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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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?

[@scentlessapprentice88]

@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.

[@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

[@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

[@user-lj5qe1tr9f]

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.

[@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

[@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! 🙏

[@austinminton4509]

One of my friends from Japan worked at Fukushima and said it was by far the scariest thing ever. Said that an older engineer told him to get out of there because this is no place for a young man to die.

[@ahmed78yearsago70]

Of course of course you are totally not lying and making it up.

[@stravinskyfan]

Source: trust me bro

[@seeanddie8801]

Dont listen to these haters, this is a small world. Thanks for sharing.

[@rRekko]

Could be true, but nobody died in the meltdown so

[@MysticOceanDollies]

@@rRekkobut there was fear of death, hence the old man telling him that.

[@syrenity64]

I saw a video that explained this as well, but said “fukushima could resist a hurricane, earthquake, and a tsunami. Just not all 3 at once.”

[@jcolinmizia9161]

It’s good then that those events never happen together!

[@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

[@princesse0920]

I literally got chills and tested up a little when he said the older workers told the younger workers to leave and that they would take their place. Those older workers are heroes!

[@sherlock6623]

It's because older people attract less radiation effects

[@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.

[@OttoZ1914]

This is so cool hearing about this, I’m a military kid and we were stationed at Misawa afb in northern Japan during this. I remember it vividly, the earth shaking as I was walking home from school and after the earthquake the base lost power for days and I had to sleep with my family in the living room wearing snow pants because the heating was out. We had to be ready to get out of the house at a moments notice because aftershocks still shook the house, luckily my family and most of the base was fine, except one apartment tower suffered a little internal damage. Before we moved from japan my parents took us on a drive down the coast line and I got to see some carnage from the tsunami, one significant thing I remember is seeing a small fishing boat flipped upside down on top of a tree. March 11 is a day I’ll remember for the rest of my life

[@LS_Customs.]

Why has no one commented

[@oasiskj]

@@LS_Customs. idk

[@misspurdy27288]

I still remember tsunami footage I saw once and it was the single most terrifying thing I’ve seen in my entire life.

[@rockhoundchick10]

I was stationed in Yokosuka Japan with my 3 kids during the quake, tsunami and meltdown. I remember all the news about the Fukushima and TEPCO down playing the events. I ended up evacuated back to the states and never returned. It was a day I will never forget.

[@EyeOfThePhi]

@@LS_Customs. Because he a republican troll

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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 👌

[@gregorywiryayuwana818]

1:18 said : Honolulu Island (Hawaii, USA) Subtitle : Honshu Island (mainland Japan)

[@Robert89349]

And Honolulu is not even an island. It's a city on the island of Oahu. You would think that an American narrator should know that.

[@knoahbody69]

@@Robert89349 Sometimes the captions are auto generated, so it's a software problem.

[@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.

[@jnayvann]

March 11, 2011 will be one of the days I will never forget. The ship that I was on when I was in the Navy was literally 100 nautical miles away from the epic center of the 9.1 earthquake. Being from Texas, that was the very first earthquake I have ever felt in my life.

[@jconcordia]

Oddly, I felt an earthquake in Texas lol. I was in Dallas, and we felt the earthquake from Oklahoma. This was 2016.

[@AnimeWolf5193]

All of this is horrible, but after learning about Chernobyl I'm glad that they at least took these incidents seriously and that we've learned from previous mistakes.

[@HazardSJ]

The main reasons for this incident was actually, the loss of emergency power, inability to access the plant due to roads being destroyed from the tsunami and corruption from weakening the wave barrier on purpose to save money, and lack of proper maintenance.

[@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.

[@biggerchungus9688]

This is one of the best KZbin channel on KZbin. The people are great, the videos are great, and the stories are great.

[@killian9314]

No

[@TheInfographicsShow]

Thank you very much! 🙏

[@ganjagaming2531]

Yes but most people commenting is racist don't believe me take a long look for your self😒

[@fangsong3802]

Why?

[@fangsong3802]

A1pha

[@bethwindows3509]

I love how older workers took younger ones place. Such a Japan thing

[@MercenaryFox]

you love them dying? sheesh

[@joshua_prime3743]

@@MercenaryFox shheeeesh

[@KeithanRian]

“A Japan thing”? What’s that supposed to mean?

[@LarryWater]

Most kamikaze were young men.

[@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.

[@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...

[@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.

[@Lt.Dan_23]

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

[@buddyj55]

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

[@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....”

[@epicasian6919]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@mwbgaming28]

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

[@johnathanlee4367]

5:35 gotta respect old pepple

[@-mnxjo3472]

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

[@TheInfographicsShow]

Thanks! ♥️

[@saintyeetus1549]

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

[@rwoooshmeifurg7245]

Ur right!! 😂 😂

[@lolo_games722]

Lamo 😂

[@sakunyI]

Cant argue

[@suryaanshsingh9283]

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

[@DBLIsKillingMe]

That makes no sense

[@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...

