A Brief History of: The Tammiku Radiation Event 1994 (Documentary)

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On 21 October 1994, three brothers entered the radioactive waste repository at Tammiku, Estonia, without authorization and removed a metal container enclosing a radiation source. This action initiated the sequence of events in a radiological accident.

The event would result in 1 person losing their life and many more injured.

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[mcblaggart]

97 tons of assorted material on site. Three goobers walk in and randomly pick up a few pounds of stuff so hot that the dose rate of the remaining stuff is significantly decreased. The sheer amount of anti-luck is incredible.

[happydudemarius]

Imagine calling your scrap metal buyer like "I'm bringing you some cool yellow barrels with this logo on them, it's like a circle with 3 things around it. I bet that's valuable!"

[qston]

Wow, I can't believe the family dog said "balls" when it got ars. Brilliant video as always plainly

[djarcforceable]

I love how the recovery team showed up with no tongs and decided the logical thing to do was to just pick up the radioactive item with their hands. They couldn't be bothered to go find a shovel or anything.... just picked it up with their hands. Nice work boys.

[SilentWrath]

As an Estonian, I especially appreciate one of the thieves saying "sitapea" to the barrel falling on his foot :D

[MotoXplor]

If one of the cartoon characters doesn't say "Balls", then I'm disappointed. Not disappointed in the least with this episode!

[njunderground]

Lol:
"All done"
"Why can I taste metal?"
"All done"

[deprivedoftrance]

I am strangely attracted to these videos because of an interesting (and terrifying) experience I had in grade school.
During 4th grade I had an hour with the science teacher one-on-one in lieu of English class because I had basically tested out.
One day I went in to the science room and he wasn't there and I was just kind of looking around and there was a display case with various rocks/elements in it.
One of the rocks was a very vibrant yellow and I picked it up to check it out, which is when the science teacher walked in.
The look of sheer terror and his reaction made me drop it immediately and that day we learned what radioactivity was and why it was dangerous... I wasn't the type to often get scolded/yelled at and he was a pretty chill guy in general so his reaction REALLY stuck with me.

Needless to say it was a sample of Uranium and the whole experience made me have a terrible paranoia about radiation and invisible death for many many years after.
Looking back as an adult I have no idea why a grade school would have a chunk of Uranium just laying around where an inquisitive student could handle it so as an adult I tried to cure my fear of "randomly dying from picking up an unknown radiation source" thinking this would be a totally irrational fear and a thing that couldn't really happen.

Thanks Plainly Difficult, now I know my "irrational" fears as a child were actually justified!!
As an aside this would have happened around the same time this event in Estonia was happening, early 90's.

BALLS indeed.

[CraftMine]

"the operators didn't think to report the cut padlocks or the drop in radioactivity"

Wellp, wonder how much that contributed to the mess

[Rubashow]

A school for the training of Soviet atomic submariners was situated in Estonia. By now it is completely dismantled except for the miniature nuclear reactor. I was in Estonia for a semester and had seem websites about lost places there. The guy who made the site seemed to have entered the submariners school a few years earlier. Back then it was just a particularly creepy abandoned Russian military site. So 2 friends and I decided to go there. We closed it and discovered that the site was no more, except for the sealed reactor building. We were also almost immediately approached by vehicles guarding the site. So I guess the Estonians have drastically upped their protection of places like that.

[SLNTIGamer]

I want to say thank you for the videos. They have legitimate helped me become a more personally responsible. I recently found out that my work uses some nuclear based industrial scanning systems and many of them are in non functional. I double checked with my manager about the last time they were leak tested. While everything ended up being totally fine. I genuinely never would have known the potential for danger when it comes to non functional or ignored nuclear technology without this channel.

[twocvbloke]

Guard to Manager: "Shouldn't we have 24 hour security here boss?"
Manager: "Nah, the people wouldn't be that dumb to break in here!!"
The people:

[odysseusofithaca]

"carve out a living through scrap metal" and "radioactive waste" always go hand in hand so well

[Ganiscol]

So, did Moe and Larry of the three Scrapmetal Stooges suffer any health and/or legal consequences or was Curley the only one paying the full price? 🤔

[gyromurphy]

The channel who single handedly made me never touch metal in the woods unless there was snow on the ground.
Good rule of thumb: if you see melted snow randomly in the woods...don't go near it.

[astrixistheman]

How such quality content can be released so regularly is beyond me

[user]

I'd read about this incident. It never ceases to amaze me how were people just unaware of radiation and its potential hazards, this soon after the whole Chernobyl fiasco.

[KingOhmni]

A Plainly Difficult upload just in time for me to watch before work? Yes please!

[duzehalo]

Thanks for adding the historical context - it's easy to not realise the crazy reality after a country gains an independence especially if one was born after it happened.