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Young Lady, of all the reactors I have watched, you are by far the most informed on the events around Chernobyl. Full marks.
TheFeltbegone nice pun there
Heh.
"Reactor"
lol I find her the most annoying
@@bryanfernandez4673 Still much better than a ton of other people i have seen reacting to Chernobyl
Kaycee: Nuclear accident in Ukraine
Every other TH-camr including the dude beside her: Nukular accident in the Ukraine.
Kudos lady
Can still clearly remember watching TV one evening with my father when the news alert came on about the Chernobyl disaster, we were in the Highlands of Scotland and even there radiation levels had risen considerably.
"why they gotta show us a bird in there its gonna like die"
oh boy, episode 4 is not going to be fun for her.
I’m laughing so hard that you quoted my “like” I try so hard not to use it as a filler word but it is just apart of my vocabulary at this point and I don’t even notice that I say it! 😂😂😂 and nooooo I’m not ready!!!! -Kacee
go get dem puppies!
Yea have the tissues ready!
the Bird shows that the roof is gone,otherwise the bird would not have made it inside the building.
And the guy will decaying pale skin, oof
If you’ve seen Joker, the woman who did the score for it also did the score for this show. She had quite a year lol
That’s awesome!!
@Ben Book "Quite a year??" You would be suprised by how many HUGE films she has scored, in the last 10 years xDxD Christopher Nolan films, and such.
Gabriel P oh I know she has a crazy resume. I’m just saying she’s probably gonna win her first Oscar this year for Joker’s score and Chernobyl is the number 1 show of all time according to IMDb. I think this year is easily her most impressive
She is a fantastic composer. I love her work
she must be rich.. so lucky
Chernobyl: the whole series gives off great cosmic horror vibes.
The 'tasting metal' is a bad sign. It's a regular symptom of radiation exposure. The exact cause seems to vary, but there's a few main ones.
1: The radiation is ionizing heavy metal particles (particularly iodine) that are already in the air, making their taste 'stand out' more.
2: The radiation is ionizing the nerves in your mouth, your brain translates the effect to a metallic taste.
3: The radiation is killing the taste buds in your mouth and releasing the metals in them, you are actually tasting the dead cells.
This show is fantastic. It changes a few things to be more dramatic, but it also underplays some events because the real version is just... too much for TV.
Chernobyl was nightmare in real life and the show fully captures that.
The radiation turns H2O in your body into H2O2, hydrogen peroxide which tastes like metal
also your tasting radioactive iodine
Mr. Bob, iodine is not metal. The show is great but one of those “few things changed for dramatic effect” is for example Dyatlov’s character. Producers made him stupid and even cruel but he wasn’t. He was qualified specialist and after Chernobyl he became a broken man and you can see it for example in his interview. And of course those scenes with miners and minister of coil industry: this minister was respectful man, workers respected him because he was also miner in the past, he was specialist. And there were no soldiers, miners in the interviews said that it is not true. And for sure cruel and sinister KGB, what a stamp...
Nevertheless I liked this show, I just wanted to remark some details that you need to be more critical to it. Show is great, especially after the last season of GoT.
Clinton Pendleton, omg, genius. How much do you know about this disaster and about Dyatlov? Let me guess: you watched the HBO’s show and now you know the TrUtH, right? Then continue to eat the shit, kid
@@borracho7 i watched the interview with dyatlov and even then he deflected all criticism from himself and said he did everything absolutely correctly. I'm sure the show exaggerated his 'evilness', but the man was still arrogant and refused to accept any blame.
Research the disposition of the U.S. military forces stationed in Germany, I was stationed in Germany from Aug 85 thru Aug 87 during the Fallout period in Germany, The U.S. government would not evac our dependents back to the states because it was not cost-effective. We had a rise in miscarriages of several hundred percent among our young soldier families but continued our mission of patrolling the inner German border between west and east Germany and stayed prepared to execute the NATO mission As a Platoon Sgt and later a First Sgt of a Cav Troop. sitting up with these young families during their grief still haunts my dreams. K Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry.
