian dudes looks like macklemore
...All being done before...La Guerre...
What? Thats it? Cmon.... Pathetic!
Noice
@petermarquesliveLIVE
6 жыл бұрын
Smort
@koi-irako
6 жыл бұрын
*s u c c*
@wascute7894
5 жыл бұрын
-t h i c c-
It I's no k19 it is k 219 correct it
@sleepyhead6726
5 жыл бұрын
It is K19. K219 was a different sub
My Granfather was on the Essex conducting anti submarine warfare during the Cold War against theese submarines
Cherynbol at sea