How Fukushima Disaster ACTUALLY Happened

Fukushima was a major disaster and that still haunts the area contaminated by radiation. But how did the disaster start? In today's video we are breaking down the Fukushima disaster minute by minute in this animated video. Was it any similar to Chernobyl?
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[@TheInfographicsShow]

After watching Chernobyl all steps that led to disaster make a lot more sense now... Anyone else thinks so?

[@billingzzz]

I KNOW YALL GONNA SEE THIS. EVERYONE SUBSCRIBE HAHA, just kidding. I agree with the statement above :) I’m just chillin

[@the1cheez]

you are late for your own video?

[@iamspycat9758]

I do think and imagined and said bruh

[@zerstorer9936]

Love u

[@randomchannel8523]

Hi

[@Akren905]

The older employees should be considered heros. I believe nuclear plant workers who saved or slowed a devistating reaction should be international recognized as heros.

[@Pyracantic]

gordon gillard yeeeeeee

[@chinesepoohsheesh8200]

Yeah your right

[@jamesecho3574]

gordon gillard History often doesn’t care and over exaggerate things that are already considered as equally important as things that were important but not popular today.

[@ytho8838]

gordon gillard especially because those men certainly knew how grim of a death they’d have. There’s hardly any worse way

[@generalnawaki]

@@ytho8838 actually. it can take decades for death from radiation. those people could have died natural deaths before they even really got sick.

[@generalnawaki]

seriously though. the older relieving the younger and the older people who went in to do cleanup are a credit to our entire race. that is the stuff of heroes!

[@majorragersp2314]

The Japanese are all family so the older generation will always relieved

[@sce2aux464]

Amen!

[@alexandrusalar4531]

Credit to the Japanese people-but not the human species. Very few peoples are so honorable.

[@arthasmenethil5752]

In Soviet Russia a youngers cleanup it!

[@cionib17]

but thay were boomers

[@arctrooperecho9616]

It’s sad how the older workers sacrificed themselves so the younger ones could survive. That shouldn’t ever be necessary but it is

[@NeilsonBuntowa]

Japan has very few young citizen that they risk future race extension

[@phamnuwen9442]

Eh.. Fukushima killed nobody. They're all alive.

[@arctrooperecho9616]

Pham Nuwen 573 people died at Fukushima

[@phamnuwen9442]

@@arctrooperecho9616 lol no. Zero people died in the Fukushima disaster.

[@FutureMartian97]

Pham Nuwen Actually one died from radiation and 2200 died being evacuated

[@XionGaming2912]

The older workers are the real MVPs saving all the younger ones with lives to live. A massive respect to everyone that did that.

[@MrLorenzoVids]

So much different than in US. Older people be like Eff that, I'm enjoying my retirement after working all these years!

[@foxymetroid]

They likely believed they'd likely survive the initial ordeal and that the real danger was the risk of developing cancer years later. For an older person, the risk of getting cancer 25 years later isn't that big of a deal. They've lived their lives and might not even live long enough to develop cancer from the ordeal. For a younger person who's still decades away from the country's life expectancy, it's a huge deal. Unfortunately for much of the West, the mindset is that the younger generations are more expendable. Part of the difference might be down to demographics. The US has a huge young population. I'm not sure about Generation Z, but Millennials passed Baby Boomers as the largest generation. Compare that to Japan, whose lower birth rate resulted in a larger proportion of their population being the older generations. Younger people in Japan might be seen as more "valuable" than younger people in the West because the younger people are needed to replace older workers who either retire or die. It's also one of the reason Japan loves robots. As the elderly population grows and the younger population shrinks, they'll need all the help they can get to keep their country running.

[@angelofthedead5589]

Wow... when the older workers stepped in for the younger workers, clearly accepting their fate. Oof... chills

[@TheFinalFlesh]

Only one person died bro

[@bettor411]

japanese government hired foreign workers to clean up without proper protections. Abe and his far rights (WW2 criminals) are still lying to these days. Japanese just don't care for human lives. Check out Kamikaze and Gaiten... suicidal.

[@gabrielmartinelli7698]

Zizihazazi He’s a conspiracy theorist.

[@Trucmuch]

What fate??? They are fine.

[@judgemental9253]

If you look at it objectively, they likely would not be alive to experience the long term effects of radiation, and also are past the age of reproducing, eliminating birth defects in the next generation.

