Inside The Clean-Up Of Chernobyl, The World's Worst Nuclear Disaster (HBO)

At the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, workers are tackling the final preparations for a major milestone, slated for next year: handing over full control of the site to Ukraine. Chernobyl still holds the distinction of being the world’s worst nuclear disaster. And the job of containing the fallout has required an international cast of players. A year ago, crews finished putting the new sarcophagus in place. It’s a massive steel arch - officially called the New Safe Confinement -- that covers the destroyed reactor. Now, workers are busy sealing up the space between the new sarcophagus and the old one- which was built in the 80s. And they’re facing some of the highest levels of radiation they’ve encountered so far. Jake Hanrahan got an exclusive look.
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[@VICENews]

Workers are facing some of the highest levels of radiation they've encountered so far. WATCH NEXT: Japan Is Rebuilding Its Military For The First Time Since WWII - bit.ly/2q5NiD2

[@freemusic239]

Someone has to do it or it or leave the entire region at risk. Pretty clear choice.

[@user-nf6bw9zm8d]

Erica PM i deduce that, because watching david sinclair, an anti-aging researcher at Havard said even radiation at the airport check would negative to longevity

[@ILoveAnchovies334]

we repeatedly see headlines Like the one?on this?youtube vid that chernobyl Is the worlds worst nuclear disaster. Unfortunately it is not. Fukushima is far worse as continues to spew radiation into our sky and seas. There has been nearly a media black out on this horrifying reality aside from a handful of scientists determined to tell the truth. Do not settle for lies , do your own research and continue to dig past the main stream media whom perpetuates the illusion of safety about this apocoliptic technology. Fukushima diachi is still burning and is killing the pacific ocean and the west coast and northern hemisphere. The problem is-to big and out of control so its easier to create a media blackout that face reality.

[@alshahriardihan1976]

@@ericapm5288 No one cares about what you would do..

[@oogifsesm298]

@Ak47ak74 Ak47ak74 Yep. me tow already. What the fnuk?

[@AB-vw8wz]

GOT: I am the best TV show ever Chernobyl : Vnimaniye vnimaniye

[@ariastrwn7933]

That's mean is "hold my beer"??

[@nertoni]

:) ... Vnimaniye, vnimaniye

[@jayson-tw1bc]

But it's rating on IMBD is only 3.8 rotegen

[@billyhimself_]

Nice one bro

[@piano_master_5246]

@@jayson-tw1bc not great, not terrible

[@richarddinter5001]

"Do you taste metal?"

[@jeremydavis5661]

Richard Dinter I love that show

[@kirbysbowlcut2709]

*picks up a piece of graphite core* "Whats this?"

[@dekuyeager1152]

*no good, but not terible*

[@krismartinez4679]

Only 3.6 roentgens

[@itsmj3103]

@@sherpafan033 *slaps table* NO!!!

[@srikararanganath8012]

" You know what caused the RBMK reactor to explode ?" -"Lies"

[@maretop2002]

Nuclear Scare Scam / Galen Winsor (intro & lecture starts @ minute 3:00) kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGPWhGecob-hZpY and A Free Nuclear Economy | Galen Winsor kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmWVopxte99kgpI

[@CherryBlossomOhka]

Ha ha no it was actually the build up of heat at the bottom of the plutonium rods caused by.....you know what let's say it was lies and call it a day

[@redhairgirl4835]

What about Fukushima

[@tvboxkenya1733]

"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth" COMRADE LEGASOV.

[@zurzakne-etra7069]

vote for comrade bernie

[@Bayofthe91st]

0:21 You had chance to say "now its a ghost town" and you didn't, oh c'mon!

[@user-jj5eb8ds2u]

Bayofthe91st lol that literally looks like the cod 4 intro to

[@Amorphous_Sand]

Bayofthe91st I was honestly waiting for that, and I was a little saddened when he never said it. 😂

[@svdhxes9738]

Bayofthe91st *50,000 people used to live here, now it's a ghost town.*

[@nathansaenz8534]

torrenting the cod mission takes place in the real place

[@riverdeep399]

Bayofthe91st *sing it to The Specials..*

[@The1997aris]

"3.6 roedgens.Not great ,not terrible"

[@fubar12345]

From the feedwater, I presume.

