Unexpected but very appreciated. Was watching you cause of MCU and some other films but as a Ukrainian myself I will really enjoy watching this with you.
I come from Berlin, almost 2000 km away from Chernobyl. For almost a year we weren't allowed to play outside as children, even sports lessons in school were only held in the sports halls. We weren't allowed to eat fruit and vegetables from Central Europe either. It was quite scary, especially because I was already old enough to understand what was happening in the USSR.
There is still parts of western Sweden where people are hesitant to eat stuff from the forests, Gävle Country's website even has a page about "Radioactivity in berries and mushroom" that does tests every 3 years to check how safe they are to eat.
You're probably from West Berlin. I grew up in East Germany and we were surprised why there was suddenly so much fresh fruit and vegetables to buy in the grocery stores. Before that, a lot of it was delivered to West Germany. Ten days after the incident in Chernobyl, the annual "Friedensfahrt", the world's largest amateur cycling race at the time, started in Kiev for once. Not far from Chernobyl. Normally the race went through East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia. All the teams from the West canceled. Our boys had to go.
This show is so well done. It's based on real historical events, not documentary, so it might be a bit dramatized, but it's still worth watching 👍👏 Don't forget to watch a short epilogue after episode 5. There are some real footage that explain a lot of what happened after an accident.
Re how radiation works: In response to your query about the “radius” of the explosion. There was a very minor “shockwave” blast of radiation caused by the explosion but this only registered as above background levels and wasn’t itself harmful. The real harm here is that the open reactor is continuously shooting radiation and radioactive contaminants straight up into the air. These contaminants mix with air moisture in much the same way that produces acid rain, except here we have something far worse: radioactive rain. Superficially, radiation works somewhat like heat but also like contamination (but deadlier). Like how heat can spread and warm things around it, it can make nearby things radioactive themselves (called contamination). Likewise, that large rock the fireman picked up is akin to a still flaming red hot brick from an oven; it has collected a lot of radiation from the reactor fuel. However, unlike heat, you cannot “cool” radioactive sources, you cannot making something that is radioactive into something nonradioactive; you can only wait for it to “cool” off on its own. The show actually does a good job of revealing the dynamics of how exposure impacts people.
I had a close friend and colleague who was a physician in Minsk when this happened. He died young from a rare form of thyroid cancer many years later. This form of cancer was far more common in people exposed to the fallout from Chernobyl. He almost certainly died because of Chernobyl. He left a wife and child.
You have no idea what fear we had back then. In 1986 I was 14 years old, lived in southern Germany and delivered the newspaper at 4 a.m. before school started. In the pouring rain. Also at the end of April and beginning of May 1986. Imagine, everything before social media, no Facebook, no Twitter, no cell phones, no cable television. I can still remember the first news on television that if you were out in the rain you should shower afterwards, the sandboxes in the children's playgrounds were dug up and the contaminated sand was removed, the vegetables were destroyed from the field, no deer or wild boar, etc from the forest. was allowed to eat. Everything was too contaminated with cancer-causing cesium-137. I've never been so scared again in my life! The series may not be 100% accurate, but it reflects the fear of that time 100%. Couldn't finish watching the series! PTSB!
I was born in -79 in Finland and my memories aren't as vivid but what I do remember is the sandboxes like you mentioned. It was recommended that from time to time you should mix the sand. Also picking up berries and mushrooms from the forests was not something you should do. In Lapland eating reindeer meat was also a big no no for a while.
It was my first year of college when this occurred. I remember the event and I learned about it via the very news report they use later in the show. I distinctly remember talking about it with my dorm mate at the time and both of us like most 80's kids (I think) knew about the dangers of a meltdown at a nuclear plant but all the reports used the phrase "an explosion at a nuclear power plant". That slight change of phrase was the difference between all of us freaking out and just going on as if this was just another event. Also, remember this is during a time when the cold war was still a thing and we had grown up with it our entire lives... the simple fact that the Soviets (Appeared) to be working with the international community made us more complacent. In short... we believed what we were told because many of us were still too naive to question what we were being told.
Keep in mind that when this happened, USSR was still a thing. Ukraine, back then, was an USSR territory. In the USSR regime, nothing was more important than the regime. People are born and die. People were expendable. It's irrelevant the number of people that die, as long as the soviet union greats isn't put in check.
@@kazimierasmickus8097 I know, pretty bad is it not.. care less for their people let alone those they force into such reckless mismanagement and subjugation.
All the music in this show is actually composed from the sounds of an actual running nuclear plant. They are changed of course to sound like that, but the base audio is from pumps and turbines running.
It’s definitely terrifying and sad when you see all the horror these people are gonna go through after being exposed to the radiation of the nuke reactor. It gets worse. ☢️
Quick suggestion for the reactors. Stop reading these comments. I just watched another reactor and she knew most of what happened due to well meaning viewers letting her know what happened to certain characters, or what real and what was dramatized. The show is extremely well written and paced. You will get most of what you want by just watching the show. There are documentaries that you can watch later if you want to get deeper into the history. But, for some reason, some watchers seem to ignore spoiler warnings for historical dramas. Read the comments when you are done watching the series…
There was no one on the mythical “bridge of death” at the time of the accident. It was late at night. Immediately after the accident, a radiation survey of the nuclear power plant and the city of Pripyat was organized. There was no radiation on the bridge at night yet. During the day, the bridge was generally closed to the public. So no one was there and no one died from it. But the screenwriters need more blood, more deaths, more suffering - after all, this is a film about the bloody Soviet Mordor. According to the plot of the film, Dyatlov sees pieces of hot graphite. In reality, he saw nothing. In the story, Dyatlov insults everyone and accuses everyone of mistakes. In reality, Dyatlov personally toured the territory of the nuclear power plant. He received severe radiation exposure and radiation sickness, from which he died. According to the plot, Dyatlov does not believe anyone that the reactor is destroyed. In reality, he is the first to claim that the reactor core exploded. This film character has nothing to do with the real Dyatlov. All living witnesses say and write that he was very well-mannered, polite, but professionally erudite and a very strict and demanding leader. I would like to note right away that Dyatlov conducted his own investigation and wrote the book “Chernobyl. How did this happen?"
youtube.com/@Victoratify Shan't argue any of your very valid points. I will play devil's advocate, however - this mini-series is *_NOT_* a documentary, nor is it trying to be. It appears to be more about giving people a better idea (not perfect, as established) of what happened at Chernobyl, and the things that led to the incident. For a western audience (the intended audience for this show), most people really don't know much more than that it happened (and even then, you have to be of a certain age). Did they move things around, change certain people to highlight 'good' and 'bad' guys in a simplified story, make ambiguous statements that further research will show as "exaggerations"? Yes, of course. I would in no way claim to be an expert, but I'm sure that the true story of Chernobyl is much more complicated than what was presented here. But as a method of educating people in the basics of the incident, it's a pretty effective tool.
