Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, Original Report: April 30, 1986

What really happened at Chernobyl? 1986 "Nightline" report on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster and radiation scare.
#Chernobyl #NuclearDisaster #Radiation #ABCNews

[@JessiPeele]

that's horrible for the Soviet Union not to tell their people how dangerous this was and how much radioactivity was going on. If something like that ever happened to me I would want to know the severity of the situation.

[@SquadJuiced]

Our country has become more like the Soviet Union than ever in history, but they're even better at hiding and convoluting the truth. Rest assured, you will never hear about anything on the main channels.

[@makedredd299]

Calm down comrades it was only 3.6 Roentgen. I'm told it's the equivalent of one chest X-ray.

[@tommyt1971]

Not great but not horrible...

[@alexandercummins]

@@tommyt1971 "not great not terrible"

[@aluminium5738]

"Well, its not great but its not horrifying"

[@justindailey7488]

Could you imagine if it was more like 12,000 roentgen??? At least western reports about the disaster are untrue and we can sleep easy

[@kbtechandmedia]

More like one billion trillion million gazillion chest x-rays!

[@AshleyPomeroy]

I remember this being reported on the news here in the UK - I was ten at the time. The tenor of the reports suggested that there had been a small fire with a release of radiation but everyone was okay. It wasn't until a couple of years later that it became apparent there had been a horrible disaster, potentially geopolitical in scope, and people had died in nightmarish conditions.

[@bfaymous]

Scary huh!? This could have easily whiled out most of Europe! Russia tried to keep it under wraps. It's STILL not safe!

[@ryanolsen294]

@@bfaymoustrue, you can visit there now, but not be there for more more than a few days

[@gameking8809]

"It wasn't until a couple of years later that it became apparent there had been a horrible disaster," Complete bs, the Soviet Union had to confess the truth like a week later. They requested help from western country as early as may 1986 because they could not keep the radiation under control and needed their help to build a sarcophagus around the building and needed help treating the spreading radiation sicknesses. The whole world knew by MAy 1986.

[@brothermaleuspraetor9505]

2:45 Geiger counter says: ''Get me the fuuuuu away from this puddllllleeeeeeee!

[@suomik1988]

That little kid did NOT want that iodine haha.

[@saigokun]

Thanks for posting this. What the anchorman says at the start of the video still holds true today.

[@sharilynn3024]

Anyone here whilst watching HBO's Chernobyl?🙋‍♀️

[@angelaii469]

Shari Lynn 🖐🖐

[@ImPhoRealz]

You already know

[@igorljubas5931]

HBO's Chernobyl is sucks this is not real thing.

[@cherellejohnson6001]

Shari Lynn I’m watching now, on HBO, what the fuck , it’s sad!! The Moscow Kremlin was warned 10 years earlier about the reactor, graphite tips!!

[@aluminium5738]

@@cherellejohnson6001 'tips' lol.

[@MisterRON]

Wow, news kicked ass back then.

[@johnolson7430]

That was when America was the badass . Now our men wear dresses

[@crunkaintdead7702]

​@@johnolson7430womp womp

[@lmaoyourekiddingme]

I was a teenager then. This was our news all the time.

[@kh40yr]

The scary part of all this is that reactor 2 had a turbine fire in 1991, but that wasn't dramatic enough to warrant alot of coverage. The last Chernobyl Graphite reactor was not shut down until 2000. I graduated High School in 1985 and remember this well. Documentary's later on in years showed the mutations in the Reindeer populations as well as long term felt conditions on food and supplies, health issues, ect To this day, it's still a mess. Gorbachev personally commented on the disaster as the true steps towards the eventual fall of the Red Star.

[@robscafidi4070]

The turbine fire was in a totally separate building, it had nothing to do with the reactor itself, just a flat roof over the steam turbines, and pretty minor damage. The scarier thing is that reactor 1 had a partial core meltdown in 1982 due to a coolant valve stuck open - exactly the same thing as happened at Three Mile Island, except, in this case, because the radiation release was so minor and not detected outside the USSR, the Soviets decided not to report it and just quietly removed and replaced the damaged reactor core and put it back in operation. It was actually the second partial core meltdown of an RBMK reactor, the exact same thing happened to Leningrad Unit 1 in 1975, radiation was released to the local community, but not beyond Soviet borders, so they also covered that one up and just quietly replaced the core.

[@sylviafullerton1895]

They move reactors to where they want the power I'm pretty sure. The last one was s cal to w Nevada .

[@lmaoyourekiddingme]

You know they still hunt and ranch all around the boundary of the old Nevada Test Site? People eat that meat ALL the time.

[@kh40yr]

@lmaoyourekiddingme in my State, We have supermarket corn , potatoes , carrots, white onions, Apples, and livestock farms, less than 5 miles from Hanford Reservation.

[@lmaoyourekiddingme]

@@kh40yr The feds admit no wrongdoing, plus they want to study.

[@lamar7bn]

Why we don't hear this lovely accent anymore?

