First Time Watching | CHERNOBYL | Episode 1
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2023
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I've watched hundreds of horror movies in my life and can legit say that nothing has ever terrified me as much as this show.
Cause it actually happen, and can happen again… as much as I hate to say.
Ditto. By far the most terrifying horror movie ever made.
Worst is the episode where the three men go under the plant and their equipment fails, and all you hear is their Geiger counters screaming at them.
@@prollins6443 Yes! That one was awful especially because you knew they were dead after that. Also the rooftop operation to clear the graphite. When he looked over the edge at the core despite being told not to do that under any circumstances. I was literally screaming.
It's how masterfully they used the fact that the people are completely ignorant to their situation to build overwhelming dread in us. Watching dead people go about their lives unawares is scary.
A quote regarding the "soundtrack" for the music in Chernobyl:
"Every sound heard in Guðnadóttir's extraordinary score was captured from an actual power plant, including pumps, reactors and turbines. The Icelandic composer captured field recordings at a now-decommissioned plant in Lithuania, where the series was filmed."
Wasn’t that power plant also an RBMK Reactor like the Chernobyl facility?
yes it was@@davenaldrich3985
@@davenaldrich3985 Yeah, the Ignalina power plant. It was also used as a filming location because it looked very similar to the Chernobyl one.
That is correct. Ignalina was used to record the series. It also was called the sister plant of Chernobyl. It was built the same as block 3 and 4 of the Chernobyl plant with only minor differences. One was the chimney. Where Chernobyl had a single pipe, Ignalina had 4 smaller pipes next to each other. The RBMK reactors were almost the same as well. RBMK-1000 for Chernobyl and RBMK-1500(for higher output) for Ignalina.
Also the housing blocks used are Soviet built high rise apartment blocks on witch they used the sound from. And it was so detailed that even the number plates of public, government and emergency vehicles were correct for that time.
This series is one of the most detailed and amazing series I've seen.
Love to see some Hildur love
This is possibly one of the best miniseries ever made. It's brilliantly produced and acted, very gripping, scary, heartbreaking and eye-opening. A tough watch but a necessary one.
I've never seen a better one.
yes, this and Band of Brothers!
Defo.
It is a well made series but factually it is incorrect that many things that are shown in the series never happened in real life.
and produced by swedes
I really liked that both of you reacted respectfully, not making innapropriate jokes or anything like that. This series requires that respect, because it’s real history. Thank you.
It's a tough and frustrating story, but I think it's necessary to understand "the cost of lies."
understanding it leads to one of my fave quotes in the series “every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid.”
Cost of lies among the country and its consequence? Russia, the rotten society itself
An absolutely awesome quote. Couldn't fit better to describe the western coverage of current events.
I love how naïve but so very emotionally invested you both are. Seeing someone learn the gruesome details of this incident for the first time is a gift you have given us. Thank you!
Awesome reaction! The reason why you saw so much denial and buck passing is because, in the Soviet Union, if something went wrong, you better not be responsible for it.
As far as I know: at least in the beginning, the people just really didn't believe it to be possible that the reactor could explode like that. Imagine parking your car at work, a few hours laters you hear a rumble and someone told you that your car exploded and destroyed the whole building. Would you believe that one person? Would you believe the second person, or the third? Sure cars can burn, but a normal passenger car without anything in it can't explode that way.
One of the former Soviet high ranking officials who appears in this series watched the show when it aired and confirmed that, yeah, this really accurate. This show is incredible.
Btw, the show runner here, Craig Maizan, was also the show runner on TLOU.
It is not accurate at all, it is fiction based on real events
@@Awaken2067833758 Dude just shut it. It is very much accurate but it is not a documentary. The fact that there are parts that arent or some parts that are missing doesnt change that fact.
What you just said made no sense at all, if its fiction based on real events that still shows what happened doesn't mean it's not accurate lol@@Awaken2067833758
There are some mistakes and licences. Like radiation sickness took hours-to-days before symptoms start and also Bryuchanov was among first, who supported city evacuation (creators admitted this mistake).
@@kikirikikirlafsdfskd and there was no risk of the reactor exploding like a nuclear bomb making the continent inhabitable. Many licenses and a lot of dramatization
omg, from Arcane, one of my favorite shows, to Chernobyl. Another one of my favorites. I'm excited to see if you like this series. This is going to be a very dark ride but it's worth it.
"It's in Call of duty" LOL
I feel that when people say Gulag and reference a game.. 🤡
There is a podcast made by the writer for this series about the making of this series. It's equally interesting and heart-braking. He talks about how some characters in this mini-series are representations of teams of people (because there was A LOT of people involved) and where they had to make changes to be able to fit everything in. Something I learned from the podcast that they weren't able to address in the show was that the radioactive dust was blown all over Europe and people in Sweden got sick (the Skarsgård's dad got sick from it, if I recall the podcast properly) and Europe had zero clue what was going on for most of this.
I’m glad y’all are watching this! It’s something everyone needs to see. Be warned, they pull no punches. Get ready! Especially with episode 4…..
Actually they do pull punches, it was worse than they showed.
@@WhiteHawk77 that is true, but the show does an excellent job of portraying what they did!
@@WhiteHawk77If they showed even more people just wouldn't watch it I think.
@@Evija3000 sure, and they got to hit a particular rating. Just saying, the accounts of some of the radiation effects, like on the firefighter, were worse than they showed is all.
@@WhiteHawk77 dude, just stop. Episode 3 is one of the most horrific things i have seen on tv. There isn't really much worse that can happen to a human than what happened to these poor souls and the show left nothing out so give over.
Chernobyl is one of the greatest miniseries ever made. I'm glad you are reacting to it. This show is a bit dramatized, but still, it's based on real historical events, real characters, and real stories. After episode 5, consider watching a short epilogue. They will explain what happened at Chernobyl after the disaster and what happened to all the people who were involved in the liquidation.
Excellent suggestion
i think "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific" would be great too for them
Chernobyl is HBO's most deceitful show ever ! It has nothing to do with historical real events From the word At all ! This TV series has only poured shit on many worthy leaders and ordinary workers ! The liquidation of the accident in Chernobyl was the most Successful and Organized among all accidents at nuclear power plants to this day !!!! What do we see in the series ???? Nothing of the sort !!! Only lies and Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit !!!! )))
Lmao “isn’t it in Call of Duty” was the last response I was expecting.
I was posted to Germany in ‘87 right after this happened.
Thrilled that you guys are reacting to this! It's definitely one of those shows that everyone should watch at least once.
The show has some inaccuracies for the sake of watchability, but the broad strokes are very, very accurate, and Chernobyl is one of the events that still colors the international political landscape today. It contributed (maybe more than any other single event) to the fall of the Soviet Union.
The miniseries also asks a lot of questions that are relevant even today about the nature of a government's relationship with its people. Chernobyl was at least as much a political disaster as it was a nuclear one, as the bureaucrats and politicians made everything worse at basically every turn as they tried to cover their asses in an ever-expanding umbrella of bullshit, first at the local level and then all the way up to the Kremlin. It was taught in one of the domestic governance courses at my university as being one of the absolute worst case scenarios for governmental dysfunction and the perverse incentives that can arise in a de facto patronage system like what the late Soviet Union had.
The show is also just damned good TV, although it gets very, very grim at times, far more so than The Last of Us.
I'd also really strongly recommend the companion podcast to the show that the showrunner put out. Lots of context and interesting facts there!
I agree, one or two technical details are inaccurate, but in terms of atmosphere, and the attention to detail in terms of costuming and location shooting, they really did their homework.
The most innacurate stuff in the show are that they pretend that irradiated people are themselves radioactive, which isn't the case in any significant way and that people could get executed by firing squad on a whim in 1980s Soviet Union, which is complete fantasy. Nikita Khrushchev had dismantled most of Stalin's repressive machine more than 2 decades earlier including the gulags. Appart for that, the show is very accurate except a few minor details.
My understanding is that the biggest "inaccuracies" are just misunderstandings that some of the people involved believed to be true at the time. The show doesn't slow down to spell out that, no, XYZ isn't actually the case, and modern critics label that as being "inaccurate".
@@IgnisKhan To an extent, but there were also some changes for dramatic effect.
