Kysthym: The Nuclear Disaster That No One Talks About...

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  • Unveiling the forgotten Kyshtym Disaster of 1957: a chilling tale of nuclear fallout, secrecy, and human resilience. Explore the untold story of one of history's worst nuclear catastrophes.
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  • @ballinlikestalin878
    @ballinlikestalin878 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +240

    Sending people back into an irradiated location without their knowledge to study the results. Fallout writers: "write that down, write that down"!

    • @Oddball_E8
      @Oddball_E8 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Yeah, it's the kind of shit the US would only do to their african-american population.

  • @barrydysert2974
    @barrydysert2974 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +55

    i very nearly skipped this episode. i'm a one time History major, now a full-time Buff, who thought he was well versed in the story of Kysthym. You wildly exceeded my expectations by bringing the focus of the story into the present day. Kudos and thank You. Learning something new every day gives me one more reason to keep on living !:-) 🙏💜⚡

    • @fufication
      @fufication 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      damn, imagine being both a major and a history buff and not knowing surface level googleable things about something you thought you were well versed in.

    • @Blackpapalink
      @Blackpapalink 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@fufication College in a nutshell.

  • @MrKawaltd750
    @MrKawaltd750 วันที่ผ่านมา +140

    I have stopped counting the nuclear "accidents" that occured in the Tcheliabinsk area; especially at the Mayack complex..... The place must be as worse as Tchenobyl.

    • @the_retag
      @the_retag วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      Yep. And its similarity radioactive, if not worst

    • @shakaliha8386
      @shakaliha8386 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +15

      yes I saw page about маяк on wikipedia and I was shocked how many accidents happened there and nothing was done. Also one of my relatives was taking part in liquidation of this accident in 1957, I don't remember but my grandma told that he died from cancer.

    • @Pateramalina
      @Pateramalina 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +10

      @@the_retag Chernobyl is pretty safe to stay there for weeks. Went there in 2019.
      Mayak area is something different, there are places that could kill you in about 1h. xD Its one of dirtiest places in whole russia.
      Whole cheliabinsk oblast is wasteland.

    • @shakaliha8386
      @shakaliha8386 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@Pateramalinaas I remember маяк complex still functioning, but since 2000 there wasn’t any accidents, but anyway there still a possibility of accidents

    • @the_retag
      @the_retag 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@Pateramalina some places yes, on the other hand you can still work in the plant, even if its unhealthy. Chornobyl has bad areas as well, there was just a lot more mitigation work done

  • @severeon
    @severeon วันที่ผ่านมา +164

    Congratulations, genuinely. You covered a nuclear disaster before Kyle Hill

    • @mercuryredstone2235
      @mercuryredstone2235 20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +22

      Yeah, Kyle Hill is slouching on this nuclear disaster.

    • @theanthill22
      @theanthill22 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      All hail ghetto Thor!

    • @jblob5764
      @jblob5764 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +12

      And Plainly Difficult

    • @LightBlueVans
      @LightBlueVans 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

      i’m shocked i hadn’t seen this on either of their channels first

    • @pikmaniac2643
      @pikmaniac2643 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +10

      Plainly Difficult already covered that early on.

  • @nostradamus930
    @nostradamus930 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +48

    Soviet commissar to a Russian child: have you ever cleaned up radioactive waste
    Child: no
    Commissar: well you're going to today

    • @B.404M
      @B.404M ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Okay.. is there a punchline? I couldn’t find it 😐

  • @pgbrown12084
    @pgbrown12084 วันที่ผ่านมา +162

    The more I hear about the Soviet Union, the more I'm baffled by how anyone thought the system was in any way sustainable during that time. Granted, every country has its own screw-ups, but very few have utterly devastated their own country just so other countries would think they were cool.

    • @cal2127
      @cal2127 วันที่ผ่านมา +27

      welcome to communism

    • @andybeans5790
      @andybeans5790 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

      Information control

    • @MrKawaltd750
      @MrKawaltd750 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      @@andybeans5790 yep, good old information control at its best....

    • @front2760
      @front2760 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The Aral Sea is another blunder.

    • @karlhombaker3894
      @karlhombaker3894 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

      ​@@cal2127 not that we're entirely guilt free, we accidentally dropped live nukes on Canada, Greenland, and Spain. Castle Bravo nuke test was twice the yield the scientists expected, and killed several Japanese fishermen, as well as spreading to s of fallout all over the marshal islands. The military had a nuclear reactor blow up in Idaho "The SL-1 reactor accident in 1961 at an Army research facility in Idaho Falls, Idaho, was the only fatal nuclear reactor accident in the United States". And there's still a nuclear bomb rotting somewhere in the swamps of South Carolina.
      The Soviets just managed to screw up bigger😅

  • @oldblueshirtguy
    @oldblueshirtguy วันที่ผ่านมา +202

    3:50 Aurora borealis, at that time of year, in that part of the country, localised entirely within their nuclear facility?

