Best series ever put on TV. Intelligent, thoughtful, and well made. If you notice, all the actors are speaking in their natural accents. The director thought that teaching british and European actors russian accents would be distracting if they couldnt do them properly. A good choice as the acting is so stellar that you dont really notice.
Iodine pills also known as Potassium Iodide is used to help prevent your body from absorbing radioactive material, specifically Iodine-129 and Iodine-131. The thyroid naturally absorbs Iodine as part of its function. Now the thyroid can't tell the difference between stable Iodine and unstable Iodine, so these pills will saturate the thyroid preventing it from being absorbed.
Half of his face essentially falls off in the hospital, but they felt that was too much to show. U.S. unfortunately has done some of the same. We marched soldiers into the blast zones after nuclear tests. Told communities down wind there was nothing to worry about, and literally fought in court to prevent people affected from getting assistance for decades. Or Tuskegee Syphilis Study, injecting Black men and telling them they'd be fine, and again fought against compensation for medical for decades. The type of government doesn't matter, it is corruption that is the factor.
The first rescue squad consisted of 6,000 soldiers and 40,000 members of the special chemical troops. A total of 600,000 to 800,000 liquidators were deployed in Chernobyl. The exact numbers are unknown because many of the helpers were not registered. @10:24 thats what high radiation does with your body. the amount of radiation your body absorbs depends on how high the radiation is you are exposed to and how long you are exposed to the radiation. 1 Sv to 2 Sv light radiation disease 10% deaths after 30 days (lethal dose (LD) 10/30). Typical symptoms include mild to moderate nausea (50% likely at 2 Sv) with occasional vomiting, beginning within 3 to 6 hours after irradiation and lasting from a few hours to a day. This is followed by a recovery period during which the symptoms subside. Mild symptoms return after 10 to 14 days. These symptoms last about four weeks and consist of loss of appetite (50% likely at 1.5 Sv), malaise and fatigue (50% likely at 2 Sv). Recovery from other injuries is impaired and there is an increased risk of infection. Temporary infertility in men is the rule. 2 Sv to 3 Sv severe radiation disease 35% deaths after 30 days (lethal dose (LD) 35/30). Diseases are increasing sharply and significant mortality is occurring. Nausea is the rule (100% at 3 Sv), the occurrence of vomiting reaches 50% at 2.8 Sv. Initial symptoms begin within one to six hours and last one to two days. A 7 to 14 day recovery phase then begins. When this is over, the following symptoms occur: hair loss all over the body (50% likely at 3 Sv), malaise and fatigue. The loss of white blood cells is massive and the risk of infection increases rapidly. Permanent sterility can occur in women. Recovery takes one to several months. 3 Sv to 4 Sv severe radiation disease 50% deaths after 30 days (lethal dose (LD) 50/30). After the recovery period, the following additional symptoms occur: diarrhea (50% likely at 3.5 Sv) and uncontrolled bleeding in the mouth, under the skin and in the kidneys (50% likely at 4 Sv). 4 to 6 heaviest radiation disease 60% deaths after 30 days (LD 60/30). Mortality increases gradually from approximately 50% at 4.5 Sv to 90% at 6 Sv (except in the case of massive intensive medical care). The onset of initial symptoms begins within 30 to 120 minutes and lasts up to two days. A 7 to 14 day recovery phase then begins. When this is over, the same symptoms as with 3 to 4 Sv generally occur more strongly. Recovery takes several months to 1 year. Death usually occurs 2 to 12 weeks after radiation due to infection and bleeding. 6 Sv to 10 Sv heaviest radiation disease 100% deaths after 14 days (LD 100/14). The chance of survival depends on the quality and the earliest possible start of intensive care. The bone marrow is almost or completely destroyed and a bone marrow transplant is required. The stomach and intestinal tissue is severely damaged. Initial symptoms appear within 15 to 30 minutes and last up to two days. This is followed by a 5 to 10 day recovery period known as the walking ghost phase. The final phase ends with death from infection and internal bleeding. If recovery does occur, it will take several years and will likely never be complete. 10 Sv to 20 Sv heaviest radiation disease 100% deaths after 7 days (LD 100/7). This high dose results in spontaneous symptoms within 5 to 30 minutes. After the immediate nausea caused by the direct activation of the chemoreceptors in the brain and great weakness, a phase of well-being lasting several days follows (walking ghost phase). This is followed by the dying phase with rapid cell death in the gastrointestinal tract, which leads to massive diarrhea, intestinal bleeding and water loss as well as disruption of the electrolyte balance. Death occurs with feverish delirium and coma due to circulatory failure. Treatment can only be palliative. 20 Sv to 50 Sv 100% deaths after 3 days (LD 100/3), otherwise as with “10 to 20 Sv” 50 Sv to 80 Sv Immediate disorientation and coma within seconds or minutes. Death occurs in a few hours due to complete failure of the nervous system. over 80 Sv The US armed forces expect immediate death at a dose of 80 Sv of fast neutron radiation.
The best description of the health damage extremely large dose of hard radiation like the people close to the core got is this: We all know sunburns. Too long in UV rays and your skin starts to be damaged, a bit longer and the skin swells as the cells are damaged more and more. With gamma radiation and neutrons it is similar but it is not stopped by skin. It goes right through a person hitting all tissues the same. So imagine a strong sunburn that is not on your skin but throughout your entire body.