The music you refer to throughout is the actual sounds of the " sister" nulcear RBNK reactor nearby. We found radiation on animals for years in the uk and kept testing for over 20 years. Am sure it was the same if not worse in Europe. A horrendous tradgedy this happened when i was 10 and thats when we learned about nuclear power in class every single day.
This is such a great mini series. The feelings of dread and horror it evokes is sobering because despite the "killer" being invisible, it's real, and ever present.
As requested, trivia regarding Chernobyl (both the event and the show), in no particular order. Much of it is from the book, Midnight in Chernobyl. The music designer for the series won an award, I believe. She took sounds from the various alarms and notifications in a real RBMK reactor control room and played around with them to make the ominous noises you hear. The Chernobyl power plant had its own dedicated fire station, they were onsite within minutes without anyone needing to call, and they in turn called in all the firefighting units from Pripyat to Kyiv. People are tasting metal because when the level of ambient radiation is high enough, it ionizes the air, just like a bolt of lightning. This interacts with the substances of the human tongue to create a weak electric current, just like a little battery, so you taste copper. It smells like a lightning storm. It's hard to get an idea of the scale, but the power plant building is twenty stories high, and the vent stack is another twenty stories on to of that. They ran all the way up with hoses to put the fire out. One fireman knew exactly what they were looking at and told his fellows, 'Lads, that's the guts of the reactor. If we're still alive tomorrow, we'll live forever. But first we're going to put out that fire.' Dyatlov had a great deal of experience in the nuclear industry and was extremely intelligent, but had a bad habit of refusing to change his conclusions once made. He was hard to work with on the job, even for his friends. The incident occurred at 1:23:45 AM, hence the title of the episode. In fact, Viktor Brukhanov wasn't a bad husband, to answer your question, although he was an often absent one due to the demands of his work, he was often awake into the early hours of the morning. In Soviet work culture of the time, it was well known that if anything went wrong, someone would be held accountable. As such, everyone's first priority in the event of an accident would usually be to find a subordinate to pin the blame on before your superiors could pin the blame on you. Everyone tended to exaggerate their accomplishments to look good to their superiors and said superiors would then further exaggerate things, resulting in the people supposed to administer the command economy having little idea about real conditions, and in administrators regularly dressing down their subordinates to maintain authority. As others have noted, also, the USSR was very image-conscious and relentlessly squashed news of anything that might make them look bad to the rest of the world or might embarrass powerful and important people. There are three basic types of radiation, alpha, beta, and gamma. Alpha particles are big and heavy, a piece of paper would block them. If they're inhaled, though, they can be incredibly lethal. Beta particles need a solid surface to stop, like a sheet of tinfoil. They stick to the skin and eat into the muscles and tissues, causing beta burns, the tissue starts melting away. Gamma rays are high-intensity beams that punch through anything except a thick sheet of lead or several feet of reinforced concrete. Naturally, all three types were present at Chernobyl, all that ash, dust, and fallout from the explosion and fire has absorbed so much radiation that it's become stupendously radioactive itself. If you handled fallout-contaminated materials, you'd get a dose, but people cannot become radioactive like objects can, radiation isn't like a disease, you can't get it from touching others. The people of Pripyat are in grave danger simply from remaining in the area, but not from each other. A huge swath of pine forest near Pripyat really did die soon after the incident, the needles all turned bright red and fell off, causing that part of land to become known as the Red Forest.
Liquidators - bravest people! And many of them sucrificed their lives for us quite deliberately! They are legendary brave and we must honor their memory! Those people - example of being human! For westerners their work - insane. For Russian - duty. And that's what makes us different✌️
@@PUARockstar it's not really about "Russians is good than others". Each nation on this planet have it's own unique culture, bad and good sides. Brave and good people can live and live anywhere. But Russian mindset is really unique! Espеcially in comparison with american/english mentality! River our (Russian) history is very long and deep. And was filled with a very large number of different events (small and big). Many of these events were complex and dark.. And combined with a unique genetic code, kindness, сompassion and depth of soul, these myriad events forged the spirit of our people. And as Sherbyna said : "Thousands of years of self-sacrifice in our blood". that's why..
I mean those firefighters went in there without no knowledge of what was really going on and they would have been exposed to lethal doses of radiation within seconds but they went in there to do a job. The reason why you can taste metal with radiation is because the radiation is breaking down Into different metal elements and it's one of the signs that you are in a presence of high levels of radiation.
There are one or two inaccuracies, and a couple of events are swapped around in the timeline for the sake of fitting it all into a 5 episode miniseries, but they nailed the visuals and also the sense of dread and stress that people actually involved with the event would have felt, the audience shares some of that and you essentially feel sick with worry at the end of every episode.
@@Dragon-Believer Let's be real here, a big part of this show is basically just "Communism bad!" that being said I do love this show still. It's a bit like Band of Brothers, fantastic show, just don't take it as a history lesson.
@@Bulbman123 I dissagree with "communism bad" specially when hearing the podcast from the creator of the show. He is convaying a message of Goverments will cover up what they can. Look at the things all goverments are trying to hid and how they are doing their best to look as good as possible, sadly it is not a communist only trait.
The oppressive music is by Icelandic cellist and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, who has created quite a lot of film and TV scores so far. Her music is notorious for its eery vibes.
Icelandic composers and artists somehow always have that special.. something to their work. Whether it's music or movies doesn't matter, there's always an edge.
Hildur Guðnadóttir is responsible for the music in this series. She also did the soundtrack for Joker, Tar, Sicario. Fantastic musician from Iceland 😊❤ P. S I was one year old when this happened but my two sister were much older, had to drink a disgusting liquid once a day. I'm from Poland🇵🇱
I knew a girl from Chernobyl as a pre-teen (I was born in late '86, same as her, but in France). She wasn't looking too good. I don't know what happened to her since then, but I'm not very optimistic.
The MOST IMPORTANT thing to remember with this show is that this is not a story - it actually happened (it's just dramatized). We are likely still feeling the effects of this now in 2024, medically, and definitely financially. Regardless of what people will say about inaccuracies - the writers did an amazing job of portraying what really happened in a format that works for TV - they had to make difficult decisions and to me made the right ones. AND - be careful with the comments if you don't want your reaction to be spoiled - there are some cruel people on here...
