772lb is 350 kg Holy Shit.

Americans 🤡😂

At least with late stage capitalism it's a slow burn 😎 Excuse me while I renew my breathing subscription on my neuralink or daddy Elon will be upset.

@ uh huh, ok, yeah, did a raving schizo homeless guy or a raving schizo Reddit guy tell you this specifically?

It's always the anime avatars coming in with brain rot takes

​@@Sir_Gugharde_Wuglis two retards projecting lol

@@Dannybythebanana typical wannabe communist having to make up scenarios in their head because they can’t point to any real-life examples 😂

Yeah, thank goodness US plants aren't operated by bureaucrats...wait. Like nuclear power, bureaucracy and communism (a classless, moneyless, and sometimes stateless society) can be safe. But you need to make there is full transparency, otherwise you get a government that spouts ideals more than it acts upon there ideals.

​@@re1010actually, US nuclear plants aren't run by party affiliated bureaucrats, they are run by engineers. And communism, despite what so many online grifters like repeating, is inherently corrupt due to centralization and bureaucratization of decision making being a prerrequisite of a centrally-planned economy

​@@alexiscolladosolis4257It sounds like you could be one of those who could say that communism sounds OK in theory, but cannot work in practice, while not realising that capitalism doesn't even sound OK in theory.

​@@ratheskin58 on the contrary, I would say communism doesn't even sound ok in theory, while I can bet you don't even know what capitalism is

@@ratheskin58Communism doesn’t even work in theory - Marx and Engels were too angry and unintelligent to even be good objective economists. Capitalism has flaws but it’s the best system we have - Communism has been responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people - it’s a horrible, evil, ideology.

The individual rods, while fitted into individual chambers, are all fitted tightly together in that giant floor piece. Even a bunch of giant separate heavy rods, subjected to massive force from one uniform side, will (for a time) all move in the same direction) as though they were a single mass. Imagine holding a bunch of straws in a circular bundle in your fingers, and then you push on one end of the bundle. The straws are all separate, but the bundle will move up and out as one body, until theyve escaped your fingers. If they were slapped hard and fast enough, they might even retain their bundle shape for a very brief moment after escaping your fingers and inevitably separating In the case of this reactor, that "moment" was long enough for the rods to all fly up and through the ceiling. This isnt so much a case of a "narrative" being inaccurate so much as the scale of the physics here being so huge that it leads to absurd possibilities, like hundreds of separate thousand+ kilo rods being launched so hard that they move together like a lid being popped off

as is all light lmao

Ionizing radiation

Ionizing radiation

I think they wanted to make it simpler for viewers. Obviously all the scientist and operators are partially at fault and not just Legasov but the fact of the matter is that the corrupt soviet government did in fact encourage secrecy of the disaster. If it was up to them the world would have never found out about Chernobyl and the only reason they did is because a nuclear plant in SWEDEN, which is pretty far from Chernobyl, was getting high readings of radiation, from the exploded Chernobyl.

'soviet goverment a corrupt and incompetent villains who just wanted to cover their mistakes. When in reality events were quite oposite ' If this is the case why was it the west only found out about the disaster when irradiated material began to fall on its territory? 'I wonder why it had to be Legasov; For the sake of narrative, so many scientists were involved the writers had to condense it to one person for brevity.

He didn't feel guilty about lying in Vienna. He wanted to tell the truth to his own people as this way it isn't treason. And insinuating the soviet government weren't corrupt... The whole series is about the consequences of lying, keeping secrets, manipulating the public. The soviet government was built on these.

>literally one of the top three most vile, corrupt and evil governments in human history - depending on exactly how you count >I dunno why they were portrayed as corrupt villains ok commie

People who look history neutrally will be hard press to answer which government isn't corrupt in it's own way. Either they corrupt from the start or turn to rotten from inside given time

lol how? it was an under reaction considering how long they were trying to put up an act by claiming the core didn’t blow up

Look at Chernobyl now, it's anything but dead. Radiation is especially bad for humans, but the world would probably carry on just fine.

A coal plant puts out more radiation in a day than a nuclear plant puts out in a year.

Nah, you're wrong, those plants wouldn't just explode like Chernobyl if left alone.

@adamruminski4320 it takes 2-3 weeks to SAFELY shut down a reactor. And YES they will eventually melt down if the people running them die or leave. 🙄👍

@@adamruminski4320 and as you can tell from Fukushima the geniuses put the backup generators in the basement where it floods first 🙄😂

beyond lethal, 500R/h is the LD50, 3000R/h is insane

Yeah! That's fun!

Same

Yep. That's how fast these reactions happen. The temperature in the reactor increased tens of thousands of degrees in less than 3 seconds. That's the amount of energy we're talking about with nuclear power