Just for you to know, Dyatlov was nothing like Craig Mazin (the writer of the series) makes him to look like in this depiction, yes, he was severe and sometimes reckless, but thats because he was raised in poverty and had to climb his way to the top, running away from his home at the age of 14. he lost his son to a rare case of leukemia, probably because the radioactive incident that Dyatolv suffered while working with a nuclear submarine reactor, leaving him irradiated. so some people speculate that that was the catalyst for him to be "rude or intolerant of errors", but not even close to the level shown here; he was a respected member for his knowledge and teamwork to solve problems. he also wasn't really well-liked by the communist party at all, he opposed it. he immediately knew that the reactor exploded when he saw that the instrument panel indicated that the control rods of the reactor were just halfway inserted, and demanded everyone to evacuate the complex. he also was the one who begged Leonid Toptunov (the young reactor chief engineer) to go home, instead of opening the flooding valves below the reactor; ah yes, he also didn't say "f#ck Khodemchuk" he was one of the many searching for him, costing him his ability to walk some years later because he crossed a flooded corridor contaminated with nuclear fuel that was knee deep at the moment of the accident. There are many more things that you can find here on RUclips, this series portrays him as a ridiculous monster, meanwhile in real life he searched for the truth and damned the accident on the poor design of the RBMK reactor, not on his colleagues.
I see this as mere condensation of character tropes. Chernobyl disaster wasn't created in a vacuum, it wasn't created just by a few nuclear plant workers. Soviet Union was full of stubborn, reality-denying bureaucrats just like the depiction of Dyatlov in this show, and I consider that for the economy of screen time and focus, character condensation occurred to compress a bunch of them into Dyatlov. It does not detract from the show's accuracy, in my opinion.
There's enough people who said he could be like that often enough that it's not an entirely unfair portrayal, considering it's a Docu-drama, not a Documentary
Dyatlow was an expert for VVER reactors and after this happend in Chernobyl he wrote a book about the RBMK. There is also an interview with him on youtube about what happend of his site of view. Very interesting.
I grew up in the era of the miniseries, watching "Roots" when it first aired. This miniseries took me back to when they told a gut-wrenching story about Chernobyl. Each performance is perfection. So glad you enjoyed this and can't wait for your next reaction on this.
Oooh, you guys reacting to this. It's an amazing show, deserved all the accolades it received. And here goes ppl flooding the comment section with spoilers, explaining this and that. Just enjoy the show guys, you can always do research after you finish the series, or even listen to the Chernobyl official podcast where the show creator/writer talks about his source materials or the creative liberty he took for dramatization. All in all, it's an important show about humanity, the length that ppl will go for self preservation.
Hi Guys. Glad your during this series. It is historically accurate. I must tell you some things. They do take filmakers license with radiation. If your at the spot an atomic bombs explodes you die from the heat. Radiation works much more slowly over days, weeks, months, years depending on your level of exposure. Not instant. Also once a person has their clothing removed and body is washed you cannot get radiation sickness from them. so keep this in mind. Now in the Soviet Union, Image is the MOST important thing to them. to report about an accident is just as bad as the accident itself. Also the KGB (Soviet Secret Police) classified anything to do with nuclear energy as secret. Thats why the people in general dont know much about it. Now in the Soviet Union you cannot refuse to do something your told to do. if so your shot on the spot or hauled off to prison. So no on disobeys. Now you will not find out what exactly happened, how , why until the last episode. I wont give you spoilers. I will tell you that each episode gets emotionally harder and harder to watch be ready to cry. Ask me any questions you like in the comments
One thing you should keep in mind: The nausea is nearly instant. There have been several accidents with plutonium where, briefly, a critical mass was put together, and their reports (before they died) were "a flash of blue light and a wave of nausea."
A Legendary show.. please don`t let us wait fot weeks until next episode.. :) , I remember the fear during this event here in Scandinavia.. it was during the cold war and the fear of a Nuclear War was one of the big worries for us young people back then.. and it still is I`m afraid.. "The Evil that Men do lives on and on.." !! ( Iron Maiden - "The Evil that Men do.. ")
Something you should know is that, prior to the Chernobyl tragedy, every scientist in the world would have told you that it was impossible for an RBMK reactor core to explode. The engineer might as well have been claiming the moon had fallen onto the roof of the plant. My understanding, such as it is, has it that Dyatlov did realise the truth of the situation from reading the status of the fuel rods and from other readouts but the reaction depicted in this dramatic series would be perfectly rational in the moment, and perfectly in keeping with contemporary scientific understanding, and not any form of denial or cover-up. It simply wasn't possible for the reactor core to have exploded. Remember it's a drama, not a documentary. Also remember that many of the people depicted represent real people, or groups of people, who really lived and suffered. Also remember it's written for a primarily American audience.
It's a bit hard searching for info without capitalism propaganda but there are good videos of nuclear engeeniers explaining how it happened and why the decisions were poorly made. For example, it was truly impossible for the core to explode based on the knowledge and mechanisms at the time. The series will later explain why it happened anyways
My dude is commenting on a reaction to a show whose main theme is the obscene danger and human cost of communism, complaining about 'capitalism propaganda'. Ok comrade, carry on I guess.
@@threemarksat210Bite your tongue comrade, lest you be taken in for a nice indeterminate stay at one of the many fine state sponsored re-education facilities.
As the fireman were on the roof one of them got blind. Of course he was in panic but after 30 minutes after he was brought back on the ground his eyelight turned back. But there was only one fireman who survived. This one had a party that night and was completly drunk. As it turned out, the alcohol made it possible for him to survive. People were telling this to each other and so the markets were running empty of alchohol drinks soon.
Your body stores iodine mostly in your your thyroid gland. Taking iodine pills oversaturates it so it doesn't take in radioactive iodine preventing thyroid cancer.
And thyroid cancer is mostly hazardous to kids, due to its relative size in kids. So if you have iodine pills and need them, you give it to your kids/grandkids and your neighbors kids, rather than yourself. A lot of people die *WITH* thyroid cancer at old age without having any noticeable effect from it. Often undiscovered.
Regarding their disbelief that the core could’ve exploded: Based on a combination of Soviet propaganda and the fact that a screwup like this was unprecedented, they had been lead to believe that the RBMK reactor could not explode. To them, when the engineer ran in and said, “the core exploded! I saw it!” he might as well have said, “the water in my neighbor’s swimming pool has caught fire!”
