How a Nuclear Sub Disaster Impacted This Soviet Operation
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- A reactor failure on a K-19 nuclear sub in 1961 ended up killing several crew members due to radiation poisoning. It was a horrifying episode that would have ramifications for a later, top-secret Soviet operation.
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I believe these are clips from longer documentaries
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The idea of getting locked up with anything nuclear already scares me off. Let alone doing repairs on it.
not to mention made in Russia all over the place
Dat glowing reactor
Me too
Yup same
Yup same to mee
how the hell you gonna have a nuclear sub without any radiation gear inside?
I know right
amnesiai the warehouse that supplied them with it ran out, it tells you all about it in the movie which is pretty good
Russians don't need gear, they are strong like bear!
Russian reactors do not fail so no need for emergency equipment. If they do fail, it was because the reactor watch team clearly weren't loyal comrades to the Mother Land!
Aiden Walker what’s the movie called ??
one sailor received 54 sieverts... It's 10 times more than average lethal dose
a mockingbird and lived?
Erik Rasmussen if he did not for long radiation stays and will eventually kill you timing depending on the dose
a mockingbird yea, though 10x might be low balling it; 2 sieverts could be considered lethal. I’m throwing up just thinking about 54 🤢🤮
@@vadersmustache5588 Are you sure you aren't throwing up from the radiation?
or about 5000 rads of radiation, basically enough to kill a person within a few days
does whoever edits these know how dark the stories are and still puts that outro on regardless
They use the outro to label their videos? I can make a show about WW2 and make an episode about a tragic battle and still put on my outro with some action filled music at the end because it's what makes my show,my show.
SS Obersturmbannfuhrer yeah but this outro is fucked up. Plane crash kills 490 passengers and crew and outro cues *It’s brighter here*
Could you imagine being put into that position? Having to choose to go into that reactor and sacrifice yourself so that the hundred or so other people on that sub would live.
Not just a hundred, but the whole world! If that reactor would have melted down, it could have started World War Three.
@@natez9059 why?
@@asyncasync Good question. A reactor without any cooling water with eventually melt down and caused a massive explosion. The USA and her Allies would have seen this accidental explosion as the Soviets launching a nuclear bomb against the Western World. The USA would have attack back to defend herself. The world would have turned into one massive graveyard with no one left.
@@natez9059 reactor explosions look nothing like nuclear and are no where near as powerful. All the US would have done is laugh at the Soviets for losing a new sub and they'd also figure out their plan to head for Cuba.
@@baconatoromg6062 May have put a good amount of radiation into the ocean though. (though I've heard a story they just dumped the damaged core in the ocean anyway after they returned to port)
I love how the stories on this channel are so dark and full of death and war, but they put the outro on every time
Interestingly, another Soviet submarine, the K-219, had a similar problem somewhat later. An explosion in the missile room caused the reactors to fail, resulting in a similar overheat scenario. There’s an excellent book about it, called Hostile Waters.
Vasili Arkhipov ended up saving the world from nuclear disaster.
@@senpaichicken9408 search up his name alongside Cuban missile crisis
Smithsonian: “8 men die to radiation poising from the reactor”
Also Smithsonian: Its BRiGhtEr HerE
Damn russians, always half assing everything, nuclear waste? Just dump it in a lake. Nuclear meltdown? Just cover the building with cement. Build a nuclear submarine? Provide rain jackets as safety gear
@Reunite The British Empire But cement isn't the longest lasting solution, and if it fails it causes a huge leak of radiation which is extremely dangerous.
@Reunite The British EmpireIt still does not takeaway the pint that if that dome fails then it releases huge amounts of radiation and again concrete isn't the longest lasting material for this.
@Reunite The British Empire No the radiation is in fallout, small dust, imagine how much dust would rise up if this dome fell.
@Reunite The British Empire But the concrete dome is specifically stationed over the failed reactor. That is the most radioactive place there.
@@bobmcmurtry7609 you can all relax, chernobyl power plant has received a new sarcophag over the old leaky one and is now rad proof for another 100 years
just use a radaway and a couple stimpacks
+ Radex , and Brotherhood of steel gear
Just put on some regen potions and drink milk when you come out.
Bunch of nubs.
Poor guys.. That's a bad way to go.
hunter brand ya it’s apparently horrible.
3:18
The cameraman: “Wait why am I in here???”
That was a real tragic history when Soviet team saved America from nuclear pollution.