[@simontigerhajen]

Maybe, just maybe we shouldn’t build nuclear power-plants in the most earthquake-prone area in the entire world

[@elgato9o]

but they need energy

[@KaedysKor]

We can also benefit from using passively-safe nuclear tech like molten salt reactors. A traditional reactor requires active cooling, without which it melts down. With a molten salt reactor, the fuel and the coolant are part of the same fluid. If the circulation system fails, the reaction simply stops, and temperatures naturally fall rather than naturally rising. They can also be used to breed their own fuel, meaning they do not need enriched uranium to function, and can in fact even function off of thorium, which is substantially more common than uranium, but is unsuitable for solid-fuel reactors. In addition, they can be used to process their own waste, turning some of it back into usable nuclear fuel and the remainder into products with orders of magnitude shorter half-lives than traditional nuclear waste (a few hundred years of containment needed, compared to multiple tens of thousands for normal nuclear waste).

[@elgato9o]

@@KaedysKor interesting, how come we don't use salt reactors more then?

[@FutureMartian97]

Great Gamer Or they could not build them on the coast.

[@GoldRaven-oe4by]

Agreed

[@kimiantumblod7654]

Sacrificing yourself so the young may survive. Just imagine the courage behind that decision.

[@bettor411]

japanese government hired foreign workers to clean up without proper protections. Abe and his far rights (WW2 criminals) are still lying to these days. Japanese just don't care for human lives. Check out Kamikaze and Gaiten... suicidal.

[@funnyusername8635]

@@bettor411 The Japanese government enacted a law that allowed for more foreign workers to be hired, and for longer periods of time, because of chronic labor shortages across a number of industries. Tepco is taking advantage of that law as most of the people in Japan skilled enough to do the work have reached their maximum radiation exposure allowed by Japanese law. It has absolutely nothing to do with Japanese cultural attitudes toward suicide, or the value of a human life.

[@Trucmuch]

A lot of misconception here. It's not that the older workers sacrificed themselves so the younger ones could survive. It's the fact that mid-level radiation may cause cancer 20 or 30 years later. If a worker has to be at risk of developing cancer in 25 years it makes a lot of sense to send someone in their fifties or even sixties that someone in their twenties. Don't get me wrong it was a very noble move nonetheless. But it was not an I-die-so-you-can-live kind of thing.

[@lullaby7287]

@@bettor411 how come you can say Japanese doesn't care about humans life? What makes you can judge entire Japanese doesn't care about humans life?

[@RResidentAlienNN]

@lullaby I think he is referring to ww2 imperial japan. He wouldn't be wrong. Fukushima was an accident. A preventable one but an accident. I think its due to lacking safety features and protocols as well as marine protections for animals. The disregard for regular working people. Its okay. Same thing happens here.

[@marcello7781]

When you've already seen a documentary about the Fukushima incident but you watch the video anyway because The Infographics Shows it's a cool channel.

[@Karlos1234ify]

Same

[@Raysuaza]

Yea pretty much.

[@fernandosotelo964]

*everyone liked that*

[@killian9314]

This channel is famous for being wrong tho

[@TheInfographicsShow]

Thanks! 🙏

[@damnboi972]

*In Fukushima everyone being responsible in the hard times* Meanwhile in Chernobyl:- "how can I be responsible? I was sleeping. I was in the toilet"

[@wackyworkbench]

The video said it was reported that the reactor was poorly maintained. Maybe if the people accountable were more responsible in the first place, this wouldn’t have been such a tragedy.

[@ttop2385]

This comment is not great, not terrible

[@ChernobylreactorAM]

@@ttop2385 -dyatlov

[@Алексправославныйраспев]

bro dont u get it he was a power plant manager that had no sleep

[@zephyr8072]

Expecting Russians to be responsible is like expecting a gorilla not to beat his cheat.

[@SoulOfJustice1994]

To the older workers at Fukushima, who are still alive, you are among the bravest I have ever heard of and I salute you all. You helped avert a disaster that could have made an entire island of Japan uninhabitable.

[@sachinmathpathi554]

Just completed watching "Chernobyl"-HBO and this comes up HOW CONVENIENT!!!

[@cats400]

Sachin mathpathi I need to rewatch lol

[@lemagicien2453]

Spoiler: the reactor blows up :O *shocked pikachu face*

[@cats400]

Le Magicien I said rewatch. I watched it when it came out.