It should remind you of the story of COVID. Those of us lucky enough to grow up in communist systems immediately recognise. It's all about face, propaganda and the reputation.
Well, as far as these guys knew, an RBMK reactor, cannot explode. They just couldn't wrap their heads around the possibility that it did. The question will be, how does something that cannot explode ---- explode? Radiation exposure is not like a contagious disease. I think the show is done to display a lack of understanding of it by many people at that time. The gama rays that fire out do most of the damage. They will pass through your clothing, a hazmat suit, your body, and will destroy you at a cellular level. You're DNA will be f'd up, your immune system will be damaged. But, just because you are exposed to it, you don't just become radioactive. If you ingest something that is radioactive, that would emit radiation within you, as long as it's within you. How sick you get is related to the dosage you receive.
The big difference between this and Titanic is that with Titanic, they knew that it COULD sink if intentionally drilled a hole in it but the chances of an accident sinking it were non-existant. Here, they really believed that it wasnt physically possible for a reactor to explode, even if you tried.
These mini series are based on real historical events, but not documentary, so it's a bit dramatized, but still horrifying and definitely worth watching 😳
@@shihonage it's heavily dramatized - entire depiction of Dyatlov is nonsense created to have a character you can be mad about, radiation sickness shown is pure artistic fantasy, people's oblivious reaction is largely much made up. Which is a shame - they could make a real portrayal and it would kick just as hard. Easy to say after show became a huge success though
@@GdzieJestNemo As someone who grew up in USSR , I have to ask - are you joking? 🤣 They actually had to tone down the radiation effects for the show because the reality was even worse. And the ignorant and slow, medically scarce response to the disaster is accurately portrayed, this show is actually the most hauntingly accurate show about the Soviet regime, the everyday scarcity and bureaucracy which valued no one's life. My father, an army reservist, was sent from Moldova to clean up the incident. His life was saved by his commander who sent him back from the staging site because he knew my dad had a family. In general the portrayal of hospitals is very accurate, in both Ukrainian and Moldavian SSR you could be subjected to surgery without anesthetics even as a child, they'd strap you to a board. Because anesthetics were scarce. So yeah. Don't try to rewrite Soviet history. That show felt very real to me, the bureaucracy depiction was just beautiful. The radiation from the disaster was so bad, my mom from Kishinev, Moldavia developed an enlarged thyroid and my school friend's mom developed the same thing and had to have surgery for it. Most accurate USSR show, possibly, ever.
@@shihonage look up how radiation poisoning looks like there's even specialists deconstructing the scenes on YT. Melting into a chewing-gum zombie is pure fantasy. Having lot of things right doesn't make made up stuff valid
The effects of radiation on the body were as well understood in the 80's as they are today. The general public knew little or nothing about it then, same today. The plant workers and military specialists at Chernobyl understood it very well. They did a cool thing in this episode, having a young nurse ask an old doctor whether their hospital had iodine pills. The old doctor would have received his medical training before WW2 and the advent of nuclear weapons and power plants. The young nurse, however, did receive training, which is why she asked.
@@threemarksat210 Exactly, and even in the show they make it clear that the plant workers, scientists, most medical professionals, and military knew exactly what the effects of radiation were. Not sure why there's always comments on reactions to this show claiming no one knew what radiation did in the 80's as if the bombs hadn't been dropped on Japan roughly 40 years prior to this event. Much of the general public was pretty ignorant about radiation, but that's still true now even with unprecedented access to information. People just don't spend time researching anything that doesn't have any impact on their day to day life unless they work in a field that requires knowledge of it, or just happen to have an interest in the topic.
As the other two said, that's complete nonsense. Nuclear energy safety and nuclear weapons safety were the two areas that the US and the SU worked together on and were extremely well-informed on even during the most heated episodes of the Cold War.
@@dontshanonau1335 I think the point is that most normal people were badly informed about radiation and it's effects. I'm really doubtful that it was well understood by the people, especially since 90 percent of reactions to this series seems to have only a vague idea, even this day and age.
Esta es una de mis miniseries favoritas de la vida. Espero que la disfruten mucho. Son 5 capítulos increíbles. Las actuaciones las amo. Que bueno que estén viendo esta serie
Omg all my reaction watching worlds are colliding 😂😂😂 here i come from a Chernobyl reactions watching marathon and what's this?! My BTS reactors about to be freshly traumatized for my enjoyment? Don't mind if I do~ In a serious note, a lot of this series is painful to watch and may feel gratuitous at times, but I personally think it's important. There is a vast difference between being told about a horrible thing and watching it happen, knowing it must and that it DID and we are feeling what we are feeling only watching essentially reenactions. I think it's important to always keep in the back of your mind that all of the suffering that is to come are things real people had to go through and to appreciate we all would be living very different lives if not for everything sacrificed in those years. I was born in Riga June 6, 1986. My mom tells me how she remembers sunbathing in Ukraine while visiting a friend, heavily pregnant with me and watching that cloud, listening to the government saying everything is fine and safe on the radio.
Oh, requesting Three Body. The chinese adaptation (Netflix's one sucks lol) which can be found officially and for free here on RUclips. It's an daptation of one of the greatest sci-fi books, and the first chinese one to win big awards. Don't let the sci-fi part discourage you if you aren't into it, because there's a lot more
Yes, there is a lot more. I watched the Netflix one and I enjoyed it so the chinese one will probably be even better, in my opinion! It's on YT you say?
@@donitapolk9413 The Netflix one was entertaining indeed! But yeah, the chinese one makes the story more justice. RUclips on the channels WeTV and MiGu! Can't remember which upload had better subs and quality tho, but hope you enjoy!
