No, this is false an RBMK reactor can't explode

@TheLodiB

5 жыл бұрын

Gonxp Vids he’s clearly delusional. Someone go check on the core.

@mrkim9603

5 жыл бұрын

TheLodiB 😂😂

@omarrashad2200

5 жыл бұрын

pump water to the core

@xxxAaronxxxable

5 жыл бұрын

Akimov you moron, you blew the tank

@TACTICALPEPE

5 жыл бұрын

UNIMAGINABLE!! spreading such disinformation at a time like this.

Who is here after watching Chernobyl ?

@bartoszs.3925

5 жыл бұрын

Bruh u read my mind

@warnerpaul

5 жыл бұрын

there was mention of this overheating on the show...

@HeartPumper

5 жыл бұрын

Google bots from your timeline suggestions ;)

@christopherherman7213

5 жыл бұрын

Ive watched every documentary on chernobyl....the HBO show is freaking awesome and can wait for the 2nd episode to air tonight👍

@GabrielPerez-ue4xw

5 жыл бұрын

It me

It was merely 3,6 Roetgen, no big deal.

@MegaHarsit

5 жыл бұрын

I've been told its the equivalent of a chest X-ray.

@mrpoopybutthole6314

5 жыл бұрын

That’s also coincidentally the max that the control room counter can read too.

@user-bl1ve4ej8u

5 жыл бұрын

damn i hate those stubborn people. they think themselves as "smart" when shit clearly went wrong 😂

@fjoa123

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-bl1ve4ej8u an RBMK class reactor cannot fail. You're delusional.

@user-bl1ve4ej8u

5 жыл бұрын

@@zogwort1522 HAHAHAH

With Chernobyl's tv show now we have thousands of experts in nuclear disasters in the comments.

@PowerandLuxury

5 жыл бұрын

And?......What`s your point?

@alexandrechatty5439

5 жыл бұрын

@@PowerandLuxury Well, they just watch a TV show and now people are smarter than nuclear's engineers ! It's wonderful ! I would like to watch a TV show on HBO about how to fight cancer or the world hunger.

@lyn.8059

5 жыл бұрын

@@PowerandLuxury Whats your point critiquing my point? It's truth. And they correct others as the show followed exactly every event in the disaster. It doesn't.

@PowerandLuxury

5 жыл бұрын

@@lyn.8059 I just ask you a simple question,chill,it`s Friday.

@lyn.8059

4 жыл бұрын

@@PowerandLuxury i'm chill lmao. I: asked you a simple question + answered yours.

Did you try turning it off and back on again?

@sourcecode16

4 жыл бұрын

Jason Zimmermann you have made a fantastically cursed comment.

@IX_4

4 жыл бұрын

@@sourcecode16 r/blursedcomments

@funibikeman6769

4 жыл бұрын

Oh damn billy the internet is out now

@cnsidrd3fll0wing

3 жыл бұрын

No, That is not possible Its not possible because The reactor is experiencing meltdown, Blame The Soviets, Why are you blaming the soviets? Because The soviets made that mistake And there responsibility.

@ryanlu6103

3 жыл бұрын

no. just press AZ-5

"Comrades! He's delusional, take him to the infirmary"😂😂

@joed812

5 жыл бұрын

😂

@mochings8012

5 жыл бұрын

anonymous person that actually had me dying lmao

@Sened55

4 жыл бұрын

I don't get it?

@na6355

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sened55 chernobyl hb series

@therandomytchannel4318

4 жыл бұрын

He's infirmary get him to the delusional!

1986. I serve Yugoslavian army, i was 18 year old i remember when officer told us " We are not in danger, radioactivity goes to Sweden"

@vladimirkostic9932

5 жыл бұрын

@@KD0105 Makedonija Bitolj...

@vladimirkostic9932

5 жыл бұрын

@@Sus-kz2bf Ne srbin iz centralne Srbije. Sluzio 86. Bitola, Skopje....Lepe uspomene, divni ljudi, pivo za vojsku 20% jeftinije, beplatan gradski prevoz za vojnike.

@nermainmerl3284

5 жыл бұрын

@@vladimirkostic9932 If you wanna be called macedonia, we can annex you. Use your fucking *name* we gifted you

@GLADICEK2

5 жыл бұрын

@@nermainmerl3284 He's not even Macedonian, you twat. He just served in the Yugoslavian army in the area of the former Yugo republic of Macedonia. At least use a fucking *translator* before you go annoy someone...

@griseld

5 жыл бұрын

@@nermainmerl3284 Annex? Greece annexing? Lol Give us back Cameria and all northern part of your country, and apologize for the mass murders first.

They have missed many facts about this event. The test was delayed by at least 10 hours, the night crew weren't aware nor trained good enough to complete the test at all, the test had failed four times (the fourth one being the explosion), many instructions weren't overly clear, the power dropped close to zero, the graphite tips only made the reaction in the core way worse. The first sarcophagus lasted about 30 ish years (probably not the exact number) the second one was added when a turbine hall roof collapsed. Many key points and facts were skipped completely or glossed over, which is sad since information about it isn't hard to come by.

@alybhanvadia1860

2 жыл бұрын

Source?

@buttplug2162

2 жыл бұрын

Whistle blowers. Read more.

@shaeskye653

Жыл бұрын

@@alybhanvadia1860 ive just started looking into this an hour ago and ive been through many sources of the same story including wikipedia, and this is missing lots.

@happynightmareforyou

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they dumbed it down alot for the general people to understand things and not make it hard for them. I mean a RBMK reactor doesn't suddenly drop in power or surge in power. Things happened that they didn't even explain here like the Xenon poisoning effect which is massively important to explain!

@grzyb11

Жыл бұрын

They basically said „the reactor exploded” and then proceeded to talk about the Sarcophagus.