  • @jeremymontgomery9354
    @jeremymontgomery9354 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +38

    When the state economic policy is conscription at gunpoint, it's dangerous for anyone to question the state.

    • @joeds3775
      @joeds3775 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      Welcome to trumpland.

  • @dansvec5411
    @dansvec5411 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +20

    I actually read a brief story about this as a kid in the 60's. It was very sketchy, and didn't get into specifics, but I remember the part about driving as fast as you can and not stopping. Then, in the 90s, when the extent of the disaster became known, it made sense. Good stuff on your channel!

    • @CAMacKenzie
      @CAMacKenzie 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I had read an article in the '60s, too, perhaps the same one, as it was vague, but spoke of an unnamed person seeing a devastated area with dying trees from a train while travelling in the Soviet Union, and rumors of an enormous nuclear accident. Unnamed persons and rumors don't encourage belief, but nevertheless I filed the article away in my mind and remembered it.

  • @mskellyrlv
    @mskellyrlv 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +25

    This accident had one of the same causes which led to the Chernobyl disaster almost 30 years later: ignorance. At Chernobyl, the reactor operators were unaware of the role xenon 135 (one product of uranium 235 fission) played in the neutron economy of their reactor. At Kyshtym, the facility operators were unaware of the April 16, 1947 disaster at Texas City, Texas. On that day, a cargo ship carrying 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded, killing 581 people, and destroying so much of Texas City that the damage was estimated at more than $700. (I mean, it WAS Texas City...) The Kyshtym facility used a chemical extraction method to separate plutonium from spent reactor fuel that utilized the fact that ammonium nitrate is an excellent solvent for plutonium, but not the other spent fuel constituents. Ammonium nitrate is a strong oxidizer, and when mixed with a fuel (such as fuel oil), is the most widely used explosive on Earth. But it doesn't need a fuel to detonate - it will do so all by itself if it gets hot enough, as the Texas City disaster showed. (Astute viewers may also recall the August 4 2020 explosion in Beirut, Lebanon: 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse exploded, killing 218 and doing $15 billion dollars damage to the city.) The United States stopped using ammonium nitrate to separate plutonium from production reactors entirely after Texas CIty, but the Soviets evidently didn't get the memo. Or perhaps they just ignored it based on economic grounds. After all, the ammonium nitrate is MUCH cheaper than the ammonium dayrate.

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      "Ammonium dayrate"
      "After all, it WAS Texas City."
      I laughed, but there were around 600 people that perished in Texas City that day.
      Many because they'd crowded into an adjacent parking lot to watch the ship burn.
      ...It was Texas City.

    • @alenaadler8242
      @alenaadler8242 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      😅

    • @alenaadler8242
      @alenaadler8242 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Wow, I have a dark sense of humor, laughing at a pun like that.

    • @mskellyrlv
      @mskellyrlv 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@grmpEqweer Too soon?

    • @TheCatBilbo
      @TheCatBilbo 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      Sorry, I heard "cheaper" & everything else was a blur; safety - what's that?!

  • @crowejoy
    @crowejoy 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +25

    There was a book in the 70’s …… “ Disaster in the Urals”.It was about Kyshtem.I also remember reading an article in a science magazine in the early 80’s.

    • @danielmorse4213
      @danielmorse4213 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Yes.

    • @jothain
      @jothain 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      To my understanding there has been stuff about this incident for decades, but it has just stayed little known thing.

  • @maxwirt921
    @maxwirt921 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +27

    Aurora Borealis!? At this time of day, in this part of the country, localized ENTIRELY within Chelyabinsk? May I see it?

    • @bmstylee
      @bmstylee 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +9

      Thank you Super Nintendo Chalmers

    • @nickyang1143
      @nickyang1143 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

      No

    • @adamgrog9614
      @adamgrog9614 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Deadly artificial respiratory virus suddenly emerging in a wet market right next to a institue of virology? The more time change....

  • @Adamsadventures83
    @Adamsadventures83 วันที่ผ่านมา +51

    "Drive top speed for next 20-30km" translation, "Drive top speed for next 35km, and you'll be mostly safe"

    • @djdrack4681
      @djdrack4681 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

      Ricky Bobby: "I wanna go fast, I wanna go fast, I wanna go fast"

    • @mwolkove
      @mwolkove 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Translation: there are no cops, have fun, then get the fuck away from here.

    • @DamnedSilly
      @DamnedSilly 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      I'd suggest "Well, it's too late now. Better go like hell and hope for the best."

