You know how people get weird about the word 'moist'? I never want to hear the word 'sloughed' ever again.
The denial is almost understandable. To acknowledge reality is to acknowledge that they are likely dead men walking. They cling to the delusion basically as a mental defense mechanism.
As far as we know pretty accurate. In fact, the likely unrealistic element was Sitnikov refusing Fomin's order to go to the roof and check. As far as we know he went up without protest.
Also, it should be noted that the generally accepted scientific consensus at the time was that reactors couldn't just "blow up" on a whim. They could melt down, but the idea of a massive explosion entirely destroying the reactor vessel would've been completely incomprehensible. That just adds to the denial - even seeing graphite pieces, portions of the control rod channel assembly just lying on the ground isn't enough, because that just doesn't happen. It's incredibly well portrayed here.
The scene where Dyatlov walks down the hallway with the broken windows and looks down and sees it scattered and pauses for a moment then continues is one of those perfectly wordless scenes.
Well, that's because reactors don't catastrophically detonate when suffering a LOCA.
I don't know but here in Germany it starts airing 14 May on Sky Deutschland (both TV and the streaming service). Maybe the same for the UK.
Sky/Now TV pass -it was made by Sky Atlantic as well as HBO
I felt really uneasy after watching the first episode. Reading about that is.. ugh I can't even imagine what that must've been like for him and his family.
Holy shit! I haven't listened to ScriptNotes (the screenwriting advice podcast he co-hosts) in months so I didn't know he was involved going in. It's gonna be special if it keeps the first episode's quality.Really great first episode. Also, the creator/writer was that guy:
I need to know more about this.
The dosimeter read 3.6 R/h, which as stated is not great, not horrific. Dyatlov ignored the bit about 3.6 being the limit the dosimeter was capable of reading.
Thank you, I think I get it now that we're supposed to see them again ignoring reality and dismissing how screwed they are.
Probably to let them find a minor leak or other such thing. Such as if there actually was radioactive water going out somewhere.
Seeing how they react in this episode to the obvious clues everywhere, somehow I doubt they'll respond promptly any other time.
You have to keep in mind that those clues while being obvious to us in hindsight, at the time where unthinkable. It simply was impossible for a RBMK Reactor to explode and yet it did. This was a very multifaceted situation where the unthinkable happens, with on top a thick sauce of soviet union cultism and secrecy making everything 10 times more complex.
Part of it genuinely is "how is that even possible?" but acknowledging the problem as it actually is, is also basically admitting that you (and the rest in the control room) are basically dead already. That's powerful impetus for denial.
Alright, so walk me through this to make sure I understand this correctly.
I made a reference image.
(I left Legasov off for now as might as well do a state / committee follow up image as things move forward.)
I see now, thanks.
Yeah, the show drops you right into the thick of things, and taking another run through it is rewarding (and more infuriating). For instance, when you see Dyatlov walk through that hallway with the broken windows the first time and glance down at the rubble, you know it's bad, but it's ambiguous. Second time through, you know you're looking at pieces of graphite that are supposed to be holding the rods that he immediately asking his subordinates to put back in place. And you know he knows. Shit is infuriating.
