Chernobyl Episode 2 * FULL LENGTH REACTION
Added 2023-11-06 16:30:01 +0000 UTCLet the frustration continue 😠😢
Such a masterpiece, I hope you enjoy!
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Comments
It does seem like the level of danger wasn't quite understood, which is horrible :(
Verowak
2024-07-17 16:11:47 +0000 UTCI'm not sure the plant workers were told how serious the danger was. If they weren't successful, everyone would die in the explosion anyway. That would have made the decision a bit easier.
David Martin
2024-07-16 18:58:03 +0000 UTCJust wanted to say thanks to the commenters for all of the extra facts and info provided, I find them very interesting reading
James Hadden
2023-11-07 14:18:33 +0000 UTCYeah I wasn't sure that radiation would be able to destroy a helicopter and I thought I saw the helicopter hit something but wasn't sure. Definitely the pilot wouldn't have been able to see anything in that plume of black smoke
Verowak
2023-11-07 02:41:12 +0000 UTCThey were all under the impression that it was impossible for the core to explode, so an emergency plan was probably not even a thought, which is scary. Just have to adapt and act VERY fast and hope it all works out 😨That's NOT reassuring lol
Verowak
2023-11-07 02:40:23 +0000 UTCIf that's the guy that went with the high range dosimeter, then that makes sense. Those are the kind of leaders that stand out and people want to follow for sure, like Winters.
Verowak
2023-11-07 02:39:09 +0000 UTCYeah I assumed 15,000 was the max it could read since it's a round number lol I feel like the iodine pills at the hospital would not be enough to help those that were working close to the Chernobyl explosion/nuclear plant
Verowak
2023-11-07 02:36:53 +0000 UTCAlways remember the motto of the Slavic people for the last 1000 years: "And Then It Got Worse"
JAKH
2023-11-06 19:52:39 +0000 UTCNo spoilers Colonel-General Pikalov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Pikalov) did tremendous work during the incident, and the show does not emphasize enough his contribution. Colonel-General was the Soviet title for 4-star general rank. He was a "lead from the front" type of officer, a WW2 vet, and took care of his troops. One of the stories about him is that when he arrived at Chernobyl, he made his driver get out at the first checkpoint and drove himself around because "you don't have children yet". Afterwards, he received the Soviet Union's highest military award, Hero of the Soviet Union, equivalent to the US's Medal of Honor or Commonwealth's Victoria Cross.
JAKH
2023-11-06 19:39:43 +0000 UTCNo spoilers: The small dosimeters maxed out at 3.6 roentgen. The dosimeter from the military firefighting unit maxed out at 200 roentgen. The "good" dosimeter from the safe at Chernobyl maxed out at 1000 roentgen The high range dosimeter attached to the truck read 15,000 roentgen, but what they didn't tell you in the show was that this was the maximum reading for this dosimeter also. The real level was somewhere above 15,000, but they never got a reading with a dosimeter with a higher maximum range. Also consider that at the beginning of the episode, the alarm at the Minsk institute sounded at 8 milli-roentgen (0.008 roentgen), that reading was enough to make them quickly take iodine pills, and the first power plant that Ulana called was concerned about their own reading of 4 milli-roentgen, compared to the 15k+ reading at Chernobyl.
JAKH
2023-11-06 19:24:38 +0000 UTCOf every disaster/catastrophe the world has seen there has never been a full proof emergency plan that has been fully effective. It’s sad that we have to learn after the mistakes have been made. Is there anything we should be worried about? Nope. It’s already too late. Can’t do anything about it now. The scariest part of this episode is that I do remember that a type of lava could develop and they would truly be S O L. in that case.
Billy Dancel
2023-11-06 19:07:51 +0000 UTCA lot of people watching the show assume the heli fell apart because of radiation but it actually hit the crane next to the power plant with it's blades. There is real footage of that heli crashing on youtube.
King_Panarisi
2023-11-06 18:30:44 +0000 UTCOh and incase it wasn’t clear, the helicopter crash wasn’t directly from the radiation/smoke damaging it like a lot of people assume. It’s a bit hard to see but it clips the cable of the nearby crane with its rotors (you can barely see the cable snap/a load fall from it). The smoke/rush to minimize time in the radiation probably contributed though.
RocktSurgeon
2023-11-06 18:06:59 +0000 UTCNo spoilers to this, just about the episode following up on my earlier comment about one thing that they got wrong- The steam explosion size/area of damage is what I mentioned being wildly wrong. The explosion force being “2-4 megatons” (equivalent TNT) is orders of magnitude off. It’s not a nuclear explosion, “just” a huge steam explosion (that would also spread radioactive material). Keep in mind that the nuclear weapons used in WWII were 14 kilotons, 1/140th of that estimate. Estimates I’ve seen from physicists have said that a worst case Chernobyl steam explosion would have been more like 500 tons which is about the upper end of estimates I’ve seen of the Beirut explosion. So still very very bad, but not the 30km radius of complete destruction. For that matter even an actual 2 megaton nuclear explosion would “only” completely destroy 5-10km radius, it would take the largest bomb ever detonated (the 50MT Tsar Bomba by USSR) to match the estimate they give. The actual ~1/2 kiloton would be more like 400m radius. I have seen at least some accounts that at least one Soviet scientist did present that as the potential number, but looked back out of curiosity and honestly I don’t think it’s at all reasonable to use that high estimate. It is really only given in one shaky source by one scientist who was not at the center of the discussions, and directly contradicts Legasov’s accounts of what was considered at the time. Most of the show is pretty accurate but they do tend to cherry pick the most sensationalist option a number of times. Yes it’s a dramatization (that I do love overall!) but it’s taken as essentially factual by the average viewer and spreading wrong information knowing it will be assumed true is never a good thing.
RocktSurgeon
2023-11-06 17:49:24 +0000 UTC