[@lemagicien2453]

@@cats400 I wasn't talking to you. I was talking generally

[@tykuresa22]

Le Magicien “the reactor blows up” You’re delusional

[@lonestarmelting9728]

I was stationed in the Tokyo region for only 2 weeks when this happened. My team moved the new cooling units to Fukushima but they were never used due to the explosions. We also conducted radiation reconnaissance with the Dept of Energy over several months from Tokyo to Fukushima and assisted the JSDF with initial rescue and cleanup after the tsunami hit Sendai. An interesting thing I remember is you could see where the tsunami stopped. You could see a solid yellow and green line of dead and living grass, large boats all over the land and I distinctly remember only 3 buildings out of thousands of homes standing.

[@apollogonyt610]

real?

[@lonestarmelting9728]

@@apollogonyt610 if you're asking if I'm for real, then yes.

[@apollogonyt610]

Nevermind. dont mind the "you made mh day" comment, already deleted it lol

[@KS-wy6ky]

Sorry for prying, but how was the new cooling unit functionally different and did Tsunami did nearly as much damage?

[@lonestarmelting9728]

@@KS-wy6ky the old units were damaged beyond repair, so they thought hooking up new ones would save the plant. However, they didnt realize how bad of shape they were until the first one exploded. I'm not sure what the second part of your question was, but the wave killed an estimated 25,000 people and broke the seawall. I remember watching live news and the tsunami was chasing a car down the road. We were yelling at the tv for the driver to drive faster but Idk if the driver didnt see the wave behind him or the tsunami was just moving so fast that it didnt matter.

[@blazethekat2458]

The old workers are the real heroes 😢👨‍🔬👩‍🔬

[@dingdongmyopinioniswrong7046]

Yeah. They are the true heroes. Not some muscular guy with cool superpowers who destroys an entire city to stop one bad guy.

[@R3TR0J4N]

They're heroes 100%. it's horrible workers were the one risking it and fixing the issue, when it's not their fault but the companies incompetence regards the warning of these incident happening

[@prismstudios001]

I’ve never seen atoms with more personality.

[@amazingsupergirl7125]

Yeah the hydrogens looked awful angry! 7:07

[@cantthinkofaname9285]

Those older employees and employers that stuck around helping prevent a bigger disaster are truly amazing. I do agree with another comment I saw here on not building nuclear power plants in earthquake prone areas.

[@7MonarC]

I never knew about the elder employees asking the younger ones to leave, it may seem like the logical choice since they have lived most of their lives but still, that was undeniably quite a remarkable act

[@iamjulian2810]

“Japan after any war”: *ight imma head out*

[@greetzer]

bruh

[@alexhehaw7247]

I don’t get it

[@darkwayfilms5462]

@@greetzer bruh

[@societydisliker2333]

@@darkwayfilms5462 bruh

[@darkwayfilms5462]

@@societydisliker2333 says "bruh to a person for no rational explanation

[@GraemeSPa]

"backup diesel generators" . I visited a nuclear installation in UK and they had one reactor secured for the public viewing - one machine was running - it was marked "Emergency Feed Pump "and I asked about it. I was told that the heat generated by the shut down core will generate enough steam to drive this pump and circulate the core, thus letting it cool itself. "and if you lost power to the control systems?" I asked - " we won't, but if we do, they can be manually controlled" - I was told. I am a marine engineer and have qualifications and experience on steam turbine and large diesel ship propulsion plants up to 45,000 SHP so I knew what he was talking about. When Fukushima started to go wrong, as soon as the information that 'backup diesel generators' had failed and the cooling pumps had stopped I knew that Modern Design Engineers had lost sight of just how useful old fashioned steam driven pumps can be.

[@nathanarievlis3985]

Seriously. Prob one of the best contributions to a comment section I've ever read lol. Thx for sharing, cool story.

[@onehitkill5816]

Jesus this happened over a period of time and its impressive how hard they tried to prevent a full on nuclear disaster.

