finished the second episode. I had no idea the stuff about a thermonuclear explosion was a thing. The last scene was also very chilling.
I've been due for a replay. It is always kind of shocking when you realize you somehow haven't picked something up on a steam sale years ago.I've had an interest in Chernobyl since the Stalker games and I appreciate just how atmospheric the show is.
It's a great game, although very rough in terms of bugs. Once you reach Pripyat and the NPP you really can see how much they tried to be true to life. Its up there as one of my favourite franchises.I've been due for a replay. It is always kind of shocking when you realize you somehow haven't picked something up on a steam sale years ago.
Every single World leader along with every single person involved in the creation, construction, maitenance, and deployment of Nuclear facilities, and/or weapons should watch this series.
Holy FUCK. I knew about the effects of radiation poisoning, and I considered myself pretty well versed in how it affects human beings and how it disperses through the atmosphere, but this fucking show has really illuminated me to the actual fucking horror that it truly is.
Strike my previous remarks. Every single person alive should watch at least the first fucking episode, as if only to obtain some real understanding of the true destructive power of Nuclear radiation.
Nuclear radiation has little to do with it. The root causes of Chernobyl were basically a combination of everything that could go wrong going wrong and the staff deliberately turning safety measures off to conduct their scheduled test.Every single World leader along with every single person involved in the creation, construction, maitenance, and deployment of Nuclear facilities, and/or weapons should watch this series.
Holy FUCK. I knew about the effects of radiation poisoning, and I considered myself pretty well versed in how it affects human beings and how it disperses through the atmosphere, but this fucking show has really illuminated me to the actual fucking horror that it truly is.
Strike my previous remarks. Every single person alive should watch at least the first fucking episode, as if only to obtain some real understanding of the true destructive power of Nuclear radiation.
Dude had a whole character arc in one episode.It's a small moment but I love when Shcherbina hears about the west finding out and Germany taking public health measures while the children of Pripyat are playing right outside. Skarsgard's performance is amazing when he lets the mask of resolve briefly crack, which happens a few times in episode 2.
Every single World leader along with every single person involved in the creation, construction, maitenance, and deployment of Nuclear facilities, and/or weapons should watch this series.
Holy FUCK. I knew about the effects of radiation poisoning, and I considered myself pretty well versed in how it affects human beings and how it disperses through the atmosphere, but this fucking show has really illuminated me to the actual fucking horror that it truly is.
Strike my previous remarks. Every single person alive should watch at least the first fucking episode, as if only to obtain some real understanding of the true destructive power of Nuclear radiation.
Love this scene as well. Wrestling with the idea you won't have much time left to live because of the exposure and basically counting the end of your days. The same kind of look he gives when they're asking for permission to kill three people. Was listening to the podcast about this episode with the creator which is fascinating to listen to as well about this particular part and how the decision does take a emotional toll despite perceptions of soviets.That hotel scene when Harris said they'd be dead in 5 years was so powerful.
How much was 400 rubles back then adjusted for inflation in USD or Euros?
The real bogeyman in this case is a slow moving bureaucracy that is oftentimes more interested in covering their own asses and preferring easy lies they benefit from believing in to the hard truth. And that bogeyman is still horribly relevant today.
This is a terrific show. Have to wonder how many people this show prompted to turn to looking up info on the Internet and spending hours looking into Chernobyl and other events.
For me personally, I got to reading more about Hanford out in Eastern Washington. I'm about 240 miles away and from what I read, WOW. I didn't know some specifics, around how they need to stir the mixture "periodically" that is kept there to keep it from exploding?!
Some fun reading:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/welcome-most-toxic-place-america-n689141
https://thebulletin.org/2017/05/a-predictable-nuclear-accident-at-hanford/
you know it's a good show when just thinking about and reading about it in a thread gives you goosebumps.
I am going to pick up Voices of Chernobyl and Midnight in Chernobyl because I need more. On the official podcast the creator said he used many accounts from the Voices of Chernobyl book as inspiration, and many things didn't make it in. The reviews make it clear that it is not for the faint of heart....
They needed the electricity.
Incredibly dumb question: if someone stumbled on uranium in the wild, like in a cave, would they get radiation poisoning? Would it burn them like the graphite does in the show?
Incredibly dumb question: if someone stumbled on uranium in the wild, like in a cave, would they get radiation poisoning? Would it burn them like the graphite does in the show?
Reactor 2 was shut down in 1991, Reactor 1 in 1996 and Reactor 3 in 2000.They needed power for the country.
I think they keep them running until the end of his usefull life many years later
Urainium needs to be enriched to be used for energy generation (or for bombs) so I doubt it.Incredibly dumb question: if someone stumbled on uranium in the wild, like in a cave, would they get radiation poisoning? Would it burn them like the graphite does in the show?
Incredibly dumb question: if someone stumbled on uranium in the wild, like in a cave, would they get radiation poisoning? Would it burn them like the graphite does in the show?
They couldn't exactly shut off the power for all of Kiev.
Stellan Skarsgard knocked it out of the park in that episode. Terrifying.
It's horrifying, but not horror. It's about the real life Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster.
gotchaIt's horrifying, but not horror. It's about the real life Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster.