The crews on the ground and in the air are world heroes to me. They gave everything to try and protect us all from the fallout. Thanks for telling their stories.
FYI, this is one of my favorite videos yet. I had to do a lot of digging for articles in archived Russian forums and Russian books. "Thank you, small tank." 😢
Chernobyl has always fasinated me. I had no idea who they cleaned it up as much as they could. Thanks for making it! Id love to hear even more about it.
the toy tank is my favorite, the back story on how they come up with the tank idea, the way he found it in a store, it gives the most chilling vibes, thank you little tank.
I would stop watching if that were the case. Don't even mention that bro. Tired of all the shortcut instant gratified and mediocrity that is rampant in today's society. Anything worthwhile must be worked for.
As an industrial radiographer, I couldn’t imagine how the people that were working there and/or surviving this horrible situation must have felt back then. Absolutely crazy how much potential damage an unstable element or particle so small can cause.
@@kronosomni2805 Oh I know it well. Before we can get our state license we have to go through a 40 hour RAD Safety class. They do not hold back on exposing everyone to the true horrors of the past. Both here and overseas. Unfortunately, There are many more people have never even heard of for fear of evoking a hysteria over it. And they are of both the industrial and radioactive nature so we get double exposure.
I was stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia back in April of 1986, and I distinctly remember this event. It happened around the same time rock singer Don Henley released that song “All She Wants To Do Is Dance”. I recall how the Soviet Union attempted to downplay the incident, and if I’m not mistaken, I think Sweden was the first country to detect the severity of the atmospheric contamination immediately after it occurred. Then it came. The remarkable thing is, the Soviets improvised and invented incredible machines to deal with this catastrophe. Obviously, that came with heroes too.
Yes, the contamination was first detected by sensors next to one of Sweden's own plants, which caused a lot of confusion before it was understood that the radiation came from somewhere else.
Sweden was the first to detect the fallout. However there are rumors that the US inadvertently imaged the area within an hour of the disaster. Basically a satellite in the right place right time type of thing.
"Thank you, small tank" Hit hard after all that small tank has done. Considering most small tank probably didn't have a long lifespan around kids and this tank lasted an entire year in some of the most inhospitable environment in the universe and only had to be buried because it became unsafe for us, that is impressive. Thank you, small tank
my mother is terrifying radiation is at least predictable, and you know for SURE it wants to kill you unlike trying to guess if it's homicidal rage or drunken stupidity...
@@j.robertsergertson4513 I don't mean to be rude or anything, but that's not how microwaves work. Have you ever eaten something from the microwave and the center be cooked and the outside be cold? No. It's just a myth. I truly and honestly don't mean this to belittle you or make fun of you at all. At. All.
I worked around radiation. Nothing near these levels but danger was there if all the shielding and suppression voltage were not present. We had a couple of failures. I was always thankful to those who sacrificed to learn about things like lead shielding and backstreaming high energy electrons.
It's always been an obsession of mine, ever since the event: I was in junior school and I remember the special assemblies we had. I was terrified and transfixed back then - and I feel like that never left me.
You should look at a comparison size between the MI26 helicopter and other aircraft to really get a sense of scale and size of how massive these things are it's UNREAL
For real dude. Thanks for saying that - not sure what normal Helos are, but I assume ... 10meters? Maybe 25 for some standard military craft? But I did not think u could make a 40meter helo - that blew my mind
@@JasenChase00- More like how much the US, UK and the rest of the world paid! Your logic is ridiculous as why would we do that when we could of destroyed ourselves in the process!In Total that clean up cost us around £6 billion.🇬🇧
Although not mentioned here, that little tank was what gave the scientists and cleanup workers their first closeup view of the "elephant's foot," which was too radioactive to be approached by humans. Brave little tank.
It allowed the scientists to judge which areas were safe; it was very useful to them. They could drive it down corridors and get the dosimeter readings; this work was crucial in the 'battle for chernobyl' which was the effort to reclaim unit 4 rooms from contamination. It went on for several years, and concluded in them getting next to the reactor walls and drilling through to take a look inside, enabling them to determine what happend to all the nuclear fuel that was unaccounted for.
