Chernobyl: 30 Years On

April 26th 2016 marked the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the worst ever civilian nuclear accident. The EBRD was tasked by the international community with managing the financing of work to secure the site, including the construction of the enormous arch which will protect damaged Reactor 4. This is our story.

[@Lex5576]

The liquidators and firemen at Chernobyl were heroes. The firemen that were dispatched there got the worst of it because they were already too close to the reactor for too long before realizing how deadly their situation was. They were on a suicide mission and didn't know until it was too late. Those men were practically cooked from the inside out within hours after leaving the area. They took in massive doses of radiation. Some of the liquidators shoveling debris off the roof mentioned how the soles of their feet felt like they were being stung by bees, or stabbed with hot needles. Uncontained nuclear fuel can do nasty, cruel things to people.

[@Superfandangoo]

Also we can not forget the helecopter pilots that stopped europe being ruined by thermal nuclear explosion. Many died. Many miners died before they were 40yrs old.Sadly too many unsung heroes

[@Baghuul]

You people are delusional, RBMK reactors dont explode!!

[@moec6862]

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[@liamlvp3886]

@@Baghuul I think this time is not a good one to make a joke. Although HBO's Chernobyl mini series is awesome but please respect the heroes!

[@Baghuul]

Lương Phạm Shut the fuck up!

[@divingadventures121]

Every lie incurs a debt to the truth. Someday that debt has to be paid.

[@AbhishekSingh-zp3zv]

Nuclear Power is one of a hell way to boil water - Albert Einstein

[@torar_]

Dont know if its joke but I have seen many people posting this so... He did not said that... its bullshit

[@meh2063]

@@torar_ lol of course i did -albert Einstein

[@torar_]

@@meh2063 Ah I see, sorry Albert. Will you come to tea on Monday?

[@meh2063]

@@torar_ Nein, I'm stressed out, murica wants to make nukes, maybe one day tho... -albert Einstein

[@suzyrottencrotch5132]

Abhishek Singh you’re uneducated. You’ve also slandered Einstein. Good job you fucking idiot

[@rystrck1967]

It’s so nice in this time that you can still see people unite to help out and for good of so many people. So transparent, and humble in their efforts to right something that went so terribly wrong.

[@teslagirl1]

2 people were killed immediately. 29 of that 31 died in hospital days or weeks later. Due to a deliberate labeling of many later deaths of people exposed to radiation from the disaster as ANYTHING other than the truth, real figures are of casualties are impossible to come by. Many people made ill in the months and years that followed were told their illnesses were psychosomatic, particularly linked to their fear of radiation, which was why their symptoms mimicked radiation sickness or radiation induced cancers.

[@RaulDukeKnife]

"Well it's not great, but it's not terrifying."

[@plupkination]

Thats impressive, I didn't realize the arch was basically already completed! 😎 So when will it be slid into place over the reactor? I hope someone has the foresight to set up a time lapse camera for that operation so everyone can enjoy seeing it moved into place! Still a whole lot of work ahead to disassemble the entire reactor and building once the arch is in place with its crane inside.. It will be a huge relief to know the environment and people are finally safe once the building is in place over the reactor though! Awesome job! 😎

[@raymond4955]

Where's button AZ-5?

[@RaulDukeKnife]

THE MAN THE MYTH THE BAKER looks like they removed anything with wiring. AZ-5 was definitely a connector with a lot of wiring harnesses in its line. Likely because wiring and harnesses act like nets for the worst type of dusts. I was looking for it too, there are a lot of buttons covered in wax it looks like.

[@therandomytchannel4318]

Seeing the control room and the same spots where Akimov and Toptunov stood along with stolyarchuck and Kirshenbaum Wow!!

[@mason9644]

On the left most control panel next to the control rod indicators, the button is on the far top to the right its the only button thats near another button

[@peasley9]

Terrible disaster from mismanagement of an immature technology. Despite these setbacks I still think nuclear energy will save the planet one day

[@feanorn8409]

Meanwhile there is still fighting in the Donbass area... But Ukrainians, Russians and all the others are taking on the challenge Chernobyl TOGETHER ! F*ck this divide and impera sh*t, we should life in peace and friendship with our neighbours !