Yuvchenko bleeding immediately from contact with the door after being directly next to the core (which would be fatal - the actual Yuvchenko lived another 20 years), the threat of being thrown out of the helicopter/summarily shot/what have you (this would've been accurate decades earlier, but wasn't really a thing in the Soviet Union of the '80s), as well as the circumstances of Legasov's suicide and subsequent exposure of the system, etc.
The show also outright vilifies the three plant managers. In actuality, testimony from the surviving workers at the plant suggest that they were respected if not well liked and no more responsible for the disaster than anyone else - the issue was entirely systemic, not individual.
Overall, though, the show gets a lot right and goes for broad truth rather than facts, which I think is the right approach.
@@nickyarbrough8392 Sure. Many of the complaints I've seen regard the experiences of the wife of the firefighter, and the things she was told. I fully believe that in real life she was told inaccurate things about radiation, and the show didn't correct them. Likewise for the doomsday scenarios presented to Gorbachev in meetings.
10:05 that shot of the burning remains of the reactor core always makes me think that mankind opened a portal to hell that night and were unprepared for the consequences.
"Unforeseen Consequences."
@@darkarpatronGet out of my head, Mister Freeman.
In Soviet Russia, even today, their power comes from the perception of their power, despite reality being very much different. For the executive leadership in the country to admit that a disaster like this could happen would be unbelievably embarrassing for them, both as a country and on the geopolitical world stage. Nobody in middle management wants to acknowledge that anything like Chernobyl could happen, or to be the one to tell their bosses that it happened. As bad as Chernobyl was, it was made orders of magnitude worse because of their response to the disaster during the first 24 hours.
For you to understand Three Mile Island in the USA, 1979 nuclear power plant accident So that you realize that not only in the USSR there were accidents ! The difference is that in the USSR evacuation was carried out in the shortest possible time Highly organized ! Without casualties and panic ! And not what you were shown in the HBO show )))) In reality they evacuated everyone in 36 hours !!!! In modern times at Fokushima they evacuated for a week ! So don't bullshit about the USSR !
@@user-zm1co4fq4e Yep, that exactly how USSR works, even here in comments they (you) are spreading insane delusianal information.
Please keep watching those miniseries! "Chernobyl" plus "Band of Brothers", "The Pacific" and "True Detective" are absolutely amazing and a must see!
Came here to recommend essentially this exact list, well done 😂. I second all three. As far as "masterful television" you can't really beat the 4-pack there.
BTW the forest at the end is called "Red Forest" which comes from the ginger-brown colour of the pine trees after they died following the absorption of high levels of ionizing radiation. Yes, this really did happen. even today that area (more the waste graveyards) remains one of the most contaminated in the world to this day.
I remember this accident - I was about 32 at the time - little bits of information came out day by day, it became more and more clear how bad it was - the radiation cloud went around the world, monitors in California detected it when it finally crossed the Pacific Ocean - also, note that the radiation of concern is gamma rays, which are like x-rays but more energetic - but gamma rays are emitted by radioactive matter, so the dust and ash from the burning graphite & uranium in the core was blown on the wind, shining out gamma rays the whole time. But even having been around when it happened, we had nothing like the amount of you-are-there understanding of the disaster that this special shows - it's worth seeing, please see the whole thing, as citizens of the modern world we need to know how this sort of event comes about
Fun fact, the worker who held the door opened survived. Because his body was half exposed while opening the door he was able to recover albeit the skin and areas of his body that were exposed deteriorated and had to undergo 15 surgeries including multiple skin grafts. Never the less he was one of the few orignal workmen that survived the first day at the plant 4.
That beam is what is known as "Cherenkov radiation". It is due to the radiation ionizing the air around the reactor core and producing photons that are extra fast (hence the blue color). There is a really cool video of this, in this context horrifying, phenomena from a test reactor in the US where the reactor glows blue underwater for the same reason.
Yes, but the particles from a reactor don't have enough energy to create Cherenkov effect in the atmosphere. Dyatlov was lying.
@sld1776 By themselves, yes. The particles collide with air molecules and the collision with the air particles excite the air into higher energy states. Those higher energy particles then rapidly decay back down to their ground state via photon emission and the photon would necessarily be rather high energy due to the nature of the collisions and decay paths.
