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

You think this was a close call? [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire]England would have been rendered uninhabitable in 1957 if things had played out a little differently.[/url]

It's a nice documentary, but it does over-dramaticise it, particularly with the "thermal explosion" with the power of a nuclear bomb.

Yeah how powerful would that blast have actually been? I looked it up and couldn't find anything.

[QUOTE=darth-veger;27855519]Really worth the watch Even though it is popularized in STALKER, most people do not know the true face of it[/QUOTE] Pshhh, I first heard about Chernobyl through Nastasha Romanenko. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7z4s2nwMCU[/media]

Does anyone know of something that isn't so dramatized? I tend to either like boring old men talking about something with some stills in the background, or just reading a book about it. I kind of couldn't bear watching past the point where the radiation was visible.

[QUOTE=Greenen72;27917254]I kind of couldn't bear watching past the point where the radiation was visible.[/QUOTE] Out of interest, why?

Very interesting, Watched it all.

[QUOTE=Jamsponge;27873311]Sorry. I guess I don't know my idents.[/QUOTE] you sir disgust me

[QUOTE=Turnips5;27918444]Out of interest, why?[/QUOTE] Not that specific thing only, but the part where a person was being given a shoulder to hobble on was just bad. But pardoning terrible acting in those parts, I tend to enjoy learning about something through channels that don't include a drama. [editline]7th February 2011[/editline] I watch documentaries to learn about something, not to be on the edge of my seat

[QUOTE=Greenen72;27917254]Does anyone know of something that isn't so dramatized? I tend to either like boring old men talking about something with some stills in the background, or just reading a book about it. I kind of couldn't bear watching past the point where the radiation was visible.[/QUOTE] Where was radiation visible? If you're talking about the light from the reactor at the end of episode one, I chalked that up to white-hot graphite glowing. This is a more traditional documentary, but it has a bit of acting. It's also worth a watch for a different viewpoint's sake. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoEgkGNO-sQ[/media] Also, they speak Russian.

[QUOTE=Greenen72;27920762]Not that specific thing only, but the part where a person was being given a shoulder to hobble on was just bad. But pardoning terrible acting in those parts, I tend to enjoy learning about something through channels that don't include a drama. [editline]7th February 2011[/editline] I watch documentaries to learn about something, not to be on the edge of my seat[/QUOTE] i thought this was a great documentary and i think you should be ashamed

The part where they fly over the reactor for the first time is particularly gripping. He sees the interior of the reactor and just flips out.

[QUOTE=Greenen72;27917254]I kind of couldn't bear watching past the point where the radiation was visible.[/QUOTE] Oh, if you're thinking it was scientific inaccuracy, you're wrong btw [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation[/url]

If I went to check a reactor and saw that at 9:26, I'd freak the fuck out.

I never knew about the two people that drained the water underneath the reactor. They saved at least a million lives and got nothing for it; true heroes.

[quote]The explosion would level 200 square kilometres[/quote] Holy fuck, wasn't the Tsar bomba like around 50 square kilometres? Or did I hear that wrong?

Does anyone know the name of that vid where 1 guy explores Chernobyl and the reactor with a camera?

[QUOTE=Saxon;27935555]I never knew about the two people that drained the water underneath the reactor. They saved at least a million lives and got nothing for it; true heroes.[/QUOTE] Way more than a million. The names were Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov.

I don't like when the Ukranians speak English, they could've at least have them talk in accent. That way this would at least be funny to watch.

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;27854866]Why does it have to be so dramatized[/QUOTE] It's the BBC.

[QUOTE=-ZeeBo-;27938131]I don't like when the Ukranians speak English, they could've at least have them talk in accent. That way this would at least be funny to watch.[/QUOTE] NO NO. BAD. They either need to speak real Russian or perfect English because anything else is just stupid and unprofessional.

[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;27940062]NO NO. BAD. They either need to speak real Russian or perfect English because anything else is just stupid and unprofessional.[/QUOTE] Agreed, somehow I doubt an 'Allo 'Allo style retelling of the Chernobyl incident would be good for very much at all

[QUOTE=ChristopherB;27926314]The part where they fly over the reactor for the first time is particularly gripping. He sees the interior of the reactor and just flips out.[/QUOTE] "All hail the monolith"

I teared up when I saw the divers go down. I used to think a nuclear explosion happened there but apparently this clarified a lot for me. Good watch, might have to start reading up on Chernobyl

part 5 9:20 ;_;

Holy shit, Valeri Legasov saved the world, and to this day people still believe that carelessness was the cause, even 23 years after the recording. Fuckin' hell that's bullshit for him. I would've killed myself too.

[QUOTE=Turnips5;27934435]Oh, if you're thinking it was scientific inaccuracy, you're wrong btw [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation[/url][/QUOTE] I know what Cherenkov Radiation is, I was talking about the heat-haze in the air where the radiation supposedly was

[QUOTE=Greenen72;27947071]I know what Cherenkov Radiation is, I was talking about the heat-haze in the air where the radiation supposedly was[/QUOTE] That was from... heat? From the burning graphite rods?

I've always found Chernobyl interesting, thanks for posting this

Oh i've been there. [editline]9th February 2011[/editline] a panorama I took: [IMG]http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/211/c/4/Pripyat_Pool_Panorama_by_JaanusJ.jpg[/IMG] the station itself was p underwhelming because there were like tons of office workers chilling out near their container cubicles just 200m away from the station, smoking and drinking coffee