What Really Happened At Chernobyl? #shorts

I get chills...

#chernobyl

[greg]

My wife God rest her. Was exposed to the fall out from this. She would need to be checked for thyroid cancer ever few years.

[Zuxiasunicorn]

The Russians were advised not to build that kind of reactor as they had problems, and was old technology anyway. Unfortunately, the guy in charge of the test got his job because he had a relative in Soviet government.

[mlikakolby]

Just to provide a little more detail to this story. The RBMK reactor 4 at chernobyl was conduct a test to see that if there was a blackout could the plant still receive electricity from the dieing water turbine so that the back up generates have time to get up to speed thats the test. What caused the explosion was that the day shift plant held the reactor at half power which built up zenon which slows reactivate. And when they brought the power down it dropped rapidly and got stuck. Well an RBMK rector has reactivity swings at low power but control rods help with that. But at chernobyl out of 216 control rods only 13 were left on the reactor. Well the director didn't care and conducted the test anyways which the night shift has no idea what's going on and just found out about it. When they slowed down the water turbine the cooling water in the reactor turns to steam which increases reactivate and makes the power spike. The operators noticed and pushes AZ-5 which pushes all control rods back into the reactor. Well like the lady said the tips were made of graphite so when they went back in the reactivate jumps horrible and jams the rod in place endlessly speeding up the reaction. Reactor 4 is now set to blow which is a steam explosion not a nuclear one. Once the lid is throw off oxygen rushes in to meet super heated graphite which cause a fire that burned for weeks. The reactor that was designed to run at 3, 200 mega watt when beyond 33, 000 mega watt. Thanks for readying hopeful this helps

[benrosenbach]

Grew up next to a nuke plant, that wasn't completed. Used to play on one of the reactor top that was never put in place. That was a serious steel dome. Would throw big rocks on it, so loud, giant gong.

[juliangastelum]

So many people sacrificed their lives cleaning this environmental disaster.

[wresltgal]

My husband is from Poland and he was born a year after this happened but his parents told us that if the wind had blown the other direction they would’ve been exposed as well

[nievaconsing]

RIP 💐 🙏 All Victims of Chernobyl disaster ❤️ 🕊 🇵🇭

[tamsolo]

And let’s talk about how the backup generators failed during the earthquake that set in motion Fukushima… idc how many people want to say nuclear energy is safe. In the words of Neal deGrasse Tyson “you don’t stop a nuclear meltdown, the meltdown is forever” (roughly translated as I’m pulling from memory. And let’s talk about the rise in thyroid disease and cancers all along the western coast from 2012 and on forward.

[Witchypoo]

The gross incompetence of this project

[LogicalCanadian]

And now, you can measure less radiation standing in the city of Chernobyl, then you do on a beach in Brazil. We have to make sure we don't use these stories to demonize the energy source that will allow us to survive into the future.

[kathrinsides]

I was in high school when this happened. It was literally the second worst thing that could happen compared to nuclear war. This was during the Cold War. It was truly terrifying because they didn’t let the world know what was happening until they had no choice. I went to college and became a teacher. When the kids who were born in the year after the accident started in my class (this was halfway across the world, mind you), there was an obvious difference in the intelligence and behavior of these kids, and I’m including the smart ones as well as the at-risk kids. It was truly stunning to me and the other teachers who discussed it with me. Honestly, it made me incredibly sad for those kids because they had nothing to do with something that happened before they were even born on the other side of the world.

[ryanoneill]

The drama Chernobyl created for SkyAtlantic tv was the best drama I have ever seen. Won loads of awards because of the realness and true account of the event.

A must see

[bestlifeever]

I'm cbrn and the radiation from this event has affected or at least reached everyone in world now as it shifts with weather(doesn't just go away but time and distance makes difference)so when we have all these events either chemical or radiation it doesn't go away. illness from all these evens show up like flu symptoms at 1st unless large population gets sick at once don't know you have been affected unless it's public knowledge event happened but look how long took to find out about Ohio and how many other events have happened since January. There were lots of questionable actions of churnobyl like we see today. There are still many nuclear reactors, some offline now, though. I was kid when this happened, but remember it well. I have been a radiation safety officer while cbrn and find it all very interesting.

[astick]

"it flooded into infinity"
That's a scary line

[PotatoCrispGaming]

The fact there WAS a fifth Reactor being built but it was stopped because of the disaster in 1986 and Unit 3 reactor was still kept on till 2000 and the Reactor 4 was litteraly next to unit 3 with only one wall keeping them away and by the way there was a chance of a 2-3 MEGATONNE thermonuclear explosion.

[kkaterina]

I was 4 years old. Playing in Poland while it all happened. We did not know. Today I have thyroid cancer like many people of my age.

[Beannzzzz]

Basically they forgot to turn the oven off, and the oven started to overheat, melt, steam blew the oven door off, and it melted through the bottom pan.

[C-DugggzTV]

Unfortunately a lot of people at the time scientists/plantworkers weren't aware of the fact that the graphite tips accelerated the nuclear reaction process

[bernhardvonbraun]

I dont know if the tips caused the explosion I never heard of that before, what I always heard was that after removing to many rods to prevent the reaktor from shutting down, because at the time it was supplying its own water pumps with electricity, to test if It could do that safely in case of a power outage, the reactor got really hot really quickly and melted or bend the controll rods so they couldnt be put back in again. The reactor eventually got so hot, that the water in the reactor rapidly turned into steam, which usually cant happen because the pressure is to high. This caused an enourmous rise in pressure in the reaktor causing the realativly cheap shielding of the reactor to fail and send the roof flying. The Uranium fuel rods then melted together and started to burn through the bottom of the reactor and than several meters of concrete and steel until finaly coming to a stop and forming what we today know as the elephants foot, which is still a little warm btw.

[debherr]

thank you for explaining. never quite understood why it happened.