  • @rtyrsson
    @rtyrsson 20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +18

    "We don't ask questions" applied to almost everything in Eastern Bloc nations, not just Kysthym. Having travelled into East Germany (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) almost immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall it seems everyone used that as a means of self-preservation. Of course, the government knew better, but if you claimed to know nothing, and the official government line was that there was nothing, then self-preservation was more likely. The entire regime was built on lies, and everyone knew that they were lies, but exposing the lies was a deadly gambit. In the end, it turned out that fully one-third of East Germany was acting as informant (to a greater or lesser extent) on the rest of the country. The Soviet Union was not quite so bad, close, but not as severe. Expressing an unapproved opinion could destroy you. Bottom line: It was all a house of lies.

    • @mirola73
      @mirola73 14 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      The Russians and Chinese still don't look at the mess in those countries.

  • @scopeawl
    @scopeawl วันที่ผ่านมา +29

    Dude i was just looking for something to watch! I find this stuff so interesting what's going on in some corner of the world

    • @tigerpjm
      @tigerpjm 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      That's good.

  • @Bezerk_08
    @Bezerk_08 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +17

    That settlement is the biggest slap 😦 n the face ive seen in a while

    • @teebob21
      @teebob21 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Here's $2 a month; go pound sand.

  • @Pateramalina
    @Pateramalina 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

    they were not only dumping waste into the river, WHOLE reactor core was cooled by this river directly xD

  • @daviddavidson2357
    @daviddavidson2357 วันที่ผ่านมา +39

    Aurora borealis?
    What were they making there? Forbidden steamed hams?

    • @Rayman1971
      @Rayman1971 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      Shhhhh....that's legend!!!!!

    • @Jezus42
      @Jezus42 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

      Rainbow beef. 🌈

    • @AspieMBProject2012
      @AspieMBProject2012 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

      "Aurora Borealis? At this time of the year, at this time of the day, in this part of Chelyabinsk, localized entirely at this nuclear facility??"
      "Yes."
      "May I see it?"
      "NYET!"

    • @Rayman1971
      @Rayman1971 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@AspieMBProject2012 Aaaaahh!!! Help, Seymourski, the reactor is on fire!!!

    • @AjitAdonisManilal
      @AjitAdonisManilal 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      Radioactive steamed hams

  • @ianemery2925
    @ianemery2925 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    I read up on this years ago; as I understand it, there were THREE incidents that EACH released more radioactive material than Chernobyl; making the oblast the most radioactive place on the planet.
    Right up until around 10-15 years ago, it was illegal to list cancer as the cause of death on a death certificate; and many never get to celebrate their 50th birthday.
    Back in the mid 2000s, when I was internet dating, there were lots of pretty, young women from the area, desperately trying to find a husband who would get them out of Russia; I felt really sad for them, because, having grown up there, they had perhaps 20 years left, before cancer claimed them.
    About 10 years ago, on a whim, I tried to find a road route from Europe to my wife's home town in China, the only non rail route I could find, - ran straight through the place.

  • @jimihendricks5602
    @jimihendricks5602 วันที่ผ่านมา +27

    I think you beat Kyle Hill to this one Simon. Lol

    • @4ryan42
      @4ryan42 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Was thinking the exact same thing.

    • @Humble-iq5ue
      @Humble-iq5ue วันที่ผ่านมา

      Jimi *Hendrick's Dry GIN*

    • @youoweme5forreadingthisnam535
      @youoweme5forreadingthisnam535 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Kyle hill is gay

    • @Idrinklight44
      @Idrinklight44 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Plainly difficult also

    • @dongately2817
      @dongately2817 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Hill has included this in a couple of his videos - can’t beat the radioactive king

  • @esabelmaria
    @esabelmaria 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    You should look up the move "The Stalker", they laid in pools of chemicals to film it and most of them died of complications of exposure to the chemicals. Now people calling themselves stalkers take tourists to irradiated areas in Russia.

  • @dimitrilensflareabrams2893
    @dimitrilensflareabrams2893 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    This is still not a reason to give up nuclear power wholesale.
    Rather, its a reason to be that much more careful with it.

    • @MrNicoJac
      @MrNicoJac 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      No, it's a reason to have a government that is not-stoopid enough to realize that your economy is composed of your population, and that their health is therefore in the national interest.
      And not-stoopid enough to realize that physics does not care about our feelings, pride, or convenience.
      So lying to save face, dodge responsibility, or underestimate problems only makes you pay a much much steeper price down the line....
      (but it's hard to get to a place where politicians are _only_ rewarded for actual statecraft and nation building)

    • @dimitrilensflareabrams2893
      @dimitrilensflareabrams2893 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @MrNicoJac These two things can go hand in hand with each other.
      The US Navy would seem to know this which is why naval reactors have never had a failure as severe as Chernobyl.