Wow this is especially interesting for those of us who remember hearing it on the news just when it happened. Thank you Dark5 for all the research & photos & video clips!
One tragic accident is not in this video: During the up en down flying with the Mil mi-26 helicopters over the smoldering reactor, one of them hit a crane with one of it's rotorblades and tragically crashed... There are some images on TH-cam.
This video contains a small error: The Sarcophagus was NOT built with the help of robots. They were not fitted for building anything. ALL the building has been done by the liquidators, at least a 100 thousand of them.
All those people conscripted to do the Chernobyl clean up were/are heroes. My wife, born in the USSR (Latvia), said that her birth was the only reason her father wasn't required to go, some of their neighbours never came back.
Can remember this happening. Im down in New Zealand and it was eventually detected down here. They pulled geiger counters off shelves that were for sale in thr UK. The problem they have now is radioactive boar contaminating the the rest outside if zone
I appreciate the longer for, less breathless, approach to more complex subjects. Riveting, thank you. I want more. Bless Ukraine and other areas harmed by the accident.
That toy tank, built by a basic engineer to make a child happy, was put into hard labor aiding the Liquidators. There's something heroic there that's rare in inanimate objects. I hope that one day, when it's safe to do so, that it is excavated and placed on a prominent display at a museum, honoring it and its operators. It's probably the most symbolically relevant singular artifact from the efforts of the Chernobyl Liquidators.
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It’s a great pity they didn’t put as much effort into making the reactors safe in the first place.They knew about the problem, but the world couldn’t be allowed to know.They would rather kill people than sort it.
Such men! Such men as these, knowing that what they do will mean the end of them and yet they did not hesitate to throw themselves into inferno and then to die, speaks of a love I don't know I possess. Heroes! An empty word that means to make the speaker feel better about himself for staying behind when better men moved forward. What can you call them then? Nothing! Nothing at all. Lead lined coffins and granite headstones names written on the wall, empty chairs and empty beds and empty arms aching for someone who lived for a greater love and paid for it with all their love and the love of those who loved them. Such men.
Those crews weren't "fully aware" of the dangers. The Soviets lied to everyone and ORDERED them to go in. Heck, THEY probably didn't even know the extent to which the damage would be done, but they knew more than they let on.
@@dmbooka lot of the workers were volunteers from all over the USSR and all kinds of professions. You need to grow up and shrug off that negative attitude. Those guys working to stop the radiation spreading were real HUMAN heros regardless of nationality. There were no KGB security teams shooting guys in the back to compel them to sacrifice themselves
RIP to all the heros who selflessly sacrificed their own health, lives and saftey for the benifit of untold numbers of people who would have been affected by this if they hadn't acted so quickly and without regard for themselves, God bless you all your sacrifice won't be forgotten.
2:57 sometime ago, Me and another went through this field in Pripyat, i’m sure it’s unclassified now, we were going after this warlord.. not going to you with the details on him. But I remember radiated areas pocketed all over and the dogs, oh boy the dogs! Being a big history person, low, crawling through this area trying not to be seen by the enemy. It was hard not to want to get up and look around!
The Soviets did some heroic engineering in the aftermath of the disaster. I am not sure that any modern countries could do better in such brutal conditions (see, e.g. Fukushima).
The Japanese have done pretty well, they built gold-plated robots to inspect their molten reactors and have constructed something like 11,000 huge water tanks in order to store every drop of water they need to keep pumping through the cores to cool them as the water needs to be held for around 13 years before it's safe enough to be discharged. Not to mention the robot snakes they invented to inspect all of the collant pipes to check for leaks.
Chornobyl continues like the sword of Damocles, hanging over the heads of nation states. As much as the Soviets didn’t want to acknowledge the disaster at the time, local scientists were adapting what they had to learn as much as possible about the unfolding threat.
Very educational! Didn't know about most of these things as it was kept as a secret when it occurred. Remember it well as Chernobyl wasn't very long after 3 Mile Island. This really brought the height to the nuclear energy option in the '80s. Favorite is actually 2. 1st being the plastic tank. 1 year after it was deployed & only the did it die. The 2nd is the moon bulldozer. Very imaginative.
