I was still a kid when Chernobyl happened, but I clearly remember not being allowed to play outside, an outside birdcage where probably 100 birds fell dead, not being allowed to eat crops that grew above ground. And that was in Belgium 1150 miles from Chernobyl
Yep. And here in Norway they were slaughtering sheep because they got too much radiation just by being on the pasture on the mountains. That's pretty crazy.
My father was a liquidator and all the doctors persuaded my parent to get abortion (believing I would not be "normal") even prolly deformed mutant of sorts), thankfully they didn't.
I was 10 in Denmark. I remember we got to stay home from school. And I could only play in our conservatory, I remember wondering why the normal grey skies were so brown/yellowish.
same in the UK, full herds of Welsh lambs had to be culled as they are been grazing on the grass that was full of the fallout and most of the free rage farming industry in europe was screwed for about a year cos all the animals were contaminated....
I live in the fallout zone , outer limits , only thing we did was to eat some iodine tablets , that was the biggest problem . 2016 they interviewed Ivan , age 90 , last one alive in his home village , Tulgovitš , it's inside that 30 km , no go zone , round the reactor . 134 deaths from radiation to first responders and staff , estimation is that 200 000 people have died from cancers , in the fallout zone , where you have 600 mil people .
08:48 The guy who held the door is still alive. The door shielded him. He got sooooo sick and nearly died, but ultimately he survived. 12:44 This level of radiation was simply never planned for. There are no suits designed to withstand this much, not for long. Their DNA was being shredded on a massive scale. 17:49 Even at this level, radiation does not kill that fast.
Nor would Vasily Igantenko's wife been at risk of getting ill from Vasily, she'd been more of a risk to him than he was to her, reason being he'd have (in a later episode of course is all this, but this is the reality) been washed so would have posed no risk to her as ARS (Acute Radiation Syndrome or Sickness isnt contagious in anyway at all, the source as to the radiation which really did all get absorbed by the baby she carried when being pregnant is under dispute as to where it came from, could have been from when she went outside after the explosion but isn't really known exactly). She'd have been a risk of infection largely to him than anything else. Nor was Lagasov a RBMK reactor expert and he'd have had 100s if not least a thousand people working with him on this either its just in the show it was all put into a female character who never actually existed at all. Though it wasnt exactly uncommon for women to hold job positions like she did in the Soviet Union, helping Lagasov.
As Ukrainian, I was hooked from the first scene with Legasov. Because in his flat (and the at Ignatenkos) I saw couple of things that I owned, and a couple more I saw when I was visiting. Nailed it indeed.
Им нужна говорить что ето била в Украине а не в россий ето сразу на минути 1:05 рашин рашен.Тоже самой американцас сказать что не сша а индейский плимина на територий сша поскай валять в Великобританию жить.
The guys in the control room and bunker were working backwards from the default "Core cannot explode". This was what they were all taught, it was impossible for an RBMK reactor to explode because to the soviet Union, nuclear power was the future and wanted nothing to hinder building towards their design. Chernobyl was slated to have up to ten reactors when finally completed. Reactors five and six were being built the night of the explosion.
fun fact the amount of tritium radiation in your home is more then enough to have killed you already according to how they used to think what tritium levels had to be at to kill you and everyone else off on the entire planet tritium comes from nuclear bomb explosions and events like chernobyl and fukashima
This is among the best and most horrifying series ever made. I'm super here for this. But yeah, there will be some rough episodes. The subject is pretty unkind.
The thing is, initially thinking "there's no way the core exploded" is actually rational. At least until you take a look and see that the core is gone. For a nuclear reactor to explode (rather than to just melt down) you need to have a very specific sequence of very unlikely events happen in a very precise manner. The odds of this happening are maybe a million to one. But on this night, at this place, every single thing needed for the core to explode happened, against all odds. So again, their initial reactions -- "how can the core explode" -- was rational. But the moment it became clear that the core had, in fact, exploded, there was no excuse at all for still doubting it.
