*Chernobyl Ep. 1* Reaction | First Time Watching!
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So here we are beginning Chernobyl!!! I've been really excited to watch this series because it is an event that I know inside and out due to it being heavily involved in my major's curriculum. (First Environmental then Atmospheric Science so you can imagine) but based off of the first episode, they've stayed pretty true to the events and how they occurred which is a pleasant surprise. I expected some over the top writing but the interactions and realizations among the individuals feel personal and very subtle which I enjoy. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy!! This is gonna be a rough one.
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I will be talking way more than usual during this series sorry in advance 😎
Never apologize disasters or events like this should talked about sad to say. Otherwise people forget about them.
No need to apologize, Vicky! Your reactions have been, and always will be as sweet as your pretty face. ❤️
Ayo a week is fashionably late,
2 weeks is legendary rockstar late.
A month for the Endgame reaction…
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Wasn't 3.6 roentgens. Dyatmov cut the other guy off - he was trying to say that's as high as the meter could read. So it might have been many, many times that at this point.
@@BGAKHH you need to learn some respect, buddy!
All I can say is, give us ALL the nerdy commentary, Vicky! Your background in environmental & atmospheric science will make it all the more valuable, and who doesn’t love a good, healthy nerd-out?!
I just pressed the bell icon...
I was a casual watcher... And now...
Yep.
Does she have a science degree?
@@abramrexjoaquin7513 Once you go vkunia, you never go back!
@@davidz3879 I believe so!
I would much rather listen to commentary from people who know what they're talking about than people who don't. So, nerd away!
Game of Thrones: you can’t have a great season with 6 episodes or less.
Chernobyl: hold my graphite.
lol
It wasn't graphite, because it is not there! 🥸
Stop Touching the black blocks plz
This kills the hands.
“Laughs in Liquidator”
The science you are pinning for will be there in episode 5, the final episode. It's amazingly well written and there's a companion podcast where the writer/show runner discusses where and why he deviated from the historical record because the ultimate theme is about the cost of lies. (And the writer Craig Mazin before this was principally know for comedies about stupid characters.)
Yes the podcasts are excellent, obviously only listen to them after watching the episode, there's a six episode when the impact of the mini-series is one of the topics.
THIS! Go look for the podcast - it's a really good companion to the show.
Also, though most of the scientific explanation is in episode 5, there's quite a lot of science spread out as well.
The absolute horror I felt during that scene with the slowmo wind blowing through everyone's hair and the kids playing was just so devastating.
This was an amazing series. ❤
That was fictional. As our hostess points out, it was 230 AM, so people weren't out rubbernecking, and there was a forest between the bridge and the plant. That bridge was called "The Bridge of Death" even before the accident because someone killed himself by jumping off it in front of a train, and that got absorbed into the Chernobyl mythology.
He did his best to try to take care of the cat after he was gone. That's why he left so much food out.
This is one of those shows that are difficult to stomach but we all need to see to be a bit more informed about events in the past and learn from their experience. I wish you luck on watching the remaining episodes.
They will touch on the science throughout the series. You'll have plenty of opportunity to nerd out on the specifics, trust me. I'm glad to watch the reaction of someone who has an actual background touching on the subject material. Looking forward to the next one.
This is a fascinating watch. You're so familiar with the source material, yet haven't experienced this incredible dramatisation of the events. I love this already.
Finished this series a while ago and I loved it. Was really interesting to hear about the history of what happened at chernobyl. Keep the tissues close Vicky there are some parts in th next couple episodes that can get emotional. Even though its only 6 episodes the show explains what exactly happened that caused the meltdown and how the men and women helped to deal with this disaster. This was the start of the collapse of the USSR. The KGB kept watch on everyone and silenced anyone who tried to get the truth out. Scary stuff.