[@jukihiw]

Because it doesn’t represent the average American. And the culture will always shift to representing the average culture

[@cm9241]

Newscasters use affected accents, which change even faster than natural ones, which also change.

[@kbtechandmedia]

I'd say they probably thought 3 was on fire because it was in the same building adjacent of 4. In 1986, can you imagine how quickly information would be getting out if the technology we have today, was available back then? It'd take minutes, maybe seconds for raw media.

[@crazyeye1]

Even though I wasn’t alive during this I miss reporting like this, they take the info they know and they say it without emphasizing emotion and let the viewer draw their conclusion more or less. Being this way during the Soviet era the west wasn’t to fond of them but we need reporting like this back in the msm

[@woodstocknun]

upper class british woman during thatcher who has a daughter studying in soviet union... how rare must that be?

[@twiff3rino28]

Never let a good crisis go to waste 😤

[@mkl62]

April 30, 1986.

[@qorxmazveyselov5163]

1:59 3.6 roentgens. "Not good and not terrible."

[@lmaoyourekiddingme]

Those poor children. They don't know it's for their safety.

[@kernals12]

they did know the effects, the Soviets had plenty of experience with nuclear physics

[@cherellejohnson6001]

Will Poundstone exactly

[@dijoxx]

The political leaders didn't though.

[@fisterhr]

So the Vremya newscasters didn't have guns pointed to their heads after all.

[@cybergothika6906]

The TV news and the host always played stupid games with words. Imagine you're watching news and the anchor says ''Chernobyl has a fallout on Chicago"

[@stefaan10111992]

Angry on the Soviets for not saying anything? ANY Western country would lie about it as well, it's not just the Soviets, there's no country on this planet that would be honest about such matter

[@JRRLewis]

Absolute nonsense.

[@tommyt1971]

Three Mile Island.

[@notofthisworld5267]

The American government is one of the most corrupt, as we now know today

[@stephenjenkins7971]

​@tommyt1971 You do realize that the design flaws were openly admitted and led to structural changes, right? And that unlike Chernobyl there was no risk of worldwide catastrophe? And the fallout was extremely minor? It's disgusting to even compare the two.

[@suomik1988]

I saw that too. $100... That's so sad. There's no money I would take to do that. All the officials talk about how "everyone acted selflessly" in cleaning up the disaster, but other accounts of the clean up operation talk about how soldiers and reservists were forced to clean the roof and dig the tunnel. I guarantee you it wasn't those generals with shiny buttons doing the dangerous work. They were using the soldiers and innocent miners trained in from nearby towns. Selflessly my ass.

[@blazertracer1]

3.6 roentgen not great, not terrible

[@diegomatthews3937]

The date is completely wrong, the disaster happened 26 april 1986 but the world didn't find out until much later, so the "original report" would have also been made much later than 30 april 1986

[@LUNE.44]

The world was informed on April 28th as that was when Sweden had detected high radiation. “Much later” is what people say for two reasons, one, to emphasise that lots of the damage caused by the accident was done in the first few days, and two, to make Americans see the soviets as more of an enemy in order to make America look better and American people more patriotic

[@polskiobywatel553]

US : USSR is lying! USSR: no u

[@panduwidagdo7051]

5:54 very British lady.

[@marcusmiksdeavila5061]

I thought the same. Genuine.

[@JessiPeele]

I wonder what they would have done if they knew the effects it caused.

[@CYCO1631]

Not built the RBMK... but, this was the Soviet Union after all. "It's cheaper." ~V. Legasov

[@dr.boinkersbookkeeping9028]

"Not reality, perhaps, but the perception of reality" This guy at the beginning said the most truthful things in the history of television. What worldly governments really plan and do behind the curtains is visible only to them. Catastrophes like Chernobyl, Fukushima, Hiroshima, etc have a massive impact on economical structures of entire continents...and it could all be carefully designed by just a handful of people. What we see from the far points of the world is entirely controlled by the media. It's an exciting era to be alive in, but it's also a highly disturbing era too, in which we can't entirely trust anyone, especially the governments and media outlets. It's a modern day Cartesian doubt. Trust nobody, trust nothing unless you have seen it yourself and tested the truthfulness on your own. Nobody can live like that every day, that is why we trust the tv news, news portals, internet reports and comments, it's the easier way. Scary times.

[@Domey411]

Ok a the worst nuclear disaster in history just happened and your first thought is getting money from them? REALLY!?!?

[@cherellejohnson6001]

Brian Domey these idiots are destroying the earth, it’s sad, it’s going to take 24,000 years before it’s gets under control, we will all be dust, by then , dam shame

[@Inkymon1]

For some odd reason i cant Reply to Anetunisha so i will say it in a regular comment. At the time, the Soviets had told the residence there that they would leave home for a few days, because they didn't think radiation was a huge health hazard at the time, and apparently thought that the radiation would go away in a matter of days. People aren't always right. and at the time, the soviets thought they could handle it.