Good point. Factor in as well the knowledge that if the core had exploded they were probably dead men walking hints a bit towards the complete state of denial some of them were operating under.
good point but Dyatlov was just being stupid, when two of your guys (one of which you sent to look at the core) said the same thing you should probably think that maybe they are saying the truth and also why would they lie? and if you still dont believe them maybe you should look at it yourself. for an engineer he acted way to incompetent and arrogant he dismissed every statement his team was trying to say to him calling them 'delusional' who says that?, he didnt even bother about the dosimeter. also for an engineer he sure didnt even try to atleast know what really is happening he just kept commanding them to do the same thing over and over. im pretty sure he recognized that there was graphite on the floor but since he thinks that since it hasnt happened before then it should be impossible to happen (boy he was so wrong) so he ignored it then procedes to lie and tell incomplete informations.
@@BaldwinIV_of_Jerusalem I would argue that it wasn’t incompetence (you don’t become chief engineer of a reactor unless you’re competent) but it was certainly arrogance and also complacency. He used the phrase “I’ve seen worse” his ego was telling him that he could do no wrong and he was just better than everyone else. If anyone said anything that disagreed with the (incorrect) narrative in his head, they were wrong or delusional. It was arrogance to think that nothing he did contributed to the explosion, and the fault was everyone else. It was complacency that blinded him to the fact that _he_ ran the reactor into the ground and caused the explosion. He was competent enough to actually have saved the reactor if his arrogance and ego hadn’t blinded him to the fact that what he was doing was dangerous!
@@realburglazofficial2613 well yes that is true, but i was pointing his incompetence to find out the truth (he didnt even atleast try). it was his arrogance and negligence (broke all the safety rules) that made him too incompetent to find out what has happened, and that incompetence that lead a lot of people of chernobyl to suffer from radiation poisoning since he didnt give an actual full answer to what was happening he gave an incomplete information (he didnt technically lie but it was a lie).
For context, a chest xray is around 0.01 rem roughly speaking, so you understand why the guy said that background rem of 3.6 wasn't great. Continuous exposure to 3.6 is "ok" for an hour, hour and a half tops before permanent damage can start to kick in.
As I recall, the show will answer your questions as it moves on. I was seven when it happened. I remember there was something on the news in Norway about fallout potentially spreading to the country, affecting farm animals that were out on pasture and crops. Things already felt kind of scary, with the cold war going on and people talking about acid rain
'3.6 not great not terrible' is a quote that runs through my head because of the sheer horror of those words.... because they had no meter that actually read as high as it was at the time, experts have estimated it to have been over 20,000 r/h. Ten years later it was still at 10,000 under the structure they built to contain it. Its actually insane to think about.
It's a good show. They nailed the look and feel of the Soviet Union. In some places it's very close to actual events and in other places it's completely fictional.
@@michaelccozens the details of the actual accident are very good. on the other hand, basically everything said by the character played by emily watson are complete nonsense and should be disregarded.
@@michaelccozens i mean.. one of the characters is quite literally fictional (which they state) the ukrainian wife character is basically just a random person, as the person it’s supposed to be is entirely different both personality and action else (i think she has a podcast series or something on Chernobyl) the minister of coal was a really tough and brutally honest dude, he used to be a miner himself, he wasn’t just some guy in a suit they stored iodine pills, because obviously they did lmfao, they’re hiding shit from the masses but they’re not stupid the portrayal of some characters is pretty unfair and leads to people believing they’re much worse than they are, while some of them were pretty alright, even if they made mistakes that lead to the disaster there’s a lot of things that aren’t accurate but work for the story, and that’s perfectly fine - it’s not a documentary, it’s a drama
As Ukrainian, I was hooked from the first scene with Legasov. Because in his flat (and the at Ignatenkos) I saw couple of things that I owned, and a couple more I saw when I was visiting. Nailed it indeed.
@@BlackWACat Lyudmilas's account was straight from the book "Voices of Chornobyl" where she was interviewed by Alexievich. So she can't be completely different. She still pissed off that nobody called her before making the show.