I think the fact that this mess was running until the year 2000 is the most amazing and horrifying thing about Chernobyl.

@ThornySnailPictures

7 жыл бұрын

and until then reactor 2 caught fire as well and then reactor 1 broke down. can't wait till ukraine decides to restart reactor 3

@jasonmurawski126

6 жыл бұрын

After the accident all 3 reactors were restarted. In 1991 unit 2 had a fire in the turbine hall and the reactor was closed, unit 1 was closed shortly after, and unit 3 was shut down in 2000

@druidofthefang

5 жыл бұрын

russians are so fucked in the head.

@vervluukt

5 жыл бұрын

If you have a energy shortage, you would have to keep it running, after you have completed a new power plant with the same capacity, then you can shut it down.

@90AlmostFamous

5 жыл бұрын

@@druidofthefang in soviet Russia u don't shut down a reactor just coz a part of it get blown up

That's easily one of the most overly simplistic (overly simplistic to the point of being useless) explanations for the disaster I've seen.

@tling321

7 жыл бұрын

my dog understands what happened to Chernobyl after watching this video, though he seems confused on a beta male whining over it

@kylesenior

7 жыл бұрын

Yawn. Got a better insult?

@tling321

7 жыл бұрын

my dog has learnt so much ever since, he is preparing his bachelor thesis in nuclear physics. If you failed to understand, try consult local mongrels

@TrojanPiece

7 жыл бұрын

Your dog is so unlucky that he might get cancer from the lethal doses of ignorance radiating from you.

@tling321

7 жыл бұрын

TrojanPiece i should have known its was always me, that my dog improves his intelligence tremendously. Does your dog still shit in your shoes?

Did you REALLY push the AZ-5 button ??

@TheDamage

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, i saw it in interview of Dyatlov

@nevinjohn

5 жыл бұрын

The AZ-5 button made the situation worse.

@skipstjoriarjeeling9594

5 жыл бұрын

The az-5 button closes the rods which had graphite on the tips which made the reaction worse

@JSwagy

5 жыл бұрын

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE 😂

@skipstjoriarjeeling9594

5 жыл бұрын

What

"The reactor did not explode".." you're jus shocked"

@aggelos931

5 жыл бұрын

He's delusional. Take him to the infirmary.

@DoBap_

5 жыл бұрын

We should put that on our money

@comradedyatlov2010

5 жыл бұрын

Everythings fine its only mildly contaminated he’ll be fine ive seen worse Dude: his face Dyatlov: Fuck the phones and fuck the electricians Dude: wjat about the fire? Dyatlov: call the fire brigade

@MrHans818

5 жыл бұрын

It's like the Titanic "This Ship Can't sink"

@plussizelinds

5 жыл бұрын

it ddidd exlod

This video, although accurate in its details is very misleading. The video makes it sound like there was a nuclear explosion at Chernobyl. It was a steam explosion. There was no nuclear explosion. There can not be a nuclear explosion at a commercial nuclear power plant. The physics of the fuel and the configuration and enrichment of the fuel make it impossible. My intent is not to downplay the severity of the disaster in any way. But facts are facts, there was no nuclear explosion at Chernobyl.

@las1989

8 жыл бұрын

+Simon Smith what do you mean by "steam explosion"?

@simonsmith1050

8 жыл бұрын

+SputzNiz Games The reactor went from 300MW thermal to as high as 30,000 MW Thermal (10X maximum power) in seconds. The water in the reactor instantly flashed to steam at a higher pressure than the reactor was designed to contain. Just like a boiler explosion on an old railroad locomotive. A steam explosion is what blew apart the reactor and reactor building.

@samarthsinghsir2719

8 жыл бұрын

+Simon Smith I agree Simon, but think about it: Due to Steam or whatever reason, we did expose Uranium to the environment, isn't it? Its the nuclear component that was damaging, and not the steam itself, so its better if people don't get misled themselves, and better to use "nuclear explosion". Otherwise, anyone knowing basic science will understand from this video, no doubt, because I'm myself a Commerce Post Graduate, and not a science student.

@simonsmith1050

8 жыл бұрын

***** Thanks for the comment. You're of course right, the method that radioactivity is spread into the environment is less important that the fact that it is being spread. My point is that a nuclear bomb explosion is much more powerful than anything a power plant can do during failure. If Chernobyl was a nuclear explosion, the damage would have been far more widespread and the shock wave would have knocked down the other 3 reactors with much more dire consequences. I draw the line at "Nuclear Explosion". It was an explosion at a Nuclear Power Plant (by steam or hydrogen), not a Nuclear Explosion.

@samarthsinghsir2719

8 жыл бұрын

Hmm... Thinking that way, yeah, you're right that a "nuclear explosion" would be a wrong description. Personally, I do hope we never get to witness a nuclear explosion, no matter where in the world. No one deserves it, no matter what they did. And of course, no one is anyone's judge to leash out such a punishment...

Who is here after HBO's Chernobyl ? What a masterpiece !

@randomriku6774

5 жыл бұрын

Fei Li yea cant wait for next episode

@TheSonicVoid

5 жыл бұрын

If you can get past all of the British accents, it's a great mini series.

@philclarke7712

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheSonicVoid and what's wrong with British accents?

@davidallen7977

5 жыл бұрын

Sky Atlantic here in the UK... or rob it on PB.

@davidallen7977

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheSonicVoid I'm English... got a problem with that yankee?

Dyatlov was in Toilet When this happened

@steposlav_0938

4 жыл бұрын

Eyy chernobyl HBO GO

I love how everybody now thinks they are an expert on nuclear reactors because they saw the season finale of Chernobyl

@ahmedmagdy620

5 жыл бұрын

people seekin knowledge isnot a bad thing

@conforzo

5 жыл бұрын

At least we try.