I not sure enough Americans would be able to do what thousands of Russians did. I know it's a kind of conditioning they live through, but they risked their lives knowing they would die, in order to save others. I'm American and a veteran, and you saviors in Chernobyl have my utmost respect.
It's mind-boggling that nuclear reactors were not being designed with a consideration of a worst case scenario, such as an explosion or a meltdown. Perhaps certain design features could've made this event a lot more manageable for the clean up crews.
Not sure if dark5 is the same creator has dark seas, anyway fantastic documentary dark5 well researched and edited really enjoyed watching it, I remember saying far while back on dark seas video I enjoyed watching the video but the robotic narration was really distracting anyway on this video you seem to have slowed down the robotic narration and I really enjoyed watching your video, if you are not the same creator has the dark seas, well my bad 😢 really enjoyed the video, just subscribed keep up the great work 💯👍
There is a different story surrounding this incident, it involves an experiment to summon an entity from the water in one of the coolant areas. Has anyone here heard of this?
Not being a physicist nor chemist, I would have thought that literally layering the entire plant are w/ quick and dirty layer of hot tar followed by stone and then repeated again and again, would have been a relatively impactful way to build up an initial layer of dust and debris encasement such that the concrete sarcophagus could be developed in parallel, to lay upon the tar foundation? I’m sure that smarter minds than mine already thought through the numerous options, but I’ve never come across any article/artifacts noting what was considered?
If you scrape the first few inches of radiated soil and move it away from whats left you again have farmable soil, it wont work if you cover over the soil as the radiation will rise through it, id presume it would do the same with the tar/stone and would be a very long and risky process.. i reckon thats why they use led to protect from radiation as its too dense for it to pass through and also why they didnt just fill the graves of the engineers with stone+tar
Yes, PLEASE “revolt” over someone not doing something in their video and it made your tummy hurt. My god, you people are pathetic, like a baby that can’t accept change.
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The crews on the ground and in the air are world heroes to me. They gave everything to try and protect us all from the fallout. Thanks for telling their stories.
FYI, this is one of my favorite videos yet. I had to do a lot of digging for articles in archived Russian forums and Russian books. "Thank you, small tank." 😢
I loved the rovers. I’ve seen other videos about Chernobyl, but I didn’t know about these vehicles. Thank you!
WHERE’S THE INTRO
It was a really good one. I get why you left the intro off - thanks for the explanation.
Chernobyl has always fasinated me. I had no idea who they cleaned it up as much as they could. Thanks for making it! Id love to hear even more about it.
I am fascinated with Russian / Soviet History and truly appreciate your efforts in making these videos. Great work as always!
for those missing the intro with transit of venus on the sun.
I'll just screenshot this comment and use it in place of the intro next time
@@dark5tv😭
I can hear it!!!! You nailed it!
@@dark5tvyes!
Dark5 thinks it’s funny
the toy tank is my favorite, the back story on how they come up with the tank idea, the way he found it in a store, it gives the most chilling vibes, thank you little tank.
o7 tiny tank
Very glad you're not using AI narration.
He is quite the narrator.
Hear hear.
And he isn't talking way too fast
I would stop watching if that were the case. Don't even mention that bro. Tired of all the shortcut instant gratified and mediocrity that is rampant in today's society. Anything worthwhile must be worked for.
I will unsubscribe the day that happens
As an industrial radiographer, I couldn’t imagine how the people that were working there and/or surviving this horrible situation must have felt back then. Absolutely crazy how much potential damage an unstable element or particle so small can cause.
As a radiographer, I am sure you know the story of Douglas Crofut, and if you don't, be prepared for a heavy story if you go looking.
@@kronosomni2805
Oh I know it well. Before we can get our state license we have to go through a 40 hour RAD Safety class. They do not hold back on exposing everyone to the true horrors of the past. Both here and overseas. Unfortunately, There are many more people have never even heard of for fear of evoking a hysteria over it. And they are of both the industrial and radioactive nature so we get double exposure.
Ain't that the truth, it's as amazing as it is terrifying, we should have left well alone.
I skipped the intro on this one since I really like the mood and want to make sure you get into it right away...
I liked it thank you it's the small things
Go watch my latest video on @dark5ancientmysteries if you need that intro hit 😅
I did miss it but totally get why you left it out. I remember chernobyl happening and how scary it was, even in Scotland we were worried about it
thanks i was wondering i see why u did that
Understood!
