Chernobyl (2019) - Fire brigade at Chernobyl | Episode 1
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2019
- In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes.
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The equivalent of holding 4 million X rays in your hand
drpapa26 not great not horrifying
And getting severely burned after holding it for 15 seconds...... even when wearing a protective glove.
Alessandro Gordillo the gamma waves can penetrate concrete and steel I’m pretty sure a leather glove won’t matter
Ya from what I read it takes several inches of lead to stop gamma rays and then some. Gamma rays are short wave lengths can penetrate through you like paper. It’s scary when one thinks about it, something you can’t see having that much power to destroy you, either fast or slowly.
@@elizabethfigueroa6159 - nothing really "stops" gamma rays. They just get weaker and weaker as they travel through material (especially dense material, like lead)
Those poor guys had no idea what they were getting into.
"Do you taste metal?"
Some firefighter also reported pain like pins and needles being stabbed in his faces when he was on the scene
HoodiePlayer Fortunately for him, he survived. Sadly, a lot of his fellow firemen weren't as lucky.
@@matthewchristiansen9978 What are you talking about. Vasily died.
There was another firefighter who was interviewed later who reported having the sensations that lived.
the fact that this really happened make this scene 10000x harder to watch.
Makes me re watch it over and over
No it really doesn't
What's worse is that they had absolutely no clue what they were dealing with.
anonymous69 Yet the actions of the brave Firefighters and Liquidators not only saved Ukraine they Prevented half of Europe from becoming a radioactive wasteland
The Soviet Authorities managed to save 50,000 people in the days that followed
@@farkbett699 it really does tho
The fact that he just picked up a piece of graphite from the reactor is terrifying to watch.
So, can someone tell me, what is the thing with the graphite? I mean, why does the fact the is there means that the reactor exploded?
@@viniciusmarchetti6924 The only place where graphite was used in the power plant was inside the reactor core. So the only way that the graphite was blown all over the place is an explosion because otherwiese it would be still in the core.
@@Aarthas100 Owh, I see, thank you!
@@viniciusmarchetti6924 Oh and fun fact, if you look real closely you can see small bits of what look likes blue liquid, I read on a comment somewhere not sure if it was on this vid or not but the fact that there was still that blue fluid there meant that that piece of graphite was EXTREMEEEEELY radiated. Misha held this thing for 13 seconds, imagine what would've happened if he held it 10 or 20 more seconds longer....
@@terrypennington2519 I wish I could imagine, but I don't know how radiation works , I mean, I know that every single firefighters there died, but, what else could happen? '-'
You can already see the effects of the radiation, it’s very subtle when you see the firefighters they are rushing in their movements are fast, then the next shot their movements have become slower, lethargic, they have that radiation tan...poor souls never stood a chance.
Yeah. Their skin is reddish..
I didn't notice that but yah... You can see the life leaving them
Well, you aren't running either at the end of your shift. They wasted energy, of course they will move slower
@@Cx10110100 read a bit and you'll find that these men literally died fighting on the line, dragged from it in most cases. But sure they were just tired
Tasting metal is also a subtle hint of radiation exposure.
As a former fireman this really scares the crap out of me they had no idea they were literally standing inside of a nuclear reactor Core
jonathan lavezzi
Their uniforms still lay where they were dumped in the now abandoned hospital.
Their uniforms STILL emit deadly radiation.
Putting them on will probably kill you still.
equarg some idiot has since stolen a bunch of them.
Levi Heidle
🤦♀️ They must of had a suicide wish.
I don’t what would kill you first, the radiation or the radioactive pissed off ghosts! 😣
Yea, no sane collector would want THAT in their house!
Who ever took that is gonna get an exotic cancer in the near future. Those things were still HOT. ☢️
@@equarg Actual radiation worker here, they're unquestionably hot but not deadly at this point. From what I saw, the dose rate coming off is somewhere on the order of 5mG/hr. Hazardous yes, but it wouldn't kill you without being worn nonstop for days on end.
Addison Guynn
Yea.......no.
Still a stupid 💩 idea to take those.
It’s a liability minimally, it’s greedy, callous, and disrespectful at the max.
Many of the fire fighters who wore those either died horrible within in days or not to long afterwards.
Not my idea of a damn souvenir in my opinion....or loot.
Those cloths were touched by death in my opinion.
It’s like taking a plaster cast from one of the victims from Vesuvius and putting in your house for decoration!!
No. Just no.😠
Taking one hat or article of cloths for a museum to educate the world (lots of safety precautions) is one thing.
But to take those cloths....or anything else from the site is just a bad idea in my book.
They say everything has a price.
But for me, there are some things money can not buy/should not buy!
Radiation soaked cloths worn by dying men is one of those things.