[@freddyguile1356]

50 thousand people used to live here now it's a ghost town

[@HardcoreGaming2001]

same thing it said in COD 4

[@ourparanormalworld]

MY DAD TAUGHT ME ,WHEN I WAS AT SCHOOL AND IS CORRECT TODAY "THAT ANYTHING THAT'S WORTH DOING IS WORTH DOING RIGHT , NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES!"

[@mpj20000]

I never understand all the theatrics. Why all the flickering black and white footage? The event occurred in 1986!

[@Gaudysphinx0622]

Well, the white dots are the radiation particles

[@MPSpecial]

The cameras and films were damaged by the radiations, and colour films were much more sensitive to that

[@suzyrottencrotch5132]

MPJ 20000 lol idiot

[@take7upyours822]

I got a stunner for you...brace yourself....we didn't have publicly suitable cell phones readily available until...dun dun dun...the year 2000!

[@briansmyla8696]

I have to wonder - how many people have become rich as a result of this disaster? Helping out in the name of humanity is one thing. But profiting to excess is quite another. Especially when there were many, many people who knowingly sacrificed their lives in the wake of this tragedy in the name of mitigation. I want to see a documentary produced that chronicles the lives of the key players in the remediation and recovery following this disaster. Those who sacrificed their lives in the heat of the moment are the real heroes, and those who profited should be forced to disgorge their profits to benefit the families of those who were self sacrificing.

[@alexvids9232]

I watched Chernobyl I am Chernobyl nuclear senior engineer

[@LERobbo]

Interesting how the biggest contributor to this unsafe reactor never donated to this cause.

[@bobesponja3375]

memories of Chernobyl were strong and heroes

[@markgarnado1372]

I'm hoping also I can help Ukraine in my own little way..

[@fredblogsmac.5697]

ill never forget the brave rusians that died trying to save otheres may they rest in peace..

[@sergeontheloose]

why only Russians? Many more Ukrainians and Belorussians died as a direct cause of catastrophe.

[@aleksandrak.992]

@@sergeontheloose And other From baltic countries

[@zoejay]

@fred blogs Ukrainians and Belarusians

[@interstate3551]

Stupid question: Since I notice these guys being interviewed not wearing any protective gear from radiation, is it safe to do so now?

[@yankidiot]

+Interstate 35 From what I have seen on this and other videos some places will melt your face off instantly and others are fine to stand unprotected??

[@dr.minecraft2531]

+Interstate 35 They have built a thick wall out of different materials including led to shield the workers working on the new shelter from the radiation coming from reactor number 4. They have also removed about 1 Meter of ground below the whole construction site and filled it with concrete to protect the workers from any radiation from the ground. So it's pretty safe to stand there without protection as you are protected by those safety measurements. But it's not that easy to just make radiation "go away". These things are helping a lot, but the radiation there is still very high. The most important thing is that you arent exosed to it for too long, so that you dont get a dangerous dose of it.

[@dr.minecraft2531]

+Interstate 35 I also have to say that you can't really protect yourself against radiation. You can prevent radioactive particles from entering your body and contaminating it from the inside by wearing a simple mask and take JOD-Pills to prevent your thyroid from taking up radioactive Jod-131 like a sponge. Thats pretty much all you can do. The most important thing is just to limit your time of exposure...

[@interstate3551]

Okay. Thanks for info.

[@hjembrentkent6181]

You could wear a lead suit, that stops much of the gamma dose

[@ibazulic]