@sebamtorres

5 жыл бұрын

​@@ahmedmagdy620 if you came to this video it´s because you were looking for knowledge, SO WAS I. But it´s funny to read people lecturing as they were the ones who cracked the problem. Probably people who never would take the job to do a video like this one.

@airplane3359

5 жыл бұрын

I thought I was a expert after watching this KZread clip.

@tlf_worldcorner2878

3 жыл бұрын

@@sebamtorres you don’t have to be a chef to say that the food tastes like shit, same thing here

this is not how the accident happened...they were running the reactor at such a low level that they could not maintain the chain reaction they restarted the reactor when steam excursions caused power spikes causing them to scram the reactor using the control rods which were tipped in graphite which allowed neutrons to hit the fuel more efficiently causing a large power excursion that caused a steam explosion.

@grantchisholm1308

7 жыл бұрын

It is true that they removed to many rods is a part of the disaster

@KnorpelDelux

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for putting it right. That's what I remembered, too.

@sendiong4169

7 жыл бұрын

eric hoagland your rong you ass

@terrydavis8451

7 жыл бұрын

sendi tripatranusantara please explain how I am wrong I would love to know? also it is spelled "wrong" not rong...not being condescending I am assuming that English is not your first language.

@cowboyboots9901

7 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to figure out how 8 tons of radiation spewed into the atmosphere. Radiation being practically weightless. Contamination would be a little more accurate but 8 tons no. Ten years in nuclear power I have never heard of radiation measured in weight.

This is correct, as far as it goes. There is no depth, however, to explain why it happened. When they say "cooling water has to be supplied", they don't explain that the fuel rods are creating HUGE amounts of heat when operating (fission is happening in the supercritical regime of the reactivity curve), and there are a lot of them in the reactor of this size. In more-or-less equivalent reactors, the pumps are huge - they have to be to supply 25,000 gallons of cold water per minute to draw off all the heat created. Generally these huge pumps are powered by a significant portion of the electrical output of the reactor. When a reactor goes into emergency shutdown, it stops producing a large part off its heat, and the power generating turbines which convert the heat into electricity immediately start winding down, but the pumps have to still run, as decay heat has to still be cooled to prevent meltdown. The Chernobyl test was designed to answer the question, "If we shutdown the reactor in an emergency, will the spinning down turbines, powered only by their own inertia, provide enough energy to keep the pumps running until diesel generators can take over, in a matter of about 45-60 seconds?" The expected answer from Moscow was, "They'd better, or heads will roll." The test, previously failed twice on #3, was to simulate a shutdown by shutting off the turbine steam feed to the generators as if the reactor had shutdown and see if they could power the pumps for 60 seconds or so. The reactor was supposed to be at a low but stable power regime, but it was allowed to drop below that for a while, into an unstable regime in which xenon-135 accumulated. This is a fission product, 6.3% by weight of all such products, which has a huge appetite for neutrons; that shuts reactors down, willy-nilly, and was first discovered with the very first reactor, the CP-1, in Chicago during the war. Absorbing a neutron converts it into Xe-136, which refuses neutrons. Most of the Xenon comes from decay of iodine-135, with a 6 hour average delay. Thus, the xenon poison will self-correct in 6 hours or so, so waiting will cure the problem. The other thing that can be done is to feed it massive mounts of neutrons, causing it to "burn" into the less offensive Xe-136, by forcibly increasing fission rates in the face of the poisoning. This is inherently dangerous, because as the Xenon is converted, that in itself increases the fission rate in a positive feedback loop. This is exactly what happened at Chernobyl, when they withdrew control rods to raise the reactivity and force the poisoning to dissipate. It did all right, and the fissioning increased so rapidly that it created instant steam in spite of the reactor's high pressure, in just a few seconds. It was more pressure than the pressure vessel was designed to take, the resulting steam explosion blew the multi-ton cap off the reactor and destroyed the core and almost all the cooling systems. Some features of the design of the reactor made the results more likely, but the real cause was allowing the reactor to drop below safe power levels and then lack of understanding why that was inherently unsafe. Operators were apparently instructed in the test procedure not to let the drop happen, but why it should not be allowed was considered a state secret, because it almost demolished another plant some years earlier, and Soviet superiority could not be called into question in technology or science. The accident was caused by operation crew ignorance, overwhelming politicization and security, and design flaws.

@alanhall5510

5 жыл бұрын

Outstanding sir. Your knowledge and grasp of the tragedy at Chernobyl are apparent

@crimony3054

5 жыл бұрын

Design flaw, 100%. If it explodes at X, and the graphite rod tips will cause a temperature spike of Y, then the maximum temperature level is (X - Y), not X.

@jackdanksterdawson112

5 жыл бұрын

i appreciate your efforts

@MrApru1

5 жыл бұрын

The fact the rbmk had a positive void coefficient was really bad.

@markk3652

5 жыл бұрын

Very clear and thorough dissection of the incident, very much better than the video explanation.

Rest in peace for all who died.

This doesn't tell you anything. I expected a detailed list of what happened like in the show.

@stevenkendzierski9333

3 жыл бұрын

Tony Fisher this was 4 years ago

@Boskov01

3 жыл бұрын

It's good for helping to get a simple explanation of what happened and how nuclear reactors work.

@thefistofshadow7392

3 жыл бұрын

There you go: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZZVlyaWKqqW3p9Y.html

@haydnvonmed6624

3 жыл бұрын

Dude atleast respect his animation and the work put into it

@MrStraightShotz

3 жыл бұрын

@@thefistofshadow7392 asshole

R.I.P Chernobyl Chimney [*]

@janettadavis7464

6 жыл бұрын

Klaus more like reactor 4

@user-ql4ei6vc8e

6 жыл бұрын

I cried

@mr-stock

6 жыл бұрын

Roblox Tutorials I love the fact your name is trying to prove someone wrong. I’m not insulting you but who the hell would believe someone with that name -_-

@ylette

5 жыл бұрын

Apparently changed name to Janetta Davis. Now the question is, who the hell would believe a girl?

