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Timesuck with Dan Cummins

79 - The Chernobyl Disaster: What, Why, and How Bad Was it?

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.721.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

On Friday, April 25th, 1986, the Soviet city of Pripyat, built to support the local nuclear power plant Chernobyl, had 13,414 apartments, a hospital, a movie theater, an art school, a central park with a giant ferris wheel, and over 50,000 residents. And then, at 1:23AM on Saturday, April 26th, 1986, the number 4 reactor heated up to more than 100 times its usual operating power. Which is very, very bad. After a few explosions and a lot of radiation kicked out to the atmosphere, by April 30th, the population would be zero. More than 50 reactor and emergency workers died in the following days and weeks. And in the years since, many more have died. How many? How disastrous was this nuclear disaster? What led to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster? Will I say, nuclear, correctly? So much explored, examined, and evaluated in this atom bomb edition of Timesuck! Timesuck is brought to you today by by the socially conscious and fantastic on-line mattress store LEESA! Go to www.leesa.com/timesuck to get $125 off AND a free pillow!! Timesuck is brought to you by Timesuck is brought to us by Melissa Surroca Hair and Make up Studio in Maitland Florida. The Melissa Surroca Hair and Make up Studio is conveniently Located in Maitland Florida next to the Publix shopping center. - 525 Sybelia Parkway, Maitland Fl Suite 202 Melissa specializes in vivid color but also does hair styles for the whole family and is available for hair and makeup for weddings and family photos. And... she has limited edition Danger Brain, Timesuck magnets! You can find more info at http://melissasurroca.com and check out her photos when you follow her on Instagram at instagram.com/melissasurrocahair/ Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard"? Go here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits. And, thank you for supporting the show by doing your Amazon shopping after clicking on my Amazon link at www.timesuckpodcast.com

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0:00.0

Prepyet is a Ukrainian ghost town near the northern border with Belarus.

0:04.9

Not a single resident lives there today.

0:07.1

However, in 1985, roughly 50,000 people inhabited the then Soviet city originally built to

0:13.5

accommodate the employees of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

0:17.5

In 1985, the city had 13,414 apartments, large hospital, over 25 cafes, a movie theater

0:25.0

in art school, a museum, gyms, indoor swimming pools, two sports stadiums, central park

0:30.7

with a giant ferris wheel, much more.

0:33.1

And then at 1.23 a.m. on Saturday, April 26, 1986, the number 4 reactor heated up to more

0:39.4

than 100 times its usual operating power, which is very, very bad.

0:45.1

Ractor number 4 exploded and then several hundred staff and firefighters tackled a blaze

0:49.0

that burned for 10 days and sent a plume of radiation around the globe.

0:53.4

And it is a globe, flat earthers.

0:55.7

In the worst ever civil nuclear disaster the world has ever seen.

0:59.8

More than 50 reactor and emergency workers died, and in the years since, many more have

1:04.4

died.

1:05.4

How many deaths can be attributed to Chernobyl?

1:07.2

How disastrous is a nuclear disaster?

1:10.2

Will no one be safe to live in the former town of Prepyet?

1:14.2

Are you safe from a nuclear disaster?

1:16.3

What led to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster?

1:18.0

Am I saying nuclear correctly?

1:19.5

I'm saying it so many times.

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