Dr Victor Fursov - Entomologist Beekeeper Teacher saved them selves from a nuclear war, imagine what would happen if the US found the remains of the sub that spread radiation all across the coast, Basically giving the US free blueprints of weaponry. That’s not really Soviet of them 😂😂
You deserve to be stuck in Russia for life. Enjoy the cold 🥶
Yes, it was a personal tragedy. But they did not want to save Americans, you can be sure about that. They wanted to save the sub.
The outro is so misplaced. They're telling a story about how these sailors had to fix their nuclear reactor knowing that it would kill them and that we're heading to their deaths and then the the outro says "it brighter here"
So Chernobyl almost happened in a soviet sub too. Great soviet engineering.
RedLuckOG lol wouldn’t have been even close to the magnitude. Also the US navy has lost two as well......
They were the first to make
MIG
Man you gotta give those men credit!! You had to have balls of steel to enter that radiation chamber! especially after they seen the first crew come out in such bad shape! That was back in the day when the boats were wooden and the men were steel! But nowadays the boats are steel and the men are wooden!! 🤣
pretty sure that sub was made of steel
This story is told with amazing detail of what was happening to whom! I enjoyed it, too.
Russians and radiation poisoning. Name a more iconic duo. I'll wait.
They made a whole movie about this sub. Called the widow maker. It’s really good
The door to the nuclear core sounds like the exit door on the rear of a movie theater.... hahahaha.
Saw the movie. So tragic. Very brave men.
I'm pretty sure that the submarine was not riding out 40 meter swells (120+ foot swells). I work in the maritime industry and am quite familiar with the north Atlantic oceans during storms.
Fitting end music
Submarine: almost blows up
Smithsonian: Its Brighter Here 😀
the soviets tried to convert older diesel boats into nuclear, this was there undoing. Harrison ford movie k19 the widow maker
Nuclear powered submarine
- No radiation proof gear
-- Ussr
Submarine captain is Sergei britanov Ivan not Sergei person who saved Atlantic from explosion was Sergei premnin an reactor engineer completed engineering and joined Soviet navy with respect
They may be Soviet eta sailors and at the time an enemy. But you have to salute the bravery of the men who went into that reactor- knowing they are going to die horrible deaths.
"Thank you for your sacrifice Conrad..."
I wonder how sea sick they got 🤔
Imagine waking up for your shift and all of a sudden out of the darkness these gas mask monsters emerge from a shadow and are slightly glowing green. It would scare the shit out of you
George radioactive things do not glow in the dark - not by themselves anyway. Radiation emitted by radioactive materials is not visible to the human eye. However, there are ways to"convert" this invisible energy to visible light. ... This is called Cherenkov radiation.
this.. reminds me of a recent event
1:07 isn't that pewdiepie?
Austin hilsenbeck don’t think so
Poor Comrades
Radiation exposure is a common situation in video games now. Radiation can hurt you.
GregoryTheGr8ster tiny doses are fine
Bananas are radioactive but they don’t kill you beacuse the amount of radiation is too small
Large doses like a nuclear reactor can kill you
They had nado filters on gp-5 gasmasks not the gp-5 filters
Wish they woulda just not rushed it and tested the design, before literally throwing it in the deep end. That can be said for a lot of military projects though
Damn man get them hazmat suits or something ya’ll don’t need another Chernobyl
Random Nobody this was before
aba blanco I know that,I didn’t see what happens next
Hazmat suits can't shield you from radiation, they only help to protect you from getting contaminated.
The Hazmat suits wouldn't have helped them. They were around too much radiation for too long.
ArchieP Gaming but a raincoat and a gas mask isn’t any better
How bad is the radiation?
About the equivalent of a chest X-ray. So if you're overdue for a check-up...
2 things that don't go together very well is nuclear power and submarines
Brave men...
Random guy comes out of the nuclear reactor and starts to vomitLiterally everyone we no longer serve you
They saved the crew but they couldn't save themselves
WE WANT LONGER VIDEOS
Cutting corners!!😢
my friends dad told me about this, this is the closest the world came to an all nuclear war
40m waves...this lady isn't a seafarer
Then what happened??!! 😡
They say he will never forget it at the end a as if they were gonna have him come on and talk about it or something
Fucking hell, it’s not that hard to find some hazmat suits, just search some crates.
Please post videos with more backing to them I feel most smithsonian videos aren’t worth my time because there’s not enough context
Line-ah Blue Then why the hell are you watching them when they're not worth your'precious'time.
