Chernobyl Episode 4 - The Happiness of All Mankind - Nuclear Engineer Breaks Down/Reacts

Part 4 is an emotional roller coaster. Be sure to check out the full version at HBO!

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Sources:
[1] Dose Rate Chart https://www.informationisbeautiful.ne...

[2] "The ill-fated 4th block of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine stands eerily quiet. (Chernobyl, Ukraine, July 2005)" (https://flic.kr/p/dMnNmE) by Petr Pavlicek/IAEA (https://www.flickr.com/photos/iaea_im...) is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

[3] "NSC placed over reactor four of Chernobyl nuclear power plant as of September 2017, with the monument to the constructors of the sarcophagus in the foreground" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernob...) by Adam pl is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

[4] "Isotope data for xenon-135 in the Periodic Table" https://periodictable.com/Isotopes/05...

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:08 Part 3 Corrections
03:40 1000 R at Katya Is Fatal
05:18 The Egg Basket
07:32 Classified Reactor Documents
09:03 Positive Void Coefficient
12:41 The Chernobyl Reactor No. 4 Sarcophagus
15:36 90 Seconds on the 12000 R Masha Roof
17:43 Stalling a Reactor / Xenon-135
20:28 "...The baby absorbed [its mother's radiation] instead."
23:08 Conclusion