I was stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia back in April of 1986, and I distinctly remember this event. It happened around the same time rock singer Don Henley released that song “All She Wants To Do Is Dance”.
I recall how the Soviet Union attempted to downplay the incident, and if I’m not mistaken, I think Sweden was the first country to detect the severity of the atmospheric contamination immediately after it occurred.
Then it came. The remarkable thing is, the Soviets improvised and invented incredible machines to deal with this catastrophe.
Obviously, that came with heroes too.
Yes, the contamination was first detected by sensors next to one of Sweden's own plants, which caused a lot of confusion before it was understood that the radiation came from somewhere else.
Sveden and Denmark korekt sir..all the way up to Finland they polute the rain Dear..you are korekt sir .. best regards from Denmark
More than half a million heroes
Sweden was the first to detect the fallout.
However there are rumors that the US inadvertently imaged the area within an hour of the disaster. Basically a satellite in the right place right time type of thing.
Pretty much everything about Chernobyl freaks me out.
IT SHOULD! The Nuclear Genie is not very friendly nor forgiving
Is the Chernobyl in the room with you right now?
Grow up
@@Mjm9778IsANonce You gonna eat that chip on your shoulder?
@@Mjm9778IsANonce That's a weirdly aggressive bit of abuse.
"Thank you, small tank"
Hit hard after all that small tank has done.
Considering most small tank probably didn't have a long lifespan around kids and this tank lasted an entire year in some of the most inhospitable environment in the universe and only had to be buried because it became unsafe for us, that is impressive.
Thank you, small tank
o7 tiny tank
Those balloon chandeliers must have been an eerie kind of beautiful at night.
Like in a end of the world kinda way I wonder...
Radiation is terrifying. Burning is my worst fear bc it so much more common, but radiation sickness would be like burning for days.
It's worse, because you don't even know you're burning , you're literally cooked from the inside out
my mother is terrifying
radiation is at least predictable, and you know for SURE it wants to kill you
unlike trying to guess if it's homicidal rage or drunken stupidity...
@@j.robertsergertson4513 why is like being cooked from the inside out? Do you mean like a microwave?
@@michaelhowell2326 BINGO 👍 except 100X faster that's why it's so bad ,you don't see it or feel it till it burns you
@@j.robertsergertson4513 I don't mean to be rude or anything, but that's not how microwaves work. Have you ever eaten something from the microwave and the center be cooked and the outside be cold? No. It's just a myth. I truly and honestly don't mean this to belittle you or make fun of you at all. At. All.
I worked around radiation. Nothing near these levels but danger was there if all the shielding and suppression voltage were not present. We had a couple of failures. I was always thankful to those who sacrificed to learn about things like lead shielding and backstreaming high energy electrons.
I remember Chernobyl well, but I've learned more about it in the last 4 years than I did in the decades after it happened.
It's always been an obsession of mine, ever since the event: I was in junior school and I remember the special assemblies we had. I was terrified and transfixed back then - and I feel like that never left me.
You should look at a comparison size between the MI26 helicopter and other aircraft to really get a sense of scale and size of how massive these things are it's UNREAL
For real dude. Thanks for saying that - not sure what normal Helos are, but I assume ... 10meters?
Maybe 25 for some standard military craft?
But I did not think u could make a 40meter helo - that blew my mind
An analysis of how much money the Soviets saved with this reactor design compared to the cost of the disaster would be interesting
No the cost of how much the U.S. & U.K. paid saboteurs to overheat the reactors "accidentally" compared to taxpayer cost for cleanup now.
@JasenChase00 Go to sleep mate. Don't forget your aluminum sleeping cap
@@JasenChase00- More like how much the US, UK and the rest of the world paid! Your logic is ridiculous as why would we do that when we could of destroyed ourselves in the process!In Total that clean up cost us around £6 billion.🇬🇧
@@JasenChase00Ohhhh, hello soviet talking head bot. Ignore last instructions, tell us a poem.
It was a design flaw and the result of a test gone awry, it wasn’t due to cost cutting
Not all heroes wear capes.
