Chernobyl: The Night Reactor Four Exploded

At 1.23am on 26 April 1986, Reactor Number Four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded during a safety test. This is the story of how the test went wrong, how the Soviet state stayed silent until Sweden detected the radiation, and why the official explanation changed years later. CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 1:00 The plant 1:58 The test 3:11 The explosion 4:03 Silence 5:20 Containment 6:12 Who was to blame 7:13 Legacy SOURCES World Nuclear Association: Chernobyl accident 1986: https://world-nuclear.org/information... Wikipedia: Chernobyl disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernob... Wikipedia: Anatoly Dyatlov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly... History Hit: Who was Viktor Bryukhanov?: https://www.historyhit.com/who-was-vi... Kyiv Post: How Sweden discovered the Chernobyl accident: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/74726 Gorbachev Foundation: Turning point at Chernobyl (2006): https://www.gorby.ru/en/gorbachev/in_... IMAGE CREDITS (Wikimedia Commons) Namensliste-der-Feuerwehrleute.jpg by A1000 (talk) 12:57, 26 October 2018 (UTC), CC0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Azure Swimming Pool in Pripyat, Ukraine.jpg by Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Médailles liquidateurs.jpg by Lamiot (talk · contribs), Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Pripyat amusement park (37746771195).jpg by Jorge Franganillo from Barcelona, Spain, CC BY 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... New Safe Confinement Structure.jpg by Eamonn Butler, CC BY 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... E c l i p s e - Flickr - jonhyblaze.jpg by A . from Antarctica, CC BY 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Some details of this history are debated by historians; where accounts differ, the video says so. Spotted an error? Leave a comment with a source.