[@danielsilecchia1894]

*15,000 roedgens

[@bougezifter5586]

Its not 3.6 roentgen, its 15000

[@cliftonjames785]

@@bougezifter5586 it's a meme dude. It's from the Chernobyl mini series on HBO

[@athanakop7775]

How bout 3.6 everyday 24x7

[@rahulshah2852]

HBO Chernobyl brought me here. Awesome show.

[@zabeliiulet1]

then you probabrly noticed that this guy 1:20 plays there .

[@VladTheSour]

@@zabeliiulet1 searched on imdb but nothing came up

[@TechnologyKingsdom]

Vlad TheSour Direct Link : m.imdb.com/title/tt7366338/

[@lost_pictures]

Where can I see this show?

[@VladTheSour]

TechnologyKing I'm up to date with the show, I was talking about the man in this video.

[@NESendings]

Damn you HBO I've been watching Chernobyl videos for hours now when all I came on here for was E3 vids.

[@nzoomed]

So ironic that this disaster has provided jobs longer than the life of the original power plant!

[@ryanmerkle5868]

nzoomed interesting twist

[@wach9191]

If not disaster plant would ran till this day.

[@nzoomed]

@@wach9191 Perhaps, but the decommissioning of this plant will take many more years than the rest of the undamaged reactors that have already been decommissioned . The only remaining RBMK reactors in operation are all in Russia.

[@wach9191]

@@nzoomed In my country Lithuania there was a Chernobyl sister power plant. But one of conditions of joining to EU was to shut it down. I bet it would have ran till this day too.

[@nzoomed]

@@wach9191 quite possible, but I also think that Russia had decided to only keep their own reactors running out of the remaining RBMK reactors that are still in service from tge soviet era

[@moose43h]

5:54 its not something you want to see in a nuclear facility. windows7 and an error

[@theodordan680]

windows 7 has detected the enviroment unsuitable for this os, please provide a suitable case for your pc then retry again...

[@tayh8327]

at least its not windows 10 then we'd really be fucked

[@MCshadr217]

Fun fact, windows 7 barely had any errors, and any other window platform is much worse. Nice try, dickhead. Maybe not use their best system as a joke.

[@thereaIitsybitsyspider]

Windows 8*

[@daviddavidov8398]

moose43h or even worse..... UPDATE!!!!!! REEEEEEEEEEEE

[@kellyastleford1169]

"It's a stark reminder of the danger inherent in nuclear power." This bothered me through this whole video. The reactor built at Chernobyl is a RBMK reactor, which was never built by any country outside the USSR because it had characteristics that were rejected everywhere outside the Soviet Union. Chief among these was its inherent instability, especially on startup and shutdown. Because of the way the reactor used graphite where American reactors use water, when Soviet operators tried to reduce power the RBMK had a tendency to sharply increase power production instead. As overheating became more severe, power increased even more.Also the Chernobyl plant did not have the fortified containment structure common to most nuclear power plants elsewhere in the world. Without this protection, radioactive material escaped into the environment. Used correctly and properly, nuclear power is safe. There has even been new improvements developed to make nuclear even safer. Cutting corners and a horrendous design is what made this site a disaster waiting to happen. This is not inevitable in every case. I found this to be misleading and scientifically inaccurate. The reporter seems to be banking on visual theatrics instead of actually reporting why this happened. Throwing the baby out with the proverbial bathwater.

[@Zero4Infinitives]

Nuclear Power is not safe at all, The spent fuel needs thousands of years + to stop being harmfull plus all the safety protocols and backup Will not be able to withstand natural disasters which Will become more and more common in the near future.

[@CyclonicTuna023]

Very true. They should've started with "It's a stark reminder of the danger in herent in corrupt totalitarian communist systems."