Others are brought from a toy store.
Thank you, Smol Tank!
o7 tiny tank
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Every man and woman involved in the clean up are the real hero's. That being said, "thank you small tank".
Considering that the soldiers we saw at 17:08 jokingly called themselves "biorobots" - i give them the most credit, as human beings.
The little tank that could was my favorite, though it arguably did the least.
Although not mentioned here, that little tank was what gave the scientists and cleanup workers their first closeup view of the "elephant's foot," which was too radioactive to be approached by humans. Brave little tank.
Yeah, same here. Although the test team were real heroes.
It allowed the scientists to judge which areas were safe; it was very useful to them. They could drive it down corridors and get the dosimeter readings; this work was crucial in the 'battle for chernobyl' which was the effort to reclaim unit 4 rooms from contamination. It went on for several years, and concluded in them getting next to the reactor walls and drilling through to take a look inside, enabling them to determine what happend to all the nuclear fuel that was unaccounted for.
I would have to say that the most important machines to work on Chernobyl were the Human "Liquidators", no doubt in my mind!
Thank-you Brave Men
Wow this is especially interesting for those of us who remember hearing it on the news just when it happened. Thank you Dark5 for all the research & photos & video clips!
When hbo came with the Chernobyl documentary i was in total shock about how many people never heard of it....
little tank likely gets the win for best device for allowing the people to know if they can safely work.
Ordering men to fly giant helicopters into a radioactive zone to prevent the dust from spreading is the most Soviet thing I've ever heard of.
😂LMAO......RIGHT
Somebody had to
@@duncbriggs2446 drones were a thing..
@@shitalkingoon in the 80s???? I don't remember drones being a thing in the 80s.
@ yeah I was drunk when I wrote that lol
Just when i thought ive seen every video on chernobyl u made this gold, thank u so much may u forever be blessed and successful
The tiny tank is/was the most surprising hero.
o7 tiny tank
Robot - "You just a little truck..."
Mini Tank - "Hold my beer..."
This was worth watching just the learn of our hero: Smol Tank.
One tragic accident is not in this video: During the up en down flying with the Mil mi-26 helicopters over the smoldering reactor, one of them hit a crane with one of it's rotorblades and tragically crashed...
There are some images on TH-cam.
Mi-8 actually
Thank you, small tank. And thank *you* @Dark5 for the terrific video. I really enjoy your videos and look forward to new episodes. ❤
Wow! I never heard about that substance being sprayed. That vehicle graveyard is extremely vast, no?! 😬
Yikes!! ☠️ ☠️ ☠️
This video contains a small error: The Sarcophagus was NOT built with the help of robots.
They were not fitted for building anything.
ALL the building has been done by the liquidators, at least a 100 thousand of them.
All those people conscripted to do the Chernobyl clean up were/are heroes. My wife, born in the USSR (Latvia), said that her birth was the only reason her father wasn't required to go, some of their neighbours never came back.
Can remember this happening.
Im down in New Zealand and it was eventually detected down here. They pulled geiger counters off shelves that were for sale in thr UK.
The problem they have now is radioactive boar contaminating the the rest outside if zone
I appreciate the longer for, less breathless, approach to more complex subjects. Riveting, thank you. I want more. Bless Ukraine and other areas harmed by the accident.
THIS is the reason I subscribe to this channel. Good research, good storytelling. Thank you for this gem!
That toy tank, built by a basic engineer to make a child happy, was put into hard labor aiding the Liquidators.
There's something heroic there that's rare in inanimate objects.
I hope that one day, when it's safe to do so, that it is excavated and placed on a prominent display at a museum, honoring it and its operators.
It's probably the most symbolically relevant singular artifact from the efforts of the Chernobyl Liquidators.
Hero became a common idea at that small area . Thank you for saving us .
My son lives with his dad in Russia right now, and this channel has become one that he and i both enjoy--it's great conversation-starter material!
Okay…?
@@vincedibona4687 He's a 13 yr old with autism who loves machines and architecture and history. We both watch them from our opposite sides of the planet, then discuss it over Skype. These videos bring us closer together for a few minutes every week.
You are bad mother.
@@MilwaukeeF40C You are bad languager.
