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Chernobyl: Revisited 20 Years After The Disaster
This is one of the best clips about the Chernobyl disaster and its nuclear reactor facility online. On April 26, 1986, the forth reactor of the power plant exploded, which has been widely regarded as the worst accident in the history of nuclear power. You will see inside the power plant today and the very control panel that has made Chernobyl the uninhabitable wasteland that it is today. Must see environmental documentary (16:44)
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Really sad story. The problem is that it affects all of Europe. A little more than 30km they describe in the video.
The wiki page has a lot more information about the health effects of the disaster.
Wow At the end the worker that caused the whole thing stayed for hours to try and stop it.Then died 2 hours later.That is something. I would not want to live after that.I would have stayed to.
Wasteland is a bit rich isn't it? As far as towns go it's definitely derelict but environmentally it's thriving, it's pretty much the polar opposite of what people thought would happen.
Yes it is environmentally thriving but radioactive particles settle on trees too - decomposing their form over the years. Perhaps if studied today some might even show signs of mutation and that they adapted to survive in such an environment.
What a tragedy, I wonder how much we really learnt from the that disaster. Is nuclear power really neccessary to our existence? The video kept cutting out on me, so I did'nt watch it.
Nuclear power is certainly not the way for the future. It's too risky when there are better alternatives.
You should let the video load before watching it. It is a little longer than average.
Yes it is. And it's a great pain that this power plant exploded and made people doubt whether the nuclear energy is that necessary.
I personally believe that no cheap, safe and effective replace for nuclear plants have been invented yet. Solar plants and windmills aren't much safer and are much more expensive. They harm the environment, too, maybe in a less obvious but not in a less effective way.
The nuclear power is the only option. All we need is to do all we can to prevent such incidents in the future. Which we do.
On a side note: The reporter who made this (Richard Carleton) died of a heart attack shortly after the story was aired in Australia. He was filming on another story when it happened.
You feel that solar and wind energy has the capacity to destroy and affect life utterly in such a comparable way as nuclear energy?
Personally I fail to see armament warheads being generated from natural energy.
Nuclear power is not the option, all it takes is human error.
ok what happened here was poor rusian design. Mainly using Graphite control rods versus Cadnium and not building a protective structure around the building to prevent widespread fallout. Better designs exist today and with a well trained, sober staff the plant won't go crazy. Seriously nuclear is a safe technology form a scientific point of view.
Nuclear Power is the future, and can only be made safer. On a scale of power generated by alternate sources nothing comes close to generating enough power to compensate the loss of one nuclear plant.
We have Hydrogen, Nuclear and Solar Plants where I live, and the Hydrogen and Solar Plants are just back ups for the Nuclear. Infact I pass the Hydrogen plant daily.
Kudos to the Irish
Sorry what the hell do you mean nuclear power is no way forward, did you not bother to watch your own video??
It says clearly that they were breaking at least 6 of the safty rules, and had poor training. Well that clearly says that nuclear is not the problem its poor training and soviets building cheep shoody power plants.
Besides the nuclear power dream is for fussion not messy fission plants like this.
Bother to do some research before making such stupid comments, your own video clearly contridicts your views.
How does the video contradict my views?
Poor design, human error and breaking safety rules is not the question here. If something can go wrong, it will go wrong.
Do you even imagine what would happen if nuclear went mainstream? The first target if two countries go to war would be nuclear power plants. Why? Don't get me started..
What's more, solar and wind power are not the only alternatives. There is tidal energy among others that we never hear of because no one cares to research them. I'm pretty sure enough money is not going to "hard-to-accomplish" projects.
Future of power generation: Nuclear Fusion. Yes Fusion, and not the awful nuclear fission we have now.
http://www.iter.org/
Fusion will supply the rapid growth of the global economy far into the future, with no adverse environmental effects.
Thank you my friend for finally mentioning nuclear fusion power.
It is much safer than fission (which breaks down nuclear fuel) because it works by combining two different nuclear fuel to give out energy. This means if anything goes wrong, the fuel supply can be cut off and the reactor can be brought to control in a matter of seconds (unlike a fission chain reaction that is difficult to control).
UPDATE: I decided to write a post outlining the major differences between Fission and Fusion nuclear power.
Thanks for posting this video about Chernobyl ... very compelling.
You and your readers might also be interested in this Magnum photo essay on the same topic:
Chernobyl Legacy
Bye for now,
Dale
Fulbert,
Your post is one of the stupidest post I have encountered. Educate yourself before you make a post. Stop talking out of your ass.
i saw a video about this once. the problem was there were graphite tips on the control rods causing a massive power surge. It buckeled the slots for the control rods so they could not go back in. it was two divers who stopped the situation from getting worse. if it hadent have been for them there would have been a thermal explosion which would have flattened anything within 160 sq kilometers
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