Why Hiroshima and Nagasaki Don’t Resemble Chernobyl

Atomic bombs and nuclear reactor accidents can all be very deadly, but why is Chernobyl still a ghost town after all these years in comparison to Hiroshima and Nagasaki where people live like nothing happened? Join us in today's explosive video and learn about why dropped bombs were nothing compared to the long-lasting effects of the nuclear reactor accident in Chornobyl.

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[pencilminded]

The Chernobyl casualties were in the 500, 000 and they refuse to do proper studies to get the right amount. Are we forgetting what happened to the miners, firefighters, liquidators, and the people of Pripyat that were lied to and were exposed to unimaginable doses of radiation. Even people in Belorussia suffered years after. Chernobyl was a disaster of coverups and criminal negligence. What the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki went through is also unfathomable. Both catastrophic and heartbreaking.

[thisissparta]

I remember watching the Chernobyl HBO mini-series and Legasov mentioning how Reactor 4 was giving off about two Little Boy’s worth of radiation every hour initially after the explosion.

[danielsweeney]

I read that at Chernobyl there was a stream of radioactive material going up for hours after the melt down. It was said it looked like a flashlight pointing up.

[ZTOcean]

The easy breakdown is what hit the cities were designed to exploded and leave little radiation trace vs something designed not to explode with no control of how much radiation is dissipated

[Hammerhead]

Fat Man and Little Boy were both air burst detonations which meant that most of the contamination was limited too a very very small area immediately around the detonation points, which means it was easier to clean it up.

If they'd been ground burst detonations things would've been much much different and both cities would've been rendered uninhabitable hellscapes due to extreme radioactive contamination.

[TetraSky]

If my job taught me anything... Is that the people on night shift are not as well trained as the ones on day shift. It is often the new recruits who gets sent to the night shift. Meaning they barely know anything and are expected to somehow learn from.... Other new recruits.
As such, I am not really surprised the night shift are the ones who messed up.

[bensadikin]

Imagine youre chilling at room temprature then suddenly it goes up to 7000 degree celcius.

[Uns_Maps_]

The amount of remaining radioactive material plays a huge role
edit: to be precise, the rods in the power plant did not emit radiation for 10 days, only. They are still emitting to this day. And will continue to emit for some many more years, if not centuries.

[rock]

Chernobyl text 0 (700 workers), Voice narration 7000 Workers .

[Jyiber]

That's a simple one, the bombs were air bursts and therefore kicked up a lot less debris to contaminate; plus the amount of radioactive materials released were greater in Chernobyl. That's the video. Roll credits.

[Von_Splatterblast]

Big difference between air bursts and meltdowns

[edenisburning]

One word sums it up.. fallout. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki detonations were atmospheric detonations, resulting in very little fallout. The Chernobyl meltdown happened underground, resulting in tons of fallout. Basically, when nuclear materials mix with soil and debris, it creates fallout. The closer that detonation is to the ground, the more fallout there will be.

[warrenf]

I'm surprised that this question was even brought up.
2 atomic bombs going off (as horrific as that is) is nothing compared to the total meltdown where a reactor core is blown wide open spewing tons of radiation for days - which like having practically 100 atomic bombs dropping one after another.
It's really a miracle that half of the European continent didn't succumb to the Chernobyl disaster.

[johnnylafayette]

A meltdown vrs an explosion . The explosion isn't sitting rods of slow decay. The dispersion and sudden decay of a nuclear weapon isn't even comparable

[AnywhereButIndiana]

That deathclaw photoshop was too much for me, I'm rollin 💀

[olekbeluga]

Perfect length. 30-60 min videos is what I like.

[brt-jnkg]

The Chernobyl explosion was a nuclear explosion. First the explosion was a steam explosion that blew open the reactor vessel and when the oxygen rushed into the open reactor The reaction caused a low yield nuclear explosion that ripped the Chernobyl reactor apart and irradiated that area for about the next 40, 000 years.

[sivan]

Infographics show, you have no idea how long i have been wondering this. Thank you.

[crucial]

The way Infographics paid attention to detail is mad crazy. The only person sweating for the the Nagasaki bomb drop was the bombardier. 😂😂

[adityapratapsingh]

the picture you showed was not of the mushroom cloud of the little boy but a pyro-cumulonimbus cloud that was forming 3 hours later