Before watching Chernobyl: Huh, that's a weird looking rock
After watching Chernobyl: *PANICKED SCREAMING*
I kept rewatching those few seconds - they are more deeply and viscerally upsetting than any horror film. Knowing the implication, knowing what Mischa is holding, it makes the bottom of your stomach drop out.
I know it's a joke but graphite is perfectly fine in nature
@@ryanhopf8324 Right up until it's been thoroughly irradiated, sure.
firefighters who arrived at the scene of the explosion and started combating the fire
Vladimir Pravik - Died May 11, 1986
Victor Kibenok - Died May 11, 1986
Leonid Telyatnikov - Lived longest among these firemen, which is a
miracle in itself. Died in 2005 of Chernobyl-related cancer.
Vasiliy Ignatenko - Died May 13, 1986. In 2006 posthumously awarded the
title Hero of Ukraine.
Nikolay Vaschuk - Was instrumental in preventing fire from reaching
reactor number 3. Died with the rest of his crew on the same day. Hero
of Ukraine.
Nikolay Titenok - Died May 16, 1986. Hero of Ukraine
Leonid Shavrey - Miraculous recovery in the facility in Kyiv. Had bone
marrow partially replaced which help the organism and DNA to fight off
radiation exposure and sickness.
Ivan Shavrey - The younger brother of Leonid. Also survived by
miraculous treatment in Kyiv. Again, partial replacement of bone marrow.
Petro Shavrey - The oldest brother. Also survived.
Alexander Lelechenko - Electrician technician of Chernobyl NPP. Was
responsible for preventing an additional hydrоgen explosion. Received
lethal dose of radiation and died on May 7, 1986. Hero of Ukraine.
Valery Khodemchuk - Pump room engineer. Died immediately with the
reactor explosion. His body is forever entombed under reactor number 4.
Eddie Vargas Given that bacteria are killed by UV rays alone, do you think his body would still be recognizable after all this time, since it has to be a sterile environment in there?
KJ Mérida No, if radiations are still powerful enough to kill bacteria, they would have destroyed everything left.
And I don’t believe it’s a sterile environment.
Eddie Vargas Thank you for mentioning these. Those men deserve to be recognised and remembered for their sacrifice.
What about Misha, that guy who hold a piece of graphite for 13 seconds?
Dude the Shavrey are thought as fck man .
This is more horrifying than any horror movie could ever be
I agree. The fact that we know what's happening and they don't makes it extremely tense.
Because it actually happened.
And more so because it really happened, and the long-term consequences will still be ongoing for centuries to come…
Watch the movie "Threads."
Because it’s all real. I watched a documentary about the hospital staff that were supposed to treat the people,…. Then realizing they couldn’t… these people were actual physical nuclear waste and deadly, and there was nothing they could do for them. The trauma in one nurse’s voice because she said they were all scared and they couldn’t even comfort them or come near them. The ship has sailed. That is a horrific story in itself.
“Do you taste metal”
Poor guys
So true... the biorobots had metallic taste in their mouth for the rest of their life.
TET2005 oh no that makes it worse 😞
@@whatsupfuckers4078 When they were up in the reactor roof, they could not even feel their teeth... it was numb.
TET2005 thats hella crazy. Respect to the men who died
Aleksei Smirnov it said metal 🙄
I feel very bad for them, these innocent guys risk their lives just to protect the city, without knowing the consequences
Nobody knows the consequences
I think the fact they’re risking their lives being common knowledge says they pretty much knew the consequences. They did what they had to do in spite of it. Most men don’t. That’s what makes these heroically brave guys.
Reality of fire mens
This thing normally goes over what men fire are for. Even the most incredible fire is nothing compared to this. These kind of radiations are absolutely the most terrible threat in the universe
@@emanuelelamattina4264 The way he died was the most painful part , I still suppose how he had experienced the terrible pain before dying
He held the piece of graphite for 13 seconds
I wonder how many times that would've killed him
No it was 10 seconds
dak don Tell me how is 1:15 to 1:28 10 seconds?
That's not great, but not terrible.
drpapa26 im being told it’s equivalent to that of a chest x-ray
Watches Chernobyl once:
You know I’m something of a Nuclear Physicist myself
ahaha :D:D
Hello Norman.
The first time you watch you know that they are in danger, but it isn't until later that you realize the fire fighters were dead the second they got out of the trucks
Before that, even.
This is similar to watching the Titanic I think, you as the viewer already know what's going to happen. You know the radiation is there. You know what those men are walking right into but all you can do is just watch it happen.
