Resources to learn about (mostly) nuclear accidents

This is a list for resources to learn about nuclear accidents. Some can offer information about nuclear energy in general, hence the mostly in the title. Chernobyl and Tokaimura have their own categories, while other nuclear accidents and the energy in general is under the others category.

Chernobyl:

Interviews:

Any interviews in text format are linked below in the websites category.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVthWR4cR1g&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=21&pp=iAQBsAgC (Dyatlov)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8__v9EswN4&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=35&pp=iAQB0gcJCb4LAYcqIYzvsAgC (also Dyatlov, has English subtitles too)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPRyciXh07k&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=39&t=2s&pp=iAQBsAgC (Stolyarchuk)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRFkmFLl4zA&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=47&pp=iAQBsAgC (Lyudmila)

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZJTYd6KwmHI/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEnCNACELwBSFryq4qpAxkIARUAAIhCGAHYAQHiAQoIGBACGAY4AUAB&rs=AOn4CLB_AAvu3zvgaixVG93yxfShcMSZww (also Lyudmila)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg1EDOeuxKs&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=185&pp=iAQB0gcJCb4LAYcqIYzvsAgC (also Lyudmila, is in Ukrainian)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcip7swomo8&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=186&pp=iAQBsAgC (Yuvchenko)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yALBuNWILwQ&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=174&pp=iAQBsAgC (Khodemchuk's mother)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlVV3pgH3ac&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=50&pp=iAQBsAgC (Ivkin, liquidator)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ofdWiA0FQ&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=57&pp=iAQBsAgC (another liquidator)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnSpJ7GANgc&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=126&t=1s&pp=iAQB0gcJCb4LAYcqIYzvsAgC (Olenich)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMcTL_bgKjk&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=127&pp=iAQBsAgC (Checherov)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTpDTBI7jY&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=168&pp=iAQBsAgC (Khmel)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KCfwy2VAnU&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=190&pp=iAQBsAgC (Fomin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJfniksGTA8&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=197&t=5s&pp=iAQBsAgC (Breus)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4chiBtdjn0&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=222&t=30s&pp=iAQBsAgC (Genrikh)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTz8kk9MJJU&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=206&pp=iAQBsAgC (Kupnyi)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP2YjQDVzFg&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=207&pp=iAQBsAgC (Karpan)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_F0gEpA5qg&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=169&pp=iAQBsAgC (Brukhanov)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pESR160SJA0&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=181&pp=iAQBsAgC (also Brukhanov)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwijDxPyf-g&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=191&pp=iAQBsAgC (also Brukhanov)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrr3jlf30jU&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=154&t=1232s&pp=iAQBsAgC (Korol)

Літературно-експертні вечори "Ті, хто не залишив варту". Частина 1 (interview of those who remained in their posts)

https://youtu.be/L4nVqfJM1H0?si=5h619Pe5tLRkmEUM (Linnik, who made the stained windows)

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/@thatchernobylguy2915

https://www.youtube.com/@TheChernobylArchive

https://www.youtube.com/@chernobyl86 (channel owner worked in the Chernobyl NPP, channel is mostly in Russian but there is a playlist for English speakers.)

https://www.youtube.com/@СергейКошелев-б8т(worked in the Chernobyl NPP too, also the cameraman of the guy above)

https://www.youtube.com/@bionerd23

https://www.youtube.com/@CHERNIVSKA (footage)