After bingeing all the first time movie reactions I must admit I adore you two and your content! So wholesome and entertaining! Though I am beginning to suspect maybe the Mrs Google's the plot beforehand? 😂 She seems so on point with so many of her observations and theories!
@@YouMeTheMovies here's a link for what happened in the end. shows how it was done in 2016. watch after the series is over. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wWBj85KIQAw.html
Hildur Gudnadóttir is a genius. She created the soundscape for this show by recording and manipulating the sounds of a decommissioned nuclear plant. The entire score is built from the noise of steel doors creaking, metal grates under foot, electrical panels buzzing, steam pipes and valves turning, all the background sounds of an old reactor still stuttering after death. She's incredible.
Just found your channel and I love your reaction to Chernobyl, can't wait for more. It tells events of it mostly accurate but also sometimes changes somethings for dramatic purposes. - Nuclear reactors do not explode, not just RBMK but all of them just don't explode. So operators acted believing that the core is intact, and just could not believe that it exploded - that was unthinkable. That's why everyone deny it. - Diatlov was done dirty in this series, he wasn't a villain, he was also a victim. He was strict but not tyrannical, he had huge respect among his coworkers, he knew his job. But yes, his actions and bad decisions against safety protocols led to this disaster. After the explosion, he as almost anyone there denied the truth, but he acted in the best interest. He was the first to go to see if everybody is ok, to see fires, he led firefighters to the fires and hydrants, and even led the search for Khodemchuk. He also told staff to go home to save them form more exposure (people in control room were mostly shielded). He was not a bad guy, he had no idea what could happen that night, he had no clue about the fatal flow of the RBMK reactor. Noone know how badly this reactor was design. He was the last chain in the chain of the disaster, if it was not him, disaster would happen somewhere else in simmilar way. You can watch interviews with him on YT with english subtitles. - Sitnikov was not forced to go on the roof to look into the reactor, but after Diatlov collapsed he decided to go himself check it so the proper actions could be taken. - The scene at the brigde in first episode didn't happen in reality. Noone really come to it to watch fire. Noone died from it, people were sleeping and then woke up and went to work like nothing happen without even knowing that there was a fire in the power plant. It is a myth. However the wind was blowing straight into the brigde so it was extremely radioactive - that brigde was one of the most dangerous places around power plant, and had to be used constantly to transport poeple and materials. - 3.6 Roentgens per hour desimeter reading is significant, but not terrible. But it's hard to calculate dose absorbed by human body and health consequences as it's dependent on type of radietion (alfa, beta, gamma or neutron) and exposure time. To simplify 3.6R/h is 36 mSv/h, and to compare, you recieve 10-30 mSv form single full-body CT scan, 50 mSv is maximum annual dose permitted for radiation workers. Symptoms of radiation sickness show up when you're exposed to levels of more than 500 mSv (0.5 Sv). More than 4 to 5 Sv is likely to be fatal in 50% cases if the dose is received over a very short duration. So 36 mSv in an hour is not too serious of a damage. 36 mSv in an hour for hours or days are going to be very concerning. But of course that was just as high as the meter could measure, the true reading was much higher. - Radiations kills slowly, it may even take hours or days for the first effects of radiation poisoning to occur, weeks before death comes. Vomiting and nausea are one of the first symptoms of acute radiation poisoning. Tasing metal is a sign of high radiations exposure - it destroys your taste buds causing that taste to be felt. Radiation in close proximity to reactor 4 was so huge that symptoms showed up very quickly. - That guy holding the door to the reactor survived it.