  • @kryts27
    @kryts27 20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    First time i've heard of this Soviet nuclear disaster. Final words; not only robbed them of their dignity but their health, livelihoods and future.

  • @kizmetmars
    @kizmetmars วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    @IntotheShadows Hello, just letting you know that Simon isn't in focus, the cacti are. It's easiest to see at 8:51. I don't know your camera set up so I can't say whats the easiest way to fix this. But, a stand-in for Simon is probably the simplest universal solution and by stand in, even just a paper face for auto-focus to focus on would work.
    Much love!

  • @tommiefunk2099
    @tommiefunk2099 วันที่ผ่านมา +40

    Maybe the real world's worst enemy are the friends we made along the way.

    • @duncancurtis5108
      @duncancurtis5108 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Lost count of how many kyshtymographics Simons done.

  • @thedungeondelver
    @thedungeondelver วันที่ผ่านมา +397

    Russians and causing misery. Name a more iconic duo.

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I mean the human species is overall pretty excellent at ruining pretty well everything.
      I guess you could top it with humans and damage to nature? Or however you would like to word it.

    • @dantemoose420
      @dantemoose420 วันที่ผ่านมา +86

      America and causing extremism?

    • @margaretthatcher6828
      @margaretthatcher6828 วันที่ผ่านมา +18

      @@dantemoose420 There it is...

    • @Caperhere
      @Caperhere วันที่ผ่านมา +24

      Trump and MAGA.

    • @travisinthetrunk
      @travisinthetrunk วันที่ผ่านมา +29

      Trump and crazy

  • @NotAvailable-b6d
    @NotAvailable-b6d 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

    "North East Ural Trace" was known in the the west during the cold war .. Its cause was unknown until 1991 .. It was considered the worst nuclear accident until Chernobyl ..

  • @AnonYmous-yz9zq
    @AnonYmous-yz9zq 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

    The trouble with lying, you forget which things are the lies.

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      So do the people. Tell 'em enough lies, and they'll believe anything you want. That's lesson number one at Chump University, baby! 💪😎✌️ And don't forget Donny's six "D"s... deny, delay, distract, denounce, distance, do it all over again. 😂 #RussianMobMentality

  • @HeartcoreMitRA
    @HeartcoreMitRA 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Mayak is an overall very grim thing to begin with. Keep in mind it's very first efforts to deal with the nuclear materials. People didn't know much about the radiation and it's effects by then, add soviet's total disreguard for human life on top of it and you'll get an idea.
    Like using manual labor to unclog the pipes from radioactive material, or one instance when they've dumped so much radioactive waste from the station they have BOILED THE RIVER.

  • @matthewmccarthy1247
    @matthewmccarthy1247 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    A very powerful presentation.

  • @zebrion5793
    @zebrion5793 วันที่ผ่านมา +49

    "What is the cost of lies?"
    Humans shouldn't be trusted with this kind of power.

    • @benallen7704
      @benallen7704 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Humans shouldn't be trusted. Period.

    • @lynnefox4892
      @lynnefox4892 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

      Humans are defined by being unworthy of trust around powerful things. That's the tale of Prometheus.

    • @AlmostOmniscient
      @AlmostOmniscient 20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@lynnefox4892Not sure how Prometheus, a titan and god, stealing fire justifiies a cynical outlook on humanity due hierarchy-based failures and dealing with new technology, but go off.

    • @robinseibel7540
      @robinseibel7540 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

      Nuclear power is safe, despite incidents like this, and it's even safer now than it's ever been. Nuclear power is a necessary component of addressing energy production in warming climate and providing energy for an energy hungry world.

    • @colin1344
      @colin1344 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      You can trust me.

  • @markgigiel2722
    @markgigiel2722 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

    They were desperate to have children. Even sick ones. THAT is what drives me crazy about our species. Even now.

    • @dutchess406
      @dutchess406 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      Fr stop having children for awhile ppl!

    • @jamesgodfrey1322
      @jamesgodfrey1322 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      In a way, having children was a form of welfare. In the culture we are talking about, your children would look after you in old age, and that is why, in part, you need children who will, in effect, take over the farm and make a living for the generational family, all living under one roof.

    • @almostdefinitelynotme8415
      @almostdefinitelynotme8415 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I mean, reproduction is literally THE goal of all life - ingrained into every cell of every organism
      Anything that DOESNT want children won't be a species for long

    • @markgigiel2722
      @markgigiel2722 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@jamesgodfrey1322 Not if you know they will be born very sick, but have them anyway.

  • @samham3408
    @samham3408 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Fantastic reporting, best effort to document I've heard.

  • @iantaylor3449
    @iantaylor3449 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    This was the basis/ inspiration for Boris and Arkady Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic. The basis for STALKER. Not Chornobyl. This was their way of talking about it without getting in trouble.