@ALLPACZ

5 жыл бұрын

What was the Chernobyl reactor 4 sayʼ it says booom

It was NOT a routine test! It was the 3rd or 4th time it had ever been scheduled and had never been successful. The control rods were manually withdrawn because the reactor nearly shut down and was producing 30MW, well under the required 700MW required for the test. Xenon poisoning was one issue that led to the very low power level and slow response to the withdrawn control rods.

@fredrik999z

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, Xenon gas building up inside the reactor was one of the main factors why the reactor went out of control. But the reason they could no see it on the instruments during the test was that the sensor was placed in the middle of the reactor and RMBK have different power levels in top and bottom. It was a major construction fault and USA had warned that this type of reactor could become unstable at low power levels. That is why the rest of the world abandoned it in the 50's. The safety system was also turned off to make the test if the reactor could be restarted from low power levels. The test proved it could not!

@Gunzee

7 жыл бұрын

Fredrik Hansson what would have happened if the control rods weren't lowered? Also I'm shocked to find out it was operational until 2000, why stop then? Also isn't it possible to reclaim the nuclear material from 4 using RoboCop or the T800/1000¿

@jesseboombatts

6 жыл бұрын

Oh ok so all not for nothing, at least we know that it cannot start at such low levels. One must sometimes make mistakes to learn...

@Charlotte_beans

6 жыл бұрын

Gunzee The other 3 reactors are so dangerous they had to shut it down as soon as they could, but they couldnt leave the nation without power

@richardrejmer8721

6 жыл бұрын

A very dangerous and unnecessary 'test' done without adequate supervision and in a very unprofessional and incompetent way. . The results speak for themselves.

In the game Sim City, one of the disasters that can happen is a nuclear meltdown. When I first played it, I was too young to really know what a meltdown was, but if it happens or if you activate the disaster in the game you can see it. It sure looked and sounded scary in the game. The screen would shake, alarms would go off and there’d be this terrible rumbling. I remember hoping a meltdown wouldn’t happen in real life, because I at least knew it seemed horrible.

@Walter.609

Жыл бұрын

which sim city

@Serasia

Жыл бұрын

@@Walter.609 I think it was SimCity classic. I played it on a big old computer, a Windows, I think. I played it in the mid 90s-ish.

@Walter.609

Жыл бұрын

cool, i will research about👍🏻

But a RBMK-1 reactor can't explode

@NovejSpeed3

5 жыл бұрын

And thats not graphite on the ground and roof....

@SKU11FOO

5 жыл бұрын

*"They are in shock!* *get them hell outta here!"*

@Faisaldegrt

5 жыл бұрын

The radiation is 3.6roentgens which I'm told is nothing more than an X-Ray

@Sherie112

5 жыл бұрын

He's delusional comrade

@roybm3124

5 жыл бұрын

Just take a wodka.

Holy guacamole! I did not have a clue the other reactors were still operational until the millennium!

@tobexor4285

5 жыл бұрын

@@jesusiskingofkingsz it's nothing dangerous, the radiation is just above normal radiation in the middle of a big city... i'm going to have a little trip there in next month

@easydoz1

5 жыл бұрын

They bused the workers to and from town for years. Remember this is somewhat poor parts of Ukraine. And they still had three perfectly good reactors...

*_I bet we're all here after watching HBO's Chernobyl_*

@wino0000006

5 жыл бұрын

I'm here after seeing some throne got melted.

@zZrEtRiBuTiOnZz

5 жыл бұрын

No, I'm just lucky I guess.

@maxim9280

5 жыл бұрын

I have no idea what hbo is nor what movies it produces. I'm from Russia. Westerners are always watching some weird crap. Have a good day.

@BaikalTii

5 жыл бұрын

get out of here stalker

@arfanali9568

5 жыл бұрын

PJ Chernobyl series brought me here

1:25 this noise satisfies me and idk why

You didn’t see graphite...YOU DIDN’T! Because it’s not THERE!

The disaster was also partially caused by a high ranking officer's decision to run the test at extremely low power which lead to the loss of control of the fuel rods. The test should have been run at 700-1,000 megawatts, but the vice-chief engineer of Chernobyl, Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov, wanted to push the limits of the reactor and insisted it be run at 200 megawatts instead. The same engineer ignored the warning signs of a possible meltdown and continued to run the test.The blame shouldn't rest only on him, but he was the one who ordered the test to be run at an unsafe energy level, which lead to the loss of control of the fuel rods, which lead to the reactor overheating and the steam explosion. A better documentary would be the 'Zero Hour: Disaster at Chernobyl' one which does a great job of explaining the science behind everything and goes really in depth about the reasons behind the accident.

@rogerhelbig9458

2 жыл бұрын

There actually was no meltdown at Chernobyl. A meltdown results in fuel element destruction and damage to the reactor. At Chernobyl, the fuel melted after the reactor had been destroyed by the steam explosion and there no longer was any way to cool the hot fuel elements or cool the resulting decay heat from fission product decay.

@buttplug2162

2 жыл бұрын

Roger Rabbit is right

@apocratos0174

Жыл бұрын

But how could Dyatlov be the one to fault if he was on the toilet????

