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December 12, 2024 8:03 PM

'Chernobyl Accident-simulatation only (no talk)' (slyt, 3:31)

from: 'Higgsino physics'

"it's the physics Simulation from my video "Chernobyl accident visualized" Which explains absolutely everything. All the different elements that appears on the screen here as well"

posted by clavdivs (11 comments total)

Misses something by not having the voices screaming in Russian.
posted by Lemkin at 8:28 PM on December 12, 2024 [1 favorite]

interesting. it is said that a majority of the people in the exclusion zone today speak Russian whereas the majority of workers at the Chernobyl plant during the disaster where Ukrainian but spoke Russian.
posted by clavdivs at 9:24 PM on December 12, 2024 [1 favorite]

My favorite part of the human factors suggested by the miniseries was that leadership opted to not delay the test because they wanted to complete it before the May 1st holiday. (It also strongly hinted that this was their last remaining task before promotion eligibility with people they intended to meet during said holiday, but that's harder to verify than calendar proximity.)
posted by pwnguin at 12:19 AM on December 13, 2024 [2 favorites]

worst Conway's Game of Life round evar
posted by chavenet at 2:16 AM on December 13, 2024 [7 favorites]

There are a couple other great Chernobyl YouTube accounts that are worth your time if you like the deep technical aspects of the story:

That Chernobyl Guy has been on a deep dive for years about the forces and choices guiding the design of the RBMK reactor. His most recent video explores why similar accidents at other RBMKs led to damage, but not disaster like Chernobyl. (Hint, he blames an under acknowledged design change to the control rods):

Chernobyl Family are researchers from Slovakia who have spent a lot of time in the exclusion zone researching the history of the place with a focus on retro computing. This recent video covers what those iconic red "buoys" sitting on the top of the reactor rubble were, and all the trouble it took to deploy them.
posted by Popular Ethics at 6:15 AM on December 13, 2024 [1 favorite]

"Still stuck at 7% power, the computer warned them to shut down immediately, so they turned off the computer instead." (2:40)
posted by Brian B. at 9:27 AM on December 13, 2024 [1 favorite]

That was surprisingly terrifying for some cute animated dots and squares and a clicking noise.
posted by Eddie Mars at 12:01 PM on December 13, 2024 [1 favorite]

Don't worry, you can hear an approximate translation of the screaming (and the thought processes involved) accompanying Nerd Cubed's simulation of the disaster (YT, 20 mins).
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 12:16 PM on December 13, 2024 [1 favorite]

3.6 Roentgen. Not great, not terrible.
posted by neuron at 1:50 PM on December 13, 2024 [2 favorites]

"RBMK reactors don't explode"
thought of this thread. The mini series was good, the sight of an open reactor chilled /horrified more then any other single shot in modern film. can Chernobyl fit into the same genre as the day after, threads and others contrasting it withDr strangelove would be a task.
my father was working on STP in 86' and I called him after hearing about the accident and he did something he never did before:
son... I can't talk right now I'll call you later. click.
posted by clavdivs at 6:42 PM on December 13, 2024 [1 favorite]

Ohh neat. For a longest time I thought Chernobyl was the result of all the Xenon poison burning off at once, and only recently learned it was rather more complicated than that.
posted by mscibing at 3:25 PM on December 16, 2024