  • @ianb4618
    @ianb4618 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +7

    Op should do an update about Fukushima in Japan. Haven't heard a thing about what is going on over there in years.

    • @joeds3775
      @joeds3775 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Nothing to tell

    • @IHgg-m1p
      @IHgg-m1p 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Absolute shit show, basically relying on technology to improve

    • @ianb4618
      @ianb4618 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@joeds3775 the situation hasn't improved? Is that why there is nothing to tell?

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Bad news is bad for tourism, publicity, and image. Therefore, "everything is great". 😁 That's how it is in every country which is currently failing; things are GREAT.
      That's also why now that Chump is making a fake newsified return, only GOOD news about him will be permitted. 💪😎✌️ No crimes occurred, he never did anything illegal, he's solely responsible for the GOOD things on this planet, and there were never any shady shenanigans over his 60+ years of debauchery. He's flawless, perfect, and celestially omnipotent. Knowledgeable about every possible facet of skills and trades, and there is absolutely nothing and no one better than *Him.* He's all-knowing, and an expert at economics, warfare, logistics, technology, communications, politics, finances, acting, directing, clothing, cars, the internet, TikTok, etc. No mistakes are ever made by a God. ⚔️🇱🇷⚔️ #Chump4Ever

    • @mikza29_
      @mikza29_ 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@ianb4618 It has improved, in 2021 government opened the old alienation zone as far as 3 km from the power plant, because the level of radiation is almost the same as the background radiation.
      Nonetheless people are scared because of radiophobia and media altering and exaggerating the reality of radiation so nobody ever came back to live there.

  • @CreepyFungus29
    @CreepyFungus29 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Stalker 2 just dropped, now this. Urbex fellows are fucking feasting

  • @JeremyPickett
    @JeremyPickett 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    One of the pieces of film used had a Russian scientist standing over a large copper piece of equipment with pipes coming off in specific ways. That makes friend isnt a piece of nuclear kit, it is the other very, very Russian thing: it was a vodka still. And a rather nice one. Copper is usually for whisky, but it makes for a slightly better, livlier vodka.
    I am not saying you cant fission with vodka equipment, in just saying... Why would you want to? Plus it makes everything else so much more believable:) arpund the 4:25 or so mark)

  • @ronmaximilian6953
    @ronmaximilian6953 20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    The Soviet nuclear weapons and energy production industry have left plenty of ticking tie bombs.

  • @wahidtrynaheghugh260
    @wahidtrynaheghugh260 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Wanting to have children in a situation like that is frankly incredibly selfish. You don’t have the means to afford them a better life where they can leave the poisoned area. They will be burdened with health issues. You are bringing someone into hell and they can’t even consent to it.

  • @juavi6987
    @juavi6987 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    It is still a CLOSED CITY.

  • @CapoRip
    @CapoRip 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    1:58 The waste was absolutely not stored in modern western commercial used fuel dry casks such as these.

    • @JaydenGiertych
      @JaydenGiertych 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Wait then where

    • @mikza29_
      @mikza29_ 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Of coirse not, it was the 50s and it was Soviet Union, where safety has NEVER been a requirement.
      The casks that we use nowdays are missle, train and plane crash resistant, pratically impossible to destroy.

  • @DamnedSilly
    @DamnedSilly 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +9

    Despite what movies and video games might imply it's highly unlikely a child having an extra finger had anything to do with radiation. That's just not how that works. Polydactyly is actually way more common than people think and it often runs in families. The only reason you don't run across people with extra fingers or toes is they tend to be removed very early.

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      I had a friend with a sixth toe. She ran around in sandals with painted toenails.

    • @nealrasmussen4832
      @nealrasmussen4832 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      And can really rip on a guitar!?

    • @jothain
      @jothain 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      Birth defects are proven facts about radiation. You really, really should educate yourself on the subject.

    • @nealrasmussen4832
      @nealrasmussen4832 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @jothain gamma likes to blow DNA strands apart? Go figure...

    • @sapien82
      @sapien82 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      i remember going to en exhibit in Edinburgh with my mum and it was about the Chernobyl incident and it had all sorts of displays and items and various other pictures. It also had displays of how it affected Scotland after the accident. There were multiple pictures of farm animals with defects including two headed animals, I guess those who survive radiation and then procreate do have a higher chance of having offspring with birth defects than those not exposed to significant levels of radiation.

  • @LinusBerglund
    @LinusBerglund 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    There is a film about the accident that was noninated for an emmy. "City 40".

