On 26 April 1986, it was decided at Chernobyl to take advantage of reactor number four’s downtime by carrying out a safety test on an emergency core cooling feature.
At 1.24 am, an engineer recorded in his diary that the protective system was not working. At the same moment, a huge and catastrophic surge in power caused two explosions.
As fires raged, the core of reactor number four was destroyed. A huge cloud rose into the sky, spreading large amounts of radioactive fuel and materials into the atmosphere.
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Pripyat was only 3 Kilometers away from Chernobyl. Alright, how did it move to be 20 Kilometers away nowadays!? 😀
I was born April 27 ?
Dang I wasn’t existing when this happen
CAAAT AAF THAA STUUPPPWDIF ACCCCCENT MAYYYB BEEEE then il listen
au ma doare urechile
Always trust and listen to the government, they care about you….
Same year of challenger space ship exploded
Im watching this 10 years later
A Moment Of Silence For A Hole Town, A Hole 50 Thousand People, And For A Culture.
And One technician.
If that explosion never exist, Chernobyl still here
DUDE MY STARTING AD WAS ABOUT EAR WAX
Crazy everyones life changed over night . All the people going to school with their friends or work with friends etc. Just moved and probably never seen most of the people they knew again. No cellphones or social media etc
Legend are founding 10 years old comment??
boron and sand…
Im time traveler and chernobyl is the movie of this accident
I go to see it
Came here after watching yes theory…
Legends watch this video in 2021
so free
Cheeki beeki any one?
Listen, I tried to stop it
About Noble avenues, California…
Miss input CALM DOWN
I've never seen this footage… is that real, where you can see in red colours (I guess at night) how the reactor seems to be burning? Was this moment really recorded in the very night of the accident?
The miner's were the true heroes
This was also because of a machine defect lol