Firefighters from the Pripyat division understood perfectly well that a fire was raging at a nuclear power plant. And they understood perfectly well that the debris lying on the ground could be radioactive. But the scriptwriters made them out to be savages who do not have not only special fire training, but even school education, which in the USSR was of very high quality. Well, of course, at a nuclear power plant in the USSR there is only one dosimeter and it is locked somewhere in the bins. In reality, nuclear power plants have their own dosimetrist service, which regularly and on schedule monitors the background radiation at the nuclear power plant.
I agree about the firemen looking untrained, that was a very bad call of the creators. And yes, the firemen knew about the possibility of debris being radioactive. That wasn't unknown. What they didn't know was just how bad it was. How high the radiation was because nobody knew that until the army and scientists came to the powerplant. So to them (the firefighters), tasting metal was something weird they likely didn't know about because those extreme effects weren't widely known.
Thanks, Sam! Thanks, Tristan! ☢ It is an excellent series. Much of it is difficult to watch. I hope you'll love it, as I did. 🔸 Since Tristan kept mispronouncing nuclear, a good way to remember is that it sounds like it's spelled... nu-clear (new-clear). That's what our science teacher drilled into us. 🤣
I’ve never got into an accident that’s my fault and complained to them😂 I’ve apologised profusely and made sure that they were okay before I knew I was 💯
I recommend watching through the show before reading comments. Another reactor was disgusted by the amount of spoilers, and I see the same thing happening in these comments.
I just have to say this - the portrayal of Dyatlov in this series is a piece of fiction, for drama. He wasn't such an ingnorant asshole. He was very professional, and one of the best experts on nuclear reactors. It was the design flaws in the reactor that blew it up, not Dyatlov's attitude.
Here is a sort of standard comment I have posted on a lot of the reactions to this series that I come across...hope you don't mind me copy/pasting it here. One thing I will add, is that the more I learn about the history of the RBMK reactor and of the Chernobyl power plant, the more I feel that a lot of context is left out of the show, and it could have been more accurate if it had revealed some of that. This a really good series...one of the best ever made...but the producers did get some things wrong. Some things were changed intentionally for the purposes of storytelling, and the makers of the series put in a series of notes at the end of the last episode of the series explaining some of them. They also have a podcast that they put out along with the show in which they talk about other things they altered from the history and why. However, I do recommend you check out the History vs Hollywood article on Chernobyl when you are done watching the whole series, so you can find out about the other things that the producers got wrong that they do not admit to. Definitely wait until you are done with the series so you do not spoil anything for yourself.
@@gordonjenner2375 Indeed, but it was TINY...and a thousand times better built than the gigantic RBMK-1000 reactors later built in significant numbers...so building one small version was obviously not the problem. Also, I could be wrong, but I believe the first major design flaw...the high positive void coefficient...was not discovered until the first RBMK-1000 was built in the late-1960s.
There are a fair number of dramatic liberties taken in this. Dyatlov is one of the biggest--he was NOTHING like this. He recognized what had happened almost immediately, and tried to send some of the crew home, but they refused. Many of the changes are just for dramatic effect and don't really impact the story--radiation sickness does not work anywhere near this fast for example.
10:38 - "delusional".. show tries to portrait Dyatlov in worse light possible as a clean villain. It very well made, but still some artistic liberties then and there. While there were many errors on his side around the Chernobyl, in reality it was more complex character (for example ordered the evacuation of the control room, but rest volunteered to stay). Also he had experienced first hand nuclear accident with radiation exposure on submarine, one of the worse that was officially known, so he was entitled to say " I have seen worse". Because, RBMK reactor cannot explode, according to known science to them... Recommending you to read short book "Voices of Chernobyl"- accounts of first hand witnesses. 22:10 - "it is political". It is in USSR. During Cold War. When image of the strength was everything. There is no private company, just the state and the Party... It is not properly taught in Russia even now. This series was forbidden and started to make own miniseries, where everything was to be blamed on CIA agent... but then whole "denazification" started and no more interesting in Russia. Anyway, no teaching about it, since during the "special operation", general entrenched his troops around Chernobyl, in the radioactive soil, saying that "on those same positions Red Army dig trenches during second world war, so it must be perfectly safe". says everything... And the another big one, Kyshtym disaster, is not well known in the West either. Just Fukushima and Three Mile Island. 26:18 -"know nothing about radiation".. imagine radiation as a lightbulb.. only you cannot see the actual light, since different wavelength. But you know about the effect of heat coming from the lightbulb (infrared). So you know it depends on how intense the bulb is (60W household will not burn you as much as something used on concert stage), how long you stay under it and what is your the distance is (intensity decreases with distance squared). And you are not receiving heat, but various types of radiation, killing your cells and DNA. And breathing the fallout, so it means the dust particles have own small radiation "lightbulb" now inside your lungs, much closer to vital organs than when penetrating the skin. Firemen were next to the remains of the core, so.. well, you see. In a little bit less realistic portrait, so it would be not as disturbing as reality. Still horrifying.
Soviet specialists in the series are shown as idiots. Dosimeters (if I'm not mistaken, DRGZ brand), which were used at the station, measured the radiation level in units of μR/s and had a limit of 1000 μR/s. That is 3.6 roentgens per hour. The NPP has its own dosimetry service, which constantly monitors the radiation level throughout the territory according to a schedule. Any increase in the radiation level anywhere in the working areas is abnormal, even when the excess is small. This required immediate cleaning and cleaning of the contaminated area. This was strictly monitored. And then at night the NPP building was shaken by an explosion and the standard dosimeters went off the scale. One actor says that it's bad, but not catastrophic, other actors ask if there are dosimeters with a higher measurement limit. Why the hell do you need more? It's clear that the level is off the scale. Any specialist will understand this. Soviet specialists were not idiots and understood perfectly well that 3.6 roentgens per hour was a catastrophe.
This is a fantastic miniseries, that made an attempt to expose the extent and consequences of Soviet propaganda, while telling a Soviet propaganda version of the events, shockingly enough. Make sure to check out the 3 part TH-cam series about How HBO Chernobyl got it wrong. But only after you finish this mastefully executed show because it will ruin it for you, permanently.