Dyatlov's behavior bears some explanation which the show never gives. He did indeed have a lot of experience with radiation and had formerly install reactors aboard nuclear submarines. While doing this he had an accident and got a high dose of radiation. At the time he had received one of the highest doses anyone had been exposed to for a very long time. This gave him a very blase attitude towards radiation as, in his view, he had experienced and survived the worst of it already.
Combine the fact that the model of reactor he was operating was extremely stable compared to the old submarine models and he essentially developed the mindset of an old veteran who thinks he's seen it all and is now on a quiet easy assignment.
He dismisses the radiation poisoning of his men because in his view he's already been through the worst and if he can they can. After all, he received the biggest on job dose in decades, what are the odds these scrubs got something even nearly as bad while operating the nuclear reactor equivalent of safety scissors?
Essentially he survived a very rare very deadly freak accident and it inflated his ego massively.
The denial was a nationwide phenomenon for the Soviet Union because of the way the government operated. It was incredibly sad and could have been avoided.
Yeah, like the USA government has always been completely transparent with its people.
@@maksphoto78 I don't believe I claimed it was/is?
Gorbachov is .....???
There's an eerie peacefulness to the place, even back when they were still building the new sarcophagus (I was there in 2011). Except when you drive past the red forest, where your radiation counters briefly spike.
Alan Foster one day I’m gonna camp out in the red forest for one year and eat the fruits that grow there to experiment on myself in case your wondering I’ve already made my peace with my family
@@ianloeb1672 Why not try going gluten-free instead? That's kind of a radical experiment (even if the police and military there would allow it, which they will not). Death by radiation sickness is no fun. You could get a local job instead.
@@alanfoster6589 well i also want to live in a place with no people plus the colors of the forest from the radiation give it a really cool creepy vibe
@@ianloeb1672 You have a glowing personality.
@@alanfoster6589 thank you
It is easy to say “Screw you guys, shoot me” but you don’t realize that those people (the political elite) was destroying entire families in cases like that. So if anything, he did it for the sake of his family’s safety.
When are they not destroying families
Not in the late 80s!
_Oh my gosh, the bird died!_
Oh, you sweet summer child.....
who cares if hundreds of people die. OMG, a bird might die.
@@michaelshafer5192 I think Zahrans refer to the fourth episode...
If you already see the series, you know what is coming.
I know where your reference comes....
Summer child?
@@michaelshafer5192 well even animals suffer idiot...
7:50 That laser beam effect shooting up into the air is accurate. The radiation was so intense it ionised the atmosphere.
it's highly dramatized, watch any of the many videos by actual nuclear scientists critiquing the show. the writers took liberties with the facts to state it generously.
Bonus info: The soundtrack for the show, is made partly with real-life sounds recorded from an actual reactor - I think it’s kind of cool and adds a really cool atmosphere :D
The sounds the composer used did not come from just any reactor, she recorded the sounds at Ignalina, Chernobyls sister reactor.
That’s right! :) I couldn’t remember the name of the sister plant that you mentioned, and didn’t have the time to google it when I posted my comment - so thanks for the assist :)
I love the result - it’s such a unique soundscape.
Btw, I hope you don’t mind me asking, but what is your native language? Cause your username is kind of awesome, if you read it in mine - made me giggle xD
@@oolillemyoo4099 Finnish/Swedish :P
@@oolillemyoo4099 It truly is, so haunting.
This show is beautifully made. Obviously there were more things going on. Coming from a post Soviet country and having known people going through deportations(gulag-labor camps) and hearing stories from every decade of the 50 years of cencership. I have tried to show this to my family members(who were in various age ranges) while this catastrophe happened nobody really knows the full affect to this day. My mom was 15 when this happened. My great uncle was sent to clean up. He died when i was a new born. He was told not to have children after(he was in his 30s, had step sons).I just remember that i knew about it as long as i've been remebering stuff. People still go there and its not as dangerous as it seems. You have to be cautious ofcourse. In Estonia people(men mostly) came back from the service in Afghanistan and were sent to liquidate the areas surrounding the no go zone. Because every man had to be in service(Red army) they were the first to go. So ours were called the Estonian Samurais(still are). Because you will see in this series what happens i will not spoil it. People still struggle with getting benefits to take care of the consequences on their health. Kids are sick to this day. DNA is damaged and it goes on with every generation. There are programmes which help, but they need funding so its limited. There are so many interesting videos on this subject on TH-cam too. Bald and bankcrupt is a great channel to see what it was like or Ushanka show also wonderful content.
