The Battle of Chernobyl

Watch The Battle of Chernobyl

This is an awesome one about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in the Ukraine. Basically, this idiot wanted to do these tests at dangerously low power levels and fucked the whole thing up. More than 200 people died or were seriously injured by radiation exposure immediately after the explosion. 161,000 people had to be evacuated from a 30 kilometer radius of the reactor and 25,000 square km of land were contaminated. As time went on millions of people suffered radiation related health problems such as leukemia and thyroid cancer and around 4,000 people have died as a result of the long-term effects of the accident.

My heart goes out to the guys who had no idea how bad the radiation was and just started trying to clean up the place. Most of them died. Also, guys flying overhead in choppers that were trying to put out the fires died. If there is one thing that everyone should take away from this, it's that nuclear accidents are always human error, never the technology.

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