"The KGB kept watch on everyone and silenced anyone who tried to get the truth out"
"At a meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU on July 3, 1986, Shcherbina declared the danger of RBMK reactors and suggested "making a difficult decision to stop the construction of new nuclear power plants with RBMK reactors""
Two months later, not years, not decades. And Sherbina was a pretty important politic at that time, and nothing happened to him. This is how you "silence anyone who try to get the truth out" i guess.
There is so much information about Chernobyl, so much conflicting information, so much opinons. But you dont care, you watch a tv series and think you know the truth know.
There was a lot of political, economical, inside and outside reasons for this decades prior Chernobyl accident, but you should learn this from a history class, not from TV shows. Then you can see that there is not much of a difference from 1886, 1986 or 2022 in almost any major country around the world while people are focusing their attention only to certain points in time and space because they are ignorant, even in 2022 with infinite (self)education opportunities. THIS is scary.
@@J0rdan912 Yes, exactly! You are so right
This is truely a refreshing take on a Chernobyl reaction video, the fact that you know the science and events behind the disaster in detail is truely refreshing and inviting. I think your the first youtuber to really appreciate and comprehend the consequences of everything happening. I was very pleased to learn this about you and for that I am thankful at this new take on reacting to the this series. Looking forward to seeing you watch the rest of the show.
The greatest and saddest mini series that HBO has ever made.
Band of Brothers, Chernobyl is a close second
Agreed
Unpopular opinion- Band of Brothers was a bit overrated…Generation Kill, John Adams and Chernobyl were all better
True detective season 1
@@toaletttbord Band of brothers is overrated imo, same with Saving Private Ryan
From someone who is also a bit of a nerd about this, let me tell you that I really appreciate someone with a proper background reacting to this.
Your reaction is not annoying at all. It’s quite refreshing to watch a reaction from someone who is very familiar with both the science and the circumstances. Most other reactions I’ve seen were from people who knew little to nothing about the incident.
Whether you’re familiar with the disaster or not, watching this miniseries is pretty devastating. It’s a rough journey, but a totally worthwhile one.
In case you'd be interested, I really want to recommend the official HBO Podcast for this series. It's hosted by Peter Sagal, the host of NPR's _Wait Wait Don't Tell Me_ and Craig Mazin, the creator and writer of this series. It goes in depth into how they made the series, and what decisions they made for how to make it. That includes where they were strictly true to history, and where they made changes for dramatic effect and why they made those changes. There are 5 episodes, one for each episode of the show, plus an extra episode with Jared Harris (who plays Valery Legasov). I really can't Say enough about it. In some ways it's every bit as good as the show, and it definitely makes the experience of the show better.
Absolutely this. The explanations for why they included known inaccuracies was very interesting and much appreciated.
this is great show depicting real event and real people, their heroism and cravenness, as well as ingrained problems of a tottering bureaucratic state.
however main narrative of the show is problematic because it is false. this false narrative depicts scientists seeking truth at any cost, conducting an investigation against wishes of the state , and revealing the results at great risk to themselves ( even of life and imprisonment).
in fact what happened at chernobyl and aftermath (now known and even accessible in west through books like midnight at chernobyl) on those man narrative points, was quite different ( in fact almost 180 degrees different).
investigation was done by state itself, and its findings were not hidden ( in fact were used by defense rather than persecution at trial) . nobody was at risk of back room execution, or imprisonment, because of investigation and a dramatic revelation of findings. legasov( who was heroically responsible for some important aftermath decisions) was ostracized not by state, but by fellow scientists,who thought he was proposing reforms ( not mentioned in show , some of them heroic in their own way ) detrimental to status of scientists, and finding faults with other individual scientiss ( some of whom suffered and were fired because of this ) who had earlier helped his career.
show chose to lie on those points. those lies are especially problematic in a show with theme of" cost of lies" .
@@sitting_nut You also would probably be interested in the content of the podcast. Many of the issues you raise, and why they were portrayed as they were, are discussed therein.