Fuel didn't explode. The reactor exploded, yes, but this was due to steam pressure, not due to nuclear excursion. The moment the control rods were inserted, due to faulty design (the tips were covered in graphite), they increased reactivity in the reactor instead of stopping the reaction which created a bunch more steam from a small puddle of water still at the lower plenum of the reactor. The violence of this steam tore the fuel channels and the control channels apart which is why control rods siezed at around 2.5 m in the core instead of at approximately 7.5 m (full core depth). The steam increased the reactivity of the reactor further increasing temperature which in turn increases pressure. It was a runaway condition at that time. Eventually, something had to give and the reactor lid was blown open. The explosion of the reactor actually stopped the nuclear reaction because critical mass was lost. But, superheated graphite immediately ignited when air was introduced and that burning of the graphite moderator melted the reactor and the remaining fuel. It should be noted that nuclear energy is still the most useful and most clean energy we have. Even with Chernobyl and Fukusima (along with 20 or so other civilian accidents in nuclear facilities), nuclear energy is no more dangerous and problematic to the environment than any other. In fact, much more radioactive material is ejected in the atmosphere by burning coal than using uranium. Secondly, in approximately 70 years of using nuclear energy there were two very seiour accidents. Fukushima and chernobyl. The first survived a 9.0 earthquake and a subsequent tsunami (nothing would happen to the reactors had the diesel generators been installed on higher ground) and the 2nd one was fundamentally flawed. In Fukushima, no one died of radiation. No one. In Chernobyl, there have been 33 confirmed deaths directly connected to the reactor. There is no real data with respect to liquidators (there are estimates) and they didn't die in the incident itself, they died later in the cleanup. But even this accident could have been avoided had the workers ran the test according to regulations. In my opinion, there's no real alternative to nuclear energy.

[@rasputin_3737]

Ivan Bažulić I agree a lot with your opinion, after all what nuclear plants throw in the air is steam(maybe with a very small amount of radiation, but ridiculously small amount) and nothing else!

[@rasputin_3737]

And also the accidents eMate what they say, accidents! That’s why people who work at this type of works must be very well trained and be serious in what they do

[@kayleighkeefe898]

well said.

[@matthiasortner963]

Gurl. Now the disposal of radioactive material IS THE PROBLEM.

[@boedude8496]

@@matthiasortner963 what to do with it (where to put it) is not the problem, its getting it there. a-accidents do happen, though not as many as we are led to believe, leading to extreme regulation that can actually cause more problems than it solves. and of course there have been a few corrupt people cutting corners to make more money creating serious problems later. its a simple process but following protocols is critical. get the right people and its as safe as any other energy

[@zyzzali3359]

Proud of my country France helped to do this amazing job to make the danger less ❤

[@agt155]

French government lied about fall-out over France.

[@zyzzali3359]

@@agt155 wut!?

[@agt155]

@@zyzzali3359 The French government deliberately covered up the radioactive fall-out which hit France. No doubt for the benefit of farmers who'd be unable to sell their produce if the truth came out. Many people, mainly children, died because of it. www.expatica.com/fr/news/country-news/France-hid-info-on-effects-of-Chernobyl-cloud_134486.html

[@BennXdesign]

@@agt155 I'll give you this: at the time, politics handled this case very poorly in an attempt to reassure people by deforming some ideas about how a nuclear cloud behave, and it resulted in a PR shitstorm. They are politics, not scientists... This fear mongering in your article is total BS : the half life of hazardous material in a radioactive cloud after a disaster like Chernobyl is just about 2 days (heavy elements with long half lives are NOT airborne), by the time, the cloud was over Scandinavian countries before falling south toward France, with few remaining scattered dust mainly in the upper atmosphere. Plus, it has been proven that the increased risk of thyroid cancer is effective in the days right after exposure, and for Chernobyl, the data shown no increase significantly higher than random noise. Dont trust those activists associations like "sortir du nucleaire" quoted in the article, they are not rationally, but emotionally reacting. Just trust the data (and those data are publicly available, from different sources, not only France), and if you look at the numbers, there is nothing to be afraid of. Love with your heart, use your head for everything else.

[@suzyrottencrotch5132]

François FR thanks for destroying Notre Dame France

[@Armawulf]

~ Comrade journalist, your eyes are glowing ! - ᑕOᗰᖇᗩᗪE ᗪYᗩTᒪOᐯ : 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘𝚟 𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝. 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚕 𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚘𝚗. 𝙸𝚝 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚕 𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗.

[@ourparanormalworld]

MY DAD IS STILL GOING STRONG AT 85 AND MY MUM AT 80. MY DAD WAS A RADAR TECHNICIAN IN USAF, AND INSPECTOR FOR MILITARY BUILDING DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATIONS THAT HE CREATED. HE TAUGHT ME THAT PATIENCE IS REQUIRED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF ANYTHING , NO MATTER WHAT YOU'RE DOING. IF THING'S ARE RUSHED, THEN THAT IS WHEN MISTAKES ARE MADE. WHEN THING'S ARE RUSHED IN THE BUILDING INDUSTRY THAT IS WHEN LIVE'S ARE PLACED IN DANGER.