I love horror movies and scary TV shows and have seen many over the years. This series is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen and certain parts stayed with me for a long time after. I've never watched it since but look forward to seeing it again with you guys. A masterpiece.
moron this was real loads died this was greatest disaster in world history until only years back in japan the same shit happened! sadly tho it poured into the ocean, man didnt learn shit too this was 80's russia the government keeps still their ppl in ignorant bliss...
im from Poland and my parents remember that disaster. They told me that they had to drink fluid called Lugola to saturate thyroid with lets say good iodine to prevent it from absorbing radioactive iodine. Clothes of firemans are still laying in basement of hospital in Pripyat and they are very very very radioactive today
Thank you very much for reacting to this brilliant miniseries which is a joint SKY/HBO co-production. I'm old enough to have lived through the period of Chernobyl, I was at a University in South East England, one thing to remember is that all the very high speed information networks that we take for granted didn't exist back in 1986, the world wide web didn't exist there was basic internet email and USENET text based newsgroups only. The only sources of information were the TV news and what was printed in Newspapers, being in an University did have a sort of advantage in that people could ask the Physics department for their opinions on what could be going on and possible worse case scenarios!
I was a teen in Australia. I remember the news reports of the radioactive cloud spreading westward over Europe. For ten years my family stopped eating food and drink imported from Europe. That mainly meant giving up a French mustard, a favourite type of marmalade and chutney, and a really cool Italian soft drink I forget the name of now. I was REALLY grateful I lived down in the Southern hemisphere. Even now in some of the northern European countries its not safe to eat mushrooms or wild pigs/boar that grow there. I think this is the best TV show ever made. Its tough to watch, but an essential story. both of human suffering, bravery and resolve, and for the critical lesson about the danger of lies. Also hang in there: Epiode 5 is like a reward for getting through the first 4 episodes.
From the wiki. The ionizing radiation levels in the worst-hit areas of the reactor building have been estimated to be 5.6 roentgens per second (R/s), equivalent to more than 20,000 roentgens per hour. A lethal dose is around 500 roentgens (~5 Gray (Gy) in modern radiation units) over five hours, so in some areas, unprotected workers received fatal doses in less than a minute.
This happened when I was in high school. It was a defining event of my era, along with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR. Crazy times. It seemed every year was a fresh bookmark in history.
I worked there as a volunteer for 12 years in special-needs orphanages trying to better the lives of children who were victims of this devastating accident. To this day the after effects, economic and social, are still being felt.
I have not started the video yet, but I just wanted to say YESSSS :) so glad you're watching one of the bestmade series ever. Get ready for tears, both of you...
My family had to evacuate kiev, Ukraine because we lived about 90 miles away from Chernobyl. My father will not watch this TV series since it reminds him of this event and brings back bad memories.
I watched this once when it was initially released on HBO. I haven’t been able to rewatch since and it still haunts me. I will watch again through your reaction and feel less alone.
it's pretty neat watching someone that has no real idea of what happened see this for the first time. i'd spent so much time reading about it over the years that i found the show very interesting for different reasons - mostly accuracy and what they chose to focus on. looking forward to watching the rest of your uploads on this.
The radiation traveled across Northern Europe and a sizable amount of fallout settled here in Scotland. In some areas the radiation levels were so high the farms were banned from selling livestock due to contamination. I think there are still remote areas today where the ban is still in place.
Radioactive isotopes are extremely easy to detect, many of those bans happened because governments set levels for food at very low levels. Recent reports have stated that most of that meat (cattle, sheep, reindeer) was quite safe for consumption. BTW- all food is slightly radioactive & has been for millenia as we live on a radioactive world within a radioactive universe.
You know your getting old when an event that shocked the world when you were a kid, is 'some nuclear disaster in a foreign country' to people who arent all that young themselves lol (No offense). They took small liberties and a couple of big ones in areas but most of them where required to create the show and make it work and none of them really change the result of what actually happen and some were to make it safer for viewing audiances. As someone that was alive and well aware of the ramifications the event could have created in the world even as a child on the opposite side of the world to teh accident, this mini series/doco makes me shiver... especially thinking of all the 'what ifs' That being said there was some good that came of Chernobyl in the following years, things that may have never happened if it hadnt happened. Mrs Movies: 'not mentally prepared for this'... Me: oh dear... this is gonna escalate quickly.