@ProudOfYourRoots Solid productions.. No wonder 🙂
What enrages me is when Dyatlov goes out for a smoke and SEES the graphite on the roof. He knows exactly what that is and still lies.
You forgot about Gustav Skarsgard (another of the siblings), who plays Floki in the show Vikings.
One of the best series I've seen. Ever. And I'm saying that with complete confidence.
One of the great scenes in this is when Donald Sumpter rises to his feet as the respected elder statesman and then orders the city to be sealed off to rapturous applause.
You expect in a scene like that for him to be the voice of wisdom, reason and compassion and the fact that he does the exact opposite makes it so effective.
So I noticed that people think that diatlov and the others are either in denial or that they know the reactor core exploded but they don't want to admit it. In truth as far as they know an RBMK reactor doesn't explode. The worst they were ever expecting is a meltdown. Imagine that you are an expert in cars and someone told you that cars drive underwater, it's the same thing when people keep telling them that the reactor exploded.
14:15 "Is this like a spectacle"?
Yeah. People come from all around to gawk at fires. If I'm ever burning a particularly large brush pile, 10 people will drive by. And I live in the middle of nowhere. Lol
We live in Texas and people gather around outside with a beer in hand for everything! Fire, tornadoes, hail, you name it lol!
Yea we call it disaster tourists
Jared Harris (who plays Legasov) is also in "The Expanse." That show is fantastic as well. Best Sci-Fi on TV. You two should give that a try.
Fuckin WORD
He is also the son of Richard Harris, who apperared in such classics as "A man called horse", "Gladiator" and of course Harry Potter 1&2 before passing away and being replaced by Michael Gambon.
Jared has a very similar cadence when talking. Something one can often see with parents and their children.
@@Quotenwagnerianer Not Ed, his name is Richard. Ed Harris is a different actor completely.
@@StopReadingMyNameOrElse Yeah, you are right. I got the names mixed up.
Ed is very much still alive. Also a great actor but a different kind.
@hammertapping WTF ?! It's one of the best show, maybe you didn't like it, but it's up to you...
Really cool watching a reaction where someone knows so much about Chernobyl going into it! Added a totally new dynamic to the reaction!
One of the best series i ve ever seen. Was a kid in the Netherlands at the time. My father who is a professor in chemistry was NOT happy at all....
You’re both very bright - you notice the right stuff - and are responding authentically as well. Gives an older guy hope that we might be OK.
The same shock on Nikki and Steven's faces when they heard that idiot speak of sealing off the city and cutting the phone lines.
If you guys are interested in researching further and separating fact from fiction, try HBO's Chernobyl podcast that they ran concurrently with the show, an episode after each show episode. It's basically an incredible making-of, and in it the showrunner completely lays out his approach and thoughts, and goes into detail about everything that really happened and everything they changed for the show, and explains why and where the changes were made. A lot more of the show is based on reality than one might initially think.
Also yeah The Expanse is amazing, but that's a bigger time commitment. Strongly recommended though if you want to see how exciting a no-bullshit, hard sci-fi show can be when done right.
Seconded, the podcast is excellent.
Yes it works so well with showing the choices they made, and why certain things were dramatized
couldn't agree more! Coming from a Book reader perspective, I'm currently in Book 5 which is the upcoming season! Some really huge holy shit events occur! you can compare the upcoming events to season 3 of Game of Thrones! since Book 5 takes the story to some big heights like A Storm of Swords. I'm so ready for next season!
It’s a great series, and has an excellent podcast by the writer. It covers in detail the differences between show and reality. It’s called The Chernobyl podcast, by HBO, easy to find.
A few thoughts on some of your comments.