[@shadowmatrix0101]

What pisses me off is how long they waited after the explosion to finally tell their own people living next to it. The workers and their families didn't even know til well past when the government knew exactly the horrible extent. Hell, Russia even denied it was that bad even when other countries registered so much radiation they thought a nuclear bomb had been detonated. And after all that, Russia told the people it'd only be for three days so they left everything behind. I'd be pissed if my local police told me to evacuate for only three days and then find out oh, by the way, you can never go back to your home and get all your personal stuff. Like, wtf??

[@vanillavilla.]

There was not a bomb reactor no.4 s test failed

[@tylergiordano9231]

Lol he never said it was a bomb

[@Vazcular]

Gotta love communist states.

[@benjaminchartier6458]

The Soviets killed 10 million Ukrainians in the Holomodor, do you think they cared about 31 workers at a nuclear power plant?

[@paranormalshadowssociety7402]

I am sure they were pissed off, but at that point, returning was impossible. The government lied to its people, yes, but they were relocated & had to go on with their lives the best they could. It is overall a very sad situation. I am not on the side of the government, but the truth is that no one had dealt with this catastrophe on this level before. It remains unprecedented to this day. It was a shock to all, government & otherwise.

[@ourparanormalworld]

THERE WERE A LOT OF GOOD PEOPLE THAT DIED IN 1986 FIGHTING TO SAVE THE LIVE'S OF THOSE IN UKRAINE AND AROUND THE WORLD. THEY HAD NO CHOICE, BUT TO RUSH TO REDUCE THE DAMAGE AND DEATH OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE AFFECTED, AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR OWN LIVE'S.

[@danozism]

A great program, but why and how is the theme music from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation program 'Australian Story' used (5:17)?

[@Aeradill]

they probably acquired proper licensing for the use of music, and happens to be familiar to you :)

[@dannysan1949]

Dimitri Khalasov , author of 'The Third Truth" stated Chernobyl was destroyed by a mini nuke because reactors do not blow up , they just melt down. It recorded a seismometer reading.

[@carlosmanriquez8416]

Alguien habla español... o! Espera este video esta en inglés :v

[@thomasroo783]

3.6 roentgens... it's not great, but not terrible !!!!!

[@dustin872]

Well that is equivalent to a simple chest xray

[@kingbo2699]

your delusional go to the infirmary😀.

[@thomasroo783]

I need water in my reactor core....

[@SunriseFestival]

I came here to find this comment

[@kingbo2699]

@@SunriseFestival your delusional go to the infirmary😀.

[@TineFangaming]

How about 40 year later? 2026 If you alive then tell us how does look like

[@patstokes3615]

At 0:20 second it said a power surge is what caused the accident. Well right from the get go that is a huge lie. Why bother to watch this went the opening statement is absolutely untrue. And you;d think you could come up with a better story than that.

[@lefteris85gr]

Nuclear fuel does not explode. It melts. It was the steam produced that caused the explosion

[@herbertsdottir9223]

the first explosion was caused by steam, the second explosion was caused by hydrogen

[@karlament6939]

the music is just as creepy 1:37

[@ChairmanMeow1]

the second blast was so powerful it blew a 120 ton lid off the top of the reactor. thats nuts.

[@Balthorium]

Chairman Meow 1000

[@tristen8089]

Technicly it was the first steam explosion that blew the lid off of the reactor however the second explosion was the one that blew up the core sending radiation everywhere

[@samkun2516]

That was the first I believe...

[@williamwingo4740]

One theory is that the reactor water dissociated into hydrogen and oxygen from the heat, Then these gases collected somewhere in the building and recombined to form water again, with an even larger release of heat, causing the second explosion. It was the same chemical reaction that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger a few months earlier and the German airship Hindenburg nearly fifty years earlier.

[@ChairmanMeow1]

@@Balthorium that would make the lid weigh 2 million pounds, pretty sure thats not right lol

[@TheKeeperMadz]

Chernobyl will never be forgotten

[@Tscaperock]

Am I the only one who has spotted all the contaminated equipment that has been removed from the control room? What do you think they are doing with that highly radioactive equipment?

[@suzyrottencrotch5132]

Tom Hogan maybe get a job or a hobby?