Hi Guys. This series is historically accurate. i must tell you some things. First off to the Soviet Union the MOST IMPORTANT thing to them is IMAGE. So to report a disaster is just as bad as the incident it self. If your told to do something you cannot refuse. if you do your shot on the spot or sent off to prison. The KGB (Soviet Secret Police) classified anything to do with nuclear as secret that why there are no plans, or equipment for disasters. People have no training on this with very few exceptions. The one thing they do use filmakers license is with radiation. if your at the spot where an atomic bomb exploded your die form heat not radiation. Exposure to radiation works slower, days, weeks, months, years, depending on level of exposure. Also you CANNONOT transfer radiation from one person to another once their cloths removed and body washed, so keep this in mind Nice reaction. Ask me any questions you like i will reply. Each episode will get emotionally worse and worse, Be ready to cry. You will not find out what happened and why until the last episode. Be sure you watch all THE ENDING CREDITS
@@cherylsims5636 it's weird how people get mad at the people who tell them they were fooled. And not at the people who fooled them. I saw people getting really angry on Facebook when they were told that pics were AI.
@@Dragon-Believer Well son I have watch DASHA REACTS channel , and she grew up right near this area. Now lives in Canada. So Im inclined to believe what she has told more about this incident than others. There are certain a things about radiation we know so this is not questionable. There are things about the Soviet Union we know so these are also unquestionable Just look at the current Russia Ukraine war. How many soldiers were sent in the ""Exclusion zone" who dug in and now dead of radiation. Need i say more?
Do keep in mind that this is a dramatization, a harsh condemnation of the USSR but a dramatization still all the same. It was a flawed nation, but it wasn't an evil regime bent on killing people, if it were, the union would never have existed in the first place, let alone almost became the world power. A lot of people say that the USSR was made up of starving people working to their deaths and being sent to gulags to be executed if they didn't. If that were the case, like I said the union wouldn't have existed and it certainly wouldn't have been a world power to rival the us. Fact is, a lot of our luxuries of today, like workers rights, weekends, 8-hour shifts, these were in response to what the USSR was doing to try to prevent people from revolting in other countries. It was a flawed nation, very flawed, but it wasn't evil for the sake of evil. That's just a dramatic interpretation coming from people who either know exactly what it is and lie or don't know anything. It was said that no country could have responded to the disaster like the Soviet Union did, and although it was in fact the cause of the disaster, any other country would have taken much longer to deal with it. Yes they reacted slow, Americans at the time said though that no Nation would have had the resources and power to be able to deal with the situation so catastrophic, so fast.
Demonizong Diatlov, the CCP's scapegoat, the man that did what he could to help after the accident, which cost him his health and shortened his live signitficantly is this series biggest sin. He was hard on his menand stubborn, true. But he was very experienced and far from incompetent
II am a German, 62 years old. Here in the "old" Federal Republic of Germany (before the reunification of the western part of Germany) it was "extraordinarily" strange that none of the leading people at the nuclear power operators, in the immediate or further away areas, of a nuclear power plant. The, Those who praised this type of energy generation so much were probably not so convinced of the safety of the power plants. When it comes to Chernobyl, the only thing that can be said is that it was socialism/communism in its purest form. The individual is to blame, but never the absolutely inadequate technical conditions and this type of reactor, which is absolute crap.
@@gordonjenner2375 Excuse me, but Chernobyl 1986 was not a TV show for me and my family but, as a West Berliner (born in 1962), pure reality. I strongly suspect that their knowledge of the impacts in the countries concerned is extremely limited. Disguising, tricking and deceiving, that is socialism, and those are still the “nice” excesses. At that time, the planning even included possible evacuations in a large city like Berlin-West. Concealment, lying and cheating, that was and is the motto of the old USSR and its successor state, Russia. And with this fragile subject area, congratulations.
@@gordonjenner2375 no homeless? Not true at all. The dedicated word for the homeless "бомж" was invented during soviet times even. No war in Europe? Well, the soviets used to occupy Germany and many other states, holding the centre and east of Europe hostage. Like they've brutally crushed Czechoslovia and Hungary protests with tanks. That mad part of authoritarian and totalitarian communists that supported that are called tankies, they are defending countries like russia, north korea, china etc. in their every decision however inhumane to this day.
Dyatlov really was like that, according to his surviving colleagues. Not all the time, but enough. He threatened people's jobs. The Cherenkov effect causes a blue glow--when the core is under water. Dyatlov was lying through his teeth and Fomin, at least, would have known. All the people in the episode with names are real. Concerning the denial: You had to pretend that the SOviet Union was a worker's paradise where nothing ever went wrong. If you surfaced an issue, it was all your fault. They set out to build a tractor factory. Work fell behind, but no one dared to take the hit. So the paperwork moved on on schedule. Finally the fire marshall showed up to inspect and found a cement slab. Concerning radiation": The people were told that radiation was good, it cured cancer, it was a sign of technological progress. And if the Americans nuke us, don't worry, Civil Defense has it covered.
Unexpected but very appreciated. Was watching you cause of MCU and some other films but as a Ukrainian myself I will really enjoy watching this with you.
I come from Berlin, almost 2000 km away from Chernobyl. For almost a year we weren't allowed to play outside as children, even sports lessons in school were only held in the sports halls. We weren't allowed to eat fruit and vegetables from Central Europe either. It was quite scary, especially because I was already old enough to understand what was happening in the USSR.
There is still parts of western Sweden where people are hesitant to eat stuff from the forests, Gävle Country's website even has a page about "Radioactivity in berries and mushroom" that does tests every 3 years to check how safe they are to eat.
even many years after it we (in Austria) were told to not eat any mushrooms, because they concentrate the nuclear elements in them.
You're probably from West Berlin. I grew up in East Germany and we were surprised why there was suddenly so much fresh fruit and vegetables to buy in the grocery stores. Before that, a lot of it was delivered to West Germany.
Ten days after the incident in Chernobyl, the annual "Friedensfahrt", the world's largest amateur cycling race at the time, started in Kiev for once. Not far from Chernobyl. Normally the race went through East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia. All the teams from the West canceled. Our boys had to go.
That was the actual emergency call.
I believe I saw otherwise in one of the behind-the-scenes, but it's accurate.
@@dudermcdudeface3674that call and text existed long before the series, so yes it was the real call
Its an accurate recreation of the call. Similar to the news broadcasts in a later episode.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 It's the actual reacorded audio, it was one dispatcher calling another. All such call were recorded.
@@maksphoto78 No, but they did a great job recreating it.
This show is so well done. It's based on real historical events, not documentary, so it might be a bit dramatized, but it's still worth watching 👍👏 Don't forget to watch a short epilogue after episode 5. There are some real footage that explain a lot of what happened after an accident.
THE FIREFIGHTER WIDOW FOLLOW UP DOCUMENTARY IS ON TH-cam, TODAY A MEMORIAL EXIST IN HONOR OF HIM AND HIS COLLEAGUES 👀
If you're curious, the firefighter that had the burn to his hand, that's called a Beta-burn caused by acute radiation exposure.