@@Big_Bag_of_Pus i did listen to podcasts. and they confirmed that show-runner/creator mazin was responsible for the deliberately false propagandist narrative. what i am talking about is not changes due to dramatic license which are excusable( like female scientist representing other scientists etc ) , but intentional falsehoods to push an agenda( like depicting scientists getting imprisoned and threatened with execution for conducting investigation and revealing its results, etc ). that is false and in that example( like many other instances ) opposite of what happened, since it was dissident scientists who ostracized and drove legasov to death, not the state, which in the form of an agency like kgb, actually carried out the investigation and found out what happened. its all upside down in show where it matters.
I was alive for this and grew up on an army base and This was all you heard about For-Years. I saw this with my wife and it just brought back so much, and to know there was a firefight a few months ago. Mind blowing.
The major change the series did from the actual events is that they combined multiple scientists into one person or so, which will be explained in the end. Otherwise most of it is super accurate by the way. Since it sounds like you're a science geek about it I think you're gonna be super pleasantly surprised.
Ye there is a lot of accuracy and maybe some dramatisation ...
Would you call the (fake) threat of a steam explosion with a yield of 2-4MT "super accurate"? The show is good entertainment but to call it accurate, let alone "super accurate" is a bit of a stretch.
@@GanzBestimmt Super accurate.
You're going to need a lot of tissues for this mini-series, I was working in a school in the north of France when it happened. It was very unnerving tracking the progress of the cloud. You get a lot more of the science later on - one of the threads is effectively a scientific detective story.
This one is a real gut-wrencher and I'm glad they made it. This disaster wasn't that long ago and it seemed like so few people born after the 80s knew about it. With all your knowledge of it, go ham with nerding out - we're here for it!
Love the commentary, first time I've seen a reactor know and talk about the Chernobyl incident. It's incredible remembering that this is the most tame episode compared to what's coming
This series gets REALLY rough, especially during Episode 3. The Pacific actually becomes kind of tame after watching this.
The issues with chernobly were:
A) gross negligence on the part of the staff in the control room and the managers of the power plant
B) greed
and C) a fatal design flaw with the control rods.
The flaw was not that they were unable to reach all the way in, the flaw was that they put grafite at both ends of the control rods. Grafite will speed up the reaction. This means that instead of slowing down the reactor, when you enter the control rods the first thing that happens is a local increase of reactivity.
A similar incident had been reported years prior in Leningrad, but the reactor did no explode there. Here comes negligence and incompetance and greed into play. The managers insisted on running the test that night, although they were forced to delay it to the nightshift because Kyiv needed more power. This meant that they were runnung the reactor at low power for hours which lead to xenon not burning away in the core. The reactor started to stall because the xenon decreases reactivity. They still insisted on running the test and tried to increase reactivity by removing almost all control rods.
What they did that night was willingly putting the reactor into a critical condition because they relied on the AZ-5 Button (the emergency shutdown). Now when they pushed that button the brief local spike in reactivity from the grafite tips of of the control rods released a huge amount of enegry, ruptering and bending the fuel rods and fixing the control rods in place unable to move.
Kodemchouk was the other man in the pump room, he's also the only man not recovered from the plant, his body is entombed with the reactor in a billion dollar containment mausoleum. The most expensive grave on earth.
This is why I love your videos - you’re super-smart, really insightful when it comes to how movies and TV are constructed, witty when you need to be and your reactions are so genuine!
I appreciate your unique perspective on this series. There was so much incompetence compounded by the Party’s attempt to cover everything up.
Prepare for one EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER!!! 🥺🥺this is gonna be a hard one
What is worse :
- Tell to someone a zone is dangerous because of him, and he don't believe you
- the person tell you "go in the zone to confirm if it's dangerous or not!", and you must obey
Well I couldn't wait for your Chernobyl reaction and nerd out a looot about it, but you've got this cover well. It's good to see someone who has great knowledge about it. But I will still nerd out just a little, I'm not an expert tho :P
- Nuclear reactors do not explode, not just RBMK but all of them just don't explode. So operators acted believing that the core is intact, and just could not believe that it exploded - that was unthinkable.