[@RaulDukeKnife]

All that shit was removed decades ago because they were essentially nets/sponges for insanely contaminated dust. Sheets of metal collect little, a 15 meter wiring harness and giant, layered light and indicator array(s) just soaked up and collected crazy dust. Get rid of that shit and pour it in concrete.

[@urnana6000]

they should just lannch the whole infected area into a black hole and explode it

[@peterphil9686]

Wonder what it will look like in 150 years...?

[@billyponsonby]

A the end of this video the shortlist of countries funding the containment project doesn’t include the Russian Federation. This RMBK1000 reactor as will all USSR atomic projects was instigated and managed with oversight from Moscow. Seems therefore the Russian Federation should have paid for this containment.

[@IndraSunrise]

www.ebrd.com/shareholders-and-board-of-governors.html Theyre on the list.

[@ediunicko]

fukushima is much worse

[@jasongoodacre]

3.6 roentgen.Not great not terrible

[@fishfinder_luis]

He's in shock. Get him out of here

[@MauriBrix]

How can know that food like salmon or vegetables or anything don't came from this area?

[@fusiongaming8281]

morris brix look at the packaging

[@FastFordClub]

Almost makes me tear up how dumb and selfish the human race is , we can build these plants and make big money , but we still can't clean these up , just sickening

[@arvedludwig3584]

That's against capitalism you know? Capitalism needs constant grow.

[@hamzachaudary6957]

2:52 my dream place

[@biomanization]

No one talks about this being a plant for weapons grade plutonium and tritium. They make it seem so pacific and neat and tidy. More Soviet Union hiding

[@Maririo93]

Where is AZ5?

[@pokiparkassistent]

CASHS they looted a lot of places inside the exclusion zone. Even a stupid button

[@angelbeats8996]

The messed up part is that two workers who got blamed for the whole thing only followed orders it really the guy who was in charge fault who made them do that stupid test

[@thevirtualchefgamecat7507]

I would love to do the tour around Chernobyl and prypiat 😍

[@jesusarmando2306]

Check bionerd channel and dont go... Its posonous for your cells

[@suzyrottencrotch5132]

It’s safe have a fun trip

[@cameronsmuck-bangchanel2247]

Привет всем кто меня любит и ждёт вас в друзья и знакомые лица от пятен после прыщей и чёрных и белых роз в том же духе времени в обрез охотничьего билета и расписание поездов с

[@adrianog.a.4386]

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[@arturasnesakysiu1684]

well because you cant work long in crane i think radiation is still where, people cant work long you get the point to make the ark, btw ark was finished and putted on top of powerplant after what radiation in zone gone couple times down. Now is job to dismental all plant , but problem is in the main reactor how you will do it? No person can get inside without dying and machines will just shut off from radiation.

[@sweed6487]

Only something purely mechanical or something surrounded by thick lead could do that. Both are hard and expensive to make and design

[@raymond4955]

I'm here from the HBO series XD

[@12AB17]

I'm not

[@NCJsport]

Is it known approximately how long the sarcophagus is expected to last?

[@anodezinc9667]

It was given a 30 year life expectancy that is the firs concrete sarcophagus one that I mean don't no about the stainless steel one

[@katyb6979]

Anode Zinc They reckon the new one will last 100 years.

[@suzyrottencrotch5132]

Kathryn Bell 23000 years to go

[@Pendragon1989]

So what happened to Reactor 4 and the area it was housed in? Has it ever been filmed since? I'm sure the explosion devastated it. But have cameras been inside there?

[@RaulDukeKnife]

Pendragon1989 covered with tons of stuff. It's still incredibly radioactive, tens of thousands of pounds of plutonium and uranium just chillin

[@marizethzkr]

So, we will have a new "sarcophagum"?