https://www.youtube.com/@Chernobyl_Revisited

https://www.youtube.com/@chernobylarchive

https://www.youtube.com/@ChernobylFamily

https://www.youtube.com/@ChornobylNPP

https://www.youtube.com/@peredova

https://www.youtube.com/@UrbanNasledie

https://www.youtube.com/@Napromieniowani

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bk_r3D6TYo&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=224&t=602s&pp=iAQB0gcJCckLAYcqIYzvsAgC (university lecture for the 40th anniversary)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2ZusD1Qd60&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=209&pp=iAQBsAgC (Unit 4 in 1985)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZyskbkUUxk&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=143&t=2215s&pp=iAQBsAgC (opinion of Kupnyi on the Chernobyl series)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoMfLBYcQg&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=88&pp=iAQBsAgC (Chernobyl's death toll)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvZG4Z7gGdw&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=104&pp=iAQBsAgC (Pripyat in May 1986)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um1-Ub5BGac&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=80&t=1522s&pp=iAQBsAgC (ARS documentary in Russian)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ8wU11Ez3s&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=180&t=1s&pp=iAQBsAgC (for whom the bell tolls)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdSS7eP0hZ0&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=73&pp=iAQBsAgC (drive in Pripyat in June of 1986)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VQRafXNkhM&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=176&pp=iAQBsAgC (trial)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xSJrA5Cr5s&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=216&t=4s&pp=iAQBsAgC (ARS footage)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Gi890VQ40&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=54&pp=iAQB0gcJCb4LAYcqIYzvsAgC (transcript of conversations)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRk_Q_g3Ysc&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=30&pp=iAQBsAgC (footage after the disaster)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe_zzTQFV3o&list=WL&index=6&t=2s&pp=iAQBsAgC (Footage of Unit 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1GEPsSVpZY&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=7&pp=iAQBsAgC (medical fact checking)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpf3zGtvH3A&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=18&pp=iAQBsAgC (on the roof)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc-vvhWXL9Q&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=14&pp=iAQBsAgC (compilation of videos)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2vessAcddo&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=81&pp=iAQBsAgC (Happy Traveller episode in Chernobyl, Greek)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8BTpGAaXEViUgAX3ZqqZMuE1zN8YcOR9&si=0VaxuYnIQkK5It1j (documentary)

Реконструированная квартира Припяти / За минуту до аварии (reconstruction of a Pripyat apartment)


Books/PDFs:

How it was - Anatoly Dyatlov

Midnight in Chernobyl - Adam Higginbotham

Chornob_2020_688.pdf (declassified documents)

Ukraine-Chernobyl-World - Natalia Baranovskaya

Chernobyl - Yuri Scherbak

Chernobyl 01:23:40 - Andrew Leatherbarrow


Social media:

Chernobyl (Reddit)

vk.ru


Websites:

Катастрофа: Чернобыль 2 серия / Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown s01e02 (RuDub | Рудаб) (the other parts are there as well)

The Chernobyl disaster and scientific fantasies

A simplified analysis of the Chernobyl accident | EPJ N - Nuclear Sciences & Technologies

Index of /Chernobyl

«Називав всіх нас «йобан*ми карасями»: експрацівник ЧАЕС розповів, хто винен у трагедії – Дятлов чи Александров - Blik

Чернобыль | National Security Archive

Forgotten Chernobyl – Reports from the Chernobyl Zone

Alexander Yuvchenko’s story about Chernobyl

'My husband was a swollen blister' (about Shashenok)

Hero of Chernobyl: An Interview with Alexei Ananenko | Ex Utopia

Oleksandr Lelechenko: saved country and the whole world | Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

Interview with Alexander Korol [English] (WIP) - Coffee with taste of Chernobyl / Interview with Alexander Korol - Wattpad

Sitemap.

Когда стало ясно, что очищать крыши чаэс от радиоактивных завалов придется вручную силами тысяч человек, правительственная комиссия послала туда солдат | «ФАКТЫ»

chernobyllegacy.com

Chernobyl | Object Shelter (Sarcophagus) Mapping Project

Two-thirds of a lethal dose / Andrey Fedorovich Mitenkov / Project participants // Living history /// History of Rosatom

The stolen life of the Khodymchuks. From the Chernobyl accident to the arrival of the Russian "Shahed" | hromadske

https://hromadske.ua/suspilstvo/257268-vkradene-zyttia-khodymchukiv-vid-avariyi-na-chaes-do-prylyotu-rosiyskoho-shakheda

Chernobyl: Assessment of Radiological and Health Impact - 2002 Update of Chernobyl: Ten Years On

РБМК-1000

Анатолій | Чернобыльская историческая мастерская

https://web.archive.org/web/20160810012831/http://vivovoco.astronet.ru/VV/PAPERS/MEN/CHERNOBYL.HTM (The non-peaceful atom by Checherov)

‘I was there, and I don’t want to watch this anymore’. A journalist in Baltimore shows HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ to his stepfather and discovers that he was part of the USSR’s military cleanup — Meduza

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/06/04/the-pain-doesn-t-fade (about Sitnikov)

atlasobscura.com/articles/the-illicit-spelunker-capturing-underground-scenes-at-chernobyl (about Kupnyi)

