Chernobyl Episode 4 'The Happiness of All Mankind' REACTION!!
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Chernobyl Description: Valery and Boris attempt to find solutions to removing the radioactive debris; Ulana attempts to find out the cause of the explosion.
Chernobyl Episode 4 'The Happiness of All Mankind' REACTION!!
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i’m an archaeologist who has worked with human osteological remains. fun fact- archaeologists can tell if a person was born before or after chernobyl because the impact of the radiation in our atmosphere was so extreme that it’s visible in the chemical makeup of your bones.
I remember this well. I was a freshman in college when this happened. There was a delay before it hit the news in the US due to the secrecy of the Soviet Union, but when it finally became public knowledge, it was a big deal.
86 was a wild year
This is pretty much the toughest episode to watch for almost everyone...
Something that does not often get mentioned is that many of the men who went out onto those incredibly radioactive roof sections actually volunteered to go back out more than once in order to save others from having to be "biorobots". Also, that huge revelation that the Soviet State knew about the fatal flaw in the shutdown system and both covered it up and did nothing to fix it, all the while lying to even the plant operators about the safety of the RBMK reactors, is something that could only happen in a totalitarian state like the USSR...where there is no free press or free scientific establishment for whistleblowers to talk to when they know about wrongdoing by the State.✌
This is a really extreme example of cover-up, but sadly I think the behaviour is all too common. Boeing sat on the 737 Max issue until it could no longer be hidden. Ford refused to redesign the Pinto and instead made compensated victims sign NDAs. And where does one even start about the cigarette industry. It's not just totalitarian states. It's anywhere a large group of people feel they have too much to lose and it's easier to just "see no evil" and lie. ....even to oneself.
"something that could only happen in a totalitarian state like the USSR" and increasingly the totalitarian nations of the west.
don't kid yourself. it happens here too. The Bosses are always the enemy
They volunteered for another reason - every liquidator had so called radiation quota they had to receive before they could get dismissed and sent home - the roof was one place where to collect the quota the quickest, even though sometimes the numbers were arranged to make it look they got less than it actually was to keep people working longer. So yes, there were liquidators who also volunteered to go up on roof and earn getting sent home sooner.
It happens in the West, too - both at governmental level, and within private corporations. In any hierarchical organisation where reputations or livelihoods are on the line, there will at times be the temptation to withhold or suppress information to protect oneself, or one's superiors. Sometimes there will even be the entirely well-intentioned but occasionally mistaken decision to spare one's superiors of vital details because they aren't expected to need to know.
On a lighter note, I sure do love how many familiar faces are in this show. So many Game of Thrones actors! The officer they were working with to find a way to clear the graphite from the roof is one of the Ironborn that was with Theon when he took Winterfell (the one who stabbed Maester Luwin with the spear, ironically.)
I was 15 when this happened for months afterwards in Britain they culled cattle and sheep and destroyed the milk because of the radiation. I teach Science now and I make sure this is in my lessons when we cover radiation in yr8+ (8th grade?).
Fun fact: the soldier in the beginning of this episode confronting the old lady to leave is Pyp from the Nights Watch in Game of Thrones. He was Sam’s friend that got shot in the neck by Ygritte during their battle with the Wildlings.
I was 16 in 1986 , am Swedish we got the warnings few weeks after the event we had to eat extra pills Vs radiation. The winds had blown from Chernobyl over Scandinavian then further to UK/Irland
I remember certain aspects of it. It did make the news, at least in Miami. Growing up during the Cold War, we had periodic nuclear drills, which increased during this.
The number I have heard thrown around most often that I agree with, is that this show is about 70 percent accurate to the real events overall...which is an incredibly high level of historical accuracy for a non-documentary. There are many many "factual" programs on YT and in all other media that do not come anywhere near as close to actual reality as this show does. Chernobyl the series is so accurate that the things that they did get wrong really tend to stand out, which is pretty incredible for a drama series made by a TV network. 💯
The 90 second time limit was supposedly calculated to be half the total maximum lifetime dosage of radiation that a human being is capable of being exposed to WITHOUT major health effects...so in theory a man could do that job once and be "OK"...assuming that man had never been exposed to radiation before and was basically never exposed to radiation ever again. Of course, I already mentioned that many men chose to go out on that roof more than once to save others...and those men would almost certainly all die. As with most things about Chernobyl, it is very difficult to know due to the incredibly poor records the USSR kept of the cleanup and almost everything else about the disaster.