Foundation's Oversight they were dead when they got in the dang trucks
not really. to have ARS you need to absorb at least 100 R which meant 6min of being where they were and to die they had to be there fot 15min at least. But well they were probably much longer
Believe it or not a lot of people knew how dangerous radiation was, BEFORE, watching this show. You would have been one of the people looking at the pretty lights and playing in the falling ash, I'm sure.
Several things that make this scene more horrifying:
- They're walking to an OPEN RADIOACTIVE CORE
- One of them _picked up a radioactive graphite piece_
- "Do you taste metal?"
- Notice how the water _evaporates_ .
The taste of metal is especially bad. It basically indicates the beginning of the radiation's damage to your brain (gustatory cortex). It'll cause you to think you taste nothing but metal all over your tongue.
The water evaporates? I did not see that. That’s actually horrifying.
@@rayanouchraa6720 Yeah that water isn't doing shit.
@@johnnyboy3390 I heard that the taste of metal is the radiation ripping apart the oils and proteins in your mouth and nose. Metal doesn't have any smell since it is not volatile, what you are smelling is the products of a reaction catalyzed by the metal, or radiation.
I could be wrong tho and I'm always happy to be corrected.
@@rayanouchraa6720 the core was burning at thousands of degrees (someone more smarter will probably provide the stats) so essentially any form of water-based extinguishing wouldn't work.
The story of how they put out the fire is very fascinating due to how chemicals would interact with the core.
Re-watching this scene after being a few episodes in and watching him pick up that piece of graphite like it’s nothing makes my skin crawl!! Poor guys.
That stung my hands just watching that scene
It made his melt.
I wish they included the scene where the commander (Leonid Telyatnikov) went and demanded answers about what was happening to his men
I know. It skipped a couple hours ahead then to the next night. I would have like to see who or what was happening at the reactor. Cause clearly the fire fighters and crew got very ill very quick so it would have been interesting to see how the higher ups responded to that. If I remember right the crews of the other reactors stayed to run their reactors.
I know in one episode they Teo Vasily’s Wife that they got “gas” poisoning, that’s the excuse they gave to people about the firefighters getting sick.
If there was ever one day to call in sick...
Never seen so much death with no actually death on screen💀
These firemen died the most horrible death pain and they did not expected what they were in a dangerous nuclear catastrophe. Rest in Peace to all the firemen who were the first responders to that tragedy. These men were brave, heroic, and they sacrificed their lives to save the world from the deadly radioation poisoning.
They didn't sacrifice their life, the people who knew and didn't warn them sacrificed them instead
@@TRG_TheRantingGerman 🤓
@@akilaathi458at least he's being helpful and giving out information, tell me, what have you done besides throw some nerd emojis here and there?
@@soldier3157🤓 "at least he's being helpful and giving out information, tell me, what have you done besides throw some nerd emojis here and there?"
@@akilaathi458 exactly what I thought, go touch grass boy
I love the pulsating "vroom" sounds beginning at 3:32 They captured the sheer power of radiation perfectly. Like a giant monster lurking within the reactor. The audio was eerily fantastic. 💯
The subtle static and random ticking noises were A+
not just giant, invisible
Really good sound design yeah. It's important to have that to show the horror of a threat that can't attack you.
I think what makes radiation so terrifying for me though is that you can't hear it. You could trip over a fuel rod tomorrow, be instantly dead, and not know a thing until your skin starts falling off.
Dosimeters feel almost Lovecraftian. As if you're getting access to knowledge of dangers about the world that we shouldn't be able to hear or see.
There is a monster within the reactor. It’s called the Elephant’s Foot.
Yeah i love how they made the reactor itself like a terrifying horror movie monster.
“Do you taste metal” is the most horrifying line I’ve ever heard.
True Heroes. Nothing more, and certainly, nothing less to be said.
Steven Vertessen not heroes, they was victims. If they knew what happened there and decided to go - that’s another point
@@user-zh3pz3up2y oh so they're not heroes? Nice joke man
@@user-zh3pz3up2y Their sacrifices alongside Chernobyl Liquidators and soviet crews working to suppress further contamination are all heroes. They still stood their ground and provided aid and initial support for the cleanup of Chernobyl
@@hulkbelowall9532 most of the "heroes" buried on all cemeteries around the world don´t deserve the title. They´re victims, made heroes only for propaganda purpose. Because it sounds better, when told "These people died as heroes", than "We sent these people to death".
Like he said, they weren't heroes, they didn't choose to sacrifice themselves, they had no idea, they were victims
I was a firefighter for 10 years. I cant tell you how many times someone on the engine company (including myself) would just casually pick up a curious something or another and ask “hey guys…what the fuck is this?”