[@andsereje]

The way you worded your comment shows clearly that you're a logical, smart person. This makes you different than the rest of the population. Different than the people who design, build, oversee and run nuclear reactors. I'm sure I don't have to exemplify it for you. While the sentence you quoted doesn't explain where the danger comes from, it is correct: people are responsible for the safety of these reactors, and they aren't competent. So there is an inherent danger in everything they do, and hence, in the reactors, which do have the potential to do a lot of damage. That said, of course, more dangerous is the short-sighted policy of fossil fuel reliance. Then, we have the policy of dumb-assed, gratuitous wasting of energy and resources which blows up the quantity of energy and resources that need to be produced, so that they could be wasted.

[@Tapepusher]

Would a containment structure really have contained the explosion though?

[@benqjbl]

"there's pockets of radiation out here" ~Cpt. Macmillan

[@xm3405]

I remember I was a noob at cod and died like 5 times going outside of the safe area.

[@MeecosMeh]

*walks into radiation ARE YOU DAFT??

[@octavioschultz3752]

The Chernobyl serie is pretty good, but I cannot see this place without remembering of STALKER first.

[@frasermcnally3532]

50,000 people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town

[@trent2736]

This is a cod reference isn't it

[@mrlucky4585]

cod 4

[@potatogaming1052]

No its not cod 4 missions was taken place in chernobyl

[@Sagar-wn1po]

My grandfather was living near it when this happened. He died three days after the accident. No exact explanation was provided that time.

[@maabrar8577]

So yadav ji! Indian live there? Thats sad about your granddad

[@xm3405]

@@maabrar8577 that guy is just lying for attention ignore him

[@SGTSAS]

I must say that recently VICE have really had me looking more and more on your videos. They are coming back to the good old content and roots again. Well done!

[@tyrionshelby5972]

'Nice shot. I think you blew his arm off'

[@pssyslayer3933]

shashank but I shot him in the face

[@syro2412]

"Shock and blood loss will take care of the rest"

[@bub-games]

Probably why we have such high cancer cases across the world.

[@samfabia6531]

Cars

[@zxz5754]

You do understand we have a thing called cancer cells in our body right?

[@saulgoodman612]

@Jason Radiation causes/increases the chance of development of cancer.

[@gamebredtv804]

@@saulgoodman612 what about smoking?

[@BMWROYAL]

Jason there was a spike but not around the whole world

[@Treysorable]

When you suddenly notice that the city looks awfully familiar.. 🤔

[@classicnowaar]

Trésor Irumva why?

[@maarten9272]

Trésor Irumva Awfully familiar to what?

[@maarten9272]

нαяρү Ikr, the soviets just ripped that of from COD. 😤😤😤

[@papi-santi2449]

MW2

[@tristenkiesow4061]

Yep good old days

[@chanvalentine8283]

There is no 'safe ' way to store radioactive fuel. It's still shedding particles.

[@PROANISH]

Aren’t you scared of walking inside of that place? I would never step foot their.

[@gloriaregali9090]

USSR's countries are poor. It's a chance to have a good salary.

[@ximono]

They know what they're doing, knowledge helps

[@rolandlee6898]

The radioactivity levels there now are lower than those on a commercial flight. The main issue that prevents people from living there is not radioactivity but metal toxicity. Isotopes that are highly radioactive decay quickly, like iodine was a big concern for the first few weeks. Now the main source of radioactivity is Cesium-137 and it has a 30 year half life. The issue is that the end decay products of the radioactive pollutants are mostly toxic metals like barium, lead and mercury.

[@shaunontheinternet1452]

The Chernobyl power station was still operating until 2000. The Ukraine could not afford to lose that much of its electricity production. Just imagine working at a power station that 1/4 of which had blown up!

[@jasonfuller2734]

Nothing to worry about, they have hard hats. Perfectly safe. Just ask any of the 50,000 people who were evacuated and not allowed back.

[@kunaldebbarma8086]

COD 4 got Pripyat so accurately it seems they spent a month there just to design that mission :0

[@gast128]

You could also play STALKER (spoiler) in which you actually visit the location inside.

[@gamignmaster6977]

Hate to sound mean. But could we all actually shut the hell up about Cod 4 for just some time?

[@hideouslyugly]

Yes, I too watched the tv drama on Chernobyl, and spotted this video to see what it's really like.A well made drama, and a horrible reality.