Major, your reactions to this series have been great. About the death toll, Chernobyl was a horror beyond belief and many thousands died as a result. BUT, many in these episodes who you might think are doomed for sure, actually survived. No spoilers, but I can't wait until you watch Episode 5.
You only have one more episode to go and it explains what happened. This was probably the most upsetting ep of the season / show. Please don't give up on the last episode - it is really worth it. You learn so much about what happened. ❤ You can do it. 💪🏽
Totally agree. It's the most frustrating, maddening, heartbreaking thing to see and to know that even today money and pride are worth more to so many than life is beyond comprehension and beyond disgusting.
But it answers so much and highlights all the people that helped the people get some form of justice.
@@mandapanda2847 I think though that the people at the top were more about protecting the Soviet Union's image ( as it were) and sucking up to Gorbachev as well as trying to get promoted. I agree with Legasov. Dyatlov deserved death - which he did ultimately get. Hate to say this, but I hope he really suffered. But I do agree with you that so many today (all around the world) are more concerned with money, pride and POWER.
Those young guys wasn't signed in... they was called to this job. It they refused to go, they would be jailed.
But don't worry.... the last one episode is mostly the trial, so the easiest. You will learn something about nuclear reactors. :)
BTW. I would love to watch your reactions to the Band of Brothers series.
I know these are very difficult to watch, but the last episode is going to make it all worth it. The full explanation is going to fascinate you-and the science is as beautiful as the story is horrifying.
I was the nerd that watched history channel (back when it actually showed history) so I knew about Chernobyl but in school I think there was maybe a paragraph about it in our text books
I'm old enough to remember everything , even in Italy we were affected by it
We learn the basics about Chernobyl here in Brazil, but maybe we learn more about it because we had a nuclear accident case here but it didn't involve a nuclear plant but rather a abandoned hospital radiotherapy source, it's generally known as The Goiânia accident (after the city where it happened). You can read about it on the internet.
I remember reading about that! If I remember correctly, scavengers stole the shielding canister when a guard missed a day of work, and disassembled it. In this particular case, though, it was the director of Ipasgo (for those who aren't familiar with Brazil, Ipasgo handles the insurance for civil servants) who prevented anyone from removing the equipment that should've been properly disposed of. Honestly, I think _he_ should've also been held responsible for paying part of the compensation.
Aside from changing the timing for edits and some of the uniforms and clothing, they stayed very true to the actual events. The creators meant for it to be unsettling. Each one of the people that worked to handle this disaster are owed a huge debt by all of humanity, in my opinion. They saved all of us from contamination.
24:17 I’m so sorry to hear your two dogs passed. Ive lost two dogs in my lifetime and its never easy. Its a horrible feeling.
I was one year old when it happened. My parents has to feed me with imported food, in small cans, because the possible nukleids. I live in Hungary, neighbour country... We learnt about it, as part of the general history of Europe or world.
1986 started eventfully. Challenger explosion in January, this in April.
Europeans will of cource know about Chernobyl since it's rather recent. It affected the entire continent in some way and our parents were around to see it.
I was in middle school in Virginia when this happened. For us, it was news and a current day event (like the Challenger explosion). These days, it’s covered a bit in high school AP classes but not much in core history. I do know that it’s a topic of discussion in many geology and engineering classes in the states but more so at a uni level.
It’s difficult to reach all these topics in high school. If so, it would be a never ending process. It takes more focused courses to cover these, like you find in uni (e.g., Russian history, African American studies, British literature). There’s also a lot to be said for how we teach to standardized testing these days instead of cognitive reasoning but that’s a whole different can of worms 😃
I was 9 when this happened. It was all over the news in Boston. I don't remember if we heard about it at school. I believe I was in 3rd grade
Shocking isn't it. I live in England and was born in the early 70's and we weren't taught about it at school. I remember it being on the news but this show bought it to life. Its the last episode that hits the hardest for me 🥺 devastating!
Bet you weren't taught about the Windscale disaster in Britain, either!
@@tommcewan7936 No we weren't. I just looked it up though. WOW more cover ups!
Thank you for mentioning it to me!
This happened when I was in high school. Not a lot of information was out at the time. Really found out about it later.