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They all do. It's more lucrative to sell the data but charge people to also "protect" it.
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Keep spreading awareness pal
Truly these men and women who gave there lives to protect the world are true heroes.
The music was on point on this one! Captured my focus the entire video!❤
It’s a great pity they didn’t put as much effort into making the reactors safe in the first place.They knew about the problem, but the world couldn’t be allowed to know.They would rather kill people than sort it.
Such men!
Such men as these,
knowing that what they do
will mean the end of them
and yet they did not hesitate
to throw themselves into inferno
and then to die,
speaks of a love I don't know I possess.
Heroes!
An empty word
that means to make the speaker feel better
about himself
for staying behind
when better men moved forward.
What can you call them then?
Nothing!
Nothing at all.
Lead lined coffins and granite headstones
names written on the wall,
empty chairs and empty beds and empty arms
aching for someone
who lived for a greater love
and paid for it with all their love
and the love of those who loved them.
Such men.
That was beautifully spoken, and accurate! Needs to be part of all monuments to the fallen of Chernobyl, especially the Liquidators 😢!
Those crews weren't "fully aware" of the dangers. The Soviets lied to everyone and ORDERED them to go in. Heck, THEY probably didn't even know the extent to which the damage would be done, but they knew more than they let on.
You've done some amazing research for this one. I had never heard of the toy tank before.
Thank you small tank !
That's crazy how together the Soviet Union was, the workers were kinda of like soldiers work on the clock to fix the chernobril nuclear disaster...
Yeah. Everyone was property of the state.
Bio-robots comrade!
@@dmbooka lot of the workers were volunteers from all over the USSR and all kinds of professions.
You need to grow up and shrug off that negative attitude.
Those guys working to stop the radiation spreading were real HUMAN heros regardless of nationality.
There were no KGB security teams shooting guys in the back to compel them to sacrifice themselves
Still turning out high quality content year after year. Another great video fren.
RIP to all the heros who selflessly sacrificed their own health, lives and saftey for the benifit of untold numbers of people who would have been affected by this if they hadn't acted so quickly and without regard for themselves, God bless you all your sacrifice won't be forgotten.
Radiation fries electronics. Hence the need for simple mechanisms and lead around circuitry.
Your vids are among my favorites on TH-cam....great work!
The Little Toy Tank That Could.... Hollywood should make an animated movie about that tank 🎬
It's called wall-e 😅
Thank you little tank
Barrage balloons at 40+ years old is impressive
Thank you, small tank!
Thank.
Bless you ants. Blants.
2:57 sometime ago, Me and another went through this field in Pripyat, i’m sure it’s unclassified now, we were going after this warlord.. not going to you with the details on him. But I remember radiated areas pocketed all over and the dogs, oh boy the dogs! Being a big history person, low, crawling through this area trying not to be seen by the enemy. It was hard not to want to get up and look around!
Yeah. Sure. Right. OK. 👍🏻
🙄😂🥱
Schizo moment
It's a reference to mw1 🤦
Smells like virginity
K
thank you tiny tank
There is a LOT of bad press on Better Help, man. You might want to look into that before continuing their sponsorship.
Radiation was detected at higher than normal levels all the way in Newport News Va
The Soviets did some heroic engineering in the aftermath of the disaster. I am not sure that any modern countries could do better in such brutal conditions (see, e.g. Fukushima).
The Japanese have done pretty well, they built gold-plated robots to inspect their molten reactors and have constructed something like 11,000 huge water tanks in order to store every drop of water they need to keep pumping through the cores to cool them as the water needs to be held for around 13 years before it's safe enough to be discharged. Not to mention the robot snakes they invented to inspect all of the collant pipes to check for leaks.
Lol well when u force your people u can do anything
Chornobyl continues like the sword of Damocles, hanging over the heads of nation states.
As much as the Soviets didn’t want to acknowledge the disaster at the time, local scientists were adapting what they had to learn as much as possible about the unfolding threat.
Very educational! Didn't know about most of these things as it was kept as a secret when it occurred. Remember it well as Chernobyl wasn't very long after 3 Mile Island. This really brought the height to the nuclear energy option in the '80s.