- Diatlov was done dirty in this series, he wasn't a villain, he was also a victim. He was strict but not tyrannical, he had huge respect among his coworkers, he knew his job. But yes, his actions and bad decisions against safety protocols led to this disaster. After the explosion, he as almost anyone there denied the truth, but he acted in the best interest. He was the first to go to see if everybody is ok, to see fires, he led firefighters to the fires and hydrants, and even led the search for Khodemchuk. He also told staff to go home to save them form more exposure (people in control room were mostly shielded). He was not a bad guy, he had no idea what could happen that night, he had no clue about the fatal flow of the RBMK reactor. Noone know how badly this reactor was design. He was the last chain in the chain of the disaster, if it was not him, disaster would happen somewhere else in simmilar way. You can watch interviews with him on YT with english subtitles.
- Sitnikov was not forced to go on the roof to look into the reactor, but after Diatlov collapsed he decided to go himself check it so the proper actions could be taken.
- The scene at the brigde in first episode didn't happen in reality. Noone really come to it to watch fire. Noone died from it, people were sleeping and then woke up and went to work like nothing happen without even knowing that there was a fire in the power plant. It is a myth. However the wind was blowing straight into the brigde so it was extremely radioactive - that brigde was one of the most dangerous places around power plant, and had to be used constantly to transport poeple and materials.
- 3.6 Roentgens per hour desimeter reading is significant, but not terrible. But it's hard to calculate dose absorbed by human body and health consequences as it's dependent on type of radietion (alfa, beta, gamma or neutron) and exposure time. To simplify 3.6R/h is 36 mSv/h, and to compare, you recieve 10-30 mSv form single full-body CT scan, 50 mSv is maximum annual dose permitted for radiation workers. Symptoms of radiation sickness show up when you're exposed to levels of more than 500 mSv (0.5 Sv). More than 4 to 5 Sv is likely to be fatal in 50% cases if the dose is received over a very short duration. So 36 mSv in an hour is not too serious of a damage. 36 mSv in an hour for hours or days are going to be very concerning. But of course that was just as high as the meter could measure, the true reading was much higher.
Would love to hear you nerd out! It’s not annoying at all! There is nothing more engaging than hearing a person speak so passionately about a subject they love.
HBO legitimately addressed the inaccuracies before they even aired the show, they mentioned adding characters to represent handfuls of other people in order to cut down on both runtime and cost, and they shortened the event timeline for the same reasons. When I was younger, I always used to think burning to death would be the worst and most painful way to die, then I learned about ARS...to essentially melt to death from the inside out...and about the children and everything on the bridge, you have to remember how secretive the Soviet government was, those people were never allowed any knowledge of nuclear power or radiation, hell, most of the plant workers weren't even allowed too much of that knowledge, hence the reason the one's that looked directly into the burning reactor had no clue that even 1 second of looking into it, was a death sentence.
The thing that always gets me in the first episode is the nightmarish sound of the alarms in the control room. They sound like the end of the world.
Out of all the firefighters that responded that day only one survived, Leonid Telyatnikov was his name he passed away in 2004 at the age of 53. He was awarded a Hero of the Soviet Union, and along with the order of Lenin in 1986 for his efforts.
If you wonder why the Soviets dont have any protective measures. It’s because in the Soviet Union safety is a suggestion and not one that is reinforced or maintained.
I really like your reaction. I was a reactor operator in a German nuclear power plant for more than 10 years. The Chernobyl series shows us that nuclear fission always entails certain risks. However, I was never afraid of my work. Thanks for your great reaction.
OH SHIT i did not expect this reaction this is going to be a ride!
Fomin - the guy with the thick glasses - was the chief engineer; his only experience with nuclear reactors was a correspondence course.
