CHERNOBYL DISASTER - An Inside Look - 3D

High detail 3d animations and explanations of the inner workings of Chornobyl nuclear power station. Showing why it was so vulnerable to blowing itself up and how it was different from western reactors.

Illustrated here are:
The absence a reactor pressure vessel and containment structure.
A size comparison with the Fukushima reactor and its containment layers.
The uranium fuel assemblies and graphite bricks.
The control room location.
Close up views of the explosion crater with the reactor lid nicknamed "Elena" shown flying through the air.
The temporary radiation shield "sarcophagus" and the final permanent confinement arch.

Chernobyl was a nuclear power station in Ukraine, Soviet Union. Its reactor blew up on Saturday 26 April 1986 at 1:23 am.

Music by Borrtex tracks 1.Realization 2.Universe 3.Changing

Footage used in this video with permission:

Footage of the ferris wheel operating. See 6:48 :

Very useful drawing resources:
Thanks to Barty Millar for models of the reactor hall

#Chernobyl #RBMK #ChernobylHBO #NuclearPower

[Deceptive]

Incredible animations! Perfect for those with a technical mindset that want more detail that what is currently easily available!!!

[anant]

Clearly there are some people in the comments who received their doctors degree from the university of HBO

[FalconFlurry]

"This city is impregnable" -Babylon, 539 BCE

"This ship cannot sink" -Titanic, 1912

"This reactor cannot explode" -Chernobyl, 1986

I'm starting to notice a pattern here

[subzeroNL]

rest in peace to all the heros going in there and make the world a safer place

[masamune]

I was just randomly on a Chernobyl “kick, ” if you wanna call it that, and was just thinking “man, I wish there was a really good cutaway 3D model describing the location and the systems ‘under the curtain’ “, and then this popped up. It was EXACTLY what I was looking for, and then some. Thank you, and wonderful job!

[Rockin_Ross]

Beautiful. My dad worked for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission here in the US when this happened. I was 16 at the time & it’s all he talked about for a good while.

[bigjaffa]

The 3D models are incredibly detailed and have helped me understand what happened. Thanks for your efforts in producing this.

[РамисБасыров-ию]

This is, without exaggeration, one of the best pictorial and schematic on YouTube on the Chernobyl topic

[rishabram]

I think you are mistaken comrade. RBMK reactors don’t explode.

[luistpuig]

At 7:48, you see those white flashes in the film... well, that is the radiation being recorded by the film of the camera...

[mrmattandmrchay]

Easy to understand and very well illustrated. Answered a few of my questions as well on the basic design. Loved the panning shot where you showed the before and after at 4:42. Impressive.

[TYSuggested]

This is by far the the best animation and explaination I've seen thus far regarding Chernobyl. Great job and thanks for sharing.

[RW-ijci]

Anyone else blown away by the fact that they still ran the plant like 20 years after the first explosion.... thats crazy..

[forrest]

“50, 000 people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town”

[captaincarpo]

From the visuals its funny to think that the reactor was located and the explosion happened next to and ABOVE the staff in the control room. Seeing people walk on the reactor lid I automatically assumed that the actual reactor is underground.

[_RudyBoi]

50, 000 people used to live here. Now it's a ghost town.
- Captain MacMillan

[jeffr]

Absolutely amazing animations. I couldn't even imagine how much work went into that.

[Mike-Bell]

The following reactors can be re-fuelled while at power.

CANDU reactors: Pressurised heavy-water cooled and moderated, natural uranium fuel reactors of Canadian design. Operated 1947–present. (Used NON-enriched uranium), positive VC

Magnox reactors: CO2-cooled, graphite-moderated, natural uranium fuel reactors of British design. Operated 1954–2015. (Used
NON-enriched uranium)

UNGG reactors: CO2-cooled, graphite-moderated, natural uranium fuel reactors of French design. Operated 1966 - 1994. (Used
NON-enriched uranium)

AGR (Advanced gas-cooled) reactors: CO2-cooled, graphite-moderated, enriched uranium fuel reactors of British design. Operated 1976–present.

[emuriddle]

-Bad design, to cut costs.
-Needed to do a Safety Check.

-Bypassed protocol for proper shutdown.
-Shut-Off Switch became an unintentional "Self Destruct" button.

[pintohoareau]

I finally know how far the control room is from the reactor.