nuclear accident in the Ukraine created fallout today in Chicago we do know that
a zone of the deadly radiation has been released from the damaged plant and the
accident is far from over
nuclear power plant accident inside the Soviet Union around the plant breeding
natural radiation levels they gonna bleak to mobilize it is almost half a
world away residents throughout the Northland are worried worried about the
possible health effects from fallout worried about the safety of our own
nuclear reactors and worried about the possible economic consequences of the
accident on the 26th of April 1986 and event took place that officially killed
31 people and left an unknown number of people affected for the rest of their
lives
it rewrote the safety rules in nuclear energy and causing 1000 mile radius to
be safely uninhabitable to humans for a few hundred years it was the Chernobyl
nuclear disaster and in this video you will see that it wasn't the three almost
forgotten heroes things could have been so much worse versus go back to March
1970 work begins on the construction of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
located near the city of Chernobyl Pripyat in northern ukraine by 1983 for
nuclear reactors are built between them their pairing 10% of Ukraine's
electricity fast forward to the early hours of the 26th November 1986 sixteen
years after the plans Commission and workers at the nuclear plant are
carrying out tests on reactor number four
there are many inaccuracies and thought that has violated several safety
regulations and this combined with the frog design in the reactors used at
chernobyl cause a sudden power surge and an emergency shutdown was implemented
this failed and as the workers could feel the ground trembling beneath them
they knew something bad was coming
seconds later an explosion occurs followed by a second more powerful
explosion a blast at 12:10 cover off the reactor into the air releasing deadly
radioactive vapor and a spray of colorful bright fire 1000 metres into
the sky the alarms were activated and the first on the scene were financed it
said they had no idea what they were dealing with but knew the risks that the
radiation and if they had followed regulations would have never gone yet
the reactor but had no choice a tackle the plate without any protective gear
exposing themselves in deadly radiation and despite their efforts the fire could
not be brought under control
two men died that day the night shift main circulating pump operator who is
most likely killed immediately at his body was never discovered and the
automatic system that gesture was found unconscious in 1604 pinned under a
foreign people and was contaminated by radioactive water to show how much
radiation this man had been exposed to one of the power plant workers suffered
a radiation burn on his back with this man's hand was located when you help
carrying out there is an unconfirmed story that shortly after the explosion
many locals gathered on a railway bridge that had a good view of the nuclear
plant to witness the colorful flames coming from the reactor they had no idea
that any air was a lethal dose of radiation apparently no one survived on
the bridge is now referred to as the bridge then like I said this isn't
confirmed but the bridge does exist and if people was today for long enough
there is no denying they would have been exposed to deadly amount of radiation
tales aside in the days that followed the explosion the authorities were slow
to react and acknowledged the dangers posed by this accident they were in fact
in denial that any radiation was leaking out and told higher class officials who
were ringing and wondering what happened that everything was under control and
the radiation levels will maxing out on the meters but the maximum limit at
these meetings were capable of showing was nothing would come back you eating
the area for
of course in reality the level of radiation in the area was above and
beyond anything that could read and radiation levels were astronomically
high in the nearby town of Pripyat and the people were told there was a fire at
the power plant and that they had nothing to worry about
so life carried on as normal children to school and residents went to work
completely oblivious and the invisible lethal radiation they are being exposed
to the levels with fifteen thousand times higher than usual and rising it
took thirty hours before the Pripyat residents were ordered to evacuate and
eighty mile area around the power plant was closed and residents were given two
hours notice to gather their belongings and get out there were told they'd be
returning in a few days but this never happened around 43,000 people who once
called pripyat their home when I'm known as the first atomic refugees a title he
never imagined being given the only people left in the area was one old man
who refused to evacuate and was found dead in his home in a few weeks later
and the military and scientific delegates were tasked with getting the
still burning reactor under control they were living unprotected in the local
hotel seemingly unaware of the dangers post them from the extremely high levels
of radiation in the days after the explosion clouds of radioactive matter
being blown or drifting over Russia and reaching as far as Sweden despite
radioactive does draining down Stockholm there was still no official report