Amazing show and I am glad you guys watch it. Concerning the released radiation that started to cover parts of Europe, I was 11 when Chernobyl happened, we weren't allowed to go outside when it rained. If it started raining while you were outside, you were supposed so seek shelter right away. Certain edible mushrooms and wildboar/venison from southern Germany has still a high concentration of radioactive Isotopes and shouldn't be eaten 40 years later.
@fzwilling I'm the same age (old fart high-five) but I grew up on the west coast of Canada so we were safe. Everyone was glued to their televisions for the week after the news broke, and my parents (who had immigrated from Hungary) were contacting their parents regularly. I barely understood what was going on but I knew it was terrible.
In France, our medias told us that the radio-active cloud stopped at the borders of our country... (was 18years old).
Example of the current radiation levels from Finland: According to EU guidelines, food products offered for sale should not contain more than 600 becquerels per kilo (Bq/kg) of caesium-137.Mushrooms picked in Pälkäne in Pirkanmaa, south-central Finland had a reading of nearly 1,000 Bq/kg. Meanwhile those picked in Hyvinkää, some 60 km from the capital, contained 1,300 Bq/kg.
Arguably my favorite mini-series I've ever watched, thanks for starting this journey! It's not gonna be easy but you won't regret it
Yes! An excellent miniseries.
Great cart, great cinematography, great music and a true thing that happened. So glad you are starting this ❤
Edit: also made by the same guy who in part made the last of us.
the bleeding trough the skin is high radiation damage.
i was in kindergarden as it happend, we weren't allowed to play outside. stay inside during rain and the city closed the playgrounds and extracted all the sand from the sandboxes, too couter the radiated rainfall
in my community in Germany. the radiation cloud reached over a good portion of europe .
"I might actually have nightmares if we keep watching this." "Yeah, I know." "Are you ready to watch the next one?" "Yep." I laughed out loud, haha. That's how you know the show is good.
You and me both. I came down here in the comments just to see if anyone else laughed at that as loudly as I did.
Jared Harris (playing Valery Legasov, the man recording the tapes in the beginning) and Stellan Skarsgard put on a masterful performance in this series. Looking forward to the next episode!
Many first responders didn't have any protection, but in a days after many people were given chemical protection gear (that's all they had in a storages) - like rubber costumes, but it was completely useless against radiation. In a photographs from this period many people just wore gas masks. Things improved later when they started cleaning process, but only for people working directly at the plant, or radiologists that knew what to do (wear lead). For example many police officers who were coordinating evacuation should be also given protection but they stood only in cotton masks in a fields/villages surrounding the plant, being extremely exposed.
i'm from the UK, lamb and beef still have raised radiation levels from animals eating grass contaminated 40 years ago by this
Awesome, one of the greatest mini series in recent memory. And I don't think there's anyone I'd rather subject myself to it again with than you two. This will be a rough ride but it's neccessary.
This is about 2 disasters - one was the reactor. The other was a system of secrecy that kept information from people that could have saved lives. Even the (soon to be infamous) Dyatlov - as ugly as he was - was acting on the assumption that a core explosion was impossible, and that those in charge would lie about one of it benefited them.
0:38 - "I dont like to know the truth."
Dont worry, comrade, neither did the people in charge of resolving the conundrum in question, so You will feel right at home.
Looking into an active reactor core is definitely a once in a lifetime experience.
I remember when this happened when I was a kid. I have many friends that are now in the US them emigrated here after the Soviet Union collapsed. Almost all of them were surprised how right this mini-series got the incident.
You asked whether the cloud was for real. Yeah it was. The depiction might or might not be exaggerated, but even northern Germany was affected by it so much that our government handed out iodine pills. Also, even to this day, you are not supposed to eat game or collect mushrooms in the forests as it is still considered unsafe to eat in some parts of our country. And Tschernobyl is so far away and other countries were affected so much more that us.
By the way, I was born years after the catastrophe and still remember warnings broadcast by the radio because of the radiation. Years later. Tschernobyl was crazy
the best way to explain what radiation really is, is that its fire. Literal fire, but due to what light frequency it emits, we as humans cannot detect it. Radiation is like a ghost-flame, it continues to burn, and since animals were never put through the environmental pressures to evolve ways to detect it, it is imperceptible to biological life.