[@willemkucharski4925]

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

[@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

[@cookiemonster7755]

4:07 i love how the dosimeter says "NO RADIATIOND DETECTED" and the sounds of the dosimeter sound like when workers at Chernobyl were near the Reactor Hall

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

You obviously do not know what a dosimeter is.

[@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 😂

[@ms_med]

I've seen a few Fukushima documentaries but this minute by minute breakdown is great.

[@ScoutTank_Ru251]

*5 years later* Shin Godzilla *is based on Fukushima*

[@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.

[@MikesGarage96]

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

[@WildnUnruly]

Hi Mike, I’m a nurse researching the response to this catastrophic event. In particular looking for any information on what the government told people to take or give their children. I’m trying to run down some comments on apple pectin given to children as well as potassium iodide. Do you think your wife might have any resources or comments that may help my research? Thanks in advance for your time.

[@andrejvojvodic3737]

Respect for the workers.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@fromzeeve5421]

11:04 the dyatlov move

[@ohboydiamonds]

Ok the sound affects for this show are just amazing

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@bassmasters123]

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

[@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.

[@WickedPhase]

I was terrified but also very intrigued through out the whole video

[@phishfearme2]

there are quite a few technical errors here (7:31 the containment was not blown up - it was the reactor building) but in general this is a reasonable explanation - but maybe they shoulda mentioned at the end that nobody was killed or seriously injured in this event. I would bet that most people would say that hundreds were killed and injured

[@supersayianz]

I was watching the Chernobyl incident when i stumbled upon this, it saddens me that the amount of safeties that the Fukushima had could reduced the number of people who got exposed to the radiation (city evacuation) and that it was conducted as soon as possible without hiding the fact.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

What was hidden? They needlessly evacuated a lot of people and no one died from radiation.

[@Nico-dt5hu]

@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk i think it is confirmed 1 person died from lung cancer but yeah all the deaths are from the needless evacuation.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

@@Nico-dt5hu No, you fell for a fake news story. I debunked that and showed exactly where the story started on my video titled, "Origins of a fake Fukushima news story and the media that buys into it". On top of that, since we know the highest dose anyone on the planet got was 670mSv, we know 100% no one could have died from Fukushima radiation: American Nuclear Society (March 2012). "Appendix B" (PDF). In Klein, Dale; Corradini, Michael (eds.). Fukushima Daiichi: ANS Committee Report.

[@timschroeder1456]

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

[@mellie4174]

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

[@kokchunyik2328]

1:18 Honshu, not Honolulu

[@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.

[@reecedart8180]

Love this type of video!

[@zxiao45]

I love how every pinned Infographics show's comment always takes days to hit a hundred likes while other comments get thousands

[@ipotatosenpai7002]

True

[@Instructor1990]

Its leaking into the sea, still.

[@LloOFFICIAL]

I keep coming back to watch this bc it's just so fascinating.

[@akhileshthapliyal6536]

Awesome, well explained :)

[@rdcyoutubediary]

I cried when older workers stepped up for the young ones. 😭😭😭😭

[@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.

[@ucumari]

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]

@@ucumari 2 city meeting the criteria of being nuked

[@brojoe7455]

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

[@xXWOND3RBR3ADXx]

:55 that generator screaming for safety is the most adorable little thing

[@forestpepper3621]

The last I heard of the storage systems mentioned at the start of this video, is that the "frozen soil" idea is not working very well, and leaks; also, many of the giant tanks storing radioactive water are also leaking. Plus, there are hundreds of additional tons of radioactive water that accumulate every day, which requires Japan to constantly build more giant storage tanks at Fukushima. Perhaps these two problems have been fixed by now, but I have not seen any news stating that, so far. Beyond these two problems is the much more serious problem of removing hundreds of damaged fuel rods from the ruins of the former nuclear reactors, which is extremely difficult and dangerous.

[@rcajavus8141]

oh you dont know? they are releasing water into the ocean after they filter it and dillute it, its still radioactive but below levels so they just release it there on the coast and its forbidden to fish 200 km infront of fukushima, but water currents dont go straight..

[@rieldebonk1044]

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

[@od13166]

great idea building nulcear power plant in nation known to earthquake activity is frequent

[@MS831985]

Brave older workers. True heroes...

[@jackstapleton7942]

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

[@scythe9741]

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

[@seanmann7765]

“We should make the sea wall stronger because a tsunami 100 years ago devastated the area and could destroy the reactor.” Four days later… A tsunami devastates the area and destroys the reactor.

[@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart]

. . . that was intense. Great vid

[@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.

[@am74343]

1:18 "Honolulu Island?" Uh, I think they got that wrong.

[@EnterTheGooniverse]

I like this minute by minute format

[@timetraveler1973]

i dont normally come here for accurate recounts of things, usually just some insight into interesting things. but i'll give this a shot

[@drakeehrman7338]

This is important, because now we know multiple precautions more than we've learned from Chernobyl.

[@giovanimondragon6711]

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

[@TheInfographicsShow]

Thanks! ♥️

[@6Six6Six6Bruh]

Gotta love infographics animations

[@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?