Here is a sort of standard comment I have posted on a lot of the reactions to this series that I come across...hope you don't mind me copy/pasting it here. One thing I will add, is that the more I learn about the history of the RBMK reactor and of the Chernobyl power plant, the more I feel that a lot of context is left out of the show, and it could have been more accurate if it had revealed some of that. This a really good series...one of the best ever made...but the producers did get some things wrong. Some things were changed intentionally for the purposes of storytelling, and the makers of the series put in a series of notes at the end of the last episode of the series explaining some of them. They also have a podcast that they put out along with the show in which they talk about other things they altered from the history and why. However, I do recommend you check out the History vs Hollywood article on Chernobyl when you are done watching the whole series, so you can find out about the other things that the producers got wrong that they do not admit to. Definitely wait until you are done with the series so you do not spoil anything for yourself.
The most natural response to the events from reactions (including here) is to resist authorities who clearly were practicing CYA, or to quit and leave. Unfortunately, the Soviet Union was a place and a time where those were simply not available choices. These folks were indoctrinated, from birth, to never question their superiors or the state - a very foreign concept to us in the West.
Hola, acabo de descubrir que estan haciendo recciones a otros contenidos. Bravo por ustedes! Esta es una serie inpactante, pero creo que esta muy bien documentada.
According to the plot of the film, Dyatlov sees pieces of hot graphite. In reality, he saw nothing. In the story, Dyatlov insults everyone and accuses everyone of mistakes. In reality, Dyatlov personally toured the territory of the nuclear power plant. He received severe radiation exposure and radiation sickness, from which he died. According to the plot, Dyatlov does not believe anyone that the reactor is destroyed. In reality, he is the first to claim that the reactor core exploded. This film character has nothing to do with the real Dyatlov. All living witnesses say and write that he was very well-mannered, polite, but professionally erudite and a very strict and demanding leader. I would like to note right away that Dyatlov conducted his own investigation and wrote the book “Chernobyl. How did this happen?"
Dyatlov died 13 December 1995 (aged 64) from bone marrow cancer, most likely linked to radiation exposure from Chernobyl, although he'd been exposed (less) in another radiation accident before (submarine reactor). Not from (acute) radiation sickness. This dramatized version builds on certain "facts" uncovered throughout the series. Why would you spoil it at this time?
Firefighters from the Pripyat division understood perfectly well that a fire was raging at a nuclear power plant. And they understood perfectly well that the debris lying on the ground could be radioactive. But the scriptwriters made them out to be savages who do not have not only special fire training, but even school education, which in the USSR was of very high quality. Well, of course, at a nuclear power plant in the USSR there is only one dosimeter and it is locked somewhere in the bins. In reality, nuclear power plants have their own dosimetrist service, which regularly and on schedule monitors the background radiation at the nuclear power plant.
Your in for a rough ride, but its a good window into why people didn't want to live in a communist dictorship. The accident at 3 mile Island was in some ways similar. The truth wasn't fully understood at first, even by the engineers, and of course the public was the last to find out.
At the end you say that you want to research it, find out what happened, who was affected by it... It still baffles me that every single American who reacts to this wants to know who was affected. YOU are affected by it. Everyone on the planet is affected by it. TODAY. It's not a past tense question. Every living thing in the world today IS affected by the Chernobyl tragedy.
Well the show deliberately plays with that not knowing. That's why they focus so much on the touch. The show is also for educating it's audience. Being arrogant over knowing something that someone else doesn't is real ugly.
@@LoveEachDay94 I'd agree if this was very complex, but it's not. Even children in Norway know that radiation is not contagious. Get off your high horse.
Few years ago one engineer talkes about this. He said that this was over all they could imagine because this had never happend. If the human soul has to do with something like that it closes completly to save you to not go insane.
radiation decayes tissue, in the worst way possible. if anything the effects were wateted down for the series. unfortunately i ve seen real images for a checm study at school..... it is so much worse....
Dyatlow´s own son died in a nuclear accident on a submarine. So he was a frustrated and bitter man, but he was not that person he is shown in this series. All plant workers and other engineers were respecting him of his knowledge.
Best series ever put on TV. Intelligent, thoughtful, and well made. If you notice, all the actors are speaking in their natural accents. The director thought that teaching british and European actors russian accents would be distracting if they couldnt do them properly. A good choice as the acting is so stellar that you dont really notice.
Iodine pills also known as Potassium Iodide is used to help prevent your body from absorbing radioactive material, specifically Iodine-129 and Iodine-131.
The thyroid naturally absorbs Iodine as part of its function.
Now the thyroid can't tell the difference between stable Iodine and unstable Iodine, so these pills will saturate the thyroid preventing it from being absorbed.
It only helps with ingesting food that is radioactive.
8:50 - yes, it's some of the actual call made that night
Half of his face essentially falls off in the hospital, but they felt that was too much to show.
U.S. unfortunately has done some of the same. We marched soldiers into the blast zones after nuclear tests. Told communities down wind there was nothing to worry about, and literally fought in court to prevent people affected from getting assistance for decades. Or Tuskegee Syphilis Study, injecting Black men and telling them they'd be fine, and again fought against compensation for medical for decades.
The type of government doesn't matter, it is corruption that is the factor.
The first rescue squad consisted of 6,000 soldiers and 40,000 members of the special chemical troops. A total of 600,000 to 800,000 liquidators were deployed in Chernobyl. The exact numbers are unknown because many of the helpers were not registered.
@10:24 thats what high radiation does with your body. the amount of radiation your body absorbs depends on how high the radiation is you are exposed to and how long you are exposed to the radiation.
1 Sv to 2 Sv light radiation disease
10% deaths after 30 days (lethal dose (LD) 10/30).