One of the things I loved most about this miniseries is that the last episode (I assume you have already watched it by the time Part 4 was posted on RUclips) explained everything that happened and what went wrong in a way that anyone can understand it. You don't need to be a nuclear physicist to get the meaning of what happened at Chernobyl!
I was a child (6) when this happened. But we did learn about it generally in my public school classes later in the 90s, but not in massive detail because 1) it was lumped with many other Cold War events, and 2) not much true information was released about it until well after the USSR collapsed in the early 90s.
But we did hear about it in school - I guess it just depends on what your specific public school taught and how much you actually remember all these years later. After I was done with school I remember watching some documentaries about it because I found it interesting.
I grew up in the US Midwest so most of the radiation cloud had dissipated by the time it got near us, but my parents were paying attention to the news to make sure they didn’t have to worry about us playing outside in case it passed over us. But they didn’t tell us that at the time - I asked them later to see what was going through their minds when the tiny bit of news finally came out over here.
Thank you for reacting to this and giving me a chance to watch it with you. I’m Scandinavian and I watched it when it came out and I did not think I was going to watch it ever again but I’m glad I did. Even tho I have to skip the parts with the dogs
I skip that part too. Ain't NO WAY I'm leaving my pets. They'd be JUST as radioactive as me, so I don't see why they can't go with me.
I think they propose to prisoners they can be released but they have to help with cleaning that area so a lot of prisoners with 20 or more years went to help but after that they didnt live too long
I was in junior high school when this happened and heard very little about it, and that as a history and current events nerd. Most of what is in this docudrama was shockingly new to me. Eventually the Chernobyl incident would trigger the collapse of the Soviet Union which took everyone by surprise. Even post Soviet collapse when nations of Europe were working together to build the giant concrete coffin around Chernobyl I heard very little about how bad it actually was.
My dog turned 9 this past February and every day I look she has more grey around her eyes. Despite the sadness of it, she is aging gracefully❤️
even before ythe vid has started ( paused on advert as typing this) , i can tell this hit .. HARD
Also! The actor who joined the animal control crew is Barry Keoghan, and he stars with Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman in a really excellent psychological thriller called The Killing of a Sacred Deer. I highly recommend you check that one out.
this episode is horrific.. so powerful, I knew a little bit about chernobyl. but all the stuff they show in this series is mind blowing. just crazy..
As an American, I lived through this, but was never taught about it in school.
Sadly most history classes I was in, all the way through college, seemed to “run out of time” before they got to more recent events. A lot stopped around the Watergate era. 😐
Oh, I din't have to study that - all that happened when I was a kid in USSR,. Even people from my country were taken to do the clean-up and they all returned with horrible damages and suffered a lot all their lives. I have met a man who was there... to say the least - he was not having a good life :(
I don't remember learning about Chernobyl in school, but I remember playing mutants from Chernobyl on the playground.
It's not about 'the truth' it's about 'your truth' (ussr/modern day america)
Not sure if you or anyone else mentioned this before, but that maester from Winterfell who got on that bus was killed in GOT by the same guy who at the beginning of this episode suggested using moon rovers. Did you catch the connection there? that actor is the same dude who helped Theon take over winterfell, suggested beheading Ser Rodrick, and eventually stabbed maester lewin before they left Winterfell. Ever since GOT, almost every show with British ppl, theres always some kind of connection with actors
I hear you, Major. We just lost our cat of 17 years this past November and not even 4 months later our dog we had for almost 12 years passed away on February 28th. It's definitely hard and lonely because we live in the middle of nowhere in WV and it gets lonely, especially if my husband and son are both out and I'm here by myself.
Pets enrich our lives , they are family 🙏
Yeah so I'm American, I don't remember learning about this in school but I was one of the lucky ones. My parents were/are incredibly intelligent and I heard them talk about it. We also didn't have cable until I was 12 so PBS was constantly on, I learned about it very young.
Support your local PBS station y'all
This one is rough. I agree about the dogs. It’s so sad but they had to do it or they would be killed. The pressure those men were under was insane. We had to put our dog down just before covid. I had a panic attack and threw up. It was the worst thing ever. I get the pain you are talking about. These poor people were just pawns. They just did a study in dogs that survived and the radiation appears to be causing them to evolve faster or something crazy. You got a good heart. ❤ I knew about it but not sure it was from school. I was 2 when this happened. US schools have so much they have to cover nothing gets the correct amount of time.