“It’s just a normal city.” Actually it wasn’t, it was one of the best places to live and work in the Soviet Union. It existed only to serve the nuclear reactor, and had much better facilities and standard of living and wages than most other Soviet cities. Kinda like Palo Alto in the US 🙂
“They cut the phone lines?” Telecoms and transport in the Soviet Union was highly controlled by the state. Just like everything else. Cutting the phone lines was a standard reaction to any incident.
“Why didn’t they just leave (the control room)?” In 1986 few Soviet citizens, even working in a nuclear reactor, had a good idea of the effect of radiation poisoning. But all of them had an excellent idea of the effects of disobeying the State. And remember, everyone is employed by the state.
Geopolitical point, as noted on screen, Chernobyl was located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR). An SSR was basically the equivalent of a US state. The country was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), or, commonly, Soviet Union. Ukraine is the post Soviet country. This might sound pedantic, but saying the explosion happened in the Ukraine is like saying the Pilgrim fathers went to the USA (same geographic location, completely different political entity).
It’s great you’re watching this show, but gird your loins, this is going to be tough for you to watch!
Valary Lagasov was married with children. The cat was taken care of.
9:35 You are correct, it’s a dramatization. The actual events were much worse. Especially with the radiation poisoning later on. One of the fire fighters wives described the last few days of her husbands decline. His organs had melted and were decomposing, they were being thrown up through his mouth. She had to take a bandage and pull her husbands decomposing organs out of his mouth.
A seriously harrowing and gruesome way to die. Rest In Peace to all those first responders who didn’t know what they were up against.
We would never let an animal or our pets suffer like that. But somehow we treat humans differently. Perhaps it’s because of religious beliefs, who knows. But if I’m going to die, I’d rather not do so in agony.
I got thrown out of a car that flipped on I-95 and spent a week in a coma, had a bad skull fracture, brain swelling, was 3/4 scalped, chest skin torn and hanging off, liver ripped nearly in half, both lungs collapsed, and severe road rash over half my body.
Luckily I was in shock and then was in a coma, but the pain was unbearable when my dressings for my road rash burns had to be changed (which took two hours and had to be done twice a day). I was on fentanyl patch and had dilaudid IV and it still felt like they were flaying my skin off. I had spent four days in labor and had my daughter with no pain meds and the burns made natural childbirth seem like a day at the spa.
After that… I would never want doctors to prolong my life if it just meant that kind of pain. Just because you *can* doesn’t always mean you *should* .
I was born two years before this happened in Romania just a few hundred miles away. It's a great show if you can say that about something like this.
Wow! Thank you for sharing that with us! We are excited to continue to watch it.
Half my family was living in Sălaj and Maramureș counties at that time. Even now, 34 years later, when doctors see their birth certificates, they ask about what they ate those days or how much time they spent outside when examining risk factors.
I can relate. When they talk about people not letting their children play outside in Frankfurt in the next episode... I was one of those children. Not in Frankfurt but not too far off.
You wonder how long USSR would have waited if Sweden didn't report the fallout reading.
Best miniseries ever. Thanks for watching and reacting.
Jared Harris is also in the first season of The Expanse which is a great scifi show if you guys are looking for another series to react to.
interesting!
@@DosCavazos Yes. This. "The Expanse" is fantastic!
> in the first season
Spoilers? :P
Excited to see you guys covering Chernobyl! Incredible series (albeit can be hard to watch at times). Also, just my 2 cents, The Expanse is probably my favorite sci-fi show. It seems to only get better each season!
and The Terror season 1.
The people on the bridge, are not watching the fire, there are watching the blue beam that goes from the power plant to the sky.
The radiation.
Not only the surrounding countries the whole world, the radioactive cloud spread with the wind and with the rain got absorbed into the soil.
"It was just a regular town" 50 thousand people used to live here and it's a ghost town.
*Russian arm sniping intensifies*
My Grandfather worked at Moscow Hospital No.6. I remember him telling me that when the patients from the power plant were first admitted, they had no idea that they were contaminated with radiation. He was friends with a chief engineer at the plant, Anatoly Sitnikov. I remember the only time I ever saw my Grandfather cry was when he was telling us about the slow deterioration of Toyla, as he was called by close friends. He lived for around a month after the incident. The thing I found saddest was that they were childhood friends and this was the first time they’d seen each other in many years. That always stuck with me.
