Chernobyl (HBO)

I am! Based on what I've read and seen about the disaster, this show is doing a pretty good job of sticking to the true story.

I'm looking forward to seeing episode 3 tonight. I loved the first two episodes. I gotta say though, its been one of the hardest shows to watch I've ever seen. I think they do an excellent job of showing the horror of the whole situation.
 
I'm enjoying it. Nuclear disasters have always fascinated and terrified me in equal parts.

There is a documentary on Amazon Prime. Part of the "Zero Hour" series (Season 1, episode 1) that recounts the hour leading up to the disaster. It's also pretty good.
 
I must say the absolute obedience to State and Party are on full display in the drama and compounded the damage in the aftermath of the explosion.
 
It's really good. I agree with @rantingredneck that the absolute obedience to the State and Party stand out perfectly. The sheer horror of a firemen picking up a graphite shell and then falling over in 2 minutes is gripping.

The glow showing through the fire, when the Pripyat citizens are looking from miles away, really hits home when the dust starts to fall with the children playing.
 
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It's really good. I agree with @rantingredneck that the absolute obedience to the State and Party stand out perfectly. The sheer horror of a firemen picking up a graphite shell and then falling over in 2 minutes is gripping.

The glow showing through the fire, when the Pripyat citizens are looking from miles away, really hits home when the dust starts to fall with the children playing.

Or the fellow being ordered to go to the roof and look down in the hole to see if the reactor is intact. When HE knew it wasn't and also knew that looking would expose him to a fatal dose of radiation immediately.
 
So i love the show. Being in the line of work i am in, its interesting. When i watched ep1 i was 50ft from a running reactor in the breakroom located in the waste process building.

Same location for ep2 too.

Lol
 
So i love the show. Being in the line of work i am in, its interesting. When i watched ep1 i was 50ft from a running reactor in the breakroom located in the waste process building.
A few years ago, I got to stand on the catwalk over a running reactor with the only thing between you and the fissioning material was the blue glowing water. It really is a pretty shade of blue.
 
Why does everyone in Russia have British accents..?


Nope... I'm out. Couldn't get through the 1st boring ass episode. Bunch of pasty cockney dudes calling each other comrade and various Russian names they can barely pronounce. Acted out like a bad British soap.... Hard to take seriously...
 
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So i love the show. Being in the line of work i am in, its interesting. When i watched ep1 i was 50ft from a running reactor in the breakroom located in the waste process building.

Same location for ep2 too.

Lol
Thought of you and the other radiation workers when I watched this the other day.

Show is good, I like it. Radiation is some scary stuff.
 
Love it so far, the first show was a little boring but once get past it, it goes fast.


The State/Party scene where the sicentist put the hammer down on the offices was pretty damn good.
 
I’m enjoying it. Creepy stuff for sure.
 
Is the show full of gore or graphic? I’m thinking any scenes of firemen melting from gamma ray exposure or touching smoldering core pieces that flew out of the reactor.

I’d like to watch with the wife, but she’s not gonna go for that. I’ll be on my own. Hoping for more storyline.
 
Is the show full of gore or graphic? I’m thinking any scenes of firemen melting from gamma ray exposure or touching smoldering core pieces that flew out of the reactor.

I’d like to watch with the wife, but she’s not gonna go for that. I’ll be on my own. Hoping for more storyline.

She might not like it. Not overly gory but it doesn’t really hold back.
 
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Is the show full of gore or graphic? I’m thinking any scenes of firemen melting from gamma ray exposure or touching smoldering core pieces that flew out of the reactor.

I’d like to watch with the wife, but she’s not gonna go for that. I’ll be on my own. Hoping for more storyline.

Episode 3 includes some visits to the hospital where the firefighters are being treated. Those scenes are very difficult to watch if you're put off by injuries, burns, or gore.
 
I binged watched 3 episodes last night when I could not watch Krypton. I have some Barry's "in the can". I watched Yellowstone pilot but I'm 1 and done with that despite Kelly Reilly getting neckid. Chernobyl is very good despite the british accents. Skarsgard is the only one who can pull it off. There is also a great documentary about building a 2nd sarcophagus over the reactor that definitely qualifies as MEGA ENGINEERING.
 
Thought of you and the other radiation workers when I watched this the other day.

Show is good, I like it. Radiation is some scary stuff.

In every day terms, though, steam is far scarier stuff when you're walking around in the plant. My personal order of energy that can hurt you working in nuclear power is steam, electricity, and radiation is a distant third.