I was 16 years old in 1986 (I'm Canadian)- we heard on the news about the "Nuclear Cloud" from Chernobyl and how it far it could travel- possibly crossing the Atlantic and affecting North America.
However I never truly knew just how bad it was until I had watched a documentary on the 20th anniversary of the accident in 2006. The documentary was grim, startling and depressing...
This miniseries on Chernobyl makes that documentary I watched look like a birthday party video.
This is going to be a tough watch- but an important event to learn about. Looking forward to you two going through this series.
I'm Canadian too, about 10 years older than you, and I remember this event well. I had no idea how bad it was until I saw this series. Radioactive particles floating through the air, sure, but the whole thing in episode 2 about how close they came to the whole thing melting down to the water table and causing an even bigger explosion - never heard about that. In fact, I remember a sort of scornful attitude in North America, as if this were just another blunder by those incompetent Soviets. Now I'm impressed by how they managed to handle this catastrophe, with all the problems and limitations they were working under. A lot of really bright brains combined to figure out what to do.
This series is quite accurate, and teaches a great lesson about Corruption, Arrogance and Sacrifice... and of course History.
It's in many points very exaggerated. But still better than most of it.
@@stell4youwhat is exxagerated? They literally towned down the injuries
@@stell4youWhat was exaggerated, specifically?
@@casparvvedel5607 ruclips.net/video/m1GEPsSVpZY/видео.html
@casparvvedel5607 mostly the speed of the radiation effects and even the nurses that treated these firefighters has documented it and stated they didn't look near as bad as this depicts. I wouldn't say much of this is "very" exaggerated but it is, mostly for added drama or to make a point easier
I bet you're rethinking those Chernobyl coffee mugs... 🤣 0:47
This call from beggining it was real one.
This girl was calling all the fire department around powerplant.
If u knew russian - she was in extreme stress.
Great reaction ladies. FYI it also very nearly happened in the USA too. The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, near the capital city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment. It is the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. On the seven-point logarithmic International Nuclear Event Scale, the TMI-2 reactor accident is rated Level 5, an "Accident with Wider Consequences". As an amazing coincidence on March 15, 1979, twelve days before the accident, the movie The China Syndrome premiered and was initially met with backlash from the nuclear power industry, claiming it to be "sheer fiction" and a "character assassination of an entire industry".
In the film, television reporter Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda) and her cameraman Richard Adams (Michael Douglas) secretly film a major accident at a nuclear power plant while taping a series on nuclear power. At one point in the film, an official tells Jane Fonda's character that an explosion at the plant "could render an area the size of the state of Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable".] After the release of the film, Fonda began lobbying against nuclear power.
I remember when this happened. We didn't immediately know a whole lot because it was in the USSR, Ukraine SSR. It was terrifying because nuclear power was still relatively new and ordinary people didn't understand it much other than "nuclear". The saddest part is the poor people of Pripyat who didn't even know of the potential danger and had no idea what was happening.
I’m so glad you guys reacted to this. Masterful television. Before Craig Mazin did The Last Of Us he did this.
This show is the reason Mazin was able to do The Last Of Us. He built up a lot of clout with HBO with this series and all the awards it won.
The trees are referred to as the "glowing forest" of Chernobyl. The sap in the trees absorbed so much radiation that the trees glowed at night. It's no longer a "threat" per se but the effort to contain it and every other problem ... well, that's a later episode.
Dyatlov, the guy in charge at the plant was likely nowhere near as bad as he is often portrayed. The problem was one of the more popular historical accounts of Chernobyl was written by someone who had an axe to grind with him. According to other accounts Dyatlov actually tried to help out and was probably the one person who knew what he doing because he actually was in a previous nuclear incident aboard a submarine where he got a relatively minor dose of radiation (which is why I'm inclined to believe it rather than him just being stubborn idiot in denial along with several things he wrote afterwards).
Chernobyl does a good job are emphasizing events that actually took place... But MOST importantly. it deeply instills the ever subtle yet mysterious "Radiation" damage that can happen in mere seconds. the story telling and the constant glooming fact that there is a silent killing force that is doing so much damage to your body you don't even realize it till hours later.
its probably up there in my top 5 as the best accurate historical TV shows.