My heart goes out to your grandfather and thank him for his bravery in helping all of those victims.
Some of the characters are fictional, or amalgamated, but the story of the fire fighter that touched the graphite, read into Vasily Ignatenko once you have finished the series.
You guys are great. Please watch "The Haunting of Hill House" next. It's an amazing show.
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there are a lot of popular shows to watch. They probably should start a community suggestion post this way they can mark what they have seen and didnt. The biggest problem in new reaction channels getting big is that everyone just wants to see GoT and walking dead reactions which most have already seen so cant react too. Those are generally the two shows that make channels gain a bunch of subscribers. Breaking bad i would say is up there as well. Most of these other shows are too new and short to gain a big following. People will watch your 8 reactions and leave, vs the 50 plus shows those super popular ones had.
Haunting of Hill House is amazing.
YES!! It's SO good (and so is Chernobyl!).
It's a garbage show.
Loving all these reactions.
This series was brilliantly crafted and the opening scenes (the suicide and the distant perspective of the explosion) are very strong.
I was at school when this happened and it was at the time of the Cold War so Russia denied there was any problem to the West. It was only after the detection of higher than usual radiation levels in Sweden and Norway that they finally admitted about the disaster. Radiation actually reached Wales, UK.
Of all the chernobyl reactions I've seen this lady has been the most informed, her husband too. Good on you for doing your homework guys.
Way to go Kacee, you knew more of the details than me before starting the show, and i had just finished high school when this happened :)
You two should watch the Boys. Your reactions are superb and I think you’d love the show.
thank you!
Was thinking about asking if they saw it. Best new show of last year.
That was a wild ride, loved it it was awsm.
Yeah, that would actually suit their taste I think.
There is a podcast series [1] on HBO's channel by the show creator Craig Mazin and Peter Sagal where they tell how much and why they adapted some sources as the story they choose to tell. Probably better to listen to just one at the time like an aftershow for each episode.
About Legasov's tapes, they are real, but the circumstance of his recodings might be a bit different then what they showed in the series. Bits and pieces of the original recordings still existed and quite a few people try to piece them together. Here is the longest one I found [2], and a playlist (some in Russian) of many source and documentaries [3]. Someone transcribed all the tapes (in Russian) and put them online [4], and there is a blog translates them into English if you want to check what Legasov actually recorded (a bit spoiler I'd say) [5]. There is a sky news documentary [6] quite good with lots of interviews with the actual people involved, but better watch it after finishing the series. And there is a documentary told by Legasov's daughter [7]. Also, this is the first-hand documentary made in 1986 called Chernobyl - Chronicle of Difficult Weeks (in full Russian) [8], where lots of later documentaries using its footages, since they were literally shooting the film during the cleanup, and the director of this documentary actually died before it was released, just months after he started filming because of excessive exposure to radioactivity and the camera he used is still radioactive till this day, the sky news documentary also interviewed his widow and cameraman (it is one hell of a sad story, a lot of people died just to try to show the truth. Here is a part of its translation footage of the first few minutes [9]).
This series is going to get heavy and the sense of dread will just keep building up. When you think it cannot get any worse, it will. Be prepared.
[1] th-cam.com/play/PLO79iP69FaZPKaMDoSPAtGdoa3wd3lp9n.html
[2] th-cam.com/video/qwOpUGgHpyc/w-d-xo.html
[3] th-cam.com/play/PLOsSyCpQHktxIz5CaAIMC1WB2-6-3Ehdz.html
[4] pseudology.org/razbory/Legasov/00.htm
[5] legasovtapetranslation.blogspot.com/
[6] th-cam.com/video/Xw3SFOfbR84/w-d-xo.html
[7] th-cam.com/video/PpvvccmG2dE/w-d-xo.html
[8] th-cam.com/video/GXjhMNE186g/w-d-xo.html
[9] th-cam.com/video/97OZv_UvFP4/w-d-xo.html
Pripyat was a town immediately outside Chernobyl specifically designed to accomodate the workers of the power plant and their families. I believe it had around 40.000 inhabitants or something like that at the time. Only workers of the power plant and their families were allowed to live in the town. Working at the power plant as an Engineer or even in any position was considered to be a high prestige job at the time, and the apartments of Pripyat were very modernly equipped. Living there as a worker on the power plant meant that you and your family had access to the latest middle class luxury and consumer goods unseen in the rest of the Soviet Union where many families lived in poverty or at least relative poverty compared to most Western European people. This meant that as a worker at the plant you were willing to do a lot in order to keep your job and thus retain the right to live there with the relative comfort that this brought to you and your family. Refusing to obey orders meant you risked being fired and losing access to these comfortable living conditions.
