26. Chernobyl — How It Happened

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Recommends trevorishere · 2021-10 · on “More details about the October 4 outage”

Of possible interest: [this video] This is a presentation to students by an MIT professor that goes over exactly what happened, the sequence of events, mistakes made, and so on.

Recommends kritr · 2022-06 · on “Long-Term Nuclear Waste Warning Messages”

This piqued my interest after visiting the abandoned nuclear plant in Satsop, Washington and having the pleasure of uncovering a number of fun resources in regards to past nuclear accidents. Understanding disasters like Chernobyl really puts into perspective how quickly things can go wrong with radioactive material. I found the following lecture does a great job outlining the Chernobyl disaster and potential impact of similar disasters, both from a meltdown perspective and understanding the impact of radiation. [this video]

Recommends solarengineer · 2025-12 · on “Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC”

I am a former nuclear opponent. I used to think that nuclear waste was glowing green like they show in the Simpsons and in the Doom 1 game. Once I had access to the Internet in this century, I learned better. Here are some sources of information that helped me understand the two oft-cited nuclear disasters better. The World Nuclear Energy write up on the Fukushima incident: [LINK] Some information on the Chernobyl incident: The infographics show: [LINK] [LINK] A lecture in the MIT Courseware on the incident: [this video] This lecture is way more informative where the professor explains how the workers took the system beyond the rated capacity as part of a test. There have been many lessons learne

Cites solarengineer · 2022-07 · on “Chasing Utopian Energy: How I Wasted 20 Years of My Life”

I used to be against nuclear energy. I have realized since then that since it is not nuclear energy itself but the not following of proven safe guards which are the problem. For e.g., nuclear energy is proven and safely run in many countries. There are many problem cases such as corruption in South Korea [1], the Japanese not ensuring that there was sufficient safeguards that they were told to implement but did not [2], improper design and lax adherence to safety procedures at Chernobyl [3][4][5] I had started to research about Nuclear Energy since I believed that as a supporter of the Environment and of Clean Energy I need to prepare myself to add my voice against Nuclear Energy ( this is t