[@RaulDukeKnife]

Marizethzkr Delegada RADARAR in a decade or so plans will begin begin to start a framework to cover the new cover. It's only going to last for 100 years, they'll probably start working on it In about 70 years. It'll have to be triple the size of the 2016 sarcophagus

[@retrocny5625]

That clip someone took inside the bus at 3:29 -- those white flashes you see on the camera footage is very likely to be the effects of ionizing radiation striking the camera(it's inner electronic components). God that's so eerie. This was only 30 or so hours after the explosion so the levels of radiation in and around the city of pripyat would've been dangerously high, hence the evacuation finally being ordered once the party officials finally had enough sense to evacuate their own people once they got word people were staying indoors in GERMANY due to the incident and the detection of unusually high levels of background radiation. They portray this revelation in the HBO series that just recently aired too. So many of those poor citizens of pripyat hadn't the slightest idea what was going on. They thought it was merely a fire at the power plant and that it was being taken care of. They believed that the STATE would tell them if they were in any real danger. Russia still won't even admit to this day that the May Day parade in Kiev several days after the accident, even happened. Such a shame. Though I'm glad HBO decided to do a docu-drama on the events. They didn't play any political games. They didn't pull any punches. They just let the facts of the story carry the show and as far as I know, they didn't take all that many liberties with it at all. Lots of people have heard of Chernobyl but don't know all the details, the lives that were lost, the men that sacrificed their lives and their future health in order to spare Europe and the former Soviet Union from even further damage. What a tragedy. A completely preventable tragedy caused by an insatiable desire for secrecy, and ignorant men in positions of power.

[@suzyrottencrotch5132]

Let’s get you a job or a hobby so you don’t have to write a book to yourself in a KZbin comment section 😂

[@RaulDukeKnife]

In the end, the USSR literally fell because of Chernobyl. So they paid at least a bit for their bullshit

[@mladenenglang]

Дожили. Арку сами постоить не можем.

[@BST-ri6gf]

Looks like something out of the titanic

[@PUMBA_007]

несмотря на огромные средства, выделенные многими странами на постройку нового саркофага, он до сиг пор не построен. И не известно когда он будет построен, часть финансов оседает в карманах чиновников. саркофаг обеспечит только внешнюю защиту. Радиация проложит попадать в почву, отравляя грунтовые воды.

[@mattp.7002]

Ground water contamination is an inevitable outcome at sometime in the future. The sarcophagus is only partial solution. The liquidators tunneled under the reactor in the 1980's and cement was pumped into the chamber, but how long will that last? The current sarcophagus has leaked water from weather and rain into reactor 4, where has this run off water gone for the last 30 years? Whenever big money is concerned, corruption will always follow. This is the same in all the world.

[@hanlanz1]

The accident killed only 1 person, the last 30 died days after accident because of radiation.

[@SantiagoJRodriguez1]

The people who died days after the accident died because of the accident anyway so in essence the accident killed them and your observation is crap. And if you really believe in the official death toll provided by the soviet union you are more stupid than you look.

[@hanlanz1]

@@SantiagoJRodriguez1 Į said that explosion killed only 1 person, thousands of liquidators died not from explosion, but from radiation itself. That's what I am saying. Soviet Union official death count is a lie. I am not prosoviet or one of Kremlins mind fuckers by propoganda. The people in Chernobyl paid their lives to save milions. I am not speaking toxic like you do, and if you are still blaming people how they look, you are even dumper than I am.

[@donfarlan214]

Coocklear power for all see when your mind makes things that kill it comes back to bite you

[@garrettsmith553]

Wtf did you just say

[@david-gj8cc]

Garrett Smith he‘s speaking the language of the gods

[@zuzukasubka3526]

R.I.P Чорнобиль

[@justthist7599]

I hope it’s okay now

[@heddabanks9829]

It is not. The nuclear fuel is still eating its way downwards under the reactor.

[@theivory1]

500K liquidators? I thought it was 60K?

[@herbertsdottir9223]

over 500k

[@suzyrottencrotch5132]

You’re both full of shit.

[@williamwingo4740]

Also known as "sponges." They absorbed a lifetime dose of radiation--more in some cases--in a few hours or even just a few minutes.

[@avoidingtrees6692]

Is Russia paying for its mess 🤔🤔🤔🤔???????

[@paratos9051]

Why Russia? The Sowjet Union doesn't exist anymore. And Fukushima isn't in Russia

[@mrselena5093]

and this is not Fukusima, and this is not Russia, this is Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine

[@avoidingtrees6692]

Mrs Elena Hi Elena. I believe the Russians during the ussr installed that technology there, and should be accountable for the cleaning, not us the Europeans. The day France has to deal with such a catastrophic event ( it could happen in France as well unfortunately...!) the French will not ask Russia to pay and clean our mess.