Happened the year I was born. I didn't learn about it in school though. It was call of duty 4, the first modern warfare, when I became aware of it. Then not til this show came out, I watched it as it aired. I don't even use a microwave any more.
this was the hardest episode for me, I sobbed and needed to take a multi week break after it so I could get my head prepared for the next episode
To these days only one woman used to live there . But with now the war I don’t know. Also there is a French girl that went there and done a documentary 4 years ago about the dogs there . There are like 600. Sadly all radioactive and they die around 3-5 years old but the soldiers at the time used to feed them and all all the radioactivity is on the ground mostly cause of snow and rain. And also how sad but beautiful the nature came back (wolves and many creatures). Well it’s sad yeah it touched us all somehow and I am in France and I remember a guy in my town wanted to have a garden in his house and they discovered that was radioactive. Yeah story of our continent. Thanks for reacting also great cast. 🙏🏻
Speaking of true stories that are grippingly told...The Impossible....about the tsunami in Asia in 2004 250,000 people died. The movie tells the story of one family on vacation in Thailand. The cinematography during the wave is top notch!!!
1:35 I think it was mentioned in highschool for me, but most guys in our generation learned about it from Modern Warfare
The whole "50,000 people used to live here, now it's a ghost town" takes place in Prypate
RUclips has some really good videos of side by side comparisons between this show and real footage. They did an amazing job in the recreations. It’s chilling to watch.
I learned about this in the early 90s.
Just lost my two dogs over the last few months… brutal. They were 12. Just saw this not too long ago and man it hurt watching it
I'm deeply sorry for your loss. ❤💔
Episode 5 is the easiest and answers most of the questions
Just joined your Patreon Major. Its good to be here 😊
We had radioactive sheep where i live here in north wales after chernobyl, even my dna was changed as i was born the year after in 87
our teacher made us do a report on chernobyl in the 6th grade, back in 2000-2001
My man, this happened when I was in high school. It was current news. Crazy times, it really shook the world.
That boy that joined animal control is Barry keogen. Great actor. If you have some free time, check out, killing of a sacred deer. He was absolutely phenomenal.
I was 11 when it happened so I watched about it on the news with my dad
I'm from Chile, and they did teach a little bit about Chernobyl. Chile is America also ( the continent) ... Great reaction, you have such a good ❤.
They don't talk about this in school mostly because even in American history you don't get a lot of recent history. I knew about this because not only am I a history person but I was a kid at the tail end of the cold war. Movies like Red Dawn, and Hunt for Red October were big, and I accepted that it was possible that the Soviets could nuke us. We heard about Christians being jailed and persecuted because religion was outlawed in the Soviet Union. Also most tv shows had adventures about rescuing people from East Berlin, the part of Germany still controlled by the Soviets. "Night Crossing" is a great movie about that, if you are interested. Also there is a movie called "Citizen X", based on true events, about a serial killer that was not caught until after the Soviet Union fell because they could not admit that a serial killer was possible In their country.
Brutal. Heartbreaking. Necessary.
This should be mandatory viewing.
I knew about this in high school but that's because i've always been independently interested in world history so I always spent time reading and researching things growing up. We have had a nuclear meltdown in our country too but nowhere near the extent that was Chernobyl. Google Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania.
The thing to remember about them showing the killing of the pets is that it's not really about the killing of the pets. It's about the kid drafted and forced to do the job. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to do the cleanup work, and those people all suffered in less than obvious ways.
but you didn't catch an actor for House of the Dragon... the scientist that was with Khomyuk (the female scientist) back in Minsk when they first detected nuclear in the air, in episode two, I think it was Larys from HOtD
Oh man. This whole thing hurts, but this episode in particular just ouch. 💔
Born 1989. My dads a really smart guy so he made sure I knew about Chernobyl and other nuclear disaster. Didn't hear anything in HS. Our education system is shameful.
Many people haven't heard of Chernobyl because the Soviets successfully supressed all the details until Gorbachev started glaznost. The people who have written books had access to documents and people like it was a Western country. But now it's all closed up again. I worked in a place that you'd think would be all over it, but it didn't make a stir--I guess because it wasn't perceived as a threat to US security. I can tell you where it deviated from history, but only once you've seen it all. I can tell you there's historical footage of biorobots (Legazov's actual word) clearing graphite from the roof, and it looked exactly like what you saw.