[@asurmenhandofasuryan4610]

And in a way they succeeded

[@onehitkill5816]

they succeeded temporarily but eventually reactor 2 went into full blown meltdown which is BAD even through you'd expect reactor one and three 's explosions to be worse in a way because the explosions could send small amounts of highly radioactive metal flying in all directions but meltdowns are worse because the reaction inside gets out of control and sometimes can lead to the metal pooling and melting the bottom of reaction chambers and spilling out in whats known as a "elephants foot" but in reality these wierd things are terrifying because they aren't flesh. bone. and skin in any way these are radioactive piles or metal that melted the bottom of reacction chambers and spilled out and cooled in the position they are in now. For example Chernobyl has these wierd growths looking things you absolutely under no circumstances can touch or even stand near one of these things lest you want to die a quick painful death. The reason radiation. this went on for too long

[@potatoisland7214]

I’m pretty sure everything happens over a period of time 😁

[@onehitkill5816]

@@potatoisland7214 while yes everything DOES happen over a period of time i meant a long period of time.

[@potatoisland7214]

@@onehitkill5816 👌

[@SeikoSKO]

@ 10:36 , Infographic is correct,. I visited Fukushima this year 2019 with a tour group. It is much safer now and it's getting better. There are some area, you cannot go to or get out of the car because they need to decontaminate and approve it for public access and people to return after. Our group got close enough to Fukushima power plant to see the smoke stack. People were outside without radiation suit. I was able to go to a grocery store about 20/ 30 minutes away at Fukushima power plant. And I ate at a restaurant in Fukushima. It is a safe and Fukushima workers, Japan government, and the Fukushima residence / locals did a lot to bring it back.

[@IAmNotYourProblem]

I remember this happening and sitting in class with my history teacher letting the news play. I want to say how amazing the Japanese who worked in the plants are though, they really tried everything they could to save the situation, and it was very touching that older workers volunteered to take the younger peoples shifts.

[@IAmNotYourProblem]

Swampy well, the workers aren’t the ones to blame for most of that. The government and higher executives are the ones that didn’t budget for proper maintenance and upgrades, they were the ones that didn’t schedule and run tests. The men who were actually in the factory have little to no control over that, it’s the guys in suits and ties who make those choices.

[@lolmeme69_]

It's a real pity that these workers had to suffer because their government was too lazy to pay. I bet they didn't even compensate them properly for all of their heroic deeds. But we'll remember them. Respects to all of the workers.

[@GusCraft460]

The gold standard for modern reactor safety is a reactor design that requires water to slow down neutrons enough for them to interact with the fuel and cause additional fissions. If the reactor gets hot enough to boil off all the water then the buttons can’t interact with the fuel and the chain reaction is broken.

[@SystemBD]

But if there is no water to slow down the already existing chain reaction, does it even matter? I guess the water would not disappear immediately and you can rely on it for a while, but it is not a perfect system.

[@GusCraft460]

@@SystemBD water acts as a moderator and actually speeds up the chain reaction. It controls the heat, but speeds up the reaction. It the heat is produced by the reaction, but the reaction doesn’t need the heat to occur. However, the reaction does need the water to occur.

[@epicasian6919]

its kind of funny that the people are edited with smiles when they are literal life and death situation

[@tierracaccitolo]

Sounds like mistakes were made but this was less disastrous than it could have been.

[@killman369547]

yes, mistakes were made, chief among which was the decision to built the power plant sandwiched between a cliff and the ocean instead of building t on the high ground like a sane person would.

[@xEriklink]

Till this date they keep pumping radioactive water into the ocean, according to the videos i've seen

[@barbre105]

It ain't over yet. Heard about what just happened with recent Typhoon.

[@specialopsdave]

@@OpiumBride What? Nuclear meltdowns are NOT nuclear explosions. NOTHING exploded. It melted. That is all.

[@SilverSpoon_]

It was more catastrophic and more harder to control. Three reactors damaged. The emergency generators did their best, the response was there, the buildings were damaged but not an explosion that threw away fissile material in all directions. BUT the response was there and it's now clearly controlled. Also it was definitively all due to a natural disaster. Earthquake, tsunami, only missing lava and an asteroid rain, then at this point a few reactors exploding would be nothing. Chernobyl was yet a completely different degree, terrible management and criminal incompetence.

[@DERvilllads]

Even tho it was a disaster. The Goverment reactied correctly and the workers prevented a even worse disaster like Chernobyl

[@coldja2326]

You joking

[@DERvilllads]

@@coldja2326 sadly im not. just look how the goverment managed chernobyl. Fukushima could have been even worse.