Line-ah Blue damn. I think these are like previews for a paid membership. I’m might be wrong tho. Solid comeback tho lmao
These are clips from their full shows, why would they post full episodes unless you buy it? Just pay the $9 for Season 2 of Hell Below.
MrElis I had no idea that’s what these snippets were, thanks for the heads up
If you have a problem with these videos, then an advice: "Pay for the episode" if not, then wait until an episode maybe comes on TV.
Very brave men. God bless them!
I hope they got extra rubles for sailing in a submarine " made in the Soviet Union".
1:20 Pavel in his young years
I bet these men were treated as heroes among the crew.
Wasnt there a movie about this?
2021, April 22 || Pray for indonesian submarine KRI NANGGALA 402.
They used raincoats probaly because it somewhat looked like a hazmat suit
Ok I didn’t understand what was leaking trough the reactor
uranium
it was a coolant leak, nuclear reactions give off an enormous amount if heat that is used to boil water to turn turbines and create power, but if you allow that heat to build it can cause cascading reactions that burn through the safeguards around the reactor, similar which is very very bad, there is nothing that can withstand direct exposure to that kind of heat and radioactive bombardment for long, so in order to control the temperature of the reactor so that it is containable and usable there are self-contained systems designed to cool the reactor, however that coolant is exposed to powerful radioactive rays and in turn becomes radioactive itself, if you have a pressure loss or in this case a crack in the coolant system, the coolant flashes into radioactive steam that fills compartments. basically think radioactive steam.
Molten core
The coolent. So they needed to repair the coolent. But in this case they used the drinking water.
Same as K-19... these people don’t learn from their mistakes??
For how many min they stayed inside the reactor room?.vodka would fix radition posioning?
It's the guy from prison break
And germany already has a stealthy submarine than can carry two nuclear missile,and can destroy moscow
Talks about nuclear submarines, but in 1:16 uses a WW2 German submarine Diving documentary
I’m glad I’m not Vasili Occupoff or however you spell his name
My dad said he would love to be in a submarine xD, HELL NA
yo those dont got flippin nuclear shiz you stinjker
Vasilly Arpikov Is The Same Guy In That Sub That Have That Nuclear Torpedo
I been on b-39......
Kim jong un attack
what in the fuck does this have to do with a failing soviet nuclear submarine from the 1960's?
Anatoly dyatlov from pripyat was been in this submaribe too if i didnt know wrong
Why do you have raincoats on a submarine?
Because it's not a raincoat but chemical protection suit.
Confusing... is this about B59 or K19?
K-19 Widowmaker
Hell below is not available in Google play store in my country(Thailand) sad
Incredible and double incredible!!🇺🇸
*dozens of men die trapped in a submarine while having extreme amounts of radiation leak in*
Smithsonian chanel:its brighter here!
Converted diesel boats into nuclear ones , not a good idea
Full episode please :(
How can you not have proper radiation suits onboard a nuclear submarine? Sounds like the Soviets skimped on more than just the reactor funding.
My Granfather was on the Essex conducting anti submarine warfare during the Cold War against theese submarines
Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.
1:20 Anatoly dyatlov? It looks like him
K19 - The Windows Maker
where was the flex seal mate
K19 Widowmaker..
When it occured
Is this a short version
b59 is a foxtort class de sub lol
...All being done before...La Guerre...
that crew was very sacrificial
Oh, yes they were!
Well they had no choice: Die in nuclear accident or die repairing reactor
Cherynbol at sea
You Didn’t see graphite
What? Thats it? Cmon.... Pathetic!
I hate planes as much as I hate ships and boats.
Why I hate planes: *They May crash*
Why I hate boats and ships: *Boats maybe can tip over and why I hate ships, it’s because they may sink. I don’t know how to swim.*
What about tanks? Out of curiosity.
Planes are the safest mode of travel
It can withstand a lighting
It can withstand bird strikes
Planes glide when they run out of fuel
95% of people survive crashes
Planes are checked before flights and get maintained
Go to Israel for no risk of Terrorism
Tanks steal coffins
You know? Planes from today are completely safe, don't worry. I mean, sooner or later an A350 had an compressor stall but pilots are experienced and get you down safely.
I don't like boats either. Planes are safe, 1000s of times more likely to die driving to the airport.
Jesus guys use flex tape
Russians and reactors don’t go so well together
8 men, not great not terrible
When you run out of RadAway.