Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster - BBC documentary - every human should watch this at least once - General

[QUOTE=Within;27855896]Why are the people in the high seats always [B]SUCH HUGE FUCKING IDIOTS[/B]?[/QUOTE] One exception and you condemn everyone in higher positions? Anyway, the video was too shown too dramatic and the real cause (except for handling the reactor inproperly) wasn't shown (Xenon-Poisoning). They even bypassed safety-circuits, because the reactor wasn't be able to start again (due to safety/Xenon Poisoning) but they got the order to do so (which has been shown - But too dramatic). And yes, they lied for a long time about the radiation.

I'm sad now :saddowns:

Just watched through it all, it was a good experience. If you havent watched it yet I reccomend you do!

I saw this in physics last year, but it's still interesting. I'm watching it again.

This was pretty damn amazing. I wish I had BBC. Stupid American I am :(

[QUOTE=MajorMattem;27855421]Jesus, this is really depressing.[/QUOTE] at least we learn about this shit, at the expense of lives.

Nuclear power is pretty safe actually.

Very interesting documentary, thanks for sharing - gonna watch the rest later

Rated zing.

[QUOTE=sebmck;27856947]Nuclear power is pretty safe actually.[/QUOTE] It's insanely safe now - there's the SCRAM system in every modern reactor, and so many other safety measures. In the case of a powercut, control rods will fall down from gravity, and several other things happen. [editline]4th February 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=sebmck;27856947]Nuclear power is pretty safe actually.[/QUOTE] It's insanely safe now - there's the SCRAM system in every modern reactor, and so many other safety measures. In the case of a powercut, control rods will fall down from gravity, and several other things happen.

for some reason i watched it all

Wow this was really good. Haven't watched a good documentary in a while thanks. One thing though they knew what RAD is so why didn't any of them have any RAD suits on?

Don't know about you guys but the first time I saw this documentary (saw it long before it was posted now) I started tearing up at the 5'th part when the liquidators volunteered to dive inside the contaminated water even if they knew it meant certain death.

[QUOTE=BrainDeath;27855582]Its about the disaster, not what follows years later. There's only burns.[/QUOTE] All right, that makes me want to watch this then.

There were firemen and troops from the army on the roof too trying to put it out. Those divers had it bad, but the guys on the roof and in the heli's couldn't have been that much better off. But it does make me wonder. If this happened now in my country, would people volunteer to help save the country knowing they will die?

[QUOTE=Terminutter;27857012]It's insanely safe now - there's the SCRAM system in every modern reactor, and so many other safety measures. In the case of a powercut, control rods will fall down from gravity, and several other things happen. [editline]4th February 2011[/editline] It's insanely safe now - there's the SCRAM system in every modern reactor, and so many other safety measures. In the case of a powercut, control rods will fall down from gravity, and several other things happen.[/QUOTE] "Control rods" is just one truth and totally insufficient to block a supercritical reaction (controlling GW of power in few micro-seconds can't be done by that)... If you are using a water-moderated reactor (mostly every modern reactor is one) instead of a graphite-moderated one with only control rods as moderators (like the Chernobyl type was), the reactor can't become supercritical: When the water boils, the water, which slows down the neutrons (slow neutrons are required for fission), becomes gas so the process stops. Sure, you can still have control-rods to block the neutrons completely as secondary fault-protectection. Then those will fall dawn due to gravity in case of an emergency such as power-loss. All those are passive fault-protection systems. Even active one like redundant cooling cycles (mostly at least 3, when not even more) exist. Fun fact: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor]The first fission reactor Earth was in Oaklo, Africa[/url] - It was water-moderated.

It gets me emotional whenever someone, willingly, sacrifices for his country. But it gets me also frustrated when it is in vain.

that was very informative, even though i have watched many chernobyl documentaries

Very good. I now know where Stalker got those voice clips from.

That was great. I didn't know about the risk of a worse explosion; very informative.

Nuclear power has always interested me but scared me at the same time. I hope I can sleep tonight :ohdear:

Such life in the Zone

I learned a lot. Thanks op.

That was a good watch. Despite some drama overacting at the start of it, it got much better as it progressed.

I'm supposed to do a research on anything with WW2 or any world disaster for my high school class and I picked radiation poisoning and the Chernobyl disaster. Thanks for the vids :D

So much I didn't know about Chernobyl, and I watched the whole thing. Thanks?

[img]http://gyazo.com/2056e66796177ee511f13f5505cf5025.png[/img] What in the hell was this?

Just finished. An amazing watch.

That must be one of the most terrifying experiences ever. To know that you've been exposed and only have a short time to live before you begin to die a horrible death. Absolutely no treatment. What do you do in a situation like that?

8:20 in the 5th video was wonderful. The real heroes were the men that risked their lives during this time.