  • @1themaster1
    @1themaster1 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    It is still puzzling how Fukushima is a 7 and Kyshtym is a 6. If Kyshtym happened today, with investigative reporters of large media companies battling it out with thousands of private content creators within the mechanisms of our modern attention economy, we would be bombarded with the impressions of it and the world would be shocked to the bone. The political reactions we saw with Fukushima (as we saw especially in Germany) could be more widespread with this one, with our collective trauma response shaping our policies if we want it or not.
    EDIT: Well, the INES scale rates the incidents by the number of evacuations, and the Soviets evacuated 10K after the Kyshtym event, while Japan evacuated 150K after Fukushima. Which tbf rather seems to be a function of the lower level of dishonesty, corruption and intransparence within Japanese political culture compared to the Russian and Soviet ones. Since at least 270K lived in the area affected by fallout, it easily should have been a 7 if the operatives involved weren't such jerks. Of course that level of cover-up wasn't possible in Chernobyl given the local population density, the proximity to the West and the meteorological bad luck combining in an SHTF manner, as well as the more mature state of media at the time, bringing the evacuees above 300K. Still, realistiically, Kyshtym 1957 IS a 7.

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      As I understand it, a higher seawall was discussed at Fuku. (Edit, during construction.)

  • @stevearkham4827
    @stevearkham4827 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Why do vowel deficient places sound ripe for nuclear disaster? Is it just me

  • @ddoppster
    @ddoppster 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    The great line from the recent movie on Chernobyl, "What is the cost of lies", seems to echo on every Soviet/Russian story I read........................

  • @mirola73
    @mirola73 9 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    When you're labelled 'an enemy of the state' when you start asking questions you know you're on the right path and there are secrets to be uncovered.

  • @Les_Grossman
    @Les_Grossman 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    20 Bucks a month for being irradiated? Sounds absolutely reasonable!

  • @AjitAdonisManilal
    @AjitAdonisManilal 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Superintendent Chalmers: Aurora Borealis?

  • @josephpiskac2781
    @josephpiskac2781 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

    I grew up in 1950s 1960s Omaha Nebraska. As children being down wind of open air Nevada nuclear testing we were told not to eat winter snowfall. Later it seemed dying of cancer had become as wide spread as the common cold. While it became obvious something had changed the government media presented that increased cancer was due to the increased stress of urban living. Eventually the population possibly affected by radiation died and people stopped dying from urban stress.

  • @ballistics343
    @ballistics343 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    We have this waste and nowhere to put it.
    *Dumps in river.*
    Waste is gone! Smekalka!

  • @lexinexi-hj7zo
    @lexinexi-hj7zo วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    What happens when you make ANFO Ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, but then "pepper it" with radio active by products like cobalt 60 strontium90 iodine 131 etc etc and you let it get so hot it detonates? Well the chemical reaction was big but even bigger was the east ural's radioactive trace. = Chernobyl.

  • @RoBert-ix6ev
    @RoBert-ix6ev 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    All the damage and then the cleanup costs... I mean, how much would it cost to proactively repair that cooling system...?

  • @rayrous8229
    @rayrous8229 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

    Mutants for nuclear power!
    Women for Trump!
    Cows for beef!

    • @JesseJoyce-cj2xg
      @JesseJoyce-cj2xg วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      😂😂 oh god damn that made me laugh

  • @tarlneustaedter
    @tarlneustaedter 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    For what it’s worth, the name is misspelled in the title - the first h goes with an s, not a t. Kyshtym, not kysthym.

  • @DianaDeLuna
    @DianaDeLuna 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    This is like Simon's 4th video on Kyshtym, and he still hasn't figured out how to properly pronounce "Techa."

  • @coolthings3899
    @coolthings3899 40 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    SIMMMONNN WEEXLLAA! On his ninth channel…. Here we go!

  • @alexeipistoun9783
    @alexeipistoun9783 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I think your ruble conversions seem to be off, I think your using the modern conversion vs what it was back then

  • @iowatrouble
    @iowatrouble 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Gulags for women journalists by University of Iowa Prof Mike Davis says the exact same words as the 1957 Soviets after a nuclear catastrophe. The algorithm recognized I did a web search of a mentally deranged lawyer & architect for the kids in cages and I was recommend this video about Kysthym.

  • @F-sj7cu
    @F-sj7cu 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    1:27 what’s radiactive waste?

  • @timberwolf0122
    @timberwolf0122 20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    The aurora borealis, at this latitude, at this time of year and located entirely inside tank 14

  • @jergar3953
    @jergar3953 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    The day of "the solution to pollution is dilution" mindset.

  • @partygrove5321
    @partygrove5321 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    The USSR was the pits.

  • @bjorn47
    @bjorn47 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Do check out the great documentary "City 40" about this incident1

  • @rokasb9441
    @rokasb9441 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    2 cool things: 1) there will never be eough stories about soviet nuclear shenanigans, and 2) this video is proof for unbelievers, that Simon, indeed, is real and not AI :D

  • @MystRunner916
    @MystRunner916 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Okay guys the high pictched bleeps....not needed. Please.