[@DelusionalInsider]

@@DERvilllads yeah..esp cuz at that point it was still soviet russia, so they hid everything for a really really long time, esp after it happened. My grandpa was a soldier, and he cleaned the roof of the reactor, and all the classified stuff that soviets hid..made all the surrounding soldiers make them think it was a lot safer..so they had no choice but to go and clean all the debris off the fuckn reactors roof..cuz of that my grandpa lost the control of his legs years later, and well..6 years ago he died only being 50, just cuz something was with his heart, and its again speculated that its cuz of radiation.

[@DERvilllads]

@@DelusionalInsider woah....im sorry to hear that. But you Grandpa helped protecting the world by doing what he could. Unlike the Goverment at that time. I hope your Familly sees him as a small but brave Hero

[@efxnews4776]

Chernobyl: "You're delusional, take him to the infirmary!" Fukushima: "Go see your family, i assume from here." Sums up everything...

[@FirstLast-zv5od]

I love this channel. It is among my favorites. The videos are always interesting. Can we get a video on the 1527 stand of the Swiss Guard? A couple hundred Swiss Guard stands against tens-of-thousands of soldiers.

[@savagedragon79]

Sounds like the story of Swiss cheese.

[@FirstLast-zv5od]

@@savagedragon79 I mean...some did end up full of holes.

[@TheInfographicsShow]

Thank you! ♥ Please send suggestions to our email...

[@captainnebraska3197]

5:25 “Older power plant workers offer to take the place of they younger men on duty, knowing that disaster may be inevitable....”

[@adjam1991]

I used to work on a nuclear plant and we were told that the Fukushima accident was causing people to rethink nuclear power. Our site, which enriched uranium, was apparently suffering from this as there was supposedly less customers looking for uranium.

[@LloOFFICIAL]

I was just telling my friend today at school that there's a movie about this. I told her it was a sad movie but she still wants to watch it. Wish her luck.

[@killian9314]

@Swampy there is a korean movie called pandora box that is similar tho, on Netflix

[@MikesGarage96]

My wife was 20 miles away when all that happened in Japan. She has severe panic attacks due to PTSD from the earthquake.

[@Lt.Dan_23]

I actually remember this happening. We didn’t realise it was nearly as serious as it was at the time

[@NealB123]

You are being way too generous to TEPCO. For 15 years prior to the accident, safety reviews had noted the vulnerability of the diesel generators to flooding and recommended that they be moved to higher ground. TEPCO management disregarded the recommendation and took no action. The folks running the nuclear power program at TEPCO should have gone to prison for their incompetence.

[@buddyj55]

Was it just me or was I the only one at the edge of my seat with massive suspense, terrified to death.

[@-mnxjo3472]

I am in love with this channel which actually has a quality content...

[@TheInfographicsShow]

Thanks! ♥️

[@willemkucharski4925]

when the prime minister said "bla blu bla bla bla" i felt that

[@SophieMikos]

This is so well organized and well explained but I feel so bad for these poor people :/ they worked so hard to keep this from happening

[@williamrasengan]

5:24 Japanese are just incredible. 🤗

[@qiuqiu6962]

7:57 Japanese rich care less about human than their precious facility. No explosions should happen if the action was taken. Now they want to take the cheapest solution and dump radioactive water into ocean.

[@williamrasengan]

@@qiuqiu6962 : That's everywhere Rich... But I referred to the cultural nuance or courtesy of putting your life at risk to keep those who didn't live nearly as much safe...

[@saintyeetus1549]

*You know you're early when you see 3 views and 65 likes*

[@rwoooshmeifurg7245]

Ur right!! 😂 😂

[@lolo_games722]

Lamo 😂

[@kiyosakuu]

Cant argue

[@suryaanshsingh9283]

Poor youtube suffers view hang when a lot of people immidiatly views an uploaded video.

[@DBLIsKillingMe]

That makes no sense

[@mwbgaming28]

Maybe next time dont you put the emergency generators underground when you are in a coastal earthquake zone

[@anonymous21yearsago88]

When everybody remembers Chernobyl but no one has even heard of you *sad Fukushima noises*

[@PShermanWallabyBaySydney]

If you never heard of Fukushima disaster, you might wanna get out of your cave

[@veronviper06]

Liane Sherry • 21 years ago your name confused me for a second

[@societydisliker2333]

@@veronviper06 lol same

[@smanglers7087]

How the f this comment is 21 years old

[@societydisliker2333]

@@smanglers7087 it's his username 😂

[@newstreak]

This whole thing is scaring me and I'm now scared for life. Thanks Infographics Show.