This is a brutal series.
Prepare yourselves.
Re how radiation works:
In response to your query about the “radius” of the explosion. There was a very minor “shockwave” blast of radiation caused by the explosion but this only registered as above background levels and wasn’t itself harmful.
The real harm here is that the open reactor is continuously shooting radiation and radioactive contaminants straight up into the air. These contaminants mix with air moisture in much the same way that produces acid rain, except here we have something far worse: radioactive rain.
Superficially, radiation works somewhat like heat but also like contamination (but deadlier). Like how heat can spread and warm things around it, it can make nearby things radioactive themselves (called contamination). Likewise, that large rock the fireman picked up is akin to a still flaming red hot brick from an oven; it has collected a lot of radiation from the reactor fuel.
However, unlike heat, you cannot “cool” radioactive sources, you cannot making something that is radioactive into something nonradioactive; you can only wait for it to “cool” off on its own.
The show actually does a good job of revealing the dynamics of how exposure impacts people.
I had a close friend and colleague who was a physician in Minsk when this happened. He died young from a rare form of thyroid cancer many years later. This form of cancer was far more common in people exposed to the fallout from Chernobyl. He almost certainly died because of Chernobyl. He left a wife and child.
You have no idea what fear we had back then. In 1986 I was 14 years old, lived in southern Germany and delivered the newspaper at 4 a.m. before school started. In the pouring rain. Also at the end of April and beginning of May 1986. Imagine, everything before social media, no Facebook, no Twitter, no cell phones, no cable television. I can still remember the first news on television that if you were out in the rain you should shower afterwards, the sandboxes in the children's playgrounds were dug up and the contaminated sand was removed, the vegetables were destroyed from the field, no deer or wild boar, etc from the forest. was allowed to eat. Everything was too contaminated with cancer-causing cesium-137. I've never been so scared again in my life! The series may not be 100% accurate, but it reflects the fear of that time 100%. Couldn't finish watching the series! PTSB!
I was born in -79 in Finland and my memories aren't as vivid but what I do remember is the sandboxes like you mentioned. It was recommended that from time to time you should mix the sand. Also picking up berries and mushrooms from the forests was not something you should do. In Lapland eating reindeer meat was also a big no no for a while.
It was my first year of college when this occurred. I remember the event and I learned about it via the very news report they use later in the show. I distinctly remember talking about it with my dorm mate at the time and both of us like most 80's kids (I think) knew about the dangers of a meltdown at a nuclear plant but all the reports used the phrase "an explosion at a nuclear power plant". That slight change of phrase was the difference between all of us freaking out and just going on as if this was just another event. Also, remember this is during a time when the cold war was still a thing and we had grown up with it our entire lives... the simple fact that the Soviets (Appeared) to be working with the international community made us more complacent. In short... we believed what we were told because many of us were still too naive to question what we were being told.
Keep in mind that when this happened, USSR was still a thing. Ukraine, back then, was an USSR territory. In the USSR regime, nothing was more important than the regime. People are born and die. People were expendable. It's irrelevant the number of people that die, as long as the soviet union greats isn't put in check.
so about the same as modern day russia.
@@ghost-anon Pretty much. Putin is in a revivalist journey to make Russia "great again"
@@ghost-anon it was russian history since early times. russia never changed
@@kazimierasmickus8097 I know, pretty bad is it not.. care less for their people let alone those they force into such reckless mismanagement and subjugation.
How Chernobyl was handeled sparked the Ukrainian independance movement why they to this day fight russia so valliantly.
All the music in this show is actually composed from the sounds of an actual running nuclear plant. They are changed of course to sound like that, but the base audio is from pumps and turbines running.
It’s definitely terrifying and sad when you see all the horror these people are gonna go through after being exposed to the radiation of the nuke reactor. It gets worse. ☢️
Quick suggestion for the reactors. Stop reading these comments. I just watched another reactor and she knew most of what happened due to well meaning viewers letting her know what happened to certain characters, or what real and what was dramatized. The show is extremely well written and paced. You will get most of what you want by just watching the show. There are documentaries that you can watch later if you want to get deeper into the history. But, for some reason, some watchers seem to ignore spoiler warnings for historical dramas. Read the comments when you are done watching the series…
Funnylilgalreacts? Same.
There was no one on the mythical “bridge of death” at the time of the accident. It was late at night. Immediately after the accident, a radiation survey of the nuclear power plant and the city of Pripyat was organized. There was no radiation on the bridge at night yet. During the day, the bridge was generally closed to the public. So no one was there and no one died from it. But the screenwriters need more blood, more deaths, more suffering - after all, this is a film about the bloody Soviet Mordor.
According to the plot of the film, Dyatlov sees pieces of hot graphite. In reality, he saw nothing. In the story, Dyatlov insults everyone and accuses everyone of mistakes. In reality, Dyatlov personally toured the territory of the nuclear power plant. He received severe radiation exposure and radiation sickness, from which he died. According to the plot, Dyatlov does not believe anyone that the reactor is destroyed. In reality, he is the first to claim that the reactor core exploded. This film character has nothing to do with the real Dyatlov. All living witnesses say and write that he was very well-mannered, polite, but professionally erudite and a very strict and demanding leader. I would like to note right away that Dyatlov conducted his own investigation and wrote the book “Chernobyl. How did this happen?"
youtube.com/@Victoratify Shan't argue any of your very valid points. I will play devil's advocate, however - this mini-series is *_NOT_* a documentary, nor is it trying to be. It appears to be more about giving people a better idea (not perfect, as established) of what happened at Chernobyl, and the things that led to the incident. For a western audience (the intended audience for this show), most people really don't know much more than that it happened (and even then, you have to be of a certain age). Did they move things around, change certain people to highlight 'good' and 'bad' guys in a simplified story, make ambiguous statements that further research will show as "exaggerations"? Yes, of course. I would in no way claim to be an expert, but I'm sure that the true story of Chernobyl is much more complicated than what was presented here. But as a method of educating people in the basics of the incident, it's a pretty effective tool.
There will be plenty of tough scenes, but the payoff is worth it. Amazing series!
Episode 4 is tough
@tawogtrailers I think episode 3 is harder
@@vicmanpergar they both are
@@tawogtrailers ofc they both are, the whole thing is very hard, I personally find the third one harder.
After each episode I would absolutely listen to the Chernobyl Podcast.
“Can you guys taste metal?”
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The music you refer to throughout is the actual sounds of the " sister" nulcear RBNK reactor nearby. We found radiation on animals for years in the uk and kept testing for over 20 years. Am sure it was the same if not worse in Europe. A horrendous tradgedy this happened when i was 10 and thats when we learned about nuclear power in class every single day.