[@mitchellbutchart]

I'm guessing Captain Price knew more than the reporter as "50,000 people used to live here now it's just a ghost town"

[@Physician16]

Here after watching HBO show Chernobyl

[@gingerhorton933]

Me too

[@scotty2dellhotta]

Sunny D me three

[@kobirelf97]

It's not just made by HBO it's also in conjunction with SKY

[@saber_2_6]

Sunny D me

[@jamesR43031]

Is it worth watching ?

[@kenzolr9373]

is comrade Dyatlov still in the toilet?

[@ianucci]

lolled hard at this >_

[@hansblitz7770]

"But muh video game wuz here"

[@alicelu5691]

Hans Blitz funny...

[@kakyointhemilfhunter4273]

I guess people can’t know or say they know of something from video games

[@Spherecode.]

But muh HBO show wuz here

[@yenthusiast]

get out of here S.T.A.L.K.E.R

[@UGHITSJOE]

This is so fascinating

[@theunknownguy265]

Only 6 likes and no comments in verified account?

[@charlieburton5336]

@@theunknownguy265 just because your verified doesn’t mean your going to get likes

[@knightlife98]

They did a heck of a job, building and moving the new containment building. I really genuinely hope, that this new building does work out like they say it will.

[@jdgonzo1982]

nice one Vice, that was a lot more interesting than i thought it'd be...thanks :)

[@ucantseemeverywell]

great journalism right here

[@xeeahc]

Its honestly sad though. To think that this place was full of people and was doing very well. That people were having fun and doing their jobs etc. And its just all gone.

[@FishFind3000]

Finally news I subscribed for

[@leonardoalfonso7080]

Good reporting keep it up!

[@Emess_902]

I remember 4 years ago, when I was in high school i did a huge essay on chernobyl, its fascinating to me in a way; but at the same time very horrible memories scarred in the ghost town

[@Rustycaddy17]

This is so weird, for past day I've been watching so much shit about Chernobyl and I started watching it today after probably ages of ever even touching up on the subject of Chernobyl. All the sudden Vice News makes a video about it, lol.

[@whitemailprivilege2830]

Rustycaddy OMG LMFAO!!!! LOLOL!! AHAHAAHAHAHhahahahahaha 😂😆

[@bouchib4165]

@Willz __ its actually a mini series

[@DTMB35]

They know

[@jakobwithak3805]

Do yourself a favor & watch Chernobyl series on HBO its fantastic!

well, the video is 2 years old though :P

[@mitchelljack1590]

Sent a guy to Ukraine, organised fascinating people to interview and access to limited access areas and you come up with a 7 minute video from it.... FFS

[@ianucci]

My thoughts exactly should've 70 minutes!

[@liligman]

Mitchell Jack Most of Vice’s KZbin present is gone, I’d imagine it’s behind an HBO Paywall

[@jeanswinter679]

I've been.. let's just say in love with Chernobyl case since idk.. 10 years ago. Now that HBO made a tv show about Chernobyl is just.. making my heart melt (no pun intended). My husband told me to watch it because he knows that I love Chernobyl case and want to learn more about Chernobyl. So.. here I am. And.. I'm planning to go to Russia and book a Chernobyl tour sometime in the future.

[@heyitshuttz3705]

Jean 'S' Winter cool

[@ldSt3345]

Chernobyl's not in Russia...

[@nifree1577]

It’s a strange sight to see a massive building inside of an even more massive building.

[@hhluvzmagik]

This is at the top of my Bucket List to visit the Exclusion Zone and Chernobyl!

[@kidkosmo8532]

I'd like to see a live feed of them taking apart the wreckage.

[@pokemonhunter5156]

These comments: 70% CODMW References 20% He sounds like Pyrocynical 10% Fukushima was worse

[@criznitty]

Pokémon Hunter k

[@diggitydeez]

I like the "Nuclear dust-mask's" they are wearing.