Chief Engineer - _correspondence course._
the control rods don't actually penetrate the uranium, but go in between the fuel rods to regulate the reaction. In CANDU reactors, they are made of cadmium (graphite in the Russian ones) and the cadmium absorbs the neutrons that are released during fission which move and split other uranium nuclei, and so on. By absorbing the neutrons, they slow the reaction. Push them down far enough and they stop it. The emergency switch in a CANDU reactor dumps all of the deuterium water from the reactor and stops it instantly.
Fun fact: Boris Scherbina was played by Stellan Skarsgård, the father of Bill Skarsgård who was IT clown actor in the latest IT movie.
Dyatlov also had a previous accident while working on a submarine nuclear reactor, as well. He received a fairly high dose of radiation that time, too. People claim the Soviet government used him as a scapegoat - and they may have some - but he was careless and obviously a hard man to work with. Plus the Soviet system they were working under was horrible and of course the reactor was faulty.
I was in the Army, and during 86 and 87 I was stationed at Fort Lewis, WA. One of my jobs was to tour the base twice a week and take radiation readings. Yep, we were getting trace fallout from the meltdown.
I'd love HBO to do a series on the Kursk submarine disaster, if anything to highlight how the systematic denial and lying persisted well into post Soviet modern Russia.
12:15 The man : "The accident... is WELL under control."
Vicky's eyes make three rolls back in their orbit.
Actually, the dropping of the control rods is what caused the runaway reaction to happen. It was a design flaw in the reactor that the composition of the control rods caused a sudden spike in a radiation release that melted them and the surrounding nuclear material.
Don't worry about excessive talking. We all nerd out sometimes! It's also very good that you have quite a bit of preexisting knowledge regarding this historical and horrifying incident. Also, covering both my interests and this subject, April 27, 2011, a long-track violent tornado would single-handedly topple dozens of high-transmission poles. However, when it impacted an "artery" of high-transmission lines 2 miles away from Browns Ferry Nuclear Power plant, power was completely cut to all 3 units. This resulted in them being scrambled, and relied on power from diesel generators. Thankfully, no radiation leakage or other deadly incidents would come of it, but millions would be without power, some for 1 week+.
My parents still remember this times. We are living in eastern germany, i was born in 1996. I still hear some comments if i collect mushrooms, because this was a thing they didn't do after they know this reactor explodes.
To be honest I am surprised that you went on this series. It's an excellent series and really gets to the meat of the human toll.
And there are going to be tons of tissues on the dog episode.
Oh boy.... 😔
I am LOVING the "nerdy" commentary, it makes this an extra special reaction! (no pun intended). And I think you will CONTINUE to be happy with the science (and political) element of this. This is not a "Titanic" story, this is a "Paths Of Glory" story. (you'll have to see "Paths of Glory" to know what I mean! One day you will!) I binge watched the first three episodes and then binge watched the last two. I wouldn't stretch it out for yourself so you don't kill the impact (and so all the names and faces remain fresh). GREAT reaction. THANK YOU for sharing it with us!
One of the most inaccurate things about this series is how it exaggerated the danger. While there were a lot of people killed, for example the entire fire brigade died of radiation sickness, many others the series suggests were doomed were actually fine. In reality the two men who went into the tunnel under the reactor were not that worried as they had no reason to be, as the radiation level in the tunnel was still very low. They did the job, got out and received very little exposure.
Each episode in very interresting about... a certain looking angle of this situation.
Sometimes it's about the politics, the control of the information. Sometimes it's about the health situation. Sometimes it's about the scientific/industrial situation.
Each episode show an important point of view about the accident. Why/how this happens. What were the consequencies... and how (wo)men have deal with it.
And because it is a real event, this show is one of this most important show ever made.
Thanks, Vicky, to tell us your point of view about it.