The area where the trees died is now called the Red Forest. It's still like that today. It's so radioactive that the trees never recover. This is as accurate as possible.
They brought in bulldozers, dug huge long trenches, and turned the entire forest over and buried it under its own dirt. The scars on the ground are easily visible on Google Maps.
5:50 yes thats the actual recording of the call they made to the fire department that night.
12:07 i'm impressed with Haylo's knowledge.
From writer Craig Mazin, known for Scary Movie 3 & 4 and The Hangover II and III
and director Johan Renck, known for music videos for Madonna, Robbie Williams, and Kylie Minogue.
and they made one of the 5 best miniseries and TV shows of all time.
Let that sink in for a minute...
Love that you're watching this! Hands down one of the best mini-series I've seen. Really difficult to watch, but also brilliant.
I was there in 2010, very eerie hearing the Geiger counter pick up pace as we got closer.
We drove through the red forest which you saw in this episode.
Also visited the reactor 4 building (outside), went to the bridge, school, hotel etc.
The dying trees part was absolutely real, this place is now called “The Red forest”
When that fire-fighter picked up that rock of graphite 8:48 , that one thing is like holding 4 million X-rays in your hand.
Oh Lord, you better buckle up tight because this is gonna be rough. Chernobyl happened during the Cold War, when I was in high school. It was a defining event of my generation. In one of his tape recordings, Legasov said, 'Recalling this trip now, I must say that I had absolutely no idea that we were moving towards an event of a planetary scale, that would most likely be remembered like events such as famous volcanic eruptions; Pompei for example or something similar to that.'
2:46 The music was composed by Oscar awarded Hildur Guðnadóttir. She did a fantastic job.
Growing up tin the 60's I was very aware of the event when it happened. Binge watched the series on my trans-Atlantic flight to spend 3 months in Eastern Europe the end of 2019. Much of that time I traveled Ukraine. The war with russia was on going then. I observed many aspects of Ukrainian psychology then, Chernobyl, russian aggression, a hunger for Freedom and democracy, work ethic, ingenuity, and an uncanny sense of humor. Slava Ukraini
I'll enjoy watching this with you. Buckle up.
Many of the comments below give you good info regarding the series and events.
Younger people need more history education to understand the world of today and hopefully we won't repeat mistakes of our past.
Fun Fact: The team who made this incredible show also made Star Wars: Andor, which is why that show (which is probably the best Star Wars in decades) has a similar feel of palpable dread, though not as severe as in Chernobyl.
Andor even features a handful of the same actors.
It wasn't their reputations they were worried about; it was being taken behind a wall and being shot for questioning what they were told not to question.
There are some inaccuracies (some are quite big) in this miniseries, especially from a scientific standpoint. Please don't think that nuclear energy is dangerous because of this series or because of this accident, Fukushima and Three Mile Island (the 3 accidents that are usually mentioned), it's actually among the safest forms of energy we currently use.
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6:20 no, it wasn't
8:16 no, you're right, they didn't
8:34 yes, but they didn't use it at first because they didn't know what was happening
8:44 as they mention later, that's graphite, it is used as moderator for nuclear fission reactions (it slows neutrons down)
16:00 it's not that they weren't aware, they weren't paranoid as people are today. Those kids playing in the ashes had a higher chance of developing lung problems from breathing the ashes themselves rather than having any effect from the radiation. I mean, I wouldn't play during an accident, but most of them are probably still living in Ukraine/Russia today (or died/displaced because of the war)
Regarding the Iodine pills, one must remember that the medical effects of radiation were not as well known as they are now and that a nuclear disaster of the kind Chernobyl was had been unthinkable. In fact, a lot of our current understanding and wariness of it comes from Chernobyl itself.
I remember when this happened. I was seven.
Here in Finland it was recommended not to pick and eat mushrooms for couple of years after this.
Finland is quite far away from Ukraine, but winds brought some radiation here. Not enough to cause any immediate danger, but some recommendations from the authorities.
16:00 they did know how dangerous it was, they just didn’t know that was the situation 😢
Reactor 4 exploded that night, as we all know. But most people don't know Chernobyl had 3 more reactor that needed to be operated.
You can't flip a switch and bugger of home.
The last reactor was shut down in december of 2000!