@mattaddison1910

Жыл бұрын

"The disaster was also partially caused by a high ranking officer's decision to run the test at extremely low power which lead to the loss of control of the fuel rods" There was no loss of control of the fuel rods, did you mean control rods? Control of the control rods was maintained until the structural integrity of the reactor began to break down after activation of EPS5. Deputy Chief Engineer Dyatlov was only there on an oversight role and had no control of the reactor, control was strictly within Akimov's jurisdiction. Karpan was also in the room that evening, and he was another Deputy Chief Engineer of Dyatlov's rank, who stood next to Toptunov and helped him restore power after the accidental power drop when switching between automatic regulators. Did you know there were actually MANY people in the control room that day? Shut downs and tests are very important, and there were many tests planned for that scheduled maintenance shutdown. "The test should have been run at 700-1,000 megawatts, but the vice-chief engineer of Chernobyl, Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov, wanted to push the limits of the reactor and insisted it be run at 200 megawatts instead." Incorrect. The 700 Megawatt rule was an advisory rule, not a compulsory one. Dyatlov did not insist on 200MW/t to push the reactor. The reactor sustained a near total shutdown of reactivity when Toptunov switched from local area regulators to global area regulators as the power descent was conducted towards the turbine rundown test. Unfortunately, due to poor design of the controls or operator oversight, the automatic regulators malfunctioned and decreased power level to zero MW/t. A decision was made to raise the power as soon as possible before Xenon build up, and neither Dyatlov nor any other senior NPP personnel had any objections. Again, not against regulations written at that time. Once reactor power was stable at 200MW/t and waterflow fluctuations were worked out, they decided to run with the test and disconnected turbines to observe rundown voltage while the reactor itself was shut down as per test plan. Many different factors then pushed the reactor into a critical state, primary factor was ofcourse the design of control rods (shortened graphite displacers leaving a water column in the bottom 1.5 meters of active zone) and the function of the AZ5 button (only upper rods inserted, lower rods coming into the zone from below were not triggered, this would likely have saved the reactor). Post accident RBMK revisions included both fixes, now graphite displacers are telescopic and encompass the entire length of the active zone. Also, AZ-5 triggers shortened rods which insert from the bottom of the active zone, completely eliminating power spikes in the most essential area of the active zone, the bottom, the core inlet. "The blame shouldn't rest only on him, but he was the one who ordered the test to be run at an unsafe energy level, which lead to the loss of control of the fuel rods, which lead to the reactor overheating and the steam explosion." Had Toptunov and Akimov survived, they'd have been held responsible too. However, I don't blame the operators at all, as they were essentially working blind. All prior NPP accidents in the USSR were classified, reactor research and specifications were also state secrets, there was no communication between different NPPs regarding faults and accidents due to KGB interference. So, the operators had no idea that their reactor could be pushed into a dangerous situation by faulty control rod design. Remember, it was the control rod design with shortened displacers which served as the detonator here. " A better documentary would be the 'Zero Hour: Disaster at Chernobyl' one which does a great job of explaining the science behind everything and goes really in depth about the reasons behind the accident." While this documentary has great actors and set design, it is operating on old, outdated and frankly downright incorrect information which has since been debunked by the IAEA and their INSAG-7 report. I recommend you read this. Please, do not spread misinformation online.

@pr.9665

Жыл бұрын

​@@apocratos0174 😂 Poor Dyatlov

@tygervoods8358

7 жыл бұрын

@ROBLOX-tf3ft

6 жыл бұрын

A Civilian Will Enter The Building, And That is Illegal. And They Might Play With The Controls

@ROBLOX-tf3ft

6 жыл бұрын

There's No Possible Way That The Emergency Protocol Could Fail, What Caused The Emergency Control Rods To Fail. Ironically It Doesn't Operate With The CANDUU System,

@Kit_Bear

6 жыл бұрын

Pootis, you mean Safety Systems.

@justsumguy2u

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly. Reactor 4 tried to shut itself down several times, and every time the operators overrode the shutoffs.

HBO: Makes a five episode mini series on Chernobyl nuclear explosion KZread:Makes a 3 min video and recommends to everyone

@anonnimoose7987

4 жыл бұрын

Russia: Makes a film about a mysterious CIA agent who sabotaged the reactor

Chernobyl Nuclear Plant: MELTS DOWN Corporate: We still have 3 good reactors. Be at work tomorrow.

Noooooo not the chimney!

@ljiljanakrsticfilipovic8231

7 жыл бұрын

Awesome Person It's removed...😖

@mariuskatutis3989

7 жыл бұрын

likely demolished

@100dislikes6

7 жыл бұрын

Name Name I would hate to be that one kid cleaning that chimney 😂

@chornobylreactor4

5 жыл бұрын

The reactor got it first ouch

@asddd.

5 жыл бұрын

marius katutis nope, dismantled

I know its based on true events but this is the scariest show I've seen....the part where the ash falls on those people and the kids are all happy neely, sends chills down my spine

@agnytevederyte1

2 жыл бұрын

rip

@MJ-fj9yv

2 жыл бұрын

Relax, you go to your safe space and sip your chocomocha bs, comrade yank.

@Azgoo

Жыл бұрын

​@@alpinetheowlet1855 i think he meant based on true events as in the show is not how it happened in real life. Movie or show can be based on true events when even 1% things in that movie/show really happened and 99% that didn't and are complete fiction to add drama etc.

@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069

Жыл бұрын

None of those kids died though

@kta_0187

Жыл бұрын

@@Azgoo this is what a soviet would say

2:28 when all the city gets evacuated but you must work overtime

@ardasoyluoldaccount8364

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

It's not 3 Roentgen.....It's....15. Thousand....

@MohdHashimKhan

5 жыл бұрын

Equivalent to how many chest x-ray? :D

@daviddiveroli9331

5 жыл бұрын

cigarettes has 18.6 roentgens of radiation

@SheetFiber

5 жыл бұрын

@@MohdHashimKhan 400000 😅

@peaveyst7

4 жыл бұрын

how did you get that number from feedwater?