[@whiteheart747]

got to love the american news's really crappy map of eurpoe (especially the UK) 2:13

[@dimarcodrahgi5866]

Yes but why did their flash lights turn off ep2

[@steveweiss3552]

You used to have to tune into Western news to hear the truth. Now, it's the other way around.

[@metalgearsolidsnake6978]

"You used to have to tune into Western news to hear the truth. Now, it's the other way around." What truth are you talking about? What news talk all truth in Russia/former soviet states? just asking:) I think people can differ truth from lies. Just use some sense some times...

[@YzaesDuo]

ye you cant trust western countries, im from finland.

[@whiteheart747]

umm actually i dont know :/ i must have been really high at the time >.

[@metalred74]

ABSOLUTELY! I bet that if ANY of the "liquidators" had refused to "volunteer" they would've probably been shot on sight or sent to a prison in Siberia and sentenced to hard labor. Obviously,I do understand that most likely none of them would've objected to aiding in the crisis so that wouldn't have been an issue.Most of the military people (at least the lower level " grunts")probably didn't know much at all about just HOW harmful that much radiation exposure would be! They were SADLY BETRAYED!

[@netvideotv5347]

It wasn't the 1930's they wouldn't have been shot

[@ronanrogers4127]

What an utterly uneducated and ill informed comment. This was the Soviet Union under Gorbachev, not Stalin.

[@tobiast471]

The liquidators where volunteers wtf you are talking about?

[@michaelhunziker7287]

@@tobiast471 Volunteered at gun point

[@elinka2024]

How ignorant!!!!! 😮 I’m a kid from the Soviet Union. You couldn’t be further from the truth. Do some research before spewing lies .

[@radiodj1520]

In This Clip, From 0:00 To 0:10, It Was ABC News' Nightline Video Open From Wednesday Night, April 30, 1986.

[@kernals12]

the citizens weren't told about the meltdown, I'm talking about the government who knew about the effects of radiation

[@potirionlannister295]

3:39 Kavli norwegian crispbread? .. Oh god.. That awkward moment when you know what it means in Greek..

[@raystinepayumo]

same here.........

[@Joe13313]

Poor Children :(

[@JessiPeele]

Yeah, I know.

[@5starryansl]

okay. $19 fortnite card. who wants it

[@Toten-mx4eo]

Only here from STALKER?

[@emiliobello2538]

A nightmare

[@pattoe1973]

but they never test it

[@kernals12]

what are you talking about, the nearby town was evacuated long before there was a meltdown

[@harryroaster4166]

I am here from pubg erangel map

[@JessiPeele]

Not the citizens I assume. I'm a citizen of the United States but I have no experience with our source of power.

[@DragonIsNotASlave]

99 reactors provide about 20% of the power of the USA.

[@JessiPeele]

Well I'm discussing the citizens.

[@Suitedup1111]

Hey, listening to Soviets talk BS is like listening to Trump talk about Covid-19 except he keeps doubling down.

[@candicedgordon7531]

Amen

[@fishingwitheddie1535]

Who else here from chemistry class

[@TippiGordon]

The West's reaction: how can we make a buck by exploiting this cataclysm? I know! Let's drive up the price of food!

[@7071t6]

To think that the next day i would wake up as a Amputee, MY ALIVE DAY ?

[@LUNE.44]

U what

[@shantife]

this is the first time I actually realize what a garbage soviet union really was

[@glennmandigo6069]

Really only just now you realized it?

[@dr.boinkersbookkeeping9028]

Blame the Communist apparatus, not the entire countries population. Millions of innocent people didn't do anything bad. The governments are always to blame.

[@chepushila1]

shantife The West lied here. It’s the Western media that is garbage.

[@PegaSphere]

1:45 lol

[@northsofa5520]

1:45 anybody thought that was pewdiepie for a minute

[@PopcornMax179]

No

[@jotalucalp]

Please put Subititles in english, on video To help those who are learning English,like To clearly understand this Amazing video =)

[@Nairuulagch]

Russian technology at its best!

[@MaxLviv]

+Nairuulagch it was not technology problem, it was problem of stupid experiment of speeding up the cooler system of reactor. Such an indication was received from the major management

[@Nairuulagch]

Well it is actually Russian technology failure and caused Chernobyl and American technology failure caused Fukushima disaster. Of course on site people and management are always stupid and bad for sure but technology somehow fitted to correct human errors.

[@bfaymous]

Yup, tests not safely done.

[@diegomatthews3937]

Nairuulagch It was human error, the technology was perfectly fine. Educate yourself before you say dumb shit on here pls. As for Fukushima, that was caused by the earthquake/tsunami. With your mentality you'd go twice the speed limit in your car and fail to negotiate the bend and hit a tree, and then blame the car.

[@kellyclay3918]

Chernobyl was because the big boss demanded the test be done. Even tho the reactor wasnt up to 700 when it was safe to test. It was only 200. It is people that caused this not the technology.

[@Nmax]

Capitalists making a killing off a Soviet socialist disaster. Lenin would be spinning in his grave 😂😂😂