[@badbrowniez]

"43,000 people lived here... now it's a ghost town"

[@benji3625]

badbrowniez I was just thinking about that lol

[@tankfire20]

sounds like pyrocynical is the narrator

[@robertmccutcheon4103]

They should build a nuclear waste disposal and long term storage facility there. And other plants can ship there waste there for storage and disposal. The place is already radioactive and now the region will have more employment

[@robertmccutcheon4103]

Sage Jupe it’s the only form of zero emissions energy in the world, that has no immediate effect on the surrounding environment so not likely to go away any time soon. So technically it is the least environmentally damaging form of energy until something goes wrong then it becomes the most environmentally damaging ironically enough.

[@philipcooper8297]

5:38 almost made the power plant blow up.

[@dyslexicstoner2408]

Lmao bye bye to 100million people

[@angryzergling7832]

Wow I didn't realize how absolutely massive the new secondary sarcophagus is. Huge.

[@Darwinawardrecipient]

If anyone is interested in how the disaster happened there is a video here on KZbin called zero hour, the disaster at Chernobyl . Something along those lines

[@666222333111]

Yeah I would watch that video with open mind thought. There is a lot of information missing.

[@Zero-er4kn]

strategyveteran i watched it and i got a book on the whole thing called Midnight in Chernobyl if ya wanna read

[@pureenergy5051]

@@666222333111 What do you think about this information that says literal satanists bombed both Chernobyl AND Fukushima as a part of their radiation genocide? According to the youtubes "Fukushima: USA and UK Monarchy behind the Radiation Genocide" at kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6OXfneqZ6ideac Fukushima is the worst and ongoing. These nuclear power plants were taken down on purpose with HAARP. On purpose by literal satanists, the same that are bombing/murdering the world, taking away jobs, murdering people with pills and fluoride in the water, charging excessive amounts for college educations, the lasering of houses, using vaccines and propaganda that say "In God We Trust" when at the same time they don't believe in god. Check out the article "The Evil Federal Reserve" at lovethetruth.com/government/federalreserve I think that this list of bankers may be the original satanist mafia that want most of the people gone on earth.

[@neuralmute]

@@pureenergy5051 I think you might have been standing next to Reactor 4 a little bit too long there...

[@pureenergy5051]

@@neuralmute I say the same thing to people that believe in the US government, the evil federal reserve and the UK Monarchy, all because I have read all of that and more. Why do you write me at all with no book or info of any kind to back up your statement?

[@kabukisyneri296]

50,000 people used to live here... Now it's a tourist town.

[@RebornAudio]

You can take the roadman to Chernobyl, but you can't take the roadman out of the roadman.

[@hivaidsprevention]

workers are busy sealing up the space between the new sarcophagus and the old one

[@Lemonminer]

Anyone else here from bald and bankrupt’s vlog?

[@albie4403]

I came here after he bought Kolya some groceries.

[@Darnates]

Get out of here Stalker!

[@redfan3305]

Digital Thor can’t wait for his game. He’s always watching

[@woowoo2703]

"50,000 people use to live here. Now it's a ghost town."

[@shinkreytpuylap]

GOT : I am the best mini series in TV Chernobyl in HBO : Just wait and see me

[@KindaDumbButAintStupid]

I’m here after the Chernobyl trailer for HBO.

[@versewst1618]

I’ve been here In Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare...

[@chanypan1948]

Verse in all ghillied up

[@narator0301]

Verse You were in Pripyat while i was in NPC in Stalker :D

[@Mgomes8402]

I was here

[@mathewtorres7541]

Wym

[@cheekibreeki9298]

narator0301 cheeki breeki iv damke

[@eligiroir9770]

3:12 the bagger 288 is the largest, heaviest man made moveable structure weighing 300,000 tons (600,000,000 lbs)

[@AnkitSingh-wq2rk]

50,000 people used to live here now it's a complete ghost town

[@nebexdoesnt8336]

5:54 windows error - first thought... its happen again!!!

[@gcole2108]

Interesting. I'll adlmit to being ignorant about this; I never realized it was such an ongoing process. Fascinating.

[@MrBobity]

WOW at 5:55 PAR Systems from Shoreview, Minnesota, USA. They make equipment for the nuclear industry...must have made the overhead crane...