  • @multiyapples
    @multiyapples 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Of course it would happen in the former Soviet union.

  • @lizzzzzzzz
    @lizzzzzzzz 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +12

    it's not like this kind of thing happens in the US - Dupont stuff, the nuclear landfill north of STL. we cover stuff up too, the Damascus Titan missile explosion, microplastic pollution in TX, the Hanford NPP which used water directly from and discharged water from the columbia river, love canal, etc etc etc it just goes on and on. and ya all this stuff is downplayed, covered up, forgotten except by the ppl who are still affected. oh and all the sunken ships and whatnot from WWII that are leaking oil into the ocean all over the world, BP deepwater horizon (and corexit - a literal coverup).

    • @DamnedSilly
      @DamnedSilly 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      One video at a time...

    • @ferretyluv
      @ferretyluv 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Why the whataboutism? That’s not what they’re arguing.
      >joined 18 years ago
      >1 comment
      HMMMM. Sounds like a Putinbot or wumao hacked someone’s account.

  • @ahabcolerchat9404
    @ahabcolerchat9404 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Windscale, not a secret but little discussed history

  • @BrianMadolid
    @BrianMadolid วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Hey, wait a minute…
    …didn’t you do a Geographics video about this? Or do we not talk about these things here. 🙃

    • @ComaDave
      @ComaDave 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      He did. He even spelled "Kyshtym" correctly on that occasion. 😉

  • @Lawdachris
    @Lawdachris วันที่ผ่านมา

    Do they actually say drive at max speed? That a pretty cool caviat

  • @myphone4590
    @myphone4590 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Now do the Rocky Flats plant, I.E. the reason for Denver's "naturally high" background radiation because it happened before the invention of portable Geiger counters so nobody knew what the rate was before the plutonium plant caught fire, and the highly classified cold war dusaster wasn't FOIA'd until Y2K.

    • @JesseJoyce-cj2xg
      @JesseJoyce-cj2xg วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      This sounds inconvenient, so it must not be true.

    • @myphone4590
      @myphone4590 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_contamination_from_the_Rocky_Flats_Plant

    • @BackYardScience2000
      @BackYardScience2000 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      At Rocky Flats, over all of the areas and releases of Pu, from some rough math there was anywhere from 0.5 - nearly 2 pounds of plutonium released into the air, ground and ground water. That's just some really quick math (and probably wrong) from reading the provided article. In my eyes, that's an absolutely insane amount of plutonium to be released and that's coming from someone who has dealt with Pu before. Small amounts of it, but an amount of it none the less.

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@BackYardScience2000 a little dab will do ya.
      You know about the Savannah river site, and the radioactive reptiles, right?

    • @mattropolis99
      @mattropolis99 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Every video about a horrific russian nuclear accident becomes full of comments about a completely unrelated accident somewhere else in the world. Why is that?

  • @mrKoncpom
    @mrKoncpom 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Frankly I forgot when I have learned about the Kyshtym disaster. Nevertheless I might be a bit of an aficionado, as Chernobyl was what shaped my childhood. Okay, let's see Kyshtym disaster, take eight ;)
    Anyone fancy rollerskating across lake Karachay?

  • @nickbarber2080
    @nickbarber2080 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    When I was at primary school (so before 1976) in London,one of my classmates was the son of Ukrainian exiles...he told me then,that in the USSR there was a "Closed region" which had been set up because of an explosion at a nuclear power station...I wonder if this was the one he was talking about?

  • @manofmanytalentsfawazakkar4068
    @manofmanytalentsfawazakkar4068 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    2:48 that's because they had a cone and fkd around 😂😂😂

  • @JFirn86Q
    @JFirn86Q 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Good story Tara.

  • @jacobchapman638
    @jacobchapman638 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    if i’m not mistaken this is the nuclear disaster that in the 1972 STALKER created it’s zone

  • @danielmorse4213
    @danielmorse4213 20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Actally, a teacher of mine mentioned this place.

  • @DixieTsutsaeva
    @DixieTsutsaeva 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    "Economic prison."
    Very poignant, and relatable with living in the Midwest.

  • @diqweed69
    @diqweed69 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    10:50 We're studying the long-term effects of radiation on the environment. If only we could figure out a way to study the effects on humans as well...

  • @DerkmanX
    @DerkmanX 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    How many YT channels do i need to sub to to hear this man talk?! Lmao

  • @theconqueringram5295
    @theconqueringram5295 20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Aurora borealis?
    I should try that lie sometime.

  • @Metikoi
    @Metikoi ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Honestly at this stage Simon could have a channel called "Times the soviet union nearly killed us all."

  • @alexyakyma1479
    @alexyakyma1479 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    You misspelled “KYSHTYM” In the title.