Chernobyl Newspapers Collection - East View

Чернобыль и Припять - Главная страница

Chernobyl survivors have paid the ultimate price in the Russia-Ukraine war | KERA News

Chernobyl Witness: A primary source compendium of 26 April 1986

The causes of Chernobyl disaster are known

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Чернобыльская АЭС с реактором РБМК-1000. — 1977 / Просмотр издания // Электронная библиотека /// История Росатома

Case Details > Chernobyl Accident

SSE Chernobyl NPP

“A skin has turned into a powder paint”– the story of Pridnestrovian Alexander Yuvchenko from the 4th power-generating unit | Новости Приднестровья

Chernobyl - The Cancer Letter

Верховный Суд рассмотрел дело против канала HBO, который в сериале «Чернобыль» без разрешения использовал имена и историю ликвидатора аварии на ЧАЭС Василия Игнатенко - sud.ua

RBMK Simulator | Hartrusion


Tokaimura:

Documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWomuWd7-to&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=107&t=1s&pp=iAQBsAgC (Made by a Japanese news channel, includes testimony from the doctors and nurses themselves, is in Japanese but has English subtitles)

Websites:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/tokaimura-nuclear-accident#:~:text=On%20the%20morning%20of%20September%2030%2C%201999%2C%20Hisashi,hundreds%20of%20others%20to%20high%20levels%20of%20radiation.

Answering The Mysteries: The Tokaimura Nuclear Accident (and who might actually be in the "Hisashi Ouchi" photo)

<JCO critical accident > "ignorance was the cause" Yui's survivors talk (Mainichi Shimbun) Kumano Komichi


Youtube:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDYm-CcwBBdEc0nGa_OZ6vrCC4HH9Om37&si=gsquX72IqRAEfk9K (Ghosts of Tokaimura by That Chernobyl Guy)

Book:

A Slow Death - 83 days of radiation sickness - NHK-TV (English translator is Maho Harada)

Others:

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/@YourFriendlyNuclearPhysicist

https://www.youtube.com/@greekatomicenergycommissio4291

https://www.youtube.com/@kylehill

https://www.youtube.com/@tfolsenuclear (more so a reaction channel but he's got some pretty great videos)

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4DhZ0UGiS0k/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEnCNACELwBSFryq4qpAxkIARUAAIhCGAHYAQHiAQoIGBACGAY4AUAB&rs=AOn4CLD-ZpvuMO_rr9Rc__iGwRbxdJcLSg (about David Hahn)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuLuQvxJTpQ&list=WL&index=35&pp=iAQBsAgC (OPS training at NPP)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&si=8XIYYvT6mjI9lcmX (my own collection, some might be inaccurate)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYrhWO_ZLYw&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=10&t=132s&pp=iAQBsAgC (startup and shut down of Breazeale reactor)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgNlhIE2t5g&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=150&pp=iAQBsAgC (reactor scram)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9W4nCNa_o8&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=166&pp=iAQB0gcJCb4LAYcqIYzvsAgC (school trip to Smolensk NPP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0TMbkticJM&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=208&pp=iAQBsAgC (SL-1 video with the writer of Atomic America)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdruB3tcpwQ&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=217&pp=iAQBsAgC (Obninsk)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YwkMgO0EsM&list=PLsWdRRVUbx7LYL8l6Ag2yUIkUk7RbXO9z&index=218&pp=iAQBsAgC (first ever NPP)

Tour of nuclear power plant simulator

The secret city (Lake Karachay)

Websites:

The Yoshida Testimony - The Asahi Shimbun (Fukushima)

Nuclear Power History Pages

LA-13638 Reference Set | Nuclear Criticality Safety Program

Nuclear Fatality at Wood River Junction | Yankee Magazine Classic (1994) 

Wood River criticality accident, 1964

Nuclear Power for Everybody - What is Nuclear Power

Atomunfall.de: the most serious nuclear accidents

WIPP Exhibit: Message to 12,000 A.D.

Nuclear Power Plant Map — 811+ Reactors Worldwide | ReactorMap

The Virtual Nuclear Tourist

Nuclear Power Plants

Virtual Tour - Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant

Books:

Atomic America - Todd Tucker

How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor - Colin Tucker

The Plutonium Files - Eileen Welsome

A Review of Criticality Accidents

Introductory Nuclear Physics - Kenneth S. Krane

The Radiological Accident in Lia, Georgia - IAEA


More resources will be added in the near future.

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