Old people still live in the exclusion zone to this day. People sneek in with guided tours and post on social media...
That was by far the worst episode. The last episode almost feels upbeat in comparison. You'll get all the answers you're looking for.
He's with me, you understand, nobody fucks with him.
I remember when this happened and every night after it went public we would watch the news to find out which way the winds were blowing the radiation.
Sorry to hear about your pups man
It takes courage to share such an emotional reaction, that you.
I knew about it, but I've always been a huge history buff so I'm probably not normal.
I knew this one was going to give you this kind of reaction. It was tough for me to watch.
yes, very tough episode to watch. It really brings it home on what these people faced. It is something for sure. Yes dig deeper. It's very interesting.
I heard of it because I’m old and remember 😬messed up!!!!
This episode is generally considered the toughest watch. You asked if people had heard of Chernobyl. For yep, I was just coming up to being a teenager at the time. And although my country was probably among those who were affected the least of those that were affected it still had a big impact. Not so much people wise, But rather farming. Restrictions where animals had to be tested for radation were placed on the sale and slaughter of livestock for twenty six years after the disaster. My country is over two thousand miles from Chernobyl !. Can't imagine the effects and consequences for those nations which neighbour the region...
Chernobyl happened a month after my family moved to a US naval base in Spain so that's how I knew about it. By the time I started high school I was back in the States and I don't recall it being addressed. If it was it would likely just have been a blurb in our book.
Oh heck ya! This show has been intense. Thanks bro!
Great job! I love watching you.
Hey there! Great reaction man, this show is very intense and the next episode ties everything together. I'm from Brazil and in my school we learned about Chernobyl in 6th grade during science class, we were studying the types of energy prodction in the world (wind, water... etc) and when it came about nuclear energy we had a big class about the accident. However, as you may imagine they didn't really explained all the details, all I knew before watching the show was that Chernobyl happened, lots have died, Eastern Europe was very affected and that you can actually visit Pripyat today with guided visits. BTW there's a lot of travel channels on youtube that you can watch about that tour. Everything is still the very same since 1986.
Not exactly today. It was literally a warzone a year ago, and it's unlikely to be open until war is over.
@@PUARockstar Well yes, but you know what I mean, until the latest conflict between Russia and Ukraine people could visit Pripyat and part of the exclusion zone
Definitely watch the last episode.
They say as soon as you get on the roof with all that radiation, even the most put together person in the world would become clumsy. It really affects your orientation and balance when you’re out there.
They all had 90 seconds on the roof before they’d receive a fatal dose of radiation and months later they literally made men climb the tower just to put a flag on the top of it. Of course, all on the roof for longer than 90 seconds. Men without masks or suits clapping in celebration like it was all over 🤦🏻♂️ ridiculous
The ‘volunteers’ weren’t really volunteers either. They were ‘selected’ by Soviet officials. So seeing as being selected and being a volunteer aren’t the same thing at all, it’s safe to say they definitely didn’t volunteer
I think the reason we didn't learn much about it in school is 2 fold: 1. For many adults it was not yet history, it was still a "current event" therefore it was assumed children would hear about it/learn it from osmosis/hearing about it around other adult and how it is effecting society. And 2. It's very hard to teach something you don't understand, with so much of it being confused and secretive it would be very hard to go into any detail without risking teaching misinformation.
I remember hearing about in school, but just a piece of Cold War history, another thing that happened that made Americans hate all the communists
💙 thanks Maj. So hard to watch but great show
Good reactions... Thanks
I always wondered if when she gave them the list for books she was wanting him to point her in the right direction so he crossed out all the books that were not relevant... just a curious thought never really know the answer to sadly
I've read a ton about Chernobyl and can tell you the show is incredibly close to reality. With the exception of a few things its identical. It's an 8 or 9 out of 10 for accuracy.
The thing that stood out the most when reading about this for the first time in National Geographic as a young man (12 years old) was the description of the "bio robots". I couldn't imagine what exactly they were doing and this show brought it to life with all it's horror.