Clean up at Chernobyl is scheduled to be finished in 2065!
The people watching from the Bridge of Death are an urban legend. It was called that for a couple of years before the accident because a man jumped off it in front of a train.
It was two in the morning on a school night and the bridge was a long uphill walk outside town. People didn't keep their cars at home in Prip'yat, and anyone who cared to could just go up the stairs to their roof and have a better view.
So happy you two are watching this.
Looking forward to the ride
I don't do spoilers, having said that, hold on to your seats cuz this show DOES NOT HOLD BACK!!!! It's a series that needs to be shown to the world, or at least to all students in schools and universities. It gives all those who may not know how scary, deadly, efficient, radiation really is, as well as being relentless and unstoppable. So glad my favorite duo is reacting to this one here, you 2 are awesome together, such chemistry and closeness, it's a pleasure to watch, and I absolutely love your channel. As Haylo mentioned, this show is as accurate as can be, and pretty damn graphic, but it's worth it, buckle up and enjoy the ride, can't wait to see your reactions.
The trees at the end are real. This place is called the "rusty forest" even though the level of radiation in the air has long been normal at both ends of the road that passes through the forest there are signs that it is forbidden to stop there. And the signs are there for a reason, Russian soldiers who wanted to capture Kyiv in 2022 set up combat positions there, dug trenches, cut trees, cooked food, slept, and were hospitalized with radiation poisoning after returning. The rusty forest is no joke🤷♀
Lol. I have colorblindness on green colour and after watching many reactions only now when they commented on the Forrest at the same time I was reading your comment I understood that it probably showed change in colour of the trees.
P.s. I do see green, just can't differentiate some shades and so show I never was able to see red Forrest as red
This series is the BEST visual aid to the recounting of the moments that happened before-during and after the accident
Loved you two watching
I remember watching this for the first time and saying to my dad “this is the scariest thing I’ve ever seen.”. Still is.
This is why it is so important not to let just one group, faction or party determine what is "misinformation". Censoring "misinformation" may actually be keeping the truth from the public (as it did in this case).
just like RUclips does it, right?
@@georgythegreat youtube has ALL KINDS of misinformation on it, they censor very little. But the problem with censorship of information is that it's usually arguable what is true and what is not. Sometimes what is called conspiracy or "Fake news" turns out to be very real. Control of information is one of the first things most people in power seek to have. It's why we hundreds of news stations and newspapers but almost all of them are owned by a few small groups, like Sinclair.
@@georgythegreat Correct!
Wow you two are hitting some great shows back to back. Loved your Arcane reactions, and really looking forward to this series too!
Radiation poisoning is probably one of the most horrible ways to die. It is about as close as humans can come to actual zombification. Your body is literally decomposing from the inside out.
This show and all performances in it are brilliant. Such a terrifying, sad and somehow inspiring moment in human history
"I remember something went wrong" That had me rolling. But cool that more folks are learning about it. I think the show did a great job at shedding light on what happened.
Five of his cassette tapes were marked "for Gubarev" and after the suicide that Gubarev guy insisted on getting them from KGB investigators. He had good connections in right places, so KGB redacted classified data on tapes and passed them to Gubarev who published them in the Pravda newspaper.
They definitely had radiation suits at the time and were aware the dangers of radiation. This happened on 1986. Russia had atomic weapons since the late 1940s early 1950s.
The firefighters were told it was just a roof fire. They were not told it was an explosion so didn’t take any radiation precautions. The engineer in charge keep refusing to believe it had exploded.
acute radiation sickness is probably about as horrible a way to die as there is, but I gotta say I imagine the idea that any of those workers got to look into the open reactor and see the reaction in full bloom... imagine the majesty of it. Power like a star right in front of you
This first episode was a non stop panic attack for me. I read so much about this accident but nothing can prepare you for the visceral reality of what happened.
24:10 "Is that real?"
Yes, it's real. It's called the Red Forest: trees killed by the radioactive smoke and ash from the open reactor.
I was in my mid teens in the UK when this happened. I remember having to stay inside due to the fallout. This series is a wild ride. Well done for already knowing about iodine.
The firefighters in Chernobyl very well knew how deadly radiation is. They did what had to be done even after the dosimetrists were fleeing the scene.