Good news! The new containment structure was completed and installed ahead of the projected 2017 completion date.

@silenx764

7 жыл бұрын

It's not done. its been slid over but more work has to be done.

@MegaAstroFan18

7 жыл бұрын

Silenx Fine, but it's mostly done. It's the most progress they've made with it, and it means things are progressing on track (literally, because tracks were used... ahem). And Daddy Keemstar that's a good point I suppose, but it's a dangerous piece of history. Needs to be sealed away.

@HaloofCurls

7 жыл бұрын

You need to be happy. It's going to remain dangerous for much longer than 100 years. In 100 years they'll need to make a new containment structure.

@mariuskatutis3853

6 жыл бұрын

HaloofCurls 20000 years

@IvanNava

6 жыл бұрын

Historical Review I guess it could be both?

It was not a nuclear explosion. It was a steam explosion.

I rate this video 3.6 out of 15000

@SheetFiber

5 жыл бұрын

Not this number again 😅😅😅

@threalMrT76

4 жыл бұрын

Not Good, but not Terrible either :P

Who's here for a 2022 refresher? Ahhh good times.

@londondafunion0790

2 жыл бұрын

yup

For a more accurate version of what happened, you should watch "Zero hour: disaster at chernobyl."

@alisonwilliams4862

5 жыл бұрын

It's ironic that your photo is of Homer Simpson on a video where there was a nuclear power station meltdown!

@terminalfrost3645

5 жыл бұрын

@@alisonwilliams4862 do you know what ironic means?

@alisonwilliams4862

5 жыл бұрын

@@terminalfrost3645 yes but it's hard to explain. If we're going to be pedantic, maybe coincidental might be a better term.

@terminalfrost3645

5 жыл бұрын

Alison Williams Perhaps the person has a thing for power plants?

April 1986 is only 1 of 4 major accidents at Chernobyl. Reactor 1 had a partial meltdown in 1982. Another reactor had a hydrogen fire in 1993. A 600 sq m section of the roof collapsed in 2013. The place was an unmitigated disaster throughout its history that required billions of dollars of foreign aid to clean up the mess.

@rogerhelbig9458

2 жыл бұрын

What is your source? Thank you.

@LRRPFco52

2 жыл бұрын

@@rogerhelbig9458 Multiple Russian language and foreign powerplant engineering analyses of Chernobyl. Soviet archives show that one of their lead nuclear inspectors had visited Chernobyl as one of the scheduled follow-ups after the previous disasters. Her report revealed that the concrete works and repairs were shoddy, as was the steel construction. She also discovered a theft ring among plant workers. Her comments indicated that she perceived another disaster would happen at that plant due to the culture of recklessness, insufficient quality controls in corrective repairs, and theft of tools and other materials at the site. I wondered if they sold off their higher metering dosimeters and Geiger counters, since there was difficulty getting reliable readings after the explosion. Her assessment was 1 month prior to the 1986 catastrophe....

@Endermania

8 ай бұрын

It was Unit 2's turine hall wich was on fire in 1993

@plenex

2 ай бұрын

No foreign aid was needed if you didnt put down USSR..

Uranian cannot melt RBMK-1000 beams.

@333Columbia

5 жыл бұрын

Murmurations u didn’t get the joke

Man, that Geiger counter ticking. Metro introduced to just how terrifying it could be.

After reviewing the video for the third time RFE got some of the most important details and facts wrong.1) They were not testing the "Back Up Cooling System" they were testing to see if they could keep the generator excited during the coast-down after the reactor tripped so that they could keep the pumps running until the Diesel Generators came to speed and loaded.2) There was no "Routine Safety Drill". This was a brand new test to explore the lag between Reactor trip and diesels coming on line.3) There is no mention of a steam explosion. Only explosion, leading most of the non-educated people to naturally assume it was a nuclear explosion. It was not. This is fear-mongering alternative facts. Just enough whizz-bang graphics and a knowledgeable-sounding narrator to get your attention.I don't downplay the severity of the accident. But it would be nice to see more facts presented in a less dramatic method. The accident happened. The Nuclear industry learns form it. Why not the public?Read Piers Paul Read's book "Ablaze-The Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl" Very well written, chock full of facts and human stories.

@mattaddison1910

Жыл бұрын

This whole video is a load of crap, completely wrong information altogether. I have yet to find a documentary which is one hundred percent accurate. I would suggest to everyone to consult the INSAG-7 IAEA report and learn to read.

@ward9457

11 ай бұрын

, It was a graphite moderated reactor, so METALLIC Uranium was used - which is pyrophoric in atmosphere (with +- 20% Oxygen..) When a steam explosion ripped & blew the lid off the reactor vessel, the metallic Uranium came in contact with the oxygen in the air, and started to burn like pyro-technics, (& that's what whitnesses saw that night - in the very early morning), together with the Graphite which also took fire, since it is pure Carbon.. . In water moderated reactors, the Uranium in the ZircAlloy fuel rods consists of pellets (little cylinders) of sintered Uranium-Oxide. .

Don’t worry it heals in the year 22,000 Edit: I NEVER GOT THIS MANY LIKES

@babyplum2837

5 жыл бұрын

@_@

@s.v.o.579

5 жыл бұрын

SpectrumPlayz a lot more than that.

@SplashyDash

5 жыл бұрын

9,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 years?

I work in the power industry and it still baffles me with the amount of procedures we do on the daily that this and three mile island happened.. but perhaps this is why i have the procedures that i do… none the less both Chernobyl and 3 mile island had massive miss information and cover ups at the publics health as an expense to save the finances of greedy businesses…nothing has changed if it happened today it would be the same story… nuclear power plants are safe until they’re not and a whole continent of people are dead or have no place to live

The most atmospheric part of HBO's Chernobyl is watching it in the Ukrainian language. Because it really happened in our country.