[@nathanjack9359]

AVOIDING TREES The new cover they have just completed for reactor 4 was funded by the IEC. Basically every economic powerhouse of a country helped. Bar Russia. I think that is rediculous!

[@vanillavilla.]

Paratos the Soviet Union exist comrade

[@killshot24x73]

3.6 rodgens, Not good but not terrible.

[@ikaritalent11]

big waste of money, the area has already been abandoned, if you leave it alone nature will heal the environment

[@gamercoolcraft4208]

ikaritalent11 no because some of the radiation still come from that place and needs to cover it up but leaving it after it’s been done might help alot they just need to cut out the contaminated leaves and trees and might need to destroy buildings but ok

[@georgemcgillicuddy3498]

Is that WHY the Wildlife has already RETURNED ?

[@dukeofmecklenburg-strelitz8030]

@@georgemcgillicuddy3498 If the structure decays to far, it will let the waste out...The reason the animals CAN come back is because that decaying cap is keeping the waste from coming into the environment(for the most part)...That shit collapses,and that 100 tons of waste is let out and it could irradiate large areas of eastern Europe after a good gust of wind...Enough Radioactive material is capped in there to be equivalent to what would be released by a full on Nuclear war

[@georgemcgillicuddy3498]

And , you know this from your many years in the Nuclear Industry , RIGHT ? Want to take a guess at how long it would take for that much Concrete to " decay " ?

[@Weedmate420]

The original sarcophagus was build like a piece of shit. They built it fast and RIGHT BY the object. this is not a fuckin game. with something that dangerous you GOT to think about the worst case scenario...

[@aadityasharma6855]

I proud that india helped in such disaster 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@liongaming8174]

How

[@jeep146]

Cool project, sometime in the future they will figure out how to make the reactor fuel safe. Maybe not in my lifetime but one day someone will. We make not have the technology but one day they will. My question is did those people who left ever get compensated for what they lost?

[@suzyrottencrotch5132]

Jeep Cherokee this is the dumbest thing ever said

[@smile4me-q4e]

I was in the toilet ! XD

[@javierba8826]

Why does Europe have to pay for Russia's mistakes.

[@krassimirbardarov3824]

looks u are idiot! just europe said they pay no money goes there and what about other nuclear issues? like fokusima???? but noooooo no one speak about fokusima coze it is american company build, ha? and some as u are so stupid to believe to what america say

[@dawndoherty1]

Javier B A ussr not Russia

[@shiroo997]

It's soviet union's, not Russia's fault and it affects Europe as a continent

[@BennXdesign]

Why our childrens' childrens will have to pay for our mistakes (global warming)?

[@captlarry-3525]

Because Putin Is A TwatWaffle.. Javier... Putin Is A Nazi Dick Sucker.

[@gangusharm3015]

I heard somebody tripped over while taking a selfie ?

[@SDCustoms]

Everyone is against Nuclear power because of this, Fukishima, and three mile island, but Nuclear energy is the way to go. Nuclear, wind, solar, hydroelectric, and some forms of biomass I believe is the only way to a bright future. I can guarantee you there has been tens of thousands more casualties as result of fossil fuel energy (mining coal/oil, operating plants, ect...) than Nuclear! Nuclear energy is only dangerous when ignorance is involved, the operators of Chernobyl and the builders of Fukishima should have known better than to make the mistakes they made. I'm by no means saying anything bad about the people that lost their lives at their job, they have my full respect and I know they didn't mean any harm, but when they put the operation above safety, accidents are made.

[@SDCustoms]

Joey James That's the worst part about it, but there are solutions yet to be put into operation... just takes a little bit (or a lot) of thinking and we will have a solution soon I'm sure... some kind of use for it or something.

[@ghostman9028]

SD Customs lets hope so,before we reach maximum entropy.

[@Stacie45]

Fusion is the way to go. But commercially viable nuclear fusion is 20 years away...and commercially viable nuclear fusion will ALWAYS be 20 years away.

[@SDCustoms]

+Stacie45 True... true... thats why we need more supporters of the idea and more brains on the operation!