I was 11 when this occurred. God bless them all.
Everything gets pretty much covered
You're in for one helluva ride with this one!
This is such a great mini series. The feelings of dread and horror it evokes is sobering because despite the "killer" being invisible, it's real, and ever present.
the soundtrack was made using ambient noises recorded at power plants similar to Chernobyl
As requested, trivia regarding Chernobyl (both the event and the show), in no particular order. Much of it is from the book, Midnight in Chernobyl.
The music designer for the series won an award, I believe. She took sounds from the various alarms and notifications in a real RBMK reactor control room and played around with them to make the ominous noises you hear.
The Chernobyl power plant had its own dedicated fire station, they were onsite within minutes without anyone needing to call, and they in turn called in all the firefighting units from Pripyat to Kyiv.
People are tasting metal because when the level of ambient radiation is high enough, it ionizes the air, just like a bolt of lightning. This interacts with the substances of the human tongue to create a weak electric current, just like a little battery, so you taste copper. It smells like a lightning storm.
It's hard to get an idea of the scale, but the power plant building is twenty stories high, and the vent stack is another twenty stories on to of that. They ran all the way up with hoses to put the fire out. One fireman knew exactly what they were looking at and told his fellows, 'Lads, that's the guts of the reactor. If we're still alive tomorrow, we'll live forever. But first we're going to put out that fire.'
Dyatlov had a great deal of experience in the nuclear industry and was extremely intelligent, but had a bad habit of refusing to change his conclusions once made. He was hard to work with on the job, even for his friends.
The incident occurred at 1:23:45 AM, hence the title of the episode.
In fact, Viktor Brukhanov wasn't a bad husband, to answer your question, although he was an often absent one due to the demands of his work, he was often awake into the early hours of the morning.
In Soviet work culture of the time, it was well known that if anything went wrong, someone would be held accountable. As such, everyone's first priority in the event of an accident would usually be to find a subordinate to pin the blame on before your superiors could pin the blame on you. Everyone tended to exaggerate their accomplishments to look good to their superiors and said superiors would then further exaggerate things, resulting in the people supposed to administer the command economy having little idea about real conditions, and in administrators regularly dressing down their subordinates to maintain authority.
As others have noted, also, the USSR was very image-conscious and relentlessly squashed news of anything that might make them look bad to the rest of the world or might embarrass powerful and important people.
There are three basic types of radiation, alpha, beta, and gamma. Alpha particles are big and heavy, a piece of paper would block them. If they're inhaled, though, they can be incredibly lethal. Beta particles need a solid surface to stop, like a sheet of tinfoil. They stick to the skin and eat into the muscles and tissues, causing beta burns, the tissue starts melting away. Gamma rays are high-intensity beams that punch through anything except a thick sheet of lead or several feet of reinforced concrete. Naturally, all three types were present at Chernobyl, all that ash, dust, and fallout from the explosion and fire has absorbed so much radiation that it's become stupendously radioactive itself. If you handled fallout-contaminated materials, you'd get a dose, but people cannot become radioactive like objects can, radiation isn't like a disease, you can't get it from touching others. The people of Pripyat are in grave danger simply from remaining in the area, but not from each other.
A huge swath of pine forest near Pripyat really did die soon after the incident, the needles all turned bright red and fell off, causing that part of land to become known as the Red Forest.
Well now they have no need to watch it
I hope they didn't read this before moving on to the next episode. Why spoiler so much?
The guy that asked for a cigarette actually lived
the liquidators that come to clean up the aftermath is insane
yep, that's my dad for you
Liquidators - bravest people! And many of them sucrificed their lives for us quite deliberately! They are legendary brave and we must honor their memory! Those people - example of being human!
For westerners their work - insane.
For Russian - duty. And that's what makes us different✌️
@@Bugmihvik why did you mentioned russians specifically?
@@PUARockstar it's not really about "Russians is good than others". Each nation on this planet have it's own unique culture, bad and good sides. Brave and good people can live and live anywhere. But Russian mindset is really unique! Espеcially in comparison with american/english mentality! River our (Russian) history is very long and deep. And was filled with a very large number of different events (small and big). Many of these events were complex and dark.. And combined with a unique genetic code, kindness, сompassion and depth of soul, these myriad events forged the spirit of our people. And as Sherbyna said : "Thousands of years of self-sacrifice in our blood". that's why..
The man they sent up on the roof died 2 or 3 days later. poor guy.
I mean those firefighters went in there without no knowledge of what was really going on and they would have been exposed to lethal doses of radiation within seconds but they went in there to do a job. The reason why you can taste metal with radiation is because the radiation is breaking down Into different metal elements and it's one of the signs that you are in a presence of high levels of radiation.
There are one or two inaccuracies, and a couple of events are swapped around in the timeline for the sake of fitting it all into a 5 episode miniseries, but they nailed the visuals and also the sense of dread and stress that people actually involved with the event would have felt, the audience shares some of that and you essentially feel sick with worry at the end of every episode.
More than one or two. It's full of made up stuff. But it's a good drama. I think episode 1 is incredible. It kinda goes off the rails after that.
@@Dragon-Believer True but I'm not going to mention them here cause of spoilers.
@@Dragon-Believer Let's be real here, a big part of this show is basically just "Communism bad!" that being said I do love this show still. It's a bit like Band of Brothers, fantastic show, just don't take it as a history lesson.
@@Bulbman123 Communism is bad.
@@Bulbman123 I dissagree with "communism bad" specially when hearing the podcast from the creator of the show. He is convaying a message of Goverments will cover up what they can. Look at the things all goverments are trying to hid and how they are doing their best to look as good as possible, sadly it is not a communist only trait.
The oppressive music is by Icelandic cellist and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, who has created quite a lot of film and TV scores so far.
Her music is notorious for its eery vibes.
Icelandic composers and artists somehow always have that special.. something to their work. Whether it's music or movies doesn't matter, there's always an edge.
@@Andizu1 Oh yes!
Hildur Guðnadóttir is responsible for the music in this series. She also did the soundtrack for Joker, Tar, Sicario. Fantastic musician from Iceland 😊❤
P. S I was one year old when this happened but my two sister were much older, had to drink a disgusting liquid once a day. I'm from Poland🇵🇱
I knew a girl from Chernobyl as a pre-teen (I was born in late '86, same as her, but in France).
She wasn't looking too good. I don't know what happened to her since then, but I'm not very optimistic.