I’m so happy you’re watching this show. It’s a rough one bc they tried to be as accurate as they could for the show. They wanted to honor the people that went through it and who are still suffering to this day. On a lighter note, most (if not all) the music is actually sounds from a nuclear reactor they recorded. That’s one of my favorite things they did for the show. I can’t wait to see the next episode with you guys!
What happened at Chernobyl almost happened at Three Mile Island in the U.S.A., in the late 1970s / early 80s. As it was, the U.S. incident was disastrous without even exploding.
The sequence with the open, blazing core is and remains one of the most horrifying, sickening pieces of movie I have ever seen. Real-world, eldritch horror.
i still know that we kids had to stay at home and couldn`t play outside for a few days. and i live in germany.... in school we made some drills to get to the fallout shelter under our school building, just in case it got worse. in some regions of germany, it is still not safe to eat wild mushrooms or meat from wild hogs till this very day.
I remember it as well. Same kind of guidelines in the Netherlands: we couldn't play outside for a while, dairy products and produce from a certain period were deemed unsafe, etc. Scary stuff, thinking back. Back then, as a ten y.o. kid, I didn't know enough to grasp what had happened.
finished it last night it was pretty good. i don't usually notice soundtracks, but once an episode they have a really good instrumental section that moves slowly
I was 8 when this happened and I remember it. My father was a physician of internal medicine who had gone to medical school in communist Poland and then fled. He was horrified with the initial reporting, where American stations were basically repeating the lies from the Soviets. He knew that it must have been much much worse. He got my mother and immediately started speaking Hebrew so my sister and I would not be able to understand them. And then they started to call relatives in Sweden to warn them. It's been almost 36 years, and I still remember it.
I was 15 years old when the explosion at Chernobyl happened and it was scary enough then but, after watching this series, I realized that I was not scared enough. I also read a book that was published at the same time the series came, Manual For Survival by Kate Brown, and is about what happened at Chernobyl and it is very detailed. The book also goes into detail about some of the same mistakes made in Chernobyl were made at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan after the earthquake there in 2011. Very sobering thought. And no one is allowed to live anywhere around Chernobyl; the radiation is still too high.
JMHO, but Kate Brown is a fear mongerer. A bunch of half-truths. Try Geroldine Thomas instead. Also check out the 2015 documentary film The Babushkas of Chernobyl.
Things like this have terrified the crap out of me all my life. My great uncle died at Oak Ridge fixing the ventilation shafts back before they ever had a clue what radiation poisoning did to a human. Hearing the description from my great aunt was the most terrifying thing I've ever heard in my life or ever heard someone else have to recount. Disasters like this and the way they capture it between the horrors people lived through and the in this case especially, the lengths governments will go to to cover up what happened is even more horrifying. To this day if you talk about Chernobyl in the wrong way to people in the area or even say the name Pripyat, you'll be lucky if all they do is shun you til you leave the area. It is still a very sore open wound. I have nothing but respect for anyone who had to go through these horrendous events.
this show is a masterpiece. horrifying story, amazing directing throughout, great acting, great script. the tension in this show is unsettling and what's crazy is, keep in mind, the creator of this show, the writer came from the hangover movies, the Scary movies's and identity theft. huge surprising turn for him from this show.
I thought that, too, but then looked at his bio. Craig Mazin cut his teeth writing goofy comedies in his mid-20s. Maybe he just kept with them to keep the paychecks coming in until he found a story he was passionate about telling. Besides, I’d imagine a 5-hour tragedy about one of the worst man made disasters in world history was probably a really tough sell.
"The Cherenkoff effect..." Is impossible. For the Cherenkoff effect to occur in the atmosphere it would have to be from cosmic rays. Dyatlov should know that.
Mr & Mrs TV have been hitting home runs with the selection of tv shows. I'm in 100%!! Sopranos + Chernobyl = high drama & fascinating content for a must watch reaction. Chernobyl is gut wrenching and sad at times. It elicits overwhelming anger at incompetent choices, then provides beautiful examples of the robustness of the enduring human spirit in the worst circumstances. You two are in for a ride with this one!
