How They Could Have Saved Chernobyl

Chernobyl was entirely preventable, that much is true. But the subject of what the operators and those in charge could have actually done to save the reactor, going back years before the explosion actually occurred that night has not been touched on by many. So, let’s turn back the clock and look at some of the simpler decisions that could have been made in the years, months, and days, hours and seconds, before 01:23:48, that would have shifted us into a world where Chernobyl did not explode... 00:00 Introduction 00:35 Don't shorten the graphite displacers 02:30 Complete the safety upgrades 04:02 Don't do the rundown 05:28 Don't delay the rundown 06:54 Don't send the nuclear physics laboratory home 08:27 Don't leave Toptunov alone at the controls 09:47 Don't spike the feedwater flow rate 10:51 Don't mix up the test timing 12:11 Don't press the AZ-5 button 13:26 Conclusion