Television Chernobyl

[CFC]

I just saw the final episode today. I thought it was about as good as the hype made it out to be, just great TV all round and extremely engrossing to watch.

 

[CoastTwoCoast]

Yessss!!!

I watched the finale today as well. I didn't know all the details about Chernobyl and it's great how they break it all down. The acting is outstanding.

The episode where they had to kill all of the contaminated animals was especially brutal, but the episode was done so well.

I watched some Chernobyl children in the mental asylum on YouTube. The babies absorbed the radiation instead of the mother. It's really sad to see.

Their government is still whitewashing the whole situation to this day. It's infuriating.

Every one should see this show. TV is way too good. Why leave the house? lol

 

[CFC]

Yeah I agree, this was pretty special, extremely well acted and directed, and I also really appreciated the effect of actors speaking in their natural accent, it added an unexpectedly authentic feel. Definitely made up for some of my disappointment with GoT this season

 

[CoastTwoCoast]

Yeah I agree, this was pretty special, extremely well acted and directed, and I also really appreciated the effect of actors speaking in their natural accent, it added an unexpectedly authentic feel.

There was such great chemistry between the actors who played Valery Legasov and Boris Shcherbina. It's better to go back and watch the very first scene with Valery Legasov in episode 1 after seeing how the series ended. It makes that 1st scene much more powerful and haunting after getting to know who the guy is.

Definitely made up for some of my disappointment with GoT this season

Same here!

 

[jpgrdnr]

Great solid HBO TV!

 

[cj]

It was really good! HBO is usually fire. The second and third episodes where amazing. The fourth episode i was luke warm on but it ended strong

 

[CoastTwoCoast]

It was unbelievable how Dyatlov could be such an incompetent cunt. He broke every single one of the rules.

 

[cj]

Yeah for sure coasttwocoast. It ws unbelievable to me how the plant managers reacted in the meeting.

 

[mal3volent]

Not read any comments yet, but I can't wait to watch this show. Looks amazing. Hopefully I will be able to soon.

 

[ChickenScratch]

Loved it. This is interesting

Russia To Air Patriotic Version Of Chernobyl; Jacques Audiard To Direct First TV Drama; Sight & Sound Editor Steps Down — Global Briefs

Russian state TV channel NTV is soon to air its own drama version about the deadly 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Unlike the hit HBO series, this more obviously pro-Russian Chernobyl will claim that a CI…

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[CoastTwoCoast]

^ Hmmm, so Russia is making their own version of Chernobyl to continue whitewashing the entire tragedy? Sounds about right. That's what they do.


I heard the visits to Chernobyl have spiked since the HBO show. A lot of people are taking an interest in going over there. I wouldn't, it's too bleak. Plus, I don't want to go somewhere I'd have to still take strict precautions to avoid radiation. Doesn't sound like fun.

 

[JoshuaSnyder]

The best series as for me. Very clearly shows the price of lies, the price of human life. Chernobyl is the biggest technological catastrophe and I think that we also need to know that somewhere in Ukraine there was an explosion that touched not only America but the whole world.

 

[Lucy20]

I haven't checked it out yet but 5 years ago i went on a Chernobyl tour (yup they exist)
We couldn't go in to far and had to carry Geiger meters and wear a hazmat suit.
I saw the creepiest classroom in the world though, littered with gas mask and broken desk.
The Russian government has done nothing for the victims. Hell they didn't even evacuate the town before powering down (wtf were they thinking) the reactors.

 

[Jekyl Anhydride]

? You really need to see the whole series and how one arrogant man + a poorly designed RBMK reactor nearly wiped out the whole continent with a blast that would have equaled several megatons and have melted into the earth contaminating the water supply, poisoning a major portion of the planet. Workers had to volunteer to die a horrible death to help stop further catastrophe. It scared the hell out of me. 15,000 Röntgens was disseminating from the exposed core and graphite fragments from fuel channels. That's 2 Hiroshima bombs worth every hour for months. The death toll, including early cancers was estimated to be from 10's to hundreds of thousands, the Soviets report it at 31 to this day.

This is a must see. ?

A little info on the RBMK graphite tipped control rod reactors, in other words a bargain brand reactor.

RBMK Reactors – Appendix to Nuclear Power Reactors
(Updated June 2019)

• The RBMK is an unusual reactor design, one of two to emerge in the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
• The design had several shortcomings, and was the design involved in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
• Major modifications have been made to RBMK reactors still operating.

The Soviet-designed RBMK (reaktor bolshoy moshchnosty kanalny, high-power channel reactor) is a water-cooled reactor with individual fuel channels and using graphite as its moderator. It is also known as the light water graphite reactor (LWGR). As with a boiling water reactor (BWR), water boils in the fuel channels (at about 6.9 MPa) and steam is separated above them in a single circuit. It is very different from most other power reactor designs as it derived from a design principally for plutonium production and was intended and used in Russia for both plutonium and power production.
The combination of graphite moderator and water coolant is found in no other power reactors in the world. As the Chernobyl accident showed, several of the RBMK's design characteristics – in particular, the control rod design and a positive void coefficient – were unsafe. A number of significant design changes were made after the Chernobyl accident to address these problems.




RBMK's still in operation:

 

[CFC]

I enjoyed this documentary on Chernobyl, which kind of integrates the TV series with actual footage and interviews with survivors:

 

[Jekyl Anhydride]

^nice, shows the miniseries was fairly close to the mark along with seeing people who lived through it.
The miners, the tons of highly radioactive debris on the roof tops and the removal volunteers condemned to a horrible death, plus the ability of Gamma Rays to destroy electrical circuits stood out to me.

Along with what would've happened if #4 fuel fire hit the water, took out the other 3 reactors and changed the earth for a few centuries at least.

 

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected! Just watched it because my parents did and I wanted to watch something with them, but really liked it. It was interesting, too. I didn't know too much about Chernobyl (apart from the basics) as it happened before I was born.
I did think think episode 4 sucked ass, though. Just the wrong combination of boring and depressing.
Otherwise, great show (y)

 

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

^nice, shows the miniseries was fairly close to the mark along with seeing people who lived through it.
The miners, the tons of highly radioactive debris on the roof tops and the removal volunteers condemned to a horrible death, plus the ability of Gamma Rays to destroy electrical circuits stood out to me.

Along with what would've happened if #4 fuel fire hit the water, took out the other 3 reactors and changed the earth for a few centuries at least.

I had no idea gamma-rays could destroy non-living things. I knew it could make everything radioactive (like Marie Curies books on radiation that are STILL too radioactive to read) but not that they could actually destroy electrical circuits.

 

[Jekyl Anhydride]

Yeah wasn't that a trip? Basically anything smaller than a light switch shorting out was def new to me also. Like yourself I only had facile knowledge of what happened, but I will never forget it after this.

"The states official position is there can never be a nuclear accident in the USSR" .Their political stance on more than just this was/ is astounding.

 

[Lucy20]

Im 1/2 way through and its an eye opener that for sure.
Thanks for the recommendation