What really happened at Chernobyl? 1986 "Nightline" report on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster and radiation scare. #Chernobyl #NuclearDisaster #Radiation #ABCNews
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@JessiPeele12 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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.
@makedredd2994 жыл бұрын
Calm down comrades it was only 3.6 Roentgen. I'm told it's the equivalent of one chest X-ray.
@tommyt19713 жыл бұрын
Not great but not horrible...
@alexandercummins3 жыл бұрын
@@tommyt1971 "not great not terrible"
@aluminium57383 жыл бұрын
"Well, its not great but its not horrifying"
@justindailey74882 жыл бұрын
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
@kbtechandmedia2 жыл бұрын
More like one billion trillion million gazillion chest x-rays!
@AshleyPomeroy9 жыл бұрын
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.
@bfaymous8 жыл бұрын
Scary huh!? This could have easily whiled out most of Europe! Russia tried to keep it under wraps. It's STILL not safe!
@ryanolsen294 Жыл бұрын
@@bfaymoustrue, you can visit there now, but not be there for more more than a few days
@gameking880911 ай бұрын
"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.
@brothermaleuspraetor950511 жыл бұрын
2:45 Geiger counter says: ''Get me the fuuuuu away from this puddllllleeeeeeee!
@suomik198811 жыл бұрын
That little kid did NOT want that iodine haha.
@saigokun9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this. What the anchorman says at the start of the video still holds true today.
@sharilynn30245 жыл бұрын
Anyone here whilst watching HBO's Chernobyl?🙋♀️
@angelaii4695 жыл бұрын
Shari Lynn 🖐🖐
@ImPhoRealz5 жыл бұрын
You already know
@igorljubas59314 жыл бұрын
HBO's Chernobyl is sucks this is not real thing.
@cherellejohnson60014 жыл бұрын
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!!
@aluminium57382 жыл бұрын
@@cherellejohnson6001 'tips' lol.
@MisterRON11 жыл бұрын
Wow, news kicked ass back then.
@johnolson74304 ай бұрын
That was when America was the badass . Now our men wear dresses
@crunkaintdead77023 ай бұрын
@@johnolson7430womp womp
@lmaoyourekiddingme23 күн бұрын
I was a teenager then. This was our news all the time.
@kh40yr Жыл бұрын
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.
@robscafidi407010 ай бұрын
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.
@sylviafullerton18954 ай бұрын
They move reactors to where they want the power I'm pretty sure. The last one was s cal to w Nevada .
@lmaoyourekiddingme23 күн бұрын
You know they still hunt and ranch all around the boundary of the old Nevada Test Site? People eat that meat ALL the time.
@kh40yr23 күн бұрын
@lmaoyourekiddingme in my State, We have supermarket corn , potatoes , carrots, white onions, Apples, and livestock farms, less than 5 miles from Hanford Reservation.
@lmaoyourekiddingme23 күн бұрын
@@kh40yr The feds admit no wrongdoing, plus they want to study.
@lamar7bn3 жыл бұрын
Why we don't hear this lovely accent anymore?
@jukihiw3 жыл бұрын
Because it doesn’t represent the average American. And the culture will always shift to representing the average culture
@cm92413 ай бұрын
Newscasters use affected accents, which change even faster than natural ones, which also change.
@kbtechandmedia2 жыл бұрын
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.
@crazyeye13 жыл бұрын
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
@woodstocknun3 жыл бұрын
upper class british woman during thatcher who has a daughter studying in soviet union... how rare must that be?
@twiff3rino282 жыл бұрын
Never let a good crisis go to waste 😤
@mkl6211 жыл бұрын
April 30, 1986.
@qorxmazveyselov51633 жыл бұрын
1:59 3.6 roentgens. "Not good and not terrible."
@lmaoyourekiddingme23 күн бұрын
Those poor children. They don't know it's for their safety.
@kernals1211 жыл бұрын
they did know the effects, the Soviets had plenty of experience with nuclear physics
@cherellejohnson60014 жыл бұрын
Will Poundstone exactly
@dijoxx4 жыл бұрын
The political leaders didn't though.
@fisterhr3 жыл бұрын
So the Vremya newscasters didn't have guns pointed to their heads after all.
@cybergothika69062 жыл бұрын
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"
@stefaan1011199212 жыл бұрын
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
@JRRLewis6 жыл бұрын
Absolute nonsense.
@tommyt19713 жыл бұрын
Three Mile Island.
@notofthisworld52672 жыл бұрын
The American government is one of the most corrupt, as we now know today
@stephenjenkins7971 Жыл бұрын
@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.
@suomik198811 жыл бұрын
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.
@blazertracer13 жыл бұрын
3.6 roentgen not great, not terrible
@diegomatthews39376 жыл бұрын
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.443 жыл бұрын
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
@polskiobywatel5534 жыл бұрын
US : USSR is lying! USSR: no u
@panduwidagdo70516 жыл бұрын
5:54 very British lady.
@marcusmiksdeavila50614 жыл бұрын
I thought the same. Genuine.