We used to have the news on in my school in the middle east so we were very aware of chernobyl and what happened. Our science teacher made it his mission to make sure all of us knew how deadly serious it was for most of Europe. Isn't the nuclear power plant in Japan the Fukushima power plant still leaking after their meltdown ? Cretinous idea to build one on a fault line. Absolute madness. So much for clean energy as they call it hey ,? What have we done to u mother earth.
Yeah depending on your classes in highschool you mostly just get a mostly American history part of history and even then, depending on classes, even though the USSR fell during my lifetime we didn't really cover it or the cold war.
Hey, could you share the recommendations you received related to these events? I'd love to read them
The soldier looked like Pip from the Wall
It was
@@tonyasports3639 thanks! wasn't sure
It is, also Theon's right hand man when he took Winterfell. Maester Luwin, too. This show is stacked with GoT alumni.
@@MFBloosh yes! Love to look for them! M.Luwin right in the first episode! oooohhh so that's who it was , the guy who hit Theon on the head after his speech?
@@fedeanna8708 Exactly. HBO seemed to outsource a lot of GoT actors because the show was still at peak popularity when Chernobyl was being made, which was smart of them. Everyone in the GoT cast are phenomenal actors.
The science regarding the reactor itself is very good, as is the overall pacing and course of events. Anything to do with the firefighters wife and her unborn child is heavily dramatized for the sake of the show. Radiation doesn’t quite behave like this in reality, which isn’t to suggest that there is real and very serious danger, but it’s a lot harder to making things like the rates of cancer and birth defects this enrapturing. I give the overall science realism a 6.5 because the places they take license are pretty obvious, I think they meant to hang a lantern on that. In terms of historical realism I’d give it a 7.5. They take a lot of license in the portrayal of some of the characters for dramatic effect. All of this is meant to really highlight how the danger at Chernobyl has one part hubris, two parts ignorance.
I own this series on DVD and have watched it a number of times. Every time I watch it I fast forward the scenes with the animals. It is the hardest episode to watch.
Also, I am a former Australian high school teacher and I used to teach 15 year olds about Chernobyl as a part of a unit on Uranium mining and nuclear energy.
I was only young when this happened but I still remember the reports on birth defects that appeared on the news for years after the event.
I’ve watched this series a few times and like 14 different reactions to it, it’s one of the all time greats. And the more you watch the more you pick up on, like this thought I had…
The Russians had nothing in the country, nothing they could even build, that could withstand Marcia. The Germans did it with a police robot. Another little hint at just how far behind the rest of the world the Russians really were.
Edit: the Germans knew the propaganda number was a lie, thus naming the robot “joker” but it’d be in their best interest to still send something they thought could do the job. But without the real number it was nothing but a joke.
It could have been so much worse, it's unfathomable...
4:54 Keep watching chief and get the Kleenex handy
Just one more to go. And if it helps, you've already got through the ...hardest to watch episodes. Episode 5 will give you closure.
I was not going to watch this episode reaction. But.... I decided to listen instead of watch. This episode broke me.
The series is about 95% accurate. They do take what you call ""Filmalers license"" The Soviet Nuclear industry was considered a ""State Secret" so thats why everything was classified and those working in and around the plant only knew general info. Feel better She did have another baby (spoiler). The money system in the Soviet system cannot accurately be compaired to US Dollars because they had a closed economy. Inside that system is was a good chunk of change not not great. One of my friends who nows lives USA was in Ukraine at the time when young. Her neice has thyroid problems.
The Mayor of Kiev who held the ""May Day" Soviet Union biggest holiday, celebrations, later committed suicide when he realized many got sick and died from being outside and close to the radiation. The only reason they went public with the info was becuase the had to. Radiation detected in Sweden. Us got satellite photos. Otherwise it would have been kept secret as much as possible. Thank God Gorbachev acted the way he did.
Some years after he retired and the Soviet Union broke up. Gorbachev wrote that Chernobyl was the true cause it came apart. The incident bankrupted the country. Look whats happening today the SOB Putin is invading Ukraine (Where Chernobyl is) and Russian soldiers getting sick and dying from radiation sickness because they sent in are which is the ""Exclusion Zone" by the reactors.
There are some real Documentary's about this which contain all the facts of how it happened you need to check out. Episode 5 does a good job of explaining it. Most was Dyatlof fault. Well enjoying your reactions so far.
Please please please watch LOGAN its soo good ive been waiting for you to get to that one 🙏