after watching it for 500 times,still number 1 in my top 5 tv series.
Hi, im from Ukraine, LOVED this series, my fother was drafted in july 86 to do roadbloks... awful times
Actually Valery Legasov wasn't some RANDOM person whom they picked for managing the situation. He was an ACADEMIC of Russian Academy of Science above anything. This was then and it is NOW the highest level in scientific career of ANY scientist in the countries of post-soviet block, and it was SO prestigious that academics had the same level of respect just like the highest party men. He was not just some professor, as if they could choose another one. He was an ELITE specialist!
The situation with the leadership initially is known as Confirmation Bias, and it is the human factor in stuff like plane accidents.
When we get completely contradictory statements to our current image and overview of a situation, we tend to use our current image to explain away the contradictory statements to have the world continue to make sense.
It is the main reason why there are at least 2 people flying a plane, or sailing a big boat.
At a certain point you are snapped out of your self denial and get a grip of the new situation, even if you then end in confusion of what is happening.
I'm so excited to see your reactions to this show! I loved watching your witcher videos.
thank you!!
FYI 5:45 is when it starts
Great reaction guys, I remember seeing the space shuttle flying over head in the UK and the ash cloud as a kid, its nuts.
Stellan has another son called Gustaf Skarsgard, who has a major role in Vikings as Floki and has been is Westworld and a few other things. Very talented family
That is a very heavy series. Great a ting and story. Enjoy. Excited to see your responses
We are looking forward to it!
One of my (very few) complaints about the series is that in some important places they do fictionalise rather extensively. For example, Bruykhanov (the plant manager, the guy with the curly hair and hoarse voice) was not nearly as callous as he's portrayed. He was reportedly the first one to suggest evacuating Pripyat, and he worked hard to try to mitigate the damage right away. And there was no order to cut the phone lines and blockade people in Pripyat. The characters are representative of a system, a system that was obsessed with secrecy and security, but the events did not literally happen that way.
Just feel I need to say this whenever the "Cut the phone lines" scene comes up - that part was fictional.
This show was one of the most depressing things ever.
You damn right
this show will send you through the feels and make you constantly flip imaginary tables... series like this should be a remainder for governments, but also people in respevtive positions and the general population that lies do not pay, that beiing uneducated about something does not pay, that blind and devout servitude to a higher ideal does not pay.
When they decided to seal the city and cut the phones... that was a priceless reaction! I cannot hardly wait to see all your reactions to the rest of the episodes! Heads up on Ep 4.... it will be very hard to watch!
The beginning is so funny, he tries to say something and you talk without a break :D cool
LOL the High Sparrow getting even more people killed by denying anything was wrong.
I remember Jared Harris as Professor James Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
For the most part this series stays very close to reality. Obviously the odd details here and there are altered for dramatic purposes. Some are even omitted, though I won't spoil it for you. The majority of the events in the series are factual though. There is also a podcast from the creator Craig Mazin for each episode on TH-cam if you want to get a more in depth analysis. Cheers guys and enjoy or should I say appreciate the rest of the series. It is definitely a true horror story. Also I just want to say I really enjoy your reactions and keep up the great work!!!
@hammertapping Yeah the narative for the propaganda aspect was definitely pushed also. Totally agree this is one of the greatest series ever.
This is definitely a great show! You guys should also consider Watching THE EXPANSE!!!
Stellan Skaarsgard was also in "Good Will Hunting" with Robin Williams, Matt Damon, BenAfleck, and Mini Driver. Highly recommend checking that one out. Jarad Harris is the son of actor/singer Richard Harris best known for the song "MacArthur's Park."
