Chernobyl: Minute by Minute | Full Film

In the heart of the Soviet Union, amidst Cold War isolation and political tension, a routine test gone awry would have irreversible consequences.
The explosion of Reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl Power plant in Ukraine would go down in history as the worst nuclear disaster... ever.
The aftermath was a scene of chaos and destruction as radiation and panic spread rapidly. But what led to this catastrophic event?And how was an attempted cover-up carried out?Find out as we recount those moments...minute by minute.

Cast
Dr Uilleam Blacker

Crew
Angelica Butcher, Brian Aabech, Jordan Hill

Chernobyl: Minute by Minute (Official Trailer)

[KrulliKlikk]

The first second of this video woke up everyone in my house. Thank you.

[jandedick]

If you are interested in Chernobyl I highly recommend reading Adam Higginbotham book Midnight in Chernobyl. He spent 10 years researching the accident. He interviewed staff that were in control room 4 that night and the director of the plant and many many others who were there and the clean up. A fantastic read. I’ve read many books on the accident and Adam’s is far the best.

[tonybotting]

To say this is vague is an understatement . So many details are missing and or not explained at all .

[ImGoingSupersonic]

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

[WorldView]

This documentary is a bit all over the place both in terms of timeline and clips. The most comprehensive and authoritative one is "the battle of Chernobyl".

[Bryan-odnv]

We’re lucky to have so many nuclear physicists and engineers in the comment section. 🤣

[pamthompson]

My brother was in the Army stationed in Germany when this happened. My sister -in-law told me that there weren't any alerts from Russia, sensors in neighboring counties sensed the radioactivity and went off. Like if you don't tell anyone no one will notice your country is leaking radioactivity. Read a book about the disaster. According to the book it was poorly trained individuals, sloppy construcion practices, just were not worried about anything. "Pieces didn't fit they got hammered into place, LIKE THAT'LL WORK. BREAK TIME." After accident many who were there fighting the fire and such, were deathly ill. Of course the government said it was not radiation related. It was truely a disaster.

[jeffreymcdonald]

Unbelievable that the local emergency personnel were not made aware of the possible dangers. Those brave men died horrible deaths.

[ZRJZZZZZ]

It wasn’t a routine test. It is never been done successfully at that plant, which was a requirement for long-term certification.

[Chuck-ivqp]

A safety test leading to the worst nuclear disaster in history has to be the most Russian thing ever.

[RobN]

This was not a nuclear explosion. This was the mother of all steam explosions that just happened to use nuclear material to generate heat. Think of a pressure cooker left on high for way too long and no way to vent

[philliptang]

The rods did not jam, the tips were made of graphite which accelerates reactions... At the very first fractions of a second the rods were inserted, it increased the power exponentially and uncontrollably. With the lack of coolants, all the remaining water became steam and hydrogen from the reaction of graphite with super heated steam, which lead to the chamber exploding.

[ImGoingSupersonic]

Those men who fought to encase that disaster are heros.

[Eviction]

0:08 Oi Blyat! Now my neighbour Vadim is awake!

[scoobysean]

just stopped by to earn my diploma in nuclear science from the comments section
I am now passed with flying colours 🙏 thank you

[nicholasmorsovillo]

It's sad that 38 years later and areas around the Chernobyl Reactor are completely uninhabitale with the radiation levels so high no one will be able to live in that area again for another 20, 000 years.

[bokumerius]

minute by minute! The video is only 43 mins and 23 seconds

[ronobrien]

The design of the control rods was such that when partially inserted into the core, the graphite tips actually accelerated the reaction. The reactor jumped to 11 times it's design output. The conversion of water to steam and the breakdown of the zirconium rod sleeves added hydrogen to the core which exploded.

[iangreenstreet]

Control rods didn’t jam but actually caused a power surge

[jaybrown]

This video leaves out some important facts about the physics of nuclear fission but the most important issue that should be mentioned is that these reactors did not have a very strong containment building covering them. Every responsible country around the world requires their reactors to be housed inside a containment building capable of containing the steam explosion like what happened there.