Typical symptoms include mild to moderate nausea (50% likely at 2 Sv) with occasional vomiting, beginning within 3 to 6 hours after irradiation and lasting from a few hours to a day. This is followed by a recovery period during which the symptoms subside. Mild symptoms return after 10 to 14 days. These symptoms last about four weeks and consist of loss of appetite (50% likely at 1.5 Sv), malaise and fatigue (50% likely at 2 Sv). Recovery from other injuries is impaired and there is an increased risk of infection. Temporary infertility in men is the rule.
2 Sv to 3 Sv severe radiation disease
35% deaths after 30 days (lethal dose (LD) 35/30).
Diseases are increasing sharply and significant mortality is occurring. Nausea is the rule (100% at 3 Sv), the occurrence of vomiting reaches 50% at 2.8 Sv. Initial symptoms begin within one to six hours and last one to two days. A 7 to 14 day recovery phase then begins. When this is over, the following symptoms occur: hair loss all over the body (50% likely at 3 Sv), malaise and fatigue. The loss of white blood cells is massive and the risk of infection increases rapidly. Permanent sterility can occur in women. Recovery takes one to several months.
3 Sv to 4 Sv severe radiation disease
50% deaths after 30 days (lethal dose (LD) 50/30).
After the recovery period, the following additional symptoms occur: diarrhea (50% likely at 3.5 Sv) and uncontrolled bleeding in the mouth, under the skin and in the kidneys (50% likely at 4 Sv).
4 to 6 heaviest radiation disease
60% deaths after 30 days (LD 60/30).
Mortality increases gradually from approximately 50% at 4.5 Sv to 90% at 6 Sv (except in the case of massive intensive medical care). The onset of initial symptoms begins within 30 to 120 minutes and lasts up to two days. A 7 to 14 day recovery phase then begins. When this is over, the same symptoms as with 3 to 4 Sv generally occur more strongly. Recovery takes several months to 1 year. Death usually occurs 2 to 12 weeks after radiation due to infection and bleeding.
6 Sv to 10 Sv heaviest radiation disease
100% deaths after 14 days (LD 100/14).
The chance of survival depends on the quality and the earliest possible start of intensive care. The bone marrow is almost or completely destroyed and a bone marrow transplant is required. The stomach and intestinal tissue is severely damaged. Initial symptoms appear within 15 to 30 minutes and last up to two days. This is followed by a 5 to 10 day recovery period known as the walking ghost phase. The final phase ends with death from infection and internal bleeding. If recovery does occur, it will take several years and will likely never be complete.
10 Sv to 20 Sv heaviest radiation disease
100% deaths after 7 days (LD 100/7).
This high dose results in spontaneous symptoms within 5 to 30 minutes. After the immediate nausea caused by the direct activation of the chemoreceptors in the brain and great weakness, a phase of well-being lasting several days follows (walking ghost phase). This is followed by the dying phase with rapid cell death in the gastrointestinal tract, which leads to massive diarrhea, intestinal bleeding and water loss as well as disruption of the electrolyte balance. Death occurs with feverish delirium and coma due to circulatory failure. Treatment can only be palliative.
20 Sv to 50 Sv 100% deaths after 3 days (LD 100/3), otherwise as with “10 to 20 Sv”
50 Sv to 80 Sv Immediate disorientation and coma within seconds or minutes. Death occurs in a few hours due to complete failure of the nervous system.
over 80 Sv The US armed forces expect immediate death at a dose of 80 Sv of fast neutron radiation.
The best description of the health damage extremely large dose of hard radiation like the people close to the core got is this: We all know sunburns. Too long in UV rays and your skin starts to be damaged, a bit longer and the skin swells as the cells are damaged more and more. With gamma radiation and neutrons it is similar but it is not stopped by skin. It goes right through a person hitting all tissues the same. So imagine a strong sunburn that is not on your skin but throughout your entire body.
In the USSR, if you said "njet!" to the wrong person _(= one with a party book)_ - you found yourself in a gulag.
Жертва западной пропаганды 🤦
There was no gulag while Gorbatshow was the president of the USSR.
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I know that.
But there were _(and still are to this day - maybe more so today)_ Gulag-like prison camps in Ru.
@@o.b.7217 Sorry but do you know what a gulag was? People were working until they died. In russia of today there is no death sentence at all.
@@overthetop-yv6ji
Hahaha...you're funny.
Remember Alexei Nawalny?
Be patient guys ... just enjoy the unfolding.
Just for you to know, Dyatlov was nothing like Craig Mazin (the writer of the series) makes him to look like in this depiction, yes, he was severe and sometimes reckless, but thats because he was raised in poverty and had to climb his way to the top, running away from his home at the age of 14. he lost his son to a rare case of leukemia, probably because the radioactive incident that Dyatolv suffered while working with a nuclear submarine reactor, leaving him irradiated. so some people speculate that that was the catalyst for him to be "rude or intolerant of errors", but not even close to the level shown here; he was a respected member for his knowledge and teamwork to solve problems. he also wasn't really well-liked by the communist party at all, he opposed it. he immediately knew that the reactor exploded when he saw that the instrument panel indicated that the control rods of the reactor were just halfway inserted, and demanded everyone to evacuate the complex. he also was the one who begged Leonid Toptunov (the young reactor chief engineer) to go home, instead of opening the flooding valves below the reactor; ah yes, he also didn't say "f#ck Khodemchuk" he was one of the many searching for him, costing him his ability to walk some years later because he crossed a flooded corridor contaminated with nuclear fuel that was knee deep at the moment of the accident.
There are many more things that you can find here on RUclips, this series portrays him as a ridiculous monster, meanwhile in real life he searched for the truth and damned the accident on the poor design of the RBMK reactor, not on his colleagues.
Major agree. Dyatlov also apparently sent Leonid Toptunov’s mother a letter that essentially said “it wasn’t your son’s fault. I’m sorry.”
and he was on the toilet when they raised the power ...