[@TheEduardo90]

What are they going to do with the debris and/or remains of the exploded reactor #4 ??

[@xxxxxx5868]

They threw the debris into the core

[@gunfuego]

Did everyone forget about Fukashima ?

[@StevioGaming1]

Nuclear Power is the cleanest and safest way of getting power NOW A DAYS

[@JaniceHope]

Pretty sure that the ppl of Fukushima prefecture disagree.

[@666222333111]

It's one of the cleanest but not the safest if you look at the scale of potential damage if another accident was to occur, but yeah because of Chernobyl safety regulations on Nuclear Power changed drastically, no one wants another explosion.

[@itskevinjustkevin]

5:22 reminds me of that one scene from THX 1138

[@iammervinmorelos5605]

Imran Zakhaev joined the group.

[@xm3405]

Quick shoot his arm off and get chased by a helicopter

[@arturoherrera4579]

I just learned about this in class today.....

[@gruntsex]

43 thousand people used to live here now its a complete evacuation ordered by the soviet union

[@__soap__]

50 thousand people used to live here... now its a ghost town

[@s.a1245]

His information is not accurate, it might of been 300.000 or more people living there its russia not europe.

[@s.a1245]

@@BakjeLeip Till today russia has NEVER Revealed the exact amount of citizens living in chernobyl and the exact amount of death due to radiation activity in chernobyl.

[@s.a1245]

@@BakjeLeip 50.000 is INCORRECT.

[@s.a1245]

@@BakjeLeip From day one powerful russian authorities + even the scientists, they were very scared/ shameful to talk about their mistake on the news also shameful to ask help from the rest of the world there are allot of information that today are still being hidden by russia due to the human error caused by them. All could have been prevented... but nope...... That's what money does! To a greedy/ corrupt country

[@aleksa5368]

He is in shock, give him a medic!

[@ajoo129]

Why there is no bandits yelling cheeki breeki?

[@Dandan-vf9kr]

Why did I get ad about why we should use nuclear energy?

[@JMsoo]

Been there in 2016, that place is scary especially the hospital...

[@Jackdudu]

Jivan Moulandi do people turn zombies there?

[@breadcrumb1996]

THIS WAS GOING ON FOR 2 YEARS AND THIS JUST CAME TO ALL OUR RECOMMENDATIONS

[@professor_meowington]

I've been to Chernobyl and Pripyat three times, once in CoD: Modern Warfare, once in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and once in real life last year. It's safe to say that seeing it in real life was the best time.

[@Goonsquad292]

50,000 people used to live here, now its a ghost town

[@joshuadunford3171]

Andrew o'malley call of duty reference right?

[@xTWEAKMYSTERo]

no..

[@narata1541]

Joshua Dunford Exactly.

[@1337BananaL33TVostok]

Not a chance

[@commander31able60]

Andrew o'malley At this distance you'll also have to take the Coriolis Effect into account.

[@klaitor55]

Oh that Ferris wheel brings back so many good memories of MW1

[@56postoffice]

50,000 people used to live here. Now it's a tourist attraction.

[@Polak-dd7ds]

Hope someone can take a photograph of the reactor after the Sarcophagus is taken apart.

[@ponyslavestation2973]

Union Pacific 4432 Yeah i want to see that too.

[@user-ge4uk9ui8y]

There's a lot of footage of workers walking inside there on youtube

[@BackDaws]

How are they walking around near the ground zero without any protection? I'm confused, I thought 1000sqm was inhabitable.

[@DamnItsIqbal]

this make me confused too

[@AusWoodsy]

The areas outside the new confinement are now all ok to walk around however the ground, objects, flora and fauna still has some contamination and will so for many thousands of years. There are even some micro bits of the graphite and nuclear fuel still around the plant. (Search youtube) Belarus which took most of the impact of radiation spent hundreds of billions of $ to decontaminate towns and nearby areas but outside of that there's still higher radioactivity. Inside the reactor there are areas where you can still die from radioactivity with just an hours dosage; other areas are ok for up to a month per year before it's deemed unsafe. (Google how ionizing radiation affects body and dosage) Most of the work however will be done in nearly complete safety of control rooms and external areas and done with robotic cranes and equipment requiring only minor time present by people inside the sarcophagus let alone near the corium and reactor components. It's estimated to take all this century (ie till 2100) to completely clean the site. Well done to all those who worked on this and the taxpayers of the countries who financed the confinement.