Oh boy! You're in for a tough ride for the rest of this series. But it IS brilliant. And you will get a fair bit of the science as the story unfolds. I don't know if it's possible to enjoy what's to come but you'll be very glad you watched it.
This is the most intelligent and well informed commentary on Chernobyl from a non-professional that I have ever seen. Nice work, Vicky!
Hildur Guðnadóttir composer of the soundtrack, she took a recorder and high frequency recorder into a decommissioned nuclear power plant and recorded sounds that she later took to the studio to listen to, and adjust to get the 'music' for it.
What's shocking to me is how little people in that area knew about what they were seeing and the effects of radiation. Even the firefighters and hospital staff.
3:15 He gave the cat lots of food precisely to make sure he survives until they find his body
I remember this so well. My son was newly born and we were told that winds containing radioactive fallout were due to pass over us (North West England) and rain would cause it to come down on us.
As it happened the rains fell on the grazing pastures of sheep in North Wales, the grass was radioactive, the sheep and lambs too.
I don't think we knew soon enough to take any precautions but how do you hide herds of sheep? How do you feed them wholesome grass?
It was a very worrying time. Nuclear bombs launched by idiots 0, Nuclear power stations run by idiots 1.
I was 11 when this happened, and I was so worried for the people of Europe. I was thankful to be an ocean away, myself.
One of the most haunting shows of all time
This show is what got me to follow reactors in general. It was so powerful, I NEEDED to see what others thought of it. Have not watched your reaction yet as I might wait until you have all 5 eps to binge.
Dying from radiation poisoning, I hear, is one of the most agonizing & terrible & painful ways to go. Doctors can’t even do anything about it. All they can do is keep you alive for moments longer which only makes it worse.
I can think of nothing more horrible than what these people went through.
I think it’s the reason people compare this with horror stories is because this was a real life horror story. You have to watch all these people knowing that they are walking dead destined for naught but pain.
Engineer here, when I saw the firefighters pick up the graphite I got chills.
Started watching again earlier today for about the 5th or 6th time, partly because of reactions that the CZcams algorithm has blessed me with. You mentioned "set design", but the scenes at the power plant were actually shot at Chernobyl's sister site in Lithuania, which has much of the same design and layout, as well as an identical reactor.
1. Soviet officials were like that.
2. If you're interested in accuracy, you might be interested in the reactions from the atomic age channel which is run by a nuclear engineer.
People who says that there are "Many" mistakes, are ether Russians, who don't know anything about Chernobyl even to this day, cause their government still hides it from public, or just dummies who knows nothing about this.
The ones i am am aware of is:
Ulana - which is made to represent many scientists who helped.
Plastic Windows
Series was filmed mostly in my country, since we have Identical Nuclear plant and Still some Soviet housing. But it's probably one of the closest series to the truth you'll ever get.
Jared Harris is one of my favorite actors ever since Anderson Dawes
That's such a scary show, if for no other reason than the fact I have vague, indistinct memories of me, a three year old, realizing that something was so *profoundly wrong* that my parents where running scared to a degree that a three year old realizes it.
I also later learned that I lost not only my brand spanking new sand box but an unborn younger brother...
My fiancée was born right before the incident and she has problems with her knee joints *now* as a result form the radiation she was exposed to in her very early childhood.
The truly scary thing?
We are in *Central Western Germany* ... and it still hit hard enough for these things to happen.
And that's just collateral...
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
I love how despite one or two inaccuracies for drama's sake, they still did an incredibly good job. And they perfectly captured the sense of dread and fear that the knowledge of radiation exposure causes.
Visually it's a near match in many scenes, they really captured the aesthetics of 80's Soviet block fashion and interior design.