I so wanna watch this, but Im going to wait. Havent seen Chernobyl myself yet. When I do I will for sure get back here right after ;)
Have fun!! or maybe not...due to the subject material..
It was the KGB that was watching him it was the Soviet Union they watched everyone.
You can visit Chernobyl yourselves, I've been there 3 years ago. It's mostly safe now, people even live there (though they shouldn't...) The show does a great job with showing how life in Soviet Union was back then, people simply didn't know what it was all about, what exactly radiation did. The executives honestly believed they were doing the right thing.
I was born just a few months before it happened in neighbouring Slovakia. My parents often fed me anything not live/recently live and nothing from a metal cover like canned food. Supposedly they suspected and supposedly that pretty much meant chewing on a clean kitchen towel dipped in black tea with sugar.
It was incredible how much in denial they were about . The level of trying to cover this up was massive until they absolutely knew this wouldn't be a secret. You can't put a band aid on something that will effect people at the molecular level.
This is great show...I'm ready for the next 4 episodes :)
we are too! Thank you!
@@DosCavazos Oh no you are not :D
Great reaction! Super impressive with how close you guys pay attention to the details. 💖
This series is deserving of all the praise. Just amazingly well made. Love the reaction. And did you notice GoT Maester Luwin of Winterfell?
And guy who plays Sitnikov (guy forced to go on the roof) is Jamie Sives, who played Jory Cassel at GoT :)
23:50 actually what was presented in the show was... um... let's call it... "family friendly" version of what seriously happened... Especially carnage...
I was a little kid when I heard first time Chernobyl on TV around end of 80's and earlier 90's. Elder people around were talking about that many people got cancer in Turkey. Politicians were showing up on TV to say basically: Radiation is healthy or drink tea without hesitate. After all I cannot imagine how worst to live in communism in Russia in those times.
About this show, like Alejandro Says in Sicario: ''Nothing will make sense to your american ears''
I like the way the series is about the shock & political scrambling in the weeks after; then the fifth installment explains the tragic comedy of errors that led to an "inconceivable" event.
Remember, this is the Soviet Union, a nation that was obsessed with security! And secrecy. The locals knew nothing about nuclear reactors, about the inherent dangers; about the after effects from an explosion & fire. Unlike in free nations like Canada & the United States, which, with free information, would have news coverage about the disaster & commentators talking about radiation & the reason why the government is enforcing an exclusion zone, since that would've been instituted quickly to protect the citizenry!
The scientist in the prologue knew he was under surveillance by the KGB. He was under orders to keep the damaging truth to himself.
The important thing to remember was, as far as anyone could tell at that point, it was completely impossible for a nuclear power plant's reactor core to explode. What Dyagilev was being told was simply inconceivable. That's why no-one was believing what they were seeing with their own eyes.
Jared Harris was in Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr.
I remember being a very little kid when this happened and we werent allowed to go outside for a few weeks here in western germany, everyone was scared, thats all i remember and i didnt understand it back then obviously, after all i was only born in 1981 and this happened in 86, not many memories from back then but being scared and very bored staying inside stuck.
When you finish this series, you need to watch "The Orville" as a palate cleanser.
I'm very late, but to put the radiation numbers into context:
Roentgens are a measurement of radiation exposure, basically how much radiation is in the air around you. It's done as a rate, so 3.6 roentgens is technically 3.6 roentgens per hour. It measures the ionization of air by gamma radiation, so it's not the most accurate with regards to how much you're being irradiated and today it's been mostly superceded by the sievert, but it is a handy quick-and-dirty method of getting an idea of how much danger you're in, especially back then when there really wasn't anything better.
Standing in a 1 roentgen radiation field for 1 hour will give you an equivalent dose of 1 roentgen equivalent man, or rem. Equivalent dose tries to determine how much damage the radiation has done to you. Rems have also been superceded by the sievert, which is technically a measurement of equivalent dose. A dose of 100 rem guarantees that you'll develop acute radiation syndrome, or radiation poisoning. A dose of 500 is generally speaking fatal. Some sections of the plant, most notably the reactor hall and some parts of the roof of the turbine hall, would give you a fatal dose in under 60 seconds.