I find it sad that so many people needed a TV show to even know that this happened. 🤦‍♂️

@Andehirt

2 жыл бұрын

Human curiosity of what actually happened

@daliagrigonyte6872

3 ай бұрын

true, we should know that from our governments, our history books, media

This guy's explanation of how a nuclear reactor works: 1:00 "Uranium fuel rods react"

Can you tell me in what program this video and animation is made?

He forgot to mention about the az-5 button

@jmsta.romana4660

3 жыл бұрын

The staff pressed the wrong button that's why the control rods started jumping and increased reactivity, if the staff pressed the correct button, the aftermath would have been better, look in the shutdown scene and read the button sign it says A3-5 it didn't say AZ-5, the staff pressed the wrong button due to panicking or the staff intentionally sabotaged the core or more likely the staff didn't read the button sign.

@aulinjake

3 жыл бұрын

@@jmsta.romana4660 Sorry, I think you’ve got it wrong. The A3-5 is the same as AZ-5. The letter Z in the Latin alphabet is 3 in the Russian alphabet.

@jmsta.romana4660

3 жыл бұрын

@@aulinjake Ok Jacob, Thanks for pointing out. I didn't have any idea that Russians use 3 as Z in their local Alphabet.

This motherfucken place was still operational up until 2000,wtf!

@fouloleitarlide625

5 жыл бұрын

and why shouldn't it have??? recators 1,2,3 where just fine. Besides this video is too simplified and isn't showing how it all went.

@polinageller3489

5 жыл бұрын

@@fouloleitarlide625 Yeah, thats why I watched the movie. And by the way, I didn't understand how the reactors 1, 2 and 3 worked without personal for over 14 years. I mean there is to much radiation for people to control the reactor. Did they just let it wotk automaticly?

@fouloleitarlide625

5 жыл бұрын

@@polinageller3489 I dunno but since it was soviet union probably people where still there

@binzsta86

4 жыл бұрын

@@polinageller3489 Yeah, they were people still working there after the disaster.

You didn't even mention about the tip of the control rod having graphite.

@pepijnbeek8355

5 жыл бұрын

Vaibhav Shinde because its cheaper

Maybe a weird question, but are the reactor cores 1, 2 and 3 removed? I know that Reactor 2 suffered from a fire and that the roof Reactor 3 is damaged, where a part of the roof has collapsed.

Thank you for this video, very good and informative!

Iconic chimney is still there!

And that's how a RBMK reactor explodes...…..

I don't know where this channel got its info, but the confinement structure is not nearly big enough to fit the titanic inside. The Titanic was 883 feet long and the Confinement is 541 feet long. I'm fairly certain theres a lot more mistakes in this poorly made video but I don't want to do the math for all of them.

Oh my god that opening sent chills down my back.

I used to think this video was accurate, it isn't. Thanks HBO.

@jimmyjay689

5 жыл бұрын

How about reading and doing research rather than depending on others.....only way to get the full picture

Unbelievable what really happened over there.

Where can i watch full detailed documentry on it ?

Can you tell me how does a RBMK reactor explode, not meltdown, but explode?!

RBMK... a reactor so advanced, that it didn't even have a proper reactor building. Soviet engineering or something.

@Blaze6108

7 жыл бұрын

***** The personell definitely had a big responsibility but quite frankly building a nuclear reactor _without a reactor building_ and with control rods that are _tipped with reaction-increasing material_ is a pretty egregious flaw. No reactors are built like this anymore, nuclear power is no more dangerous than taking the plane or living downstream from a dam (actually, dams may be more dangerous).

@sendiong4099

7 жыл бұрын

M Rotgans your right and the RBMK or the crue member itself

@jeoffke

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's why we haven't seen any big nuclear disasters in recent years (#Fukushima #worsethanchernobyl)

@Blaze6108

7 жыл бұрын

Fukushima worse than Chernobyl? WTF man? Fukushima was a sneeze compared to Chernobyl. Despite the absolutely shit management by the Japanese government/TEPCO company there was no uncontrolled nuclear "fizzle" and no aerial dispersion of heavy nuclear core materials. That's a pretty big difference.

@jeoffke

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah thats what the media love you to believe.. Did you know they don't even know where the corium is in 2 of the reactors there? It may already be melting through all the concrete bases into the soil underneath... The robots they sent down to check all stopped working. And this is right next to the pacific ocean. Try to think about the consequences if that corium hits the ground water. The situation in Chernobyl is stable now, this is not the case in Fukushima. They have no clue how to solve that mess!

3 and a half minute video for a 4 second ‘explanation’ of what happened.

@MrPibb23x

5 жыл бұрын

REACTOR GO BOOM. BIG BAD RADS. PEOPLE SICK.

@chrisduffy1985

5 жыл бұрын

Dan Smith what’s that got to do with this video?

Spoiler: they finished in 2017, it started crumbling in 2019 due to the strength of radiation. If I'm not mistaken they are currently in the process of fixing it

Very helpful video and one of the best comment sections I’ve ever seen.

We will never see the poor chimney or the reactor 4 again, so sad.. At least keep the chimney in the backyard for the reactor 4!

@georgeplays9663

7 жыл бұрын

The old chimney was replaced by a new one

@WarthDader74

6 жыл бұрын

I think they sold the chimney on ebay

@lilygaming_playz27

6 жыл бұрын

WarthDader74 for nuclear fuels or control rods or 5000000$

This is simply not what happened.

Nice vid helped A LOT thank you!

Started watching the show but why were the rods removed at 1:24? Was that part of the test and why?

1:33 Reactor No.4: "Mr. Reactor No.3 *I don't feel so good...* "

R.I.P. The chimney that simbolised the danger of nuclear energy.