@JessiPeele11 жыл бұрын
I wonder what they would have done if they knew the effects it caused.
@CYCO1631 Жыл бұрын
Not built the RBMK... but, this was the Soviet Union after all. "It's cheaper." ~V. Legasov
@dr.boinkersbookkeeping90285 жыл бұрын
"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.
@Domey41112 жыл бұрын
Ok a the worst nuclear disaster in history just happened and your first thought is getting money from them? REALLY!?!?
@cherellejohnson60014 жыл бұрын
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
@Inkymon112 жыл бұрын
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.
@whiteheart74712 жыл бұрын
got to love the american news's really crappy map of eurpoe (especially the UK) 2:13
@dimarcodrahgi58663 жыл бұрын
Yes but why did their flash lights turn off ep2
@steveweiss355210 жыл бұрын
You used to have to tune into Western news to hear the truth. Now, it's the other way around.
@metalgearsolidsnake69786 жыл бұрын
"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...
@YzaesDuo5 жыл бұрын
ye you cant trust western countries, im from finland.
@whiteheart74712 жыл бұрын
umm actually i dont know :/ i must have been really high at the time >.
@metalred7411 жыл бұрын
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!
@netvideotv53475 жыл бұрын
It wasn't the 1930's they wouldn't have been shot
@ronanrogers41275 жыл бұрын
What an utterly uneducated and ill informed comment. This was the Soviet Union under Gorbachev, not Stalin.
@tobiast4715 жыл бұрын
The liquidators where volunteers wtf you are talking about?
@michaelhunziker7287 Жыл бұрын
@@tobiast471 Volunteered at gun point
@elinka2024 Жыл бұрын
How ignorant!!!!! 😮 I’m a kid from the Soviet Union. You couldn’t be further from the truth. Do some research before spewing lies .
@radiodj152013 жыл бұрын
In This Clip, From 0:00 To 0:10, It Was ABC News' Nightline Video Open From Wednesday Night, April 30, 1986.
@kernals1211 жыл бұрын
the citizens weren't told about the meltdown, I'm talking about the government who knew about the effects of radiation
@potirionlannister29511 жыл бұрын
3:39 Kavli norwegian crispbread? .. Oh god.. That awkward moment when you know what it means in Greek..
@raystinepayumo12 жыл бұрын
same here.........
@Joe133133 жыл бұрын
Poor Children :(
@JessiPeele11 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I know.
@5starryansl3 жыл бұрын
okay. $19 fortnite card. who wants it
@Toten-mx4eo5 жыл бұрын
Only here from STALKER?
@emiliobello2538 Жыл бұрын
A nightmare
@pattoe197311 жыл бұрын
but they never test it
@kernals1211 жыл бұрын
what are you talking about, the nearby town was evacuated long before there was a meltdown
@harryroaster41665 жыл бұрын
I am here from pubg erangel map
@JessiPeele11 жыл бұрын
Not the citizens I assume. I'm a citizen of the United States but I have no experience with our source of power.
@DragonIsNotASlave2 жыл бұрын
99 reactors provide about 20% of the power of the USA.
@JessiPeele11 жыл бұрын
Well I'm discussing the citizens.
@Suitedup11114 жыл бұрын
Hey, listening to Soviets talk BS is like listening to Trump talk about Covid-19 except he keeps doubling down.
@candicedgordon7531 Жыл бұрын
Amen
@fishingwitheddie15354 жыл бұрын
Who else here from chemistry class
@TippiGordon4 ай бұрын
The West's reaction: how can we make a buck by exploiting this cataclysm? I know! Let's drive up the price of food!
@7071t610 жыл бұрын
To think that the next day i would wake up as a Amputee, MY ALIVE DAY ?
@LUNE.443 жыл бұрын
U what
@shantife11 жыл бұрын
this is the first time I actually realize what a garbage soviet union really was
@glennmandigo60695 жыл бұрын
Really only just now you realized it?
@dr.boinkersbookkeeping90285 жыл бұрын
Blame the Communist apparatus, not the entire countries population. Millions of innocent people didn't do anything bad. The governments are always to blame.
@chepushila14 жыл бұрын
shantife The West lied here. It’s the Western media that is garbage.
@PegaSphere11 жыл бұрын
1:45 lol
@northsofa55204 жыл бұрын
1:45 anybody thought that was pewdiepie for a minute
@PopcornMax1794 жыл бұрын
No
@jotalucalp12 жыл бұрын
Please put Subititles in english, on video To help those who are learning English,like To clearly understand this Amazing video =)
@Nairuulagch8 жыл бұрын
Russian technology at its best!
@MaxLviv8 жыл бұрын
+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
@Nairuulagch8 жыл бұрын
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.
@bfaymous8 жыл бұрын
Yup, tests not safely done.
@diegomatthews39376 жыл бұрын
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.
@kellyclay39185 жыл бұрын
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.
@Nmax5 ай бұрын
Capitalists making a killing off a Soviet socialist disaster. Lenin would be spinning in his grave 😂😂😂