Well yeah that’s why Legasov left out so many bowls of food for his cat before hanging himself. He knew that it would only be a matter of a few days before he was reported missing and police would be sent out to check his address. With 4 bowls of food and everything else still left in the house/any mice or smaller prey nearby, the cat would be perfectly fine for over a week until his body could be found
She said, “ That’d be really rad!” at 2:20. I don’t even know if she was aware of her pun 😊
I am so glad I found this reaction. Chernobyl is one of my favorite series ever because nothing has made me feel like I did when I watched it. There is psychological horror and visceral horror but this was different. This is intellectual horror where the more you know the more terrifying it is and I'm so happy to hear you are so literate on the subject. Thank you for this!
there's this idea I've noticed from watching reactions to Chernobyl that people are under the impression that little was known about the effects of radiation exposure in 1986. maybe for the general public but anyone working in the field was well aware of the dangers of radiation. from the first x-rays in the 1800s up through the Manhatten project culminating in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the 1950s and certainly the 1960s the acute sickness and death resulting from ionizing radiation was well documented. by 1986 only willfully ignorance and dilusion could be blamed for a nuclear reactor worker not knowing the dangers of radiation
It wasn't ignorance of the effects of radiation. It was ignorance of what they were dealing with. In the Soviet Union everything was a state secret. Information was fed out very slowly, and on a need to know basis. The higher ups, due to institutionalized paranoia, decided no one needed to know.
The presence of the cat was important in tying the end of the time loop, where Legasov commits suicide (the first thing you saw in the episode), to his initial recruitment by the committee investigating the disaster (the last thing you saw in the episode). He's the guy with the cat. Further introductions will come later.
13:53 If you're referencing the plant workers that opened the valves to drain the tanks: That happens later (end of episode 2)...
This show is a good history lesson, especially for those people who have never heard of Chernobyl disaster or think that Chernobyl is a video game...
That rock that the man was holding when they where putting out the fire was radioactive grafite and it was so hot it burned through paper and other metarials
I was born 70 miles from Chernobyl, and both of my parents were affected by it. Their is a lot of history and science in this show, and for me it gives me flash backs when I was a little girl, that you couldn't play on the play ground, and some foods you couldn't eat. No body really knew what to do.
Did you face any implications due to your parents getting affected due to radiation?
@@Star_l0rdd I experience health issues growing up, and lost most of my hearing but I don't know if it's due to the radiation, The doctors said their is change of experiencing cancer in the future. I do have Autism, ADHD, and some problem's with speech. I was sent to an orphanage when I was young, and than was adopted when I was five from Gomel, to America. In the Orphanage, their was an old rusted play ground that children didn't play on. We were slim on food. I was fortuned to be alive, but I have seen kids get very sick. I hope that helps explain you're question. Alot of kids did get thyroid cancer and other cancers to. I was fortune not to have cancer but I am at High risk of developing cancer in the future.
3:20 - that's why he sets out 7 dishes of catfood - he expects it to be a week until someone finds his body.
About what she said about design flaw, when Chernobyl was just being built the Soviet union brought in several British scientists, they literally said that Chernobyl was flawed including not having enough graphite. They were all ignored, due to Soviet union nationalism
My dad was helping with the evacuation, although he never got close enough for anything permanent. Still, his heart isn’t what it should be because of that. Many of his friends from that time are gone now from various complications and cancers. Definitely not a coincidence.
My father-in-law was closer and got a special ID that lets him ride public transportation for free as well as getting him other benefits as a Chernobyl reponder
By the time they tried to drop the control rods the channels the control rods travel through had been destroyed when the core exploded. Opening valves too cool to reactor had minimal effect. The cooling system had been destroyed by then.
This show will teach you the difference between "knowing" what happened and "seeing" what happened. Trust me, it's a pretty considerable difference.
As for the inaccuracies of the show, most of them are extremely pedantic stuff, usually in the form of analogies used by the experts to explain scientific concepts to laymen, but some people latch on to the analogy as though the show is claiming this is exactly what happened (the difference between "this IS XYZ" and "this is LIKE XYZ") and then scream that the show is wrong blah blah blah. There are a few things that were changed, such as combining roughly a hundred scientists into one to make the cast easier to keep up with. Overall the show is pretty accurate with the important stuff, it gets the science right while keeping it at a level that the average person can understand.