A huge oversimplification of what happened...procedures were not followed. No mention whatsoever of the Xenon poisoning of the control rods, which rendered the control rods temporarily ineffective, nor does it mention the hydrogen buildup which would have occurred in the reactor hall, creating a hydrogen explosion that helped the steam blow the roof off of the reactor hall. The Xenon poisoning of the control rods happened because of a failed attempt at the same test earlier in the evening. Had the control rods not been Xenon poisoned, the meltdown would not have happened. Had the operators waited for the prescribed time to allow Xenon poisoning to clear, the accident would not have happened.

"Please, tell me how an RBMK reactor core explodes."

"50 thousand people used to live here, now it's a ghost town"

@badernimer3053

5 жыл бұрын

wooow man COD MW 1 - City Of Pripyat :)

@mikepham1429

5 жыл бұрын

True

@lexus8018

5 жыл бұрын

- Capitain Mc Millan

@Anonymous-ge5kd

5 жыл бұрын

Cod 4

@donaldduck7915

5 жыл бұрын

I Q J .... why use other people's posts regarding what happened at Chernobyl ? Use your own imaginative brain . Instead of stating that 50-000 + lost their respective homes ! . That others have already stated ?! ... you sad individual .

Waiting for the HBO fans to turn into nuclear physicants.

What software was used for this animation? Please help

radiation measuring sound is the most scariest sound i've heard in my entire life...

can anyone confim this: did the top reactor lid actually soared into the air thru the roof and land back down lopsided? or did it just simply opened like seen here on this video animation?

@iainbanachowicz8318

7 жыл бұрын

When the explosion happen, The lid was blown off then landed vertically. This video animation - well the whole you tube vid is a complete load of bollocks.

@JCA11

7 жыл бұрын

i see, then it was more likely that the shock wave that caused collapse of the 4th block roof? thats wat im mostly curious of.

@dougankrum3328

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, a 12" pipe with 2,000 PSI of 2,100 degree steam.......that would easily lift a full sized semi truck, send it to the next County....and cook the load of pigs....!

@jasonrichardson1999

6 жыл бұрын

Elfoxoloco the first explosion was a nuclear explosion that sent the lid flying and the second one was a graphite fire which released most of the radiation

@Alkaris

6 жыл бұрын

The heat from the radiation and produced steam would of most likely helped melted the roofing which caused it to collapse in on itself

Its just the equivalent of a chest xray

@eltrono22

5 жыл бұрын

bigmaxy07 200X

If that containment dome is supposed to last a hundred years then what are they going to do after that.

Great video! Thank you :)

The documentary "uranium: twisting the dragon's tail " from pbs, explains this with more details

How does an RBMK reactor explode? Answer: Lies....

Well explained and quick video very nice

Did you get your name from the R.E.M. song?

Dude, worst explanation about chernobyl disaster i have ever seen in my life.

I don't know much about nukclear plants, but in 2000, how did they manage to shut down the remaining reactors safetly without another boom going?

@jessicawhittaker2193

7 жыл бұрын

Illusive Prime they are aloud in just not for soooo long as 4 has been detached, the rest wouldn't be affected by it

@kylesenior

7 жыл бұрын

By inserting the control rods. What do you think?

@Blaze6108

7 жыл бұрын

I think all the RBMK reactors were later adapted to fix some of the most glaring issues such as the graphite-tipped rods which overcharged the reaction rather than slowing it down.

@sausageslaps

7 жыл бұрын

the meltdown was caused by the desire to see if the back up pumps could be powered by power produced from residual power produced by the reactor. the test was to ensure the pumps could still run in the event of a power outage as there was always the slim chance of pump failure if there was no power available from the source the reactor fed, not power feeding itself. a combination of human error and coincidental problems caused this disaster.

@edbailey7533

7 жыл бұрын

The video misses a lot of the details of what happened; sausageslaps is correct that it was a test to see if the emergency cooling pumps could be powered by the reactor while the reactor was in a very low power state. The detail missing in the video is that, during the test, the control rods were dropped into the reactor (greatly slowing down the reaction); after the test, the rods were then slowly withdrawn in an attempt to bring the reactor up from its low-power state. However, the design of the reactor was such that the speed of the reaction at very low power levels was very non-linear with respect to the position of the control rods, meaning that a little bit of control rod withdrawal did not equate to a little more power being produced. So as the technicians continued to withdraw the control rods, no apparent change in power was detected. The technicians kept withdrawing the rods and the reactor wasn't really responding until suddenly the reactor went critical with a huge power spike that basically flashed all the cooling water in the reactor to steam, which blasted apart the reactor and a good part of the surrounding building, spreading radioactive debris widely around the site. What remained of the fuel in the remnants of the reactor was able to sustain a reaction on its own, eventually melting down into the lower levels of the building (search for "elephant's foot" as it relates to chernobyl).

RBMK reactors cant explode, get him to the infirmary he's in shock

How did you do that animation of the exploding rector

Every comment: "No, what actually happened was [things explained in the video]".

@benjaminsmith4463

5 жыл бұрын

All pro nuclear esports players, somehow, just now, learning everything they know about Chernobyl in the last *(checks comments)* six days.

ACTUALLY after 48 hours of sweden finding out where the radiation leak was coming from, THEN people around chernobyl were evacuated. For days soldiers with masks tried to take care of the accident BEFORE the public was evacuated and told the nation. Thats life behind the iron curtain though...

Thank you for this video

What about when akimov pressed the az-5 button to shut it down, then it exploded, explanation please?

that explanation is so vague very simplified many things happened that produce the explosion

I heard someone crashed a forklift in to the reactor.

0:28 whats the music called

Bhopal gas tragedy, eerily similar to Chernobyl, happened in 1987, just a yr after C disaster. Poisonous gas leaked out and caused many deaths.