outside of the Soviet Union
it took three days for the rest of the world to know and this coincided with
the report that us' by satellite had spotted the wreckage of the burning
Chernobyl plant by now the whole of Europe is at risk of contamination the
plan was still burning and something had to be done urgently to put out the fire
and steel reactor number four
to prevent any more radiation from spilling out pilot reports in to fly
helicopters above the reactor and dropped thousands of tons of sand clay
and neutron absorbing boron onto the blaze in an attempt to smother the
flames and neutralize the radiation many soldiers would pull the sanding from
Saks was hovering directly above the reactor a weekly although the flames
were brought under control that he had not I was causing the base of the
reactor to crack the workers knew that below the reactor was a water reservoir
and also a basement that would have been filled with water from the firefighters
water hoses if the radioactive magma made contact with the pool of water
underneath this would have caused a massive steam explosion throwing out
more radioactive material from the reactor and therefore it was absolutely
necessary to drink this water by doing so another explosion could be prevented
and the area below the reactor could then be filled with liquid nitrogen tank
unit 3 plant workers who knew where the valves word that would allow the water
to drain volunteered to go down these brave men went underneath with what
turned out to be a faulty lamb to locate the valves in complete darkness and swam
through highly radioactive water they open the valves amateur in Japan but
sadly all died shortly after from the radiation certainly knew what happened
as a result of their heroic seat
with the water drained authorities called on the help of ten thousand
miners with the aim of tunneling underneath the reactor to cool the base
down and stop it from melting through the ground by pumping in liquid nitrogen
there is some doubt as to whether this operation was completed because I found
conflicting reports but eventually it seems the liquid nitrogen was stopped
and the area beneath the reactor was filled with concrete whatever happened
to those three men prevent another explosion and if they had enough you
probably wouldn't be listening to me right now as the explosion would have
been so catastrophic would have put the whole of Europe at risk with the area
somewhere under control and the threat of another explosion eliminated workers
set about sealing of the reactor in order to minimize the spread of
radiation a massive structure was designed and it became known as project
sarcophagus it covered the exploded reactor and was completed by December
1986 8 months after the disaster that is thought to be around 800,000 people who
risk their lives in 1986 in an attempt to contain and clean up the Chernobyl
disaster site
many of these heroic people received medals for their work and 28 died as a
result of acute radiation sickness in the weeks after initial exposure with
this the long-term effects of the millions of other people exposed in
clear and there is no definitive figure on how many people now suffer long-term
health problems have died prematurely or how many people have given birth defect
to children but it's thought thousands of actual cancer deaths have been
directly caused by the accident although officials are still reluctant to
associate these deaths the Chernobyl disaster the effects of the disaster are
still very real to this day the exclusion zone covers an area of 1000
miles around the power plant and although many live in this area at their
own risk many workers appropriate and many other areas close to the reactor a
ghost and nobody ever return to live there and the Haunted images show how
lies must have been shattered that day one astonishing thing about the area
surrounding the chernobyl plant though is the abundant wild lines despite the
area still being contaminated many animals who are disappearing from the
area around the power plant prior to the accident have thrived and studies have
shown that deer elk wolves and wild boars relatively unaffected by the
contaminated land these findings contradict original thought that the
disaster would have a detrimental and devastating effect on the local wildlife
creating deformed alien like radioactive creatures that they all seem to be
living happily in the environment although some animals have had a rise in
the forties and invertebrates population has decreased but nowhere near like
experts had predicted the Chernobyl disaster initially took the lives of two
workers followed by 29 people later from radiation related deaths and four men
from a helicopter that crashed trying to contain the fire at the plant in total
the Chernobyl accident caused the Soviet Union the equivalent of 200 billion
pounds and drove millions from their homes making it the biggest nuclear
disaster in history and we can only hope that it will stay that way forever and
ever any new the full extent of this disaster for heavy research
I realize how devastating it must have been involved I hope I have shown some
light on the builder the event and the after man and also those three men
prevented something much much worse from taking place I hope you've enjoyed this
video thanks for watching now see you again in the next one