I think I was in high school when this happened. Like most high schoolers, I didn't care much about world news, but everyone heard about this. We didn't get many details, but we knew it was important. This show is riveting because you can't believe what's happening scientifically and politically at every turn. Great choice for a reaction!
I don't remember if they cover this in the show but how the core could explode was known but that information was suppressed so none of the technicians would have known it at the time.
I'm from Slovakia, from a city about 840km away from Pripryat, born in '95. I'm usually fine with horror movies and such, not afraid of any of that stuff and can finish anything, any movie, tv series, etc... but when I saw this one episode, I couldn't take it. This is the only piece of TV series/movie stuff (or mini series, call it whatever u want) that I was not able to finish because it scared the shit out of me. And even if I was born only 9 years after the disaster, I remember that when I was little, people were still talking about this a lot, like a lot, there was a lot of documentaries about it that I saw (on Discovery channel, etc) or that we later had to watch in school, so from a very young age I understood how truly bad it was.. I am therefore very happy how Mrs. Movies reacted.. I saw a couple of reactions on this show from other reactors and most of them are.. retarded. Don't get me wrong, but people for some reason don't have some kind of ability to understand it, they can't comprehend what is actually happening on the screen. And they only think that this is only a TV series. I mean, they do know that it is based on a true story, on real life, but they are like "oh wow cool effects." I am not however saying that they are ignorant, it is only that it is such a pity that people are not educated enough about such stuff that much, it is one of those tragedies and disasters that we as a mankind failed and fucked up big time (and fucked up mankind in a big way) (similar to holocaust I'd say) and people start to forget about it (similar to holocaust) and deny that it happened, or they want to somehow make it sound less horrifying. No. It fucking happened (even if some of the stuff was dumbed down/not accurate/exaggerated/misrepresented) and it was fucking horrible. So I really appreciate Mrs. Movies' reaction. Because she got it.
Utterly terrifying and heartbreaking. Also infuriating. Brilliantly well made by Sky UK and HBO. There is a mycelium network of mushroom that has evolved and now covers so much of the site, it is actually eating the radiation. Nature is healing human mistakes, pretty amazing.
That was horryfing. My mom was a teenager living in Poland but she told me about that. How much lies had been told. How she got sick not long after. It's scary how much it still scares people.
'86 was a tough year. The Challenger exploded, Chernobyl, Halley's Comet reminded me I'd be dead when next it comes around, Hands across America but not in my neighborhood and Oprah got a talk show. Pretty much a suckfest all year.
The Challenger was rough. I was in the third grade, I think? We watched it live. It was my cousin's birthday, so I imagine it was pretty rough on him. 1986 was also the year that postal worker shot up his post office and killed a shitload of people, giving us the phrase "going postal". Also "Mad Cow Disease". It's probable that 1986 is up there in the 'worst years in modern history' as far as crazy, unheard-of shit happening like it was normal.
I remember being given iodine tablets by my Mum as a pre-Schooler in England when it happened. We still had irradiated Sheep from it in Wales in the 1990s.
I know someone who walked around with a piece of radioactive metal in his pocket. When he was told he probably sterilised himself he starting laughing hysterically and said "Chernoballs!"
As heart wrenching and horrifying as this series can be, there's both a beauty and meta gallows humor to the whole thing that I haven't seen done well in any media since Dr. Strangelove.
this was greatest disaster in world history until only years back in japan the same shit happened! sadly tho it poured into the ocean, man didnt learn shit too this was 80's russia the government keeps still their ppl in ignorant bliss...
A thing to note is while the helicopter crash really happened, and there is footage of it that looks exactly the same as the show, IRL it didn't crash from the radiation. It happened several days later, it was a rescue chopper, and it crashed because the tail hit an object and that's what caused it.
