Why Hiroshima and Nagasaki Don’t Resemble Chernobyl

Chernobyl text 0 (700 workers), Voice narration 7000 Workers .

I read that at Chernobyl there was a stream of radioactive material going up for hours after the melt down. It was said it looked like a flashlight pointing up.

I remember watching the Chernobyl HBO mini-series and Legasov mentioning how Reactor 4 was giving off about two Little Boy’s worth of radiation every hour initially after the explosion.

If my job taught me anything... Is that the people on night shift are not as well trained as the ones on day shift. It is often the new recruits who gets sent to the night shift. Meaning they barely know anything and are expected to somehow learn from.... Other new recruits. As such, I am not really surprised the night shift are the ones who messed up.

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The easy breakdown is what hit the cities were designed to exploded and leave little radiation trace vs something designed not to explode with no control of how much radiation is dissipated

Big difference between air bursts and meltdowns

Fat Man and Little Boy were both air burst detonations which meant that most of the contamination was limited too a very very small area immediately around the detonation points, which means it was easier to clean it up. If they'd been ground burst detonations things would've been much much different and both cities would've been rendered uninhabitable hellscapes due to extreme radioactive contamination.

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“Chernobyl, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later.” Mikhail Gorbachev

That's a simple one, the bombs were air bursts and therefore kicked up a lot less debris to contaminate; plus the amount of radioactive materials released were greater in Chernobyl. That's the video. Roll credits.

Infographics show, you have no idea how long i have been wondering this. Thank you.

I've always wondered this. Thank you for making this video!

The amount of remaining radioactive material plays a huge role edit: to be precise, the rods in the power plant did not emit radiation for 10 days, only. They are still emitting to this day. And will continue to emit for some many more years, if not centuries.

A meltdown vrs an explosion . The explosion isn't sitting rods of slow decay. The dispersion and sudden decay of a nuclear weapon isn't even comparable

Mark Felton would be proud that your B-29 graphic is a Lancaster.

One word sums it up.. fallout. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki detonations were atmospheric detonations, resulting in very little fallout. The Chernobyl meltdown happened underground, resulting in tons of fallout. Basically, when nuclear materials mix with soil and debris, it creates fallout. The closer that detonation is to the ground, the more fallout there will be.

The Indian Point Nuclear Reactor from the 1970's recently closed. This is near Peekskill, NY, where there is a fairly new Holiday Inn Express Hotel across the street, Louisa St, and John Walsh Blvd from the decommissioned plant, where a friend worked for many years. We had a Christmas Party there in 2000, which never was held again after 9/11 due to increased security. In 2012, my wife and I went to Albuquerque, NM, for a reunion of Air Force members who serviced at the 509th Bomb Wing first at Roswell, NM, Walker, AFB, and later like me at Pease AFB, Portsmouth, NH, which closed in 1992, now at Whiteman AFB, MO where the B2 bombers are located. Then Colonel Tibbets, grandson of Colonel Tibbets from the Enola Gay was a guest there, while stationed at Kirkland, AFB near Albuquerque. We also visited the Atomic Bomb museum in the area too. I had been an Officer at Pease from 1969 to 1974, being 80 now and am a 100% Disabled American Veteran today. 😮

29:58 not the Deathclaw from Fallout in the background bro💀

Should be "spewed radioactive contaminates", this video conflates radiation and the materials that emit that radiation. Should be "Children are much more susceptible to taking up the radioactive contaminates' - this is different than saying they are more susceptible to the radiation from those contaminates. ..Should be, 'They were not aware of the affects of the ingesting or breathing the radioactive contaminates.' You left out another effect. When someone dies from taking up radioactive contaminates into their bodies, and then the person is buried, the contaminates are also interred.