TIL The Chernobyl power plant continued to operate after the the 1986 disaster, and wasn't decommissioned until 2000.
Posted May 9, 2019, 2:03 AM UTC
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r/ChernobylTV For anyone interested in discussion the HBO series as well as the disaster itself.
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Just don't go check out the elephant's foot.
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At the time of its discovery, radioactivity near the Elephant’s Foot was approximately 8,000 roentgens, or 80 grays per hour, delivering a 50/50 lethal dose of radiation (4.5 grays)[6] in less than five minutes.[7] Since that time the radiation intensity has declined enough that, in 1996, the Elephant's Foot was visited by the Deputy Director of the New Confinement Project, Artur Kornayev,[a] who took photographs using an automatic camera and a flashlight to illuminate the otherwise dark room.
why?
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This has to be the least education video I have ever seen about Chernobyl. Is this for toddlers?
"how it happened"
"A test went wrong"
Incredible lack of detail for a video claiming to explain how it happened.