26. Chernobyl — How It Happened
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 90% confidenceA university lecture that explains reactor physics and the operational decisions behind the disaster.
What you'll learn
An MIT nuclear engineering lecture reconstructing how the Chernobyl accident happened, step by step.
Video by MIT OpenCourseWare, played through YouTube's embedded player.
Part of MIT 22.01 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Ionizing Radiation, Fall 2016