There are some design features of the Soviet-era RBMK-4000 reactor that made the accident that much worse - namely the positive temperature coefficient of reactivity and the positive void coefficient. Also, using graphite as a moderator instead of water exacerbated the problem - namely when the reactor went prompt critical, flashed all the water to steam and blew the head of the reactor, fission didn't stop. In an American PWR (and I am assuming BWR as well), once the coolant water is gone, no moderation of neutrons continues, and the fission process stops....then you're just dealing with decay heat (which is still a lot immediately post-trip, but it's manageable).
 
In every day terms, though, steam is far scarier stuff when you're walking around in the plant. My personal order of energy that can hurt you working in nuclear power is steam, electricity, and radiation is a distant third.

There are some design features of the Soviet-era RBMK-4000 reactor that made the accident that much worse - namely the positive temperature coefficient of reactivity and the positive void coefficient. Also, using graphite as a moderator instead of water exacerbated the problem - namely when the reactor went prompt critical, flashed all the water to steam and blew the head of the reactor, fission didn't stop. In an American PWR (and I am assuming BWR as well), once the coolant water is gone, no moderation of neutrons continues, and the fission process stops....then you're just dealing with decay heat (which is still a lot immediately post-trip, but it's manageable).

Thats what RHR's are for. ;)

Steam, i have seen a steam leak cut a broom handle off like a laser. They did 1/2" sections at a time as a demo.

SCARY stuff steam is.
 
I had to watch it twice to make sure I understood everything and I still dont. Should have taken that intro to nuclear engineering when I was in school. Not. Friends of mine took it as a engineering/science elective and sweated out C's. It was hard for them and they were smarter than me. Great docu drama. If it is to be entirely believed, those arrogant ass#oles almost poisoned the entire planet. Possibly an extinction level event. This pretty much sums up the whole Soviet situation at the time: “What’s as big as a house, burns 20 liters of fuel every hour, puts out a shit-load of smoke and noise, and cuts an apple into three pieces?” a coal-smeared leader asks his fellow miners in Episode 3, and booms with laughter deliver the punchline: “A Soviet machine made to cut apples—into four pieces!”
 
Listen to the chernobyl podcast, eye opening.


The fact they almost had a thermal nuclear bomb that would of wipe out most of Europe is just crazy.

Call me stupid, crazy, nuts, etc. I would love to go there.


650,000 people used to clean up the mess. nearly 4,000 used to clear the roof top so the tomb over the reactor could start to be built. The 90 seconds they could be on the roof is the amount of radiation they could be exposed to in their life time. Radiation exposure is cumulative, it'doesn't go away.
 
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Listen to the chernobyl podcast, eye opening.


The fact they almost had a thermal nuclear bomb that would of wipe out most of Europe is just crazy.

Call me stupid, crazy, nuts, etc. I would love to go there.


650,000 people used to clean up the mess. nearly 4,000 used to clear the roof top so the tomb over the reactor could start to be built. The 90 seconds they could be on the roof is the amount of radiation they could be exposed to in their life time. Radiation exposure is cumulative, it'doesn't go away.

I knew about 99.5% of the details but I missed, in my prior research, the water build up/steam dump and the potential nuclear detonation that put Europe in jeopardy. And there were 16 other reactors like it in the USSR at the time

I would visit there also
 
I knew about 99.5% of the details but I missed, in my prior research, the water build up/steam dump and the potential nuclear detonation that put Europe in jeopardy. And there were 16 other reactors like it in the USSR at the time

I would visit there also
You can go there, via tourist company in Ukraine.


"Little Timmy and Sarah are going to Disney this year, where are you guys going?"

"We are going to Chernobyl" :D
 
Just finished the series. Really enjoyed it. Pretty interesting seeing how it happened.
 
Have not watched but have heard how phony some of it is. If people won’t buy global warming we’ll just scare them away from clean nuclear.
 
Have not watched but have heard how phony some of it is. If people won’t buy global warming we’ll just scare them away from clean nuclear.
It's very close to the actual event. So much so Russia media is disputing some of it.

Listen to the pod cats of Chernybol.
 
It's very close to the actual event. So much so Russia media is disputing some of it.

Listen to the pod cats of Chernybol.

I guess the question becomes who is producing the documentary and podcasts. Entertainment and fact might be two different things. Then againI don’t feel there is any real relevance between Western Nuclear programs and Russia.
 
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