  • @alzaidi7739
    @alzaidi7739 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I had never heard of this before. Nuclear power is not the answer.

    • @mikza29_
      @mikza29_ 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Why? Because there was some dumb people where in their regime they didn't consider safety as a requirement??
      Nuclear energy was and still is the safest source of energy in the world, I'm not saying that, the data does: chek OurWorldbyData on Death By Energy Source.
      Industry like hydroelectric made hundreds of thousands of deaths, gas and coal make death every day for "minor" accidents, with 4-5 people dying every day for a pipe exolosion, but that doesn't hit the news cause it's NORMAL to us, it's routine. 8 MILLION people die evey year as a result of pollition from fossil fuels extraction and raffination, why nobody ever talks about that??
      You know why we keep taking about nuclear disasters and feel scared every time? Because it's a rarity and an event that happen 4 times in the history with only 1 resisting in deaths (Cherbobyl)
      Fukushima and three mile island made 0 death from radiation. It's because they are so few we remember all of them and we are scared cause we are ignorant of what it really is and how dangerous it is. media, famous people and other ignorant people spread misinformation and fear because its something they don't understand, it's invisible and it's scary, but if well controlled ( like it's been forever in western countries) it's the safest and cleanest energy source ever invented by humans.

  • @CrypidLore
    @CrypidLore 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Congratulations people of Kyshtym you won!
    What did we win?
    More radioactive material being processed through your town, yaaay!

  • @Lee-in-oz
    @Lee-in-oz 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Simon, can you please go back to the coloured back ground light?
    It's a massive "missing thing" from your videos lately.

  • @wile-e-coyote8371
    @wile-e-coyote8371 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Hmmm, @ 4:20 AM. . . . 🤔

  • @pseudotasuki
    @pseudotasuki 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I hear about this every few months. What nobody talks about is the Banqiao Dam Disaster, despite killing hundreds of thousands of people.

    • @pseudotasuki
      @pseudotasuki 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      To be fair, one of the few exceptions is one of Fact Boy's other channels. th-cam.com/video/iwX30hXw3CQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=GRcd0_bd3iDXmpFC

    • @mikza29_
      @mikza29_ 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Exaclty...
      Banqiao:
      67 Dam chain destruction - 170000 deaths.
      Bhopal: Extremely disastrous chimical incident -
      3000 died after few hours
      15000 to 20000 died in a matter of months
      500000 people affected with lots fo them still with lung diseases.
      Yet nobody ever talks about them, I guess there is no RADIATION, huh?

  • @knightsnight5929
    @knightsnight5929 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Russia never changes.

  • @Kroggnagch
    @Kroggnagch 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Ah man, and at 4 20 pm, huh? That's unfortunate...

  • @UQRXD
    @UQRXD 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    ATOMIC BOMBS Sounds much more scary than nukes.

  • @Bob-yl9pm
    @Bob-yl9pm 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Deaths due to the Chernobyl disaster... at least ~100,000

    • @mikza29_
      @mikza29_ 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Where you got that number? Greenpeace, maybe? That's ironic, actually is disrespectful to the people affected really.
      The International istitution who studied the death as a consequence of the Chernobyl incident based on scientific research and statistics proven and accepted by the international scientific community, the IAEA, UNSCEAR and other institution state that a maximum of 4000 people has lost and will loose their life as a consequence of the disaster in a span of 70 years from now.
      Source: Study on the effect of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Incident - IAEA, UNSCEAR.

  • @manofmanytalentsfawazakkar4068
    @manofmanytalentsfawazakkar4068 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    4.20 yay !!!!!2:26 2:27 2:27

  • @heolethile5220
    @heolethile5220 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +110

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    • @heolethile5220
      @heolethile5220 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

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    • @heolethile5220
      @heolethile5220 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

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      @haiduongbuinguyen870 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

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      @heolethile5220 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

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    • @heolethile5220
      @heolethile5220 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

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  • @Anonymous..VQ3.5Lg35
    @Anonymous..VQ3.5Lg35 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Oh Russia...

  • @J.MacInnes
    @J.MacInnes วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Even disasters have branding, The Titanic, The Hindenburg, Chernobyl, so if you've become caught up in something truly terrible hope that your cataclysm has good PR or you too will be lost to history. Careers of the Future- Disaster Publicist.

  • @Bob-yl9pm
    @Bob-yl9pm 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    How about ALL the premature deaths of the actors (including John Wayne) in The Conqueror (1956 film)... Down wind of nuclear tests?

  • @Wisconsin_Local_139_Crane_Guy
    @Wisconsin_Local_139_Crane_Guy 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Why are my post being deleted…

  • @KippinCollars
    @KippinCollars 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I wonder how many generations have to go by until the residents develop some useful genetic mutation.