[@Stacie45]

SD Customs I have a friend (former co-worker) who works at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Labs. He is a smart guy, I am cheering for them! But when you read about something like the top engineers at NASA planning to develop a future heavy-lift rocket booster for a future mission to Mars by taking an old surplus Saturn V motor left over from the Apollo program out of a crate, disassembling it and reverse-engineering it, you begin to lose hope. If you told NASA engineers from 50 years ago that in 2016 the best and brightest at NASA would be trying to figure out how to design a rocket engine for a Mars mission by reverse-engineering one of their 50-year old surplus engines, I believe they would be shocked...and not in a good way.

[@sspacky6750]

song 7:05 ?

[@ritchkeyd265]

god bless all of you

[@vimlendushekharduttpandey5210]

If 55 reactors in america explode we all gonna dye

[@vanillavilla.]

It depends were in America but ur probably half way right

[@herbertsdottir9223]

But they don't explode, they melt

[@gailmione8381]

5

[@katnnumber1fan]

Destroy the buildings /reactor and make a memorial for the lives lost.

[@SantiagoJRodriguez1]

Are you stupid? If they destroy the building and the remains of the reactor you would need another memorial for those people too

[@MarkAustinThompson9090]

Ita rebuils?

[@marcellino1956]

I always knew Russia wasn't smart enough to clean up their own mess

[@Laurz23x]

its being put over it in 2017 this is a huge icomplishment i just want to say well done finally after 30 long years well can hopefully end this

[@mattp.7002]

Unfortunately this is not the end. The new shelter is impressive in design and scale, but it has a life span and will need to be maintained. This will probably protect the world through my lifetime and yours, unless there's an unforeseen disaster natural or man made. We as the human race don't seem to learn our lessons very well. Each new generation, as generations of the past as well, are arrogant and think that they know better than generations that have gone before. In the 1970's Three Mile Island was an advanced state of the art facility by western standards that was considered very safe. Chernobyl was a state of the art facility by Soviet standards and was also considered very safe. I remember when the events of Fukushima unfolded that the nuclear expert being interviewed on the news said that the reactor design used there was very safe and that he was confident of a good outcome. Then the explosions from the build up of hydrogen gas happened as several reactors all melted down. Now everybody has 20/20 hindsight as far as all the flaws of design. Are we so arrogant as to assume that we know so much better now? What unforeseen conditions will we miss with our newer, safer designs? Will we render another region uninhabitable to learn what those unforeseen hazards and flaws are? I noticed the mention of nuclear waste in some previous comments, there's another issue. What do we do with the waste? Burry it for future generations to deal with? That's essentially what we're doing now. Fossil fuels are a problem and wind and solar only go so far. What's the answer? I don't think the answer is nuclear power. Other forms of fission that look promising are being worked on, but at this point I'm skeptical. All we can do now is the best we can to find better solutions to our energy hungry world.

[@halofreak1990]

+Matt P. If all things go well, the New Safe Confinement won't have to last the 100 years it was designed to last. Plans are for the entire plant to be completely decommissioned by 2065. I assume that includes the wreckage of reactor #4, as I wouldn't consider it fully decommissioned until _all_ reactors have been dismantled.

[@turbo5124]

Yeah but the POOR ENERGY COMPANIES WOULDNT MAKE HARDLY ANY MONEY,POOR,POOR ENERGY COMPANIES AND THERE CEO S

[@vanillavilla.]

That company was rich

[@redacted6538]

omg

[@1818anubis]

Is it not melting through the ground anymore?

[@herbertsdottir9223]

no, it's cold

[@farmbear1231]

Fukushima is #1 now

[@herbertsdottir9223]

no

[@joystick396]

some of those guys were standing next to the exploded reactor with no protective clothing, now their children will die of leukemia

[@Tara........]

Fukushima may be even worse.

[@marcywolters6402]

mmmmm 5 years into fukishima. so much more out put than chernobly. To even think on that scale you would be guessing. Not only did the world not learn from chernobly, it built Fukishima by the sea. our world is changed by people who have become so stupid to think nuclear energy is the way. Still right now there is someone working at or getting to build yet another nuclear power plant. So we as a people just sit by and let it happen cause we need the energy. I for one have to admit this.

[@Pablosammy1]

"Not only did the world not learn from chernobly, it built Fukishima by the sea" You do know Fukushima was built 15 years before Chernobyl?