The MOST IMPORTANT thing to remember with this show is that this is not a story - it actually happened (it's just dramatized). We are likely still feeling the effects of this now in 2024, medically, and definitely financially. Regardless of what people will say about inaccuracies - the writers did an amazing job of portraying what really happened in a format that works for TV - they had to make difficult decisions and to me made the right ones.
AND - be careful with the comments if you don't want your reaction to be spoiled - there are some cruel people on here...
Firefighters from the Pripyat division understood perfectly well that a fire was raging at a nuclear power plant. And they understood perfectly well that the debris lying on the ground could be radioactive. But the scriptwriters made them out to be savages who do not have not only special fire training, but even school education, which in the USSR was of very high quality.
Well, of course, at a nuclear power plant in the USSR there is only one dosimeter and it is locked somewhere in the bins. In reality, nuclear power plants have their own dosimetrist service, which regularly and on schedule monitors the background radiation at the nuclear power plant.
I agree about the firemen looking untrained, that was a very bad call of the creators.
And yes, the firemen knew about the possibility of debris being radioactive. That wasn't unknown. What they didn't know was just how bad it was. How high the radiation was because nobody knew that until the army and scientists came to the powerplant.
So to them (the firefighters), tasting metal was something weird they likely didn't know about because those extreme effects weren't widely known.
"Is it war?" You have to remember that this happened during the Cold War.
And now there is a war taking place in the surrounding area.
Key thing with rediation exposure.
How much and for how long.
Thanks, Sam! Thanks, Tristan! ☢ It is an excellent series. Much of it is difficult to watch. I hope you'll love it, as I did. 🔸 Since Tristan kept mispronouncing nuclear, a good way to remember is that it sounds like it's spelled... nu-clear (new-clear). That's what our science teacher drilled into us. 🤣
Like the old "Vapors" LP from the 80s called "New Clear Days" which had a picture of a weather map with radiation symbols on the cover.... 🙂
@@andrewcharles459 🍻
Stay with it. It’s a tough watch sometimes but it’s the best series I’ve seen in the last 10 years.
I’ve never got into an accident that’s my fault and complained to them😂 I’ve apologised profusely and made sure that they were okay before I knew I was 💯
I recommend watching through the show before reading comments. Another reactor was disgusted by the amount of spoilers, and I see the same thing happening in these comments.
Sad thing about this series is this is based on true event it really happened 💔
Craig Mazin, the creator, is amazing. If you like/love Chernobyl, should check out his other work, The Last of Us
I just have to say this - the portrayal of Dyatlov in this series is a piece of fiction, for drama. He wasn't such an ingnorant asshole. He was very professional, and one of the best experts on nuclear reactors. It was the design flaws in the reactor that blew it up, not Dyatlov's attitude.
Here is a sort of standard comment I have posted on a lot of the reactions to this series that I come across...hope you don't mind me copy/pasting it here. One thing I will add, is that the more I learn about the history of the RBMK reactor and of the Chernobyl power plant, the more I feel that a lot of context is left out of the show, and it could have been more accurate if it had revealed some of that.
This a really good series...one of the best ever made...but the producers did get some things wrong. Some things were changed intentionally for the purposes of storytelling, and the makers of the series put in a series of notes at the end of the last episode of the series explaining some of them. They also have a podcast that they put out along with the show in which they talk about other things they altered from the history and why. However, I do recommend you check out the History vs Hollywood article on Chernobyl when you are done watching the whole series, so you can find out about the other things that the producers got wrong that they do not admit to. Definitely wait until you are done with the series so you do not spoil anything for yourself.
@@gordonjenner2375 Indeed, but it was TINY...and a thousand times better built than the gigantic RBMK-1000 reactors later built in significant numbers...so building one small version was obviously not the problem. Also, I could be wrong, but I believe the first major design flaw...the high positive void coefficient...was not discovered until the first RBMK-1000 was built in the late-1960s.
There are a fair number of dramatic liberties taken in this. Dyatlov is one of the biggest--he was NOTHING like this. He recognized what had happened almost immediately, and tried to send some of the crew home, but they refused.
Many of the changes are just for dramatic effect and don't really impact the story--radiation sickness does not work anywhere near this fast for example.
10:38 - "delusional".. show tries to portrait Dyatlov in worse light possible as a clean villain. It very well made, but still some artistic liberties then and there. While there were many errors on his side around the Chernobyl, in reality it was more complex character (for example ordered the evacuation of the control room, but rest volunteered to stay). Also he had experienced first hand nuclear accident with radiation exposure on submarine, one of the worse that was officially known, so he was entitled to say " I have seen worse". Because, RBMK reactor cannot explode, according to known science to them...
Recommending you to read short book "Voices of Chernobyl"- accounts of first hand witnesses.
22:10 - "it is political". It is in USSR. During Cold War. When image of the strength was everything. There is no private company, just the state and the Party...
It is not properly taught in Russia even now. This series was forbidden and started to make own miniseries, where everything was to be blamed on CIA agent... but then whole "denazification" started and no more interesting in Russia. Anyway, no teaching about it, since during the "special operation", general entrenched his troops around Chernobyl, in the radioactive soil, saying that "on those same positions Red Army dig trenches during second world war, so it must be perfectly safe". says everything... And the another big one, Kyshtym disaster, is not well known in the West either. Just Fukushima and Three Mile Island.
26:18 -"know nothing about radiation".. imagine radiation as a lightbulb.. only you cannot see the actual light, since different wavelength. But you know about the effect of heat coming from the lightbulb (infrared). So you know it depends on how intense the bulb is (60W household will not burn you as much as something used on concert stage), how long you stay under it and what is your the distance is (intensity decreases with distance squared). And you are not receiving heat, but various types of radiation, killing your cells and DNA. And breathing the fallout, so it means the dust particles have own small radiation "lightbulb" now inside your lungs, much closer to vital organs than when penetrating the skin. Firemen were next to the remains of the core, so.. well, you see. In a little bit less realistic portrait, so it would be not as disturbing as reality. Still horrifying.
When you have finished this show I highly recommend finding the hbo Chernobyl podcast. This expands and explains some of the decisions of the show.
I'm delusional, get me to the infirmary.
This was such a great miniseries. I’ve watched it 3 times. Shit was crazy on what the Russians did. Makes you think on what they still do!
This is such a great series. And horrifying.
A real life horror story
Amazing show but also horrifying
In Soviet Union, power plants you!