I couldn't help but laugh a little because thats just what firemen do. Our Captain would literally say “I dont know, stop fucking with it and get back to work”
Despite the small laugh this really was a poignant scene for me to watch. I do habe coworkers that would get diagnosed with cancer It did make me tear up a little.
Tough stuff.
It just so happened that on that night the firefighter that got curious and picked something up was given enough radiation to kill him 4 times over
Thanks for sharing this, makes me wonder if they consulted with firefighter/s about their work and habits to get this level of detail.
1:24 "don't fuck around with it" wise words.
This music when he approached up to the circulating pumps...greeting death
There should be a yearly memorial ceremony every year in Europe in honour of all these brave men!! :( - We owe them so much!
Everywhere
Am I seeing things or was Vasily's face turning more red as he got closer to the roof?
Yep. Exposure caused them to develop radiation burns on their faces. I REALLY wish that was as bad as it got.
@@matthewchristiansen9978 I read comments saying it's was essentially 4 million x-rays through your hand. Is that a true assessment?
dbabbitt25 yep. Pretty much. They were exposed to 15.000 roentgen per hour, which is two times the Hiroshima atomic bomb‘s output.
@@violentscorl697 More, 15k is max on the meter
Yeah, it's radiation tan, the same thing that causes you to get a real tan but in a larger dose (radiation from the sun is mostly deflected by the earth's magnetic shield)
He was thinking about his wife , he wanted to protect her
My father was a Chernobyl first responder. His name was Nikolai borchokokh he was a firefighter in the military fire and rescue unit in Kiev region. He arrived at the plant 20 mins after the explosion. When he got off the truck, he saw a black shiny material. He kicked it with his boot to get a better look. As the hours passed, he began to vomit uncontrollably. He said that it got so hot that he had to take off his equipment. After another hour he was so sick that he had diarrhoea that poured out of him. He was so sick that he had to get carried off to the ambulance. Once he got to the Pripyat hospital, he had to wait for hours before he could see a doctor or a nurse. When he was in the lobby he and the others got handed a anti nausea pill. Once he got seen, he was airlifted to hospital number 6 in Moscow. When we went to see him we were denied access many times. Once we saw him he looked fine. He told me this story. Then he died 3 weeks later. RIP father. God bless
RIP. Your dad is a true hero who helped to save many other lives in the days to come.
Thank you. He has never been honoured. I moved to Canada from Ukraine 18 years ago. I lived in Pripyat for 3 years but I mostly lived in a village. When I saw the series I immediately thought of him and how much they suffered.
Why are you lying? You are a Kid showing of his air soft guns. Wtf is wrong with you
Your father is a hero, as far as I’m concerned, being the first responder for these kinds of disasters is the hardest job, but pushing through it is what makes people heroes. From one Canadian to another, You have my eternal sympathy.
Their clothes are still in the basement of Pripyat hospital. Just as they were tossed there on 4-26-86.
The Firefighters equipment, most notably their boots: are still dangerously radioactive to this day. And they will remain that way for another 10,000 years. And it's only been 33 years since the disaster. Let that sink in.
That's not how irradiated materials work.
Radioactive materials (including normal materials exposed to radiation) are either ionizing or not. The latter are harmless. If they're ionizing, their danger is directly related to the rate of particle emission. More emission, more danger.
And particle emission is a function of radioactive decay: the faster a material decays the more particles are emitted and the more dangerous it is.
But that means you CANNOT have something thst is "dangerously radioactive" AND have is exist for long. The two are diametrically opposed.
If it's dangerous it has a short half life and thus won't be dangerous to long. Conversely, if it lasts a long time, it has a long half life and is mostly safe.
In the case of the fire equipment, it's metals that were exposed to neutron and alpha particles. They become fairly dangerous as a result.
But they'll be safe to handle before the 22nd century. I.e. about 100 years or less from exposure. NOT 10,000 years from now.
Stuff that has a half life of 1,000 or more years is safe to pick up with your bare hand. I wouldn't recommend ingesting it but it's fine to handle.
The stuff that's dangerous is are the things with a half life of a decade or so or less.
Whoever was responsible for calling in the fire brigade deserved to be hanged for this if they *actually* knew that the core exploded and were in denial about it
It doesn’t seem like they knew. I think at this point it was still too soon for most people to know the truth. Even if they had a feeling, most didn’t know just had bad this would be. Nothing like this had ever happened before. All they knew was that there was an explosion & a fire that needed to be put out.
KelBell812
Yeah, hindsight is always 20/20. It’s heartbreaking that those poor men had to endure what they did. Those RBMK reactors were apparently insanely flawed. I’m not an expert, just something I heard recently in a video of a college professor lecturing about nuclear reactor meltdowns. He said no sane nation would allow such a reactor to operate within their borders.
They didn't, that's why everybody got so close