The Best TV show for me with Breaking Bad.
I remember thousands of people were dying when i was a child in northern Turkey for years by cancer. The worst thing was some ministers were joining TV shows to drinking tea that ''its safe to drink'' advertisements. As result we lost thousands of people by getting cancer. After like 30 years im grateful to seeing whats actually happened.
Fantastic reaction, not annoying in the least, quite refreshing in fact. Greatly looking forward to the rest of your reactions to this mini-series.
I know I'm way late to this one, but I found this show fascinating, despite what I remembered from history. It gave me better perspective, dramaticized as it may be, to the events and the people involved with that herculean task never before suffered and the enginuity and sacrifice that required. Your knowledge/commentary/nerding out expanding on the subject is also good for anyone not as familiar and most welcome, so don't apologize for that. Thanks for doing this and all you do. I look forward to binging the rest.
Love that you are nerding out. There are some errors and many exagerrations, but as show, I think it is very well done about an important topic and has an important message.
I just saw all of Chernobyl for the first time. The best mini series I've ever seen. The writing, directing, the cinematography, and my God, the sound Design were top tier.
It goes to show how horrifying of an incident Chernobyl really was.
Love your reactions!
You're the first person I've watched a reaction to this show that had any knowledge of the subject beforehand.
This is the first time I heard anyone say the series was not accurate. I had actually heard they went through great lengths to make it as accurate as possible. Although they did add one extra character that did not exist in real life (a woman), and used her to represent the voice of the larger scientific community .... or something like that.
Episode 1 & 2 of this show were some of the most frustrating things I've ever watched. Brilliant.
They do,get into the Science a lot more, and especially the last episode where they go step by step through the lead up to the incident.
In theory the rbk reactor should not have exploded. A design flaw in the control rods is what caused the explosion. The tip of the control rods as it enters the reactor is made out of the same graphite they used to enhance the reaction
This the first reaction I have seen where the person watching knows what the Chernobyl event was. I am very impressed. And keep nerding out, your in depth knowledge of the subject is very refreshing!
The science is coming, although most is saved for the final episode. Also it looks great, because they actually used one of the other RBMK reactors for filming at.
I really enjoy your nerding out tbh, the enthusiasm is infectious :D
Loved the science explanations. I studied this a bit albeit for military applications (I did not design or help make any, let's be clear on that. I just had to know what to expect because daily weather reports and knowledge of the topography are important if you get even the slightest advanced warning. Sometimes the safest direction is straight towards the enemy because they're upwind and behind some hills. If you're own force is downwind in a clear line of sight, that's the worst way to go. You radio them to move even faster than you.)
Her fear for the cat already makes me worried for her when she sees the dogs.
It's fun to see someone like you who has some knowledge of the science and event react to this series. I've tried to watch several people who've no idea what's even going on try and watch this and it's not very good. Great reaction!
That ominous hummmm really makes you uneasy as if you were there yourself... movie 10000000/1 in my opinion!
I think the biggest liberty the filmmakers make with Chernobyl is casting a single character (such as a scientist) to represent the entirety of the scientific community.
Fun fact: the uranium used is 10x weaker than radium, which was once used for watch hands, you were wearing Chernobyl on your wrist
you in the start of the video:: "I'm something of a scientist myself!" :D
So the part about looking after the cat. And I have to say this since MY area of expertise is the USSR. Telling someone you had plans to kill yourself would be dangerous. You could accidently tell a KGB agent and there goes that plan. ANYTHING unorthodox done in the USSR HAD to be done alone.
I love the fact that vicky is nerding out over this ... that's exactly what I did when watching it for the first time (astrophysics graduate myself lol)
it's such an important event in human history and its done beautifully in this mini series