[@amandaphillips4344]

@@AusWoodsy thank u for that info😁 it still throws me off when ppl actually know what their talking about n u definatly know ur shit my friend👍

[@shaunontheinternet1452]

The area is very much uninhabitable. Radiation is a numbers game, its all about your dosage with regards to time. Exposure to a higher than normal doses for a short period of time carries a relatively low risk - for example having a chest x-ray. Visiting the site now carries a low enough risk, given the time you spend there is short but you absolutely could not live there. The prolonged radiation dosage would kill you. Oddly enough, despite reactor 4 exploding, reactors 1-3 were still operating. The Ukraine was so dependant on its power that the Chernobyl power station didn't shut down until 2000. That being said, I wouldn't want to work there...

[@ericpitt3876]

Check out Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higgenbotham

[@briandoyle6188]

The worst nuclear accident before Chernobyl was in the UK at windscale in the 50s...

[@saltymcsaltface]

You wouldn't be saying it was a quick fix if you were a liquidator, many workers... Heroes were exposes to dangerous levels of radiation.

[@stanky4369]

God dammit jeremy Clarkson why did you leave your car here

[@syauqiachmad]

never been on a videos marathon before, HBO made me do this

[@scottcrabtree3239]

Man..., Pripyat looks so eerie these days.....

[@DuncanInUK]

I feel like the show has been everyone a nuclear physicist or an engineer, espeically when you have watched the final episode.

[@vio4237]

I feel special because I noticed that the crane from metro 2033 in the d6 bunker is the same as the one in Chernobyl.

[@grantspassage]

Fukushima Daiichi is also a level 7 But has at least 100 years for containment .

[@llynellyn]

Fukushima is a level 7 because there were minor accidents at multiple reactors instead of a major accident at one, and they chose to add up the scores for all three instead of just taking the highest or an average. It's actually not even in the same league as Chernobyl, more closer to Three Mile Island.

[@silviulimbosu]

I wonder if water from the area of plant is still contaminated, I watched other videos and vlogs on this theme and nobody says something about that and also how they managed to extinguish the core of the nuclear reactor, is not burning even today?

[@basedgodstrugglin]

It looks so small from the inside shots but then you see it outside and it looks just fucking massive

[@Dharshanth.k]

Wait a min, he went underneath that goliath of a building and he seems oblivious to the fact that there is a lot of radiation there... How???

[@joaobatistaperinjunior953]

You can be there for a few minutes each day, after all the reactor itself it's inside the concrete layer they built shortly after the meltdown.

[@Michelle_B.]

Why is KZbin recommending Chernobyl videos all of a sudden ?

[@nandakumarlongjam]

May be promoting Chernobyl series

[@ilovebeingprecious]

Nandakumar Longjam and happy anniversary

[@itsokay2606]

ilovebeingprecious not happy though

[@shreyanshverma2295]

That was great one to be honest. Good one guys

[@sugandhakohli]

Who had a throwback when they heard "46 Thousand people used to live here" ?

[@Yakovolf]

14k likes? Not great but not terrible.

[@liluhaas]

Jacob Rosenberg weird thing 2 care about

[@Yakovolf]

@@liluhaas did you watch Chernobyl on HBO?

[@Infamousx51]

Cheeki Breeki

[@cvc-gamingglitchrespositor9607]

IV DANKE

[@erikahl7934]

Infamousx51 ahhh another one from the zone stay strong comrade

[@JBApolo]

Ah nu cheeki breeki iv danke...

[@Rogan_Dorn]

Get out of here STALKER

[@brandonfleming7118]

boris blyat

[@Erodius]

Legasov and Boris would be so proud to see all this technology there now

[@TheAndrei40]

I live near the reactor ... all in all its good, very peaceful but the nearest shop is quite far away