While a LOT of the science regarding the radioactivity and its effects on people are exaggerated as heck, the fear and genuine incompetence displayed is 100% real. Amazing series!
Hildur Guðnadóttir, the music composer, actually recorded sounds inside a power plant and used in her composition.
Editt: The majority of the people gathered at the bridge died. They called it bridge of death.
Glad you get to experience this masterpiece. Cause it's something most people should see. My childhood friend back in Lithuania was what is called a child of chernobyl. He was born around that time when the accident happened. He got blood cancer when he was a 18-19. died 3 weeks. Miss him tho. And the scene where the bird dropped and the kids where walking from school It's filmed in Lithuania (majority of this mini series is) I actually lived right by that block. Around the time when they filmed this lol.They closed down part of that entire neighborhood. And fun fact, the music was recorded with the sounds made by a soviet made nuclear plant in Ignalina.
This series is an absolute emotional roller coaster
“Chernobyl Prayer” which served as inspiration for a lot of what is shown in the screen is an amazing book of testimonials from actual survivors, relatives of first responders, people who stayed or moved back into the zone. The first story told is the one of the firefighters wife which is told pretty much exactly as it’s shown on screen. I really think the book should be required reading for everyone. It’s terrible the event that happened and the way it was mishandled due to the country trying to keep up its strong image. The show itself is horrific and beautiful and spooky, one of the best TV shows ever, and also should be required viewing. Everybody should know about what happened at Chernobyl.
Highly recommend the book.
Was living in the town of Gävle, Sweden during that time. Significant hit by fallout. Still today we are recommended to measure levels of radiation in mushrooms and wild boar meat.
Today I work as a NDT technician with X-ray and sometimes with quality controll at Forsmark nuclear power plant. Respect but not fear of radiation.
Remember girls, this is a great series but not a documentary.
Didn't know these two and then this Chernobyl came up. Very pleasantly surprised! Good, intelligent reactions. Looking forward to more!
"I don't like to know the truth." Sadly, so many people silently feel the same.
Been there. Very haunting place. An entire dead city being reclaimed by nature.
allmost 40 years later and there is still some parts near the CHERNOBYL powerplant that you cannot go anywhere near if it was not for the sacrifice of so many men in trying to contain the explosion things would have been a lot worse.
One thing you need to remember about this series is that this has never happened before in all of history. And it happened in a place where the truth could get you killed. Even today no one knows the true effects of Chernobyl.
this is a very real and sad story in history. everyone should learn about it at some point. Terrible misfortune brought to so many people that could have been made even a little better if only they had reacted faster
Jared Harris plays the nuclear chemist Valery Legazov. He told the truth about the weakness of RBMK reactors and the KGB had him ostracised. Yes he was dying of cancer.
As a young woman when this actually happened, I'm always proud of young reactors responses to this show. Your immediate recognition of how bad this event was - is literally *because* of this event. Until this point the world believed that a meltdown was impossible and so safety measures were far more haphazard, and medical communities had no idea what the correct responses were.
Thank you for sharing.
Building a reactor with a positive void coefficient (one that doesn't just stop on its own) is blasphemous to safety. But hey, since it 'burns hotter' (closer to meltdown) it's cheaper!
@ibeenstephcurrywiththeglock As shown (in the extreme) in the show, engineers and scientists have little ability to make danger clear to the populace at large. Scientific progress often struggles with this. The Chernobyl event had such a massive impact on the entire world in terms of global coverage and concern. It was headline news even in New Zealand - literally the other side of the planet - and since 1987 we've been a nuclear free country - by law. That law change wasn't a result of scientific findings, or engineering facts, it was because people half a world away saw the cost in lives of a single event and voted against the possibility. It cost us as a country in weakened ties with most major powers in the world, as not even Navy ships powered by nuclear energy are welcome in our waters.
@@ibeenstephcurrywiththeglock I wasn't clear - we're good
24:15
Oh no, the tree’s aren’t dead. It just irradiated the tree’s so much that the leaves turned red.
We had radiation fallout in my country - 820.46 mi (1,320.40 km) away. For many years it was forbidden to pick and eat fruit, berries and mushrooms, or game/venison from the area that got the brunt of the fallout.