Why Chernobyl Experts Still Get It Wrong

Over the past half-year we’ve made four videos focusing on specific shortcomings of INSAG-7. INSAG-7, the early 1990s report issued under the authority of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, serves as the most authoritative final word on the causes of the Chernobyl disaster despite its age. However, it contains significant flaws. It is time to review the ones we’ve identified. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/8QMD7y8Mu2 Join the Archive! https://discord.gg/fR52XKp8H6 This script was written by Bobby, who has made an excellent essay analyzing the causes and misinformation surrounding the Chernobyl Disaster. You can read it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CIY3aQcGtcVnkO7vUScdBWcweSDhvYRY/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117414224576413906284&rtpof=true&sd=true Sources: INSAG-7 - https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub913e_web.pdf Politburo session notes - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/19502-national-security-archive-doc-15-minutes-cc Rodina Borovoy interview - https://rodina-history.ru/2019/08/13/fizik-iadershchik-aleksandr-borovoj-o-pravde-i-mifah-chernobylia-i-amerikanskogo-filma-o-nem.html Adam Higginbotham Midnight in Chernobyl - https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Chernobyl-Greatest-Nuclear-Disaster/dp/1501134639/ Grigoriy Medvedev Chernobyl Notebook - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mEzakaTgzMfKTWMrQ1gfnYo-iQ8H-PBJ/view Soviet report to the Vienna Meeting - http://web.archive.org/web/20250907203549/https://inis.iaea.org/records/an0kv-am678/files/18001971.pdf INSAG-1 - http://web.archive.org/web/20251223175431/https://inis.iaea.org/records/8e700-gms57/files/53074791.pdf Dyatlov An Operator's Perspective - https://www.neimagazine.com/advanced-reactorsfusion/how-it-was-an-operator-s-perspective/ Dyatlov Why INSAG Has Still Got It Wrong - https://www.neimagazine.com/advanced-reactorsfusion/why-insag-has-still-got-it-wrong/ Test Context - https://vk.com/@chernobyl_accident-ispytaniya-kak-vnedryalsya-vybeg Other Test Context - https://www.liveinternet.ru/users/rewiever/post151227804 VNIIAES report pp. 158-159 - http://accidont.ru/WREP4.html Rogozhkin newspaper article - http://web.archive.org/web/20260206182235/http://media.slav.gov.ua/7209/1/VCh_17-18(1)-1996.pdf Karpan table - http://accidont.ru/memo/Karpan_02.html Karpan ORM controversy - http://accidont.ru/memo/Karpan_04.html Ppitm's graphs of Dmitriev's data - https://chernobylcritical.blogspot.com/p/dreg-reactor-parameter-data-from-skala.html Dmitriev's data tables - accidont.ru/datable.html NIKIET post-Ignalina discovery letter - https://www.forgottenchernobyl.net/letter-from-ignalina-npp-regarding-positive-run-up-of-reactivity Dyatlov's book - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZA6SUYBkE_YV0L2EXp9qGWvCqgDGTW3E5bfJubUm2Yw/ Dollezhal's additional absorbers - http://accidont.ru/memo/Karpan_03.html Shcherbina at the Politburo - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/20285-national-security-archive-doc-01-cc-cpsu Kazachkov's quote on ORM violations - Yuri Scherbak Chernobyl p. 366 ISBN: 5-265-01415-2 Steinberg participating in secret experiment - https://www.amazon.com/Chernobyl-Present-Future-Nikolai-Steinberg/dp/6200293112 NIKIET 1980 book - https://elib.biblioatom.ru/text/dollezhal_kanalnyy-yadernyy-reaktor_1980/p38/ Kurchatov Institute 2003 book - https://elib.biblioatom.ru/text/istoriya-atomnoy-energetiki_v3_2003/p165/ Credit to Chernobyl Revisited for trial footage: https://www.youtube.com/@Chernobyl_Revisited