It didn't. He got confused about the thermal explosion that could have happened taking out the 3 remaining reactors at Chernobyl...he thought they were talking about 3 other nuclear power stations
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HBO's Chernobyl |OT| Do you taste something metallic?
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It didn't. He got confused about the thermal explosion that could have happened taking out the 3 remaining reactors at Chernobyl...he thought they were talking about 3 other nuclear power stations
I love that nobody actually believes the masks will work. Even the guys who are wearing the lead underwear just leave them dangling around their necks.
Confirmed 100% sensationalism by a website that ranks its status as "Unknown."
3.6 ROENTGEN? THERE'S ENOUGH RADIATION HERE TO GIVE MY DEAD GRANDMOTHER CANCER!
*dramatic violin chord*
It's not like they died the next day, but probably had heir lives dramatically shortened due to exposure.
I wonder how it really all went down with Dyatlov that night. Surely he couldn't have been that much of a disaster. lol
I can't fucking stand the way Reddit and YouTube watches and discusses shows, movies, or whatever media. They are dens of cynicism, nhilism, and excessive over analysis.
Give me the most obnoxiously sentimental and earnest analysis any day over punchy ironic spicy takes with a superiority complex over compensating for deep insecurities.
I've tried not to be the no fun police but we're discussing it so that's my feelings.
(I don't think you are a bad person for laughing at a meme, to be clear.)
Give me the most obnoxiously sentimental and earnest analysis any day over punchy ironic spicy takes with a superiority complex over compensating for deep insecurities.
I've tried not to be the no fun police but we're discussing it so that's my feelings.
(I don't think you are a bad person for laughing at a meme, to be clear.)
The finale was incredible. Honestly I was moved by the final part of Legasov's testimony and the voice over that concluded the show was just perfection.
Hope people take the right lessons from it. (They won't.)
Hope people take the right lessons from it. (They won't.)
I'm the same, call it a blissful ignorance but I just watch a show to enjoy it, not pick it apart until I ruin it for myself. I lost interest in other people's opinion after Game of Thrones, the shit people spouted was embarrassing.
Is era better then? Because if it is I sure as shit don't need to be going to the other two.
Dyatlov's version of events shows him to be way more fastidious about safety protocols and calm than other testimonies have painted him. His statement is recorded here, it's an interesting watch.
However, his version is directly contradicted by what Toptunov and Akimov said before they died - technical decisions aside, they separately testified to Dyatlov's rage and pigheadedness when contradicted. His abrasive demeanour prior to the disaster is well documented.
His utter denial of the situation comes mostly from what Fomin and Bbryukhanov said and they had huge incentives to shift blame to him, so that's harder to nail down. In his own version, he said he knew it was bad right away (although not quite how bad.)
The series made the right call going with the version of the other operators. However, they're also fair about Dyatlov's ignorance of the scram button being a detonator instead of a failsafe.
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I don't frequent many OTs here either lol, the internet in general is a bit of a post modern ironic hell hole.
I'm also not saying irony has no place, and I'm guilty of over doing it myself. I try to avoid places that relish in it to keep myself in check.
If you are looking for the 101 course level of this stuff just watch this. Keeping in mind it is incredibly hard to walk away from actual nuclear apocalypse with out a hint of cynicism and maybe we shouldn't.
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There's a lot written at link, they discuss the rumor from a lot of different angles. It seems like an urban legend that started right after the accident and persists to this day. I would love to see firmer evidence one way or the other, but it doesn't exist. I find the discussion at that link plenty persuasive however.
its odd to me that the show would manage to find out that the 3 water drainers are not actually all dead contrary to popular opinion, but then make something up in its entirety and then double down on it in the end.
Nothing great, nothing terrible.
Perfection is what you can expect.
The writer, cast and crew reflect on the production of Chernobyl without a lot of fluff:
I particularly like director Johan Renck's take starting at 6:16.
I particularly like director Johan Renck's take starting at 6:16.
Put a google logo on Dyatlov and it's perfectI did that in the YouTube thread. Sue me
A piece of the molten core that melted through the facility and rested on a paved concrete area. The roof area that was the most dangerous place on earth was 12k rotgen. Elephant foot was 10k on its own
Just finished this and it was absolutely phenomenal. I don't think I've ever been so tense watching a TV show before.
Radiation is terrifying.
Radiation is terrifying.
I wish i could delete this serie out of my brain and watch it again for the first time. Its that good. 5 hours of the absolute best imo.
Quick question, after this happened, was there serious discussions about banning nuclear reactors?
This might be my favorite TV series ever, i'm so hooked and i'm going down a rabbit hole on google trying to scrape every little crumb of information i can get about the reactor.
This might be my favorite TV series ever, i'm so hooked and i'm going down a rabbit hole on google trying to scrape every little crumb of information i can get about the reactor.
Yes. Italy held a series of referendums following the incident and all power plants were subsequently shut down. Sweden had already held a non-binding referendum following the 1979 Harrisburg incident, in which the question was not if but rather how we should phase out nuclear power. So discussions were already taking place - and still are to this day.