Soviet specialists in the series are shown as idiots. Dosimeters (if I'm not mistaken, DRGZ brand), which were used at the station, measured the radiation level in units of μR/s and had a limit of 1000 μR/s. That is 3.6 roentgens per hour. The NPP has its own dosimetry service, which constantly monitors the radiation level throughout the territory according to a schedule. Any increase in the radiation level anywhere in the working areas is abnormal, even when the excess is small. This required immediate cleaning and cleaning of the contaminated area. This was strictly monitored. And then at night the NPP building was shaken by an explosion and the standard dosimeters went off the scale. One actor says that it's bad, but not catastrophic, other actors ask if there are dosimeters with a higher measurement limit. Why the hell do you need more? It's clear that the level is off the scale. Any specialist will understand this.
Soviet specialists were not idiots and understood perfectly well that 3.6 roentgens per hour was a catastrophe.
This is a fantastic miniseries, that made an attempt to expose the extent and consequences of Soviet propaganda, while telling a Soviet propaganda version of the events, shockingly enough. Make sure to check out the 3 part TH-cam series about How HBO Chernobyl got it wrong. But only after you finish this mastefully executed show because it will ruin it for you, permanently.
16:00 Insane? No, its communism. The Government is god, obedience to it is worship, state officials are the priests and atheism is the prayer.
That isnt communism, this is authoritarian statism. Communism is stateless, classless, moneyless.
Hi Guys. This series is historically accurate. i must tell you some things. First off to the Soviet Union the MOST IMPORTANT thing to them is IMAGE. So to report a disaster is just as bad as the incident it self. If your told to do something you cannot refuse. if you do your shot on the spot or sent off to prison. The KGB (Soviet Secret Police) classified anything to do with nuclear as secret that why there are no plans, or equipment for disasters. People have no training on this with very few exceptions.
The one thing they do use filmakers license is with radiation. if your at the spot where an atomic bomb exploded your die form heat not radiation. Exposure to radiation works slower, days, weeks, months, years, depending on level of exposure. Also you CANNONOT transfer radiation from one person to another once their cloths removed and body washed, so keep this in mind
Nice reaction. Ask me any questions you like i will reply. Each episode will get emotionally worse and worse, Be ready to cry. You will not find out what happened and why until the last episode. Be sure you watch all THE ENDING CREDITS
Not THAT accurate
Very little in it that is accurate. It's been thoroughly debunked.
@@Dragon-Believer You MUST be Ex USSR?
@@cherylsims5636 it's weird how people get mad at the people who tell them they were fooled. And not at the people who fooled them. I saw people getting really angry on Facebook when they were told that pics were AI.
@@Dragon-Believer Well son I have watch DASHA REACTS channel , and she grew up right near this area. Now lives in Canada. So Im inclined to believe what she has told more about this incident than others. There are certain a things about radiation we know so this is not questionable. There are things about the Soviet Union we know so these are also unquestionable Just look at the current Russia Ukraine war. How many soldiers were sent in the ""Exclusion zone" who dug in and now dead of radiation. Need i say more?
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Do keep in mind that this is a dramatization, a harsh condemnation of the USSR but a dramatization still all the same. It was a flawed nation, but it wasn't an evil regime bent on killing people, if it were, the union would never have existed in the first place, let alone almost became the world power.
A lot of people say that the USSR was made up of starving people working to their deaths and being sent to gulags to be executed if they didn't. If that were the case, like I said the union wouldn't have existed and it certainly wouldn't have been a world power to rival the us. Fact is, a lot of our luxuries of today, like workers rights, weekends, 8-hour shifts, these were in response to what the USSR was doing to try to prevent people from revolting in other countries. It was a flawed nation, very flawed, but it wasn't evil for the sake of evil. That's just a dramatic interpretation coming from people who either know exactly what it is and lie or don't know anything. It was said that no country could have responded to the disaster like the Soviet Union did, and although it was in fact the cause of the disaster, any other country would have taken much longer to deal with it. Yes they reacted slow, Americans at the time said though that no Nation would have had the resources and power to be able to deal with the situation so catastrophic, so fast.
Demonizong Diatlov, the CCP's scapegoat, the man that did what he could to help after the accident, which cost him his health and shortened his live signitficantly is this series biggest sin. He was hard on his menand stubborn, true. But he was very experienced and far from incompetent
going in clueless, should be fun, or annoying and frustrating.
Not shine glow
It’s not a documentary, it’s a horror movie.
"nucelar"? Ok W
II am a German, 62 years old. Here in the "old" Federal Republic of Germany (before the reunification of the western part of Germany) it was "extraordinarily" strange that none of the leading people at the nuclear power operators, in the immediate or further away areas, of a nuclear power plant. The, Those who praised this type of energy generation so much were probably not so convinced of the safety of the power plants. When it comes to Chernobyl, the only thing that can be said is that it was socialism/communism in its purest form. The individual is to blame, but never the absolutely inadequate technical conditions and this type of reactor, which is absolute crap.
@@gordonjenner2375 Excuse me, but Chernobyl 1986 was not a TV show for me and my family but, as a West Berliner (born in 1962), pure reality. I strongly suspect that their knowledge of the impacts in the countries concerned is extremely limited. Disguising, tricking and deceiving, that is socialism, and those are still the “nice” excesses. At that time, the planning even included possible evacuations in a large city like Berlin-West. Concealment, lying and cheating, that was and is the motto of the old USSR and its successor state, Russia. And with this fragile subject area, congratulations.
Fun bits you are watching the wrong show. Most of the names are real people . . .
Welcome to the Soviet Union….
@gordonjenner2375 oh buddy....maybe you'll learn when ur older....
@@gordonjenner2375 no homeless? Not true at all. The dedicated word for the homeless "бомж" was invented during soviet times even. No war in Europe? Well, the soviets used to occupy Germany and many other states, holding the centre and east of Europe hostage. Like they've brutally crushed Czechoslovia and Hungary protests with tanks. That mad part of authoritarian and totalitarian communists that supported that are called tankies, they are defending countries like russia, north korea, china etc. in their every decision however inhumane to this day.
Dyatlov really was like that, according to his surviving colleagues. Not all the time, but enough. He threatened people's jobs. The Cherenkov effect causes a blue glow--when the core is under water. Dyatlov was lying through his teeth and Fomin, at least, would have known. All the people in the episode with names are real. Concerning the denial: You had to pretend that the SOviet Union was a worker's paradise where nothing ever went wrong. If you surfaced an issue, it was all your fault. They set out to build a tractor factory. Work fell behind, but no one dared to take the hit. So the paperwork moved on on schedule. Finally the fire marshall showed up to inspect and found a cement slab. Concerning radiation": The people were told that radiation was good, it cured cancer, it was a sign of technological progress. And if the Americans nuke us, don't worry, Civil Defense has it covered.
communism