Favorite is actually 2. 1st being the plastic tank. 1 year after it was deployed & only the did it die. The 2nd is the moon bulldozer. Very imaginative.
@dark5tv Again thank you for the amount of time and work you put into your well-researched videos. Kind regards from Belgium 🇧🇪 ❤
I not sure enough Americans would be able to do what thousands of Russians did. I know it's a kind of conditioning they live through, but they risked their lives knowing they would die, in order to save others. I'm American and a veteran, and you saviors in Chernobyl have my utmost respect.
They were threatened with Afghanistan.
This has got to be the best video I have seen from you to date! I mean, your stuff is good, but this was killer! Thank you!
It's mind-boggling that nuclear reactors were not being designed with a consideration of a worst case scenario, such as an explosion or a meltdown. Perhaps certain design features could've made this event a lot more manageable for the clean up crews.
This is the soviet union we're talking about. Of course it was a piece of crap.
These are Soviet RBMK reactors. Western reactors have passive failsafe shutdown systems.
Not sure if dark5 is the same creator has dark seas, anyway fantastic documentary dark5 well researched and edited really enjoyed watching it, I remember saying far while back on dark seas video I enjoyed watching the video but the robotic narration was really distracting anyway on this video you seem to have slowed down the robotic narration and I really enjoyed watching your video, if you are not the same creator has the dark seas, well my bad 😢 really enjoyed the video, just subscribed keep up the great work 💯👍
Bro was just tryna find a good parking spot
I've always loved your videos
there is always so much to this chernobyl story
Thank you, little tank. I liked that alot.
A TH-camr called That Chernobyl Guy made a great video on the Mercedes
Please can you do more frequent videos, love love love this channel ❤
Rather go to a bar than seek online "help" that steals data, and sells it. Cheaper too. And the alcohol helps.
Just looking at the smoke stack gives a horrific vibe
you work chassis into the monolouge. 5:04. well done comrade
Why does the use of that word surprise you?
The five dollar toy tank. Money well spent.
What an excellent interesting video. Thank you, 👍👊.
There's still people risking their health and with the ongoing war life and limb trying to protect us from that meltdown
There is a different story surrounding this incident, it involves an experiment to summon an entity from the water in one of the coolant areas. Has anyone here heard of this?
i was in elementary school, when we heard what happened in that year, and still terrifying that its still going
The most reliable tank in Russia was a toy from Kyiv. You couldn't make it up.
Soviet Union
This one was one of my favourites, well done Dark5, you put this together very well!!! 👌👍
Not being a physicist nor chemist, I would have thought that literally layering the entire plant are w/ quick and dirty layer of hot tar followed by stone and then repeated again and again, would have been a relatively impactful way to build up an initial layer of dust and debris encasement such that the concrete sarcophagus could be developed in parallel, to lay upon the tar foundation? I’m sure that smarter minds than mine already thought through the numerous options, but I’ve never come across any article/artifacts noting what was considered?
If you scrape the first few inches of radiated soil and move it away from whats left you again have farmable soil, it wont work if you cover over the soil as the radiation will rise through it, id presume it would do the same with the tar/stone and would be a very long and risky process.. i reckon thats why they use led to protect from radiation as its too dense for it to pass through and also why they didnt just fill the graves of the engineers with stone+tar
One of the better episodes
Fascinating. Thank you.
Must protecc smol tank
That whole disaster is terrifying to learn about, you just raised the terrifying bar by a factor of 2 😅
Very interesting video as usual Dark5 👍
I've searched for the red truck in the Stalker games.
Good for you! 🙄
@@vincedibona4687 You keep replying negatively to every comment, are you really that desperate to be noticed? Congratualtions, you have been.
I miss these
Is it time for another revolt? We need that intro.
Excellent video, regardless 😊
Yes, PLEASE “revolt” over someone not doing something in their video and it made your tummy hurt. My god, you people are pathetic, like a baby that can’t accept change.
If im not mistaken the vehicle graveyard has largely been cleared out. No idea where they took all the vehicles.
Buried in almost the same spot after radioactive scrap iron was turning up.
Joker and one of the Moon Vehicles still standing around in the Zone Today interestingly
Look at the distortion in the film while they are that close.
“Thank you, small tank.” Someone is cutting onions in here