[@cornettoking3774]

Tell this to someone who is living in a country which is more or less surrounded by old atomic power plants

[@owenmclain3327]

Building a nuclear reactor in an earthquake zone wasn't well thought out, or atleast many more precautions should have been taken in it's design.

[@yulfine1688]

There is limited land and with power consumption increasing what do you do. Tell your entire population to stop using things. It would cause massive issues economically socially and more. That is the problem with developed countries. Consumption is extremely high. Actual nuclear fusion reactors are being constantly developed upon in Hope's to replace all existing energy methods over time. Far as I know there isnt much of even a single successful attempt in labs yet..let alone an actual plant..

[@variableization]

@@yulfine1688 There were three nuclear power plants. One 10 miles away suffered from the same earthquake and tsunami but was able to be recovered with slightly better luck and heroic operator actions. The other nuclear power plant hit by it was the Onagawa plant (hit harder by both earthquake and tsunami) which didn't have much trouble at all. It had a bigger sea wall, it was positioned further from the sea, and it's backup generators weren't in the basement so they didn't flood. The difference was the operating company, the best preforming plant's operator had a real safety culture that cared about the possibility of things like tsunami's and earthquakes so they built and prepared their facility in accordance. Fukashima melted down because it was poorly designed and poorly maintained.

[@SigmundFreud187]

Owen Mclain it’s not well thought out that citizens are still ordering McDonald’s Fukushima fish sandwiches.

[@gladonos3384]

Why not? This was nothing. Do you know what hydroelectric dams do?

[@howardbaxter2514]

@@variableization correction, the plant, Daini, was 10 kilometers away. So it was even closer.

[@elijahsabo3846]

Come to think about it. Nuclear energy is safe, when it is handled properly.

[@warrensteel9954]

It's quite safe. Unfortunately corners get cut, maintenance is skipped, recommendations aren't implemented.

[@torypalmeri6242]

I am worried about the animals in the ocean

[@theremycrocks6861]

They will eventually adapt to the radioactive levels, in Chernobyl there are packs of wolves and herds of horses who are doing just fine and the wolves aren’t affected by the radioactivity at all and I’m pretty sure it’s the same for horses

[@Smasho8000]

@@theremycrocks6861 So they're Radwolves and Radhorses. Man, those would've been useful in the Fallout games.

[@fabriziodiaz2697]

The animation is just so great, all the subs this channel has are well deserved. In a way this reminds me of the movie Pandora

[@Toastymarshmallow80]

I was on the Aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when this happened. We were over there for relief efforts for Japan. Helicopters would send back photos of the devastation of the aftermath of the Tsunami. We kept dodging radioactive clouds from Fukushima. Lots of people that were on the flight deck were exposed to high levels of radiation. Many suffer radiation related illnesses from the exposure. I now have an itchy rash on my arms from this.

[@johnathanlee4367]

5:35 gotta respect old pepple

[@bassmasters123]

The older workers and Masao Yoshida were heroes beyond human imagination.

[@andrejvojvodic3737]

Respect for the workers.

[@jackstapleton7942]

Who is here after they decided to release the water??

[@杨万能]

Chernobyl witnessed the pinnacle of human courage Fukushima refreshes the bottom line of human despicability

[@ForbiddTV]

What is despicable is people who spread ignorant opinions based on feelings, not facts.

[@Bri-v2d]

Depends?

[@杨万能]

@@ForbiddTV If it was really safe they wouldn't dump the sea, they are holding all mankind responsible for their mistakes

[@danielabbott9312]

The effort of their nuclear team and engineers is nothing short of heroic the way the Elder generation stepped up during and after the accident it almost bring me to tears

[@mellie4174]

the men who volunteered to take the place of the young men are so courageous and generous!

[@Rachel-uq1bn]

For once the older workers taking responsibility was a good thing in Japan, they have a weird system where the older employees are always right about everything but at least they don't seem to shy away from their responsibilities even when it could be life threatening.

[@jim1550]

CEOs should be the first human shields when situations like this arise. There would be zero incidents after that is implemented. And no they can't throw a scapegoat into the situ. CEOs are human shields. Period.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

No one died from Fukushima radiation, so your meme is useless. Period.

[@jim1550]

@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Awww, did I upset someone's delicate sensibilities? Many tears bro.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

@@jim1550 Why don't you attempt to show evidence of your meme, teary boy.