Hello! Thanks for your videos! I'm from Ukraine (a country that was part of the USSR where Chernobyl is located) and it's very interesting to see what people in the West think about this incident and about this movie. I visited Chernobyl and Pripyat once (there've been regular tours for a long time), and I was really interested in the history of the incident, so I was digging all the information I could find about it (including all that I could learn from the guide in that tour). So here are a few comments of my own about the first episode: 1. Legasov was a renowned academician in USSR, and he didn't live in a poor apartment like it's shown here, he lived in a quite luxurious private house. 2. Dyatlov was definitely not the arrogant and delusional type like it's shown in the movie. Yes, he was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison, but they essentially just found a scapegoat. Maybe he was partially guilty, but he was not guilty that much. 3. Everyone understood that the core exploded fairly quickly, there was no such long and complete denial among the personnel (there was a bit of delay before the officials came to full realization, which is why Pripyat was not evacuated immediately). What was a mystery for quite a long time is why it exploded in the first place. It was true that all the plant personnel was taught that a nuclear plant is completely safe and the worst thing that could happen is a meltdown because of overheating, which can be contained easily. Only those among the designers of this type of nuclear reactor knew of its hazards but it was considered that the circumstances in which this hazard can occur are too unlikely. 4. The effects of radiation were truly horrible, but they didn't occur that fast. They sped it up about 10 times for dramatic purposes. 5. The old guy who told everyone to seal the town and cut the phone lines, or the big boss ordering someone to go to the reactor roof and threatening him with an armed guard is complete fiction. In fact, in the 1980s there were no people like this in the USSR among... well, decision-makers. This was not Stalin's era anymore, and the country was very different.
Hello fellow ukrainian. My 2 kopiykas. 2. Dyatlov was indeed arrogant, even at the court he answered arrogantly, and was out of line in control room. They just blew it out of proportion and made him single most man responsible, which wasn't the case, still somehow guilty, because they didn't follow the protocol to the T, and Fomin etc were also slightly guilty, rushing the test. 3. They didn't really believed that it can happen, and it shouldn't, it wouldn't if not for designer flaw, the show was correct on that. However, it probably still wouldn't happen if not human factor drow reactor to its limits. Both things are "guilty", the disaster wouldn't happened if just one of these two things wasn't the case. 5. Of course it's "klyukva". And nobody knows what they were actually discussing in that bunker. Yet decisions they were made were exactly those IRL. I recommend Craig Mazin's podcast, if you already didn't listened to it.
This show doesn't exactly make me proud of my first name but in general it's very great. I love your reactions so much that I'll probably even watch the one episode I usually skip (won't tell you which one until it's up)...
7:20 imagine breathing in, and saying "i taste metal",... scary scenario to say the least. amazing mini series, i've seen it 3 times so far! i'm glad you two are having a chance to watch it!
Oh boy... She's not going to like certain episodes. Hope you had some tissues for her on hand. This is going to be rough. Great series and extremely well done, but not for certain people.
For the level of radiation. They would have had to get it down to below 500 milliroentgen, so below 0.5 roentgen, but with EVERYTHING being radioactive now; it’s not possible
This is such a great series and shows so many aspects of cold war Soviet Union.. When this happened I was a young Ham radio operator & would talk to other radio ops in the Soviet Union when conditions were right. They were very secretive as all their comms were monitored & all came from specific radio club locations,. They only gave their name, city, weather & equipment they used. comms were short & to the point but polite.
I was like 10 years old when I heard about Chernobyl couple of years later from the incident. I remember some people were talking about it that there is nothing to worry bla bla on TV channels. A minister was drinking tea and telling to people that its completely safe. For years and years we were hearing people were dying by cancer entire northern regions of Turkey.
A simply superb series. I was a teenager when this all went down and I'me always amazed that more Americans know nothing about any of this, especially as it's still very relevant to whats going on in the world today. The whole production is just fantastic and imo top draw. It's 'proper' grown up drama with a great screenplay and fantastic performances by the entire cast.