There's also absorbed dose, which measures how much energy the radiation has deposited in your body. Back then they used the rad, and today we use the gray. It's useful under certain circumstances, but equivalent dose is generally preferred because different types of radiation do different amounts of damage. For example,a dose of 100 rads of gamma radiation is equal to a dose of 1 rem, but a dose of 100 rads of alpha radiation is equal to a dose of 20 rem.
Also, the show is very well done, but also very much a distortion of what happened. It's an excellent drama series (or horror series), but I wouldn't learn my history from it.
I was 16 when this happened, I remember it well it was on the news a lot. There was no surprise about the inefficiencies of the Soviet System.
You guys did well. As reactionists. Despite of your lack of knowledge of radioneuclides. The explosion was hydrogen, the explosion leading to graphite on the ground was saturated radio. (Sucks) worst possible thing. It was fully absorbed. I was a kid. But I remember most of it. It still pollutes the air to this day.
6:53 The beginning of the series - a guy kills himself. That sets the mood for the series well. :)
Yayy a new reactor I've discovered to react to this series for :D (subscription incoming don't worry)
New sub, dunno where I've been. Great reaction to a great show, along with excellent pre & post discussions. Can't wait to see more!
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What he picked up was a piece of Graphite, which is used to hold the uranium rods.
Basically alot of it boiled down to the Soviet mentality and ignorance. at the time, knowledge of radiation and what I could do was very limited. That coupled with the Soviet mentality of suppress and cover your ass was the main reason this was as bad as it was. That's the reason the rbmks were even allowed into service. They knew about the issues, but instead of telling the operators there were issues, they just put in the procedures to keep it somewhat safe, the procedures were not followed the way they should have been that night, but if they had known about the issues this would have been preventable.
the bird in the plant is a Canary,they are often used on mines to detect when there is some poisonus gas leaks
idk if anyone said in the other comments, but the old doctor who was like "....why would we stock iodine pills?" and the younger doctor who had a hunch what was going on were there to represent, like… the two classes of soviet medicine at the time. there were a lot of old country doctors who basically knew fundamental remedies and some wives' tales and who kept people together with tape and determination, and then there was a new wave of ferociously-drilled "young doctors" coming in, with the USSR's attempts to modernize everything. so that was the dichotomy there.
We still have radioactive wild boars running around in the Swedish forrests, 5200 km away from Tjernobyl, 30 years later. So "taken care of" is a relative term.
But it could have been worse, I suppose.
This is a good series, and I like your reaction. It happened when I was 16, and I lived not far from Chernobyl at the time (about 200 miles). We weren't told that something had happened until 10 days later when they started distributing iodine pills. It was way too late for that. 10 years ago my wife (who had also lived in the same area at the time) got thyroid cancer, and I have no doubts as to why.
yes..!! was waiting for this one.!
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Great reaction!!I am so happy that I found you on TH-cam 👍🏻👍🏻
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You can go into Chernobyl, they even have Tours now. The life span of the radiation on the surface was 28yrs, the core is around a few thousand of years... Now there are certain objects, and Buildings that still have higher Rad's [ this is due to the cranes/cloths/ beds used..] I have seen a Tour on TH-cam where some of the Tourist use the counter on the cranes [ 51 to 77 rad's] I'm sure there are other hidden dangers to live there forever, then just a bunch of people moving on through looking around. Crap how would you convince people to live there after you had a large meltdown lol..
Really looking forward to watching your reactions to this series! Just have tissues at the ready. While one of the best-made shows I've ever seen, it's also one of the most emotionally devastating given the heavy material. I still cry even watching people's edited reactions.
Dude - I am going to binge watch your reactions now...... I really enjoyed you two.
1980's Russia, Keep to the Party line. It was a way to protect yourself, and pass the blame at the same time. Horrible but true,
Also, Buckle up, you are in for a ride! Scary but good at the same time.m
*Soviet Union, not Russia. Chernobyl is wasn't even in Russia, it's in Ukraine.