[@jim1550]

@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk We got one on the line boys. Reel em' in.

[@rieldebonk1044]

Thumbnail says Fukushima Minute by Minute: Video is *11 Minutes* Well i guess Fukushima Lasted only 11 minutes!

[@jk-le1kt]

Nothing like Chernobyl.. Chernobyl was intentional and the authorities concealed every info till the last minute or the most they could conceal.. But Fukushima is accidental and here authorities did heroic acts to save civilians.. As much I learn about Japan my respect for the country increases.. An incredible country indeed

[@atlas8827]

Chernobyl was not intentional.

[@Schnitzeldawg]

Hey you yeah you I hope your day is amazing and you get everything you want

[@VCRK888]

Kieren I got AIDS

[@thedarksideofthemoon9612]

Gotnligma I

[@Schnitzeldawg]

BLUR oh

[@iAyoub151]

Dunno why, it's silly i know but the angry Hydrogens and the comment he said made me giggle, well timed.

[@harshsinghal5898]

Ain't no actor or musician or social media influencer deserve to be called a hero, guys like these battling nuclear power are the real heroes.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

Why is that? Nuclear energy is clean and the safest of all the electricity generation methods we have.

[@iambriansmith8837]

By watching a few of your vids, which together took about 23 hours, I learned more than I did in 8 years of school, I love your channel and it teaches me so much that I would never learn in school, keep that info coming, hope your channel keeps doing as well as it is now, bye.

[@nite82hawk]

Oh let's have a 40 year old nuclear system and never tested it. What could go wrong?

[@Aeluron]

Everything!

[@jollyalois]

chernobyl exploded while being tested so...

[@trevorsabo1824]

@@jollyalois But if you watch the movie, the test is not what caused the explosion.

[@DennisMcCoy-b2r]

There are so many disasters waiting happen in the world. Cities built right near overdue volcanoes, old buildings that are not earthquake safe, beach houses in tsunami zones. There is a volcano in New Zealand called White Island. I remember looking at it from the beach and thinking why would people go there if it has killed people before? Unfortunately the disaster happened. Everytime we just say things like "whose fault is it?" or "What should we have done?".

[@B-enjoyer]

@@DennisMcCoy-b2r 2 city meeting the criteria of being nuked

[@technobulls5668]

Japan:Reactors are going to explode. We must do whatever we can to prevent an explosion. USSR: Reactors have exploded. Anyways I'm told the radiation to be about a chest X Ray.

[@laylaabu-shawish5141]

It's still crazy for me to think that this event happened within my lifetime. I was in the 4th grade at the time of this accident. It is still crazy to think that I saw it unfolding on TV too.

[@ohboydiamonds]

Ok the sound affects for this show are just amazing

[@giovanimondragon6711]

Wow this was actually so interesting and I learned something new 😯

[@TheInfographicsShow]

Thanks! ♥️

[@codypugh-xr2hk]

The frequency of the uses of “likely”, “should”, “hopefully” and “probably” in regards to safety mechanisms, combined with caricatures of workers standing with their fingers crossed, does so much to inspire me about nuclear safety protocols

[@jonathan_guerrero]

Thus makes a bit more sense since watching Chernobyl but I am in no way acting like I would have had the slightest idea if what to do. With that said, couldn't they just have shut everything down? Or was the worry that they needed to keep producing power again at fault like it was in Chernobyl?

[@jonathan_guerrero]

This*

[@Euphoria7705]

I love how some of the worlds most deadly and dangerous materials in the world are maintained so poorly like we couldn't have blown up the world with it.

[@glizzygladiator8055]

Because we can’t blow up the earth, and didn’t/still don’t fully understand what we’re working with. Like with asbestos, or radium, or lead.

[@GoldRaven-oe4by]

My question is why were they allowed to build a nuclear power plant in one of the most earthquake prone countries in the world

[@gabrielflo5932]

What’s crazy is that everyone thinks that nuclear power is supper dangerous but it’s actually the best thing that’s happened in so long. It’s just a few incidents that mess everything up.

[@captainmarmot2692]

This! Nuclear power is an awesome source of energy, we just need better containment and safety procedures.

[@MS831985]

Brave older workers. True heroes...