I see this as mere condensation of character tropes. Chernobyl disaster wasn't created in a vacuum, it wasn't created just by a few nuclear plant workers.
Soviet Union was full of stubborn, reality-denying bureaucrats just like the depiction of Dyatlov in this show, and I consider that for the economy of screen time and focus, character condensation occurred to compress a bunch of them into Dyatlov.
It does not detract from the show's accuracy, in my opinion.
There's enough people who said he could be like that often enough that it's not an entirely unfair portrayal, considering it's a Docu-drama, not a Documentary
Dyatlow was an expert for VVER reactors and after this happend in Chernobyl he wrote a book about the RBMK. There is also an interview with him on youtube about what happend of his site of view. Very interesting.
Enjoyed the reaction, thanks for posting. Esp the conversation about it at the end.
I grew up in the era of the miniseries, watching "Roots" when it first aired. This miniseries took me back to when they told a gut-wrenching story about Chernobyl. Each performance is perfection. So glad you enjoyed this and can't wait for your next reaction on this.
Pro tip stay away from comments until you're done with the show, ppl love to overexplain stuff and spoil due it.
Oooh, you guys reacting to this. It's an amazing show, deserved all the accolades it received. And here goes ppl flooding the comment section with spoilers, explaining this and that. Just enjoy the show guys, you can always do research after you finish the series, or even listen to the Chernobyl official podcast where the show creator/writer talks about his source materials or the creative liberty he took for dramatization. All in all, it's an important show about humanity, the length that ppl will go for self preservation.
yeeeesss I love this show!!! so excited to watch this with you. I love your commentary and how quickly you catch on to many things.
Fun fact: the creepy "sound effects" in the series were recorded at Chernobyl's sister plant Ignalina.
Hi Guys. Glad your during this series. It is historically accurate. I must tell you some things. They do take filmakers license with radiation. If your at the spot an atomic bombs explodes you die from the heat. Radiation works much more slowly over days, weeks, months, years depending on your level of exposure. Not instant. Also once a person has their clothing removed and body is washed you cannot get radiation sickness from them. so keep this in mind. Now in the Soviet Union, Image is the MOST important thing to them. to report about an accident is just as bad as the accident itself. Also the KGB (Soviet Secret Police) classified anything to do with nuclear energy as secret. Thats why the people in general dont know much about it.
Now in the Soviet Union you cannot refuse to do something your told to do. if so your shot on the spot or hauled off to prison. So no on disobeys. Now you will not find out what exactly happened, how , why until the last episode. I wont give you spoilers. I will tell you that each episode gets emotionally harder and harder to watch be ready to cry. Ask me any questions you like in the comments
One thing you should keep in mind: The nausea is nearly instant. There have been several accidents with plutonium where, briefly, a critical mass was put together, and their reports (before they died) were "a flash of blue light and a wave of nausea."
that GREEN FLAME from reactor
its REAL HELL FIRE
A Legendary show.. please don`t let us wait fot weeks until next episode.. :) , I remember the fear during this event here in Scandinavia.. it was during the cold war and the fear of a Nuclear War was one of the big worries for us young people back then.. and it still is I`m afraid.. "The Evil that Men do lives on and on.." !! ( Iron Maiden - "The Evil that Men do.. ")
(Iron Maiden was quoting Shakespeare, from Julius Caesar: "The evil that men do lives on, the good is oft' interred with their bones . . .)
@@kinokind293 Awesome, ty for the info, I didn`t know that..!!!! :D
Something you should know is that, prior to the Chernobyl tragedy, every scientist in the world would have told you that it was impossible for an RBMK reactor core to explode. The engineer might as well have been claiming the moon had fallen onto the roof of the plant. My understanding, such as it is, has it that Dyatlov did realise the truth of the situation from reading the status of the fuel rods and from other readouts but the reaction depicted in this dramatic series would be perfectly rational in the moment, and perfectly in keeping with contemporary scientific understanding, and not any form of denial or cover-up. It simply wasn't possible for the reactor core to have exploded.
Remember it's a drama, not a documentary. Also remember that many of the people depicted represent real people, or groups of people, who really lived and suffered. Also remember it's written for a primarily American audience.
i loved this series. it's horrifying, knowing that this really happened, but very well made.
I absolutely love this series!!
Chernobyl is one of my favorites, so excited you guys are reacting to it! Between you guys reacting to BTS, AOT, and now this, I feel so seen 😭💜💜💜💜
This show was awesome! Absolutely chilling...
It's a bit hard searching for info without capitalism propaganda but there are good videos of nuclear engeeniers explaining how it happened and why the decisions were poorly made. For example, it was truly impossible for the core to explode based on the knowledge and mechanisms at the time. The series will later explain why it happened anyways
My dude is commenting on a reaction to a show whose main theme is the obscene danger and human cost of communism, complaining about 'capitalism propaganda'. Ok comrade, carry on I guess.
@@threemarksat210 Carry on defending the obscene danger and human cost of capitalism I guess.
@@threemarksat210Bite your tongue comrade, lest you be taken in for a nice indeterminate stay at one of the many fine state sponsored re-education facilities.
my favourite couple is reacting to my fave series ever?????? OMGGGG SCREAMING
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Yes that some of the actual call that was made that night. Chills.
As the fireman were on the roof one of them got blind. Of course he was in panic but after 30 minutes after he was brought back on the ground his eyelight turned back. But there was only one fireman who survived. This one had a party that night and was completly drunk. As it turned out, the alcohol made it possible for him to survive. People were telling this to each other and so the markets were running empty of alchohol drinks soon.
Your body stores iodine mostly in your your thyroid gland. Taking iodine pills oversaturates it so it doesn't take in radioactive iodine preventing thyroid cancer.
And thyroid cancer is mostly hazardous to kids, due to its relative size in kids.
