I didn't see the show but why did the Soviets risked and sacrificed so many people trying to contain the explosion...

what video is this from?

youtube.com/watch?v=TCE7GDkOhMM

Is there any particular reason you couldn’t have surmised that for yourself, OP? How old are you?

>Dont ask questions in a board made for discussions

Jannies applications are closed mate, go police a board at redd*t

Why didn't they just burn people for fuel?

Source?

lmao is this real?

>I didn't see the show
>Getting historic information from a fictional show
The Soviets didn't want the world to know they could fail at anything. Also see: China handling COVID-19.

Consider that nuclear waste spread on the wind far enough that the west coast USA and Canada there were contaminations and symptoms. If the reactor went boom much of Europe would be irradiated.

main problem was the entities. when that thing blew up it opened up a gateway to the underworld. thankfully we got a handle on it but we've been fighting the psychic vampires and their ilk ever since

Here's an actual picture of it

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>why did the Soviets risked and sacrificed so many people trying to contain the explosion?
Because if the Sovvies were going to be responsible for making europe uninhabitable they wanted to have a good reason and not a product of negligence/incompetence.

>sacrificed so many people trying to contain the explosion?
You must be from Yurope or a rich bruger to don't understad this kind of love for the motherland

Was Europe really that close to being a complete radioactive wasteland? Hard to believe

The chernobyl disaster was one reactor exploding and its effects were noticed all over Europe, if they didn't stop the meltdown then the other 3 reactors would have exploded too and more than quadrupled the fallout over the continent

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That was highly exagerated in the show, it wouldn't have been a radioactive wasteland however it would have been pretty shitty for us

>That was highly exagerated in the show
They were afraid of a worst case scenario. Hindsight proved it wasn't as much of a risk as they thought (the heat exchanger the miners dug the tunnel for was never installed for example) but it doesn't mean those weren't real and valid concerns at the time.

Holy frickin epic

Only one reactor blue up dumb fuck, imagine if all four did?

Because it was like a wet fart from your anus, after the initial lousy fart it started leaking gas and juices. It wasn't like a nuclear bomb where the explosion would spread a ton of radioactive dust everywhere but then stop. Rather if it was left open it would've kept pumping radioactive material into the atmosphere for a long period of time, making a lot of countries eventually uninhabitable.

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>work in utopian soviet Russia
>melt

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the fallout over europe was a potential health-risk as it was, not containing it would have made it a lot worse, also they still tried selling their "workers paradise" BS to the intellectuals in europe and hollywood (quite successful actually) and Chernobyl was rather bad publicity.

>just let it keep throwing out radioactive clouds forever, brah

It wasn't, they literally believed that is what would have happened at the time. It infuriated me when some autistic nuclear engineer made a video talking about how the show was wrong because we know it's wrong now despite it being the major fear of the scientists working on containing the disaster at the time.

This user gets it.

>sacrificed so many people trying to contain the explosion
30 people? That's nothing. The world sacrificed thousands this year trying to contain a virus.

Imagine believing official soviet fatality numbers

There are three more functioning reactors in Chernobyl at the time. If they left it to burn off it could damage the other reactors and that would obviously be bad.

Spoken like a true Trump

That's the lid, not the reactor.

Came here for this.

Duty

Something millennials cannot comprehend

Why don't they design nuclear reactors with a fail-safe system? I don't mean a push the control rods back in system, because evidently control rods are too slow to control a runaway reaction. I mean like an emergency purge where you just flood the whole thing with liquid metal or some shit? Sure your reactor will be trashed forever, but guaranteed instant stop.

Before you ask, yes liquid metal because water will just insta-boil and turn to steam then explode. And yes you can get liquid metals at low temps, see mercury.

>that would have made the whole of Europe virtually uninhabitable
That isn't true, it was an unsubstantiated theory from a single man that no one else agrees with.

>noooo no the heckin reactorino!

Mercury would also turn to gas and explode, just at about 300 degrees instead of 100. And regardless, the reaction won't just stop because you dump a load of shit on it, it's not fire, it's a nuclear reaction. It's like trying to extinguish the sun.

I was only using mercury as an example for metals with low melting points, I know it has a gaseous phase and won't be suitable. A lot of metals doesn't though.

Also liquid metal should work because they have higher natural neutron absorption, and you can always add in boron for even more. You absolutely can stop a nuclear reaction by dumping a lot of the right shit on it.

this
>“The official position of the state is that a global nuclear catastrophe is not possible in the Soviet Union.”

modern reactors have passive failsafes, if the power or systems fail, simple physics (like gravity) activate the cooling failsafes. For example, imagine a door that is held shut by power against gravity, behind it is cold water. If the power is knocked out, the doors are pushed down by gravity and the water rushes in freely to keep the rods cool. This is just a simple example. The main problem is that the world is scared of nuclear reactors irrationally, and this prevents more modern designs to actually be built, instead they opt to keep old reactors running or decommission them outright. The Chernobyl disaster was a result of incompetence in the construction (was not built to specifications on even a basic level) coupled with gross negligence in the response. If you want another example of how stellar Russia's handling of nuclear reactors is, just look to the nuclear sub they had sitting in dock, spewing radiation for years. Or the lakes they decided to just dump their radioactive waste from weapons production without a care (Yucca mountain was actually an extremely good site to store our waste, it was stopped purely for political brownie points)

>I didn't see the show but

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A lot worse dude. It could have contaminated all of Europe through the wind. And world politics were too tense to risk that.

I love spurdo comics so much

it so crazy how they flattened the curve at 80k infections but it didnt flatten gradually like every other curve in history
and everyone just goes "yup thats fine"

Brainlet here, can someone make a simple greentext how the you can harnass power from something that is invisible like atoms and shit and how that shit is so dangerous?

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Fuck off retard. The time it took you to type that and pick a le ebin meme to attach you could have been on google. Why would anyone here want to go to the effort of drawing a comic for you when it's literally what 15 year olds are learning in school. Learn to read

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t. Incel

Whatever you say, Vlad.

Basically it works like a big microwave - atoms getting their shit kicked in heats up the water in the reactor, turn it into steam, steam spin the turbine, bumblebees collect the electricity that turbines produce.

You can bet there will be people like this baiting for views when covid is over.

>americans get most of their knowledge from TV and movies
No wonder you're all fucking retarded and easily manipulated. Show it in a movie and its assumed true. No wonder a small jewish clique has you by your balls.

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>nuclear reaction make warm
>warm make water go hsss and make clouds
>hsss clouds like wind, go up and turn big thing around and around
>big thing is magnet and copper wire
>this confuses the world and makes shocky bzzzt happen
>shocky bzzzzt gets sucked into power lines and make light go

Not quite that dire but even this 'small' explosion caused acidic rain across the whole of Europe, anything bigger would've sent even more dirty radiation into the upper atmosphere to spread further round the globe.

Can you simplify it more? I'm transgender btw