[@mindschannel8653]

Here before millions views 👍

[@philipgranado]

"Honolulu Island" :P just had to point that out

[@brojoe7455]

It’s 4:39 in the morning and I just want to sleep but videos like this are keeping me awake

[@lookoutpiano8877]

I think it's funny how they showed The Titanic at the end of this video, because I was immediately reminded of the line from the 1997 movie, "Thank you for that fine forensic analysis, Mr. Bodine. Of course, the experience of it was...somewhat different." I believe the same could be said of this dry, blow-by-blow approach to telling the Story of the Fukushima Disaster.

[@blueangels111]

Aw the older men taking the younger men’s places is so heartbreaking.

[@covegallagher5688]

10:41 wow that guys girlfriend (holding a sign) moved to Japan!!

[@VOLAIRE]

*[sad Fukushima n0ises]*

[@travis2950]

𝕍𝕆𝕃𝔸𝕀ℝ𝔼 ???

[@theallseeingeye9388]

The difference between the east and the west. The older generation stepping in and stopping the younger generation from harms way. The younger generation protesting why should they be forced to quarantine when a pandemic is overwhelmingly killing the older generation.

[@crazyfire9470]

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[@Eye5x5]

Imagine if the 2nd season of the HBO Chernobyl mini series is gonna be about fukushima.

[@connerdelong7507]

Thorium reactors reduce radioactive elements from 300k years to 30 years... savings billions on waste storage, billions on clean up efforts and would generally be safer for everyone. “Duck” those people.

[@불멸자연합]

It recently obtained analysis of the ingredients for radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear explosion accident from a reliable location. If you check the data, you can see high concentrations of cesium, strontium, iodine129, etc. in the contaminated water. Experts say this is the level of radioactive waste in a liquid state. Seventeen percent of contaminated water contains more than 10 times the annual exposure allowance and 7 percent of contaminated water contains more than 100 times the annual exposure allowance, it said.

[@Billdude21]

They got the emergency coolant system back online and yet it wasn't enough to counteract the loss of water from the fuel heating. Is that normal that the emergency system can't keep up or is it a design flaw?

[@cj19122]

Frieza: 5 mins...heheheh, thats how long you have Saiyans!

[@tladilebohang]

Wow they should make a movie about this story

[@timschroeder1456]

Thank you for putting sources inside, I am using this for my school project

[@TheBoostedDoge]

If only we had a safer alternative to Uranium... oh wait we do it's called Thorium!

[@KS-wy6ky]

I think we should do fusion. No risk of death, considering the effort to keep it burning.

[@HazardSJ]

Not sustainable, it's only effective in places where natural pockets of thorium is found, aka India.

[@TheBoostedDoge]

@@HazardSJ The US and Australia also have pretty large reserves

[@wyatt-mv6pd]

Isint that less efficient? If we could use it and it worked the same people would already be using that.

[@wyatt-mv6pd]

@Yulia S Yes! Except people are still trying to figure out how to do that,

[@Alran109]

Nuclear power is just too dangerous and unnecessary. There will always be accidents like this due to human error and negligence.

[@li._.dub_-]

theyve made it safer obviously plus its the best for environment and most efficient

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

But nuclear power is actually the safest form of electricity we have.

[@zentherealmmage3137]

2:05 undertale / deltarune pink sound found!

[@megabyte1778]

and here we are, 10 years later.

[@Squee_666_9]

Human beings have an incredible ability not to learn from the past

[@darkdoge3191]

Lol, today they are DUMPing the waters used to cool it in the oceans. Oh noes

[@auro1986]

and they dumped all the waste into sea?

[@eeveefennecfox]

I remember watching this on the tv,they were covering it live,japan had a very bad day that day

[@slickbat5746]

Japan has really bad nuclear luck dont they

[@lyhthegreat]

that's because japan is a country that has plenty of natural disasters.

[@hungting3468]

What I learned from this video: While I was celebrating my birthday (13th March), a nuclear plant was threatening to blow up. Yay

[@GloomGaiGar]

It did blow up. More than twice. It's not a bomb so if you were expecting a mushroom cloud, that's not how it works.

[@av28379]

My birthday is 14 march and i got 5 years old on 2011

[@av28379]

Reactor 3 "exploded" on my birthday...

[@Fo00tb0ll3]

thanks bro!

[@Fo00tb0ll3]

nio problem mean

[@Fo00tb0ll3]

that's not how u spell man idiot lol silly boy

[@10_piece_mcnugget_wt]

Cop at the beginning looks like the cop from cloudy with a chance of meatballs lol