So if you have iodine pills and need them, you give it to your kids/grandkids and your neighbors kids, rather than yourself.
A lot of people die *WITH* thyroid cancer at old age without having any noticeable effect from it. Often undiscovered.
Regarding their disbelief that the core could’ve exploded:
Based on a combination of Soviet propaganda and the fact that a screwup like this was unprecedented, they had been lead to believe that the RBMK reactor could not explode. To them, when the engineer ran in and said, “the core exploded! I saw it!” he might as well have said, “the water in my neighbor’s swimming pool has caught fire!”
It should remind you of the story of COVID. Those of us lucky enough to grow up in communist systems immediately recognise. It's all about face, propaganda and the reputation.
You probably need to read up on the Soviet Union. You would understand the reactions better.
Well, as far as these guys knew, an RBMK reactor, cannot explode. They just couldn't wrap their heads around the possibility that it did. The question will be, how does something that cannot explode ---- explode?
Radiation exposure is not like a contagious disease. I think the show is done to display a lack of understanding of it by many people at that time. The gama rays that fire out do most of the damage. They will pass through your clothing, a hazmat suit, your body, and will destroy you at a cellular level. You're DNA will be f'd up, your immune system will be damaged. But, just because you are exposed to it, you don't just become radioactive. If you ingest something that is radioactive, that would emit radiation within you, as long as it's within you. How sick you get is related to the dosage you receive.
The big difference between this and Titanic is that with Titanic, they knew that it COULD sink if intentionally drilled a hole in it but the chances of an accident sinking it were non-existant. Here, they really believed that it wasnt physically possible for a reactor to explode, even if you tried.
These mini series are based on real historical events, but not documentary, so it's a bit dramatized, but still horrifying and definitely worth watching 😳
It's not dramatized. They condensed some people into one character, but that's about it.
@@shihonage it's heavily dramatized - entire depiction of Dyatlov is nonsense created to have a character you can be mad about, radiation sickness shown is pure artistic fantasy, people's oblivious reaction is largely much made up. Which is a shame - they could make a real portrayal and it would kick just as hard. Easy to say after show became a huge success though
@@GdzieJestNemo As someone who grew up in USSR , I have to ask - are you joking? 🤣 They actually had to tone down the radiation effects for the show because the reality was even worse. And the ignorant and slow, medically scarce response to the disaster is accurately portrayed, this show is actually the most hauntingly accurate show about the Soviet regime, the everyday scarcity and bureaucracy which valued no one's life.
My father, an army reservist, was sent from Moldova to clean up the incident. His life was saved by his commander who sent him back from the staging site because he knew my dad had a family.
In general the portrayal of hospitals is very accurate, in both Ukrainian and Moldavian SSR you could be subjected to surgery without anesthetics even as a child, they'd strap you to a board. Because anesthetics were scarce.
So yeah. Don't try to rewrite Soviet history. That show felt very real to me, the bureaucracy depiction was just beautiful.
The radiation from the disaster was so bad, my mom from Kishinev, Moldavia developed an enlarged thyroid and my school friend's mom developed the same thing and had to have surgery for it.
Most accurate USSR show, possibly, ever.
@@shihonage look up how radiation poisoning looks like there's even specialists deconstructing the scenes on YT. Melting into a chewing-gum zombie is pure fantasy.
Having lot of things right doesn't make made up stuff valid
Nobody knew much about radiation sickness, what it could do, how fast it could affect the body, etc.
The effects of radiation on the body were as well understood in the 80's as they are today. The general public knew little or nothing about it then, same today. The plant workers and military specialists at Chernobyl understood it very well. They did a cool thing in this episode, having a young nurse ask an old doctor whether their hospital had iodine pills. The old doctor would have received his medical training before WW2 and the advent of nuclear weapons and power plants. The young nurse, however, did receive training, which is why she asked.
@@threemarksat210 Exactly, and even in the show they make it clear that the plant workers, scientists, most medical professionals, and military knew exactly what the effects of radiation were. Not sure why there's always comments on reactions to this show claiming no one knew what radiation did in the 80's as if the bombs hadn't been dropped on Japan roughly 40 years prior to this event. Much of the general public was pretty ignorant about radiation, but that's still true now even with unprecedented access to information. People just don't spend time researching anything that doesn't have any impact on their day to day life unless they work in a field that requires knowledge of it, or just happen to have an interest in the topic.
As the other two said, that's complete nonsense. Nuclear energy safety and nuclear weapons safety were the two areas that the US and the SU worked together on and were extremely well-informed on even during the most heated episodes of the Cold War.
@@dontshanonau1335 I think the point is that most normal people were badly informed about radiation and it's effects. I'm really doubtful that it was well understood by the people, especially since 90 percent of reactions to this series seems to have only a vague idea, even this day and age.
I understand that, but they still should have been wearing gloves at the hospital on a daily basis
Esta es una de mis miniseries favoritas de la vida. Espero que la disfruten mucho. Son 5 capítulos increíbles. Las actuaciones las amo. Que bueno que estén viendo esta serie
Easily one of the best mini series done next to „Band of Brothers“ and „The Terror“ (also starring Jared Harris) Hes such an underrated actor
Jared Harris (along with everyone else) is amazing. He is, of course, the son of the great Richard Harris.
Right up there with Breaking Bad and The Sopranos as quality television.
Omg all my reaction watching worlds are colliding 😂😂😂 here i come from a Chernobyl reactions watching marathon and what's this?! My BTS reactors about to be freshly traumatized for my enjoyment? Don't mind if I do~
In a serious note, a lot of this series is painful to watch and may feel gratuitous at times, but I personally think it's important. There is a vast difference between being told about a horrible thing and watching it happen, knowing it must and that it DID and we are feeling what we are feeling only watching essentially reenactions. I think it's important to always keep in the back of your mind that all of the suffering that is to come are things real people had to go through and to appreciate we all would be living very different lives if not for everything sacrificed in those years.
I was born in Riga June 6, 1986. My mom tells me how she remembers sunbathing in Ukraine while visiting a friend, heavily pregnant with me and watching that cloud, listening to the government saying everything is fine and safe on the radio.
It's pretty acurate.
BTW people have reported tasting metal when they're exposed to high levels of radiation.
They don´t taste metal, they smell/taste ozone. It´s because of ionizing the air.
Oh, requesting Three Body. The chinese adaptation (Netflix's one sucks lol) which can be found officially and for free here on RUclips. It's an daptation of one of the greatest sci-fi books, and the first chinese one to win big awards. Don't let the sci-fi part discourage you if you aren't into it, because there's a lot more
Yes, there is a lot more. I watched the Netflix one and I enjoyed it so the chinese one will probably be even better, in my opinion! It's on YT you say?
@@donitapolk9413 The Netflix one was entertaining indeed! But yeah, the chinese one makes the story more justice. RUclips on the channels WeTV and MiGu! Can't remember which upload had better subs and quality tho, but hope you enjoy!
Here is a sort of standard comment I have posted on a lot of the reactions to this series that I come across...hope you don't mind me copy/pasting it here. One thing I will add, is that the more I learn about the history of the RBMK reactor and of the Chernobyl power plant, the more I feel that a lot of context is left out of the show, and it could have been more accurate if it had revealed some of that.
This a really good series...one of the best ever made...but the producers did get some things wrong. Some things were changed intentionally for the purposes of storytelling, and the makers of the series put in a series of notes at the end of the last episode of the series explaining some of them. They also have a podcast that they put out along with the show in which they talk about other things they altered from the history and why. However, I do recommend you check out the History vs Hollywood article on Chernobyl when you are done watching the whole series, so you can find out about the other things that the producers got wrong that they do not admit to. Definitely wait until you are done with the series so you do not spoil anything for yourself.
The most natural response to the events from reactions (including here) is to resist authorities who clearly were practicing CYA, or to quit and leave. Unfortunately, the Soviet Union was a place and a time where those were simply not available choices. These folks were indoctrinated, from birth, to never question their superiors or the state - a very foreign concept to us in the West.
nonsense. Had it been foreign concept there wouldn't be so much pressure on corporate trainings and fines going left and right by supervising entities
Hola, acabo de descubrir que estan haciendo recciones a otros contenidos. Bravo por ustedes! Esta es una serie inpactante, pero creo que esta muy bien documentada.
According to the plot of the film, Dyatlov sees pieces of hot graphite. In reality, he saw nothing. In the story, Dyatlov insults everyone and accuses everyone of mistakes. In reality, Dyatlov personally toured the territory of the nuclear power plant. He received severe radiation exposure and radiation sickness, from which he died. According to the plot, Dyatlov does not believe anyone that the reactor is destroyed. In reality, he is the first to claim that the reactor core exploded. This film character has nothing to do with the real Dyatlov. All living witnesses say and write that he was very well-mannered, polite, but professionally erudite and a very strict and demanding leader. I would like to note right away that Dyatlov conducted his own investigation and wrote the book “Chernobyl. How did this happen?"
Dyatlov died 13 December 1995 (aged 64) from bone marrow cancer, most likely linked to radiation exposure from Chernobyl, although he'd been exposed (less) in another radiation accident before (submarine reactor). Not from (acute) radiation sickness. This dramatized version builds on certain "facts" uncovered throughout the series. Why would you spoil it at this time?
The workers at the plant were not scientists. They had training, of course, but not scientists.
Firefighters from the Pripyat division understood perfectly well that a fire was raging at a nuclear power plant. And they understood perfectly well that the debris lying on the ground could be radioactive. But the scriptwriters made them out to be savages who do not have not only special fire training, but even school education, which in the USSR was of very high quality.
Well, of course, at a nuclear power plant in the USSR there is only one dosimeter and it is locked somewhere in the bins. In reality, nuclear power plants have their own dosimetrist service, which regularly and on schedule monitors the background radiation at the nuclear power plant.
Toptunow who said "But we did" made an big mistake. This is shown in episode 5.
I was hoping you'd react to this! Also Hope you do Band of Brothers and Firefly!
Your in for a rough ride, but its a good window into why people didn't want to live in a communist dictorship. The accident at 3 mile Island was in some ways similar. The truth wasn't fully understood at first, even by the engineers, and of course the public was the last to find out.
At the end you say that you want to research it, find out what happened, who was affected by it... It still baffles me that every single American who reacts to this wants to know who was affected. YOU are affected by it. Everyone on the planet is affected by it. TODAY. It's not a past tense question. Every living thing in the world today IS affected by the Chernobyl tragedy.
Episodes 3 and 4 are the toughest...
Except for a few small things, most everything in the show is true.
Thinking radiation poisoning is contagious is the most American thing I've heard all week :D
Well the show deliberately plays with that not knowing. That's why they focus so much on the touch. The show is also for educating it's audience. Being arrogant over knowing something that someone else doesn't is real ugly.
@@LoveEachDay94 I'd agree if this was very complex, but it's not. Even children in Norway know that radiation is not contagious. Get off your high horse.
Few years ago one engineer talkes about this. He said that this was over all they could imagine because this had never happend. If the human soul has to do with something like that it closes completly to save you to not go insane.
U would have pils coz u r hospital. Right?
radiation decayes tissue, in the worst way possible. if anything the effects were wateted down for the series. unfortunately i ve seen real images for a checm study at school..... it is so much worse....
Dyatlow´s own son died in a nuclear accident on a submarine. So he was a frustrated and bitter man, but he was not that person he is shown in this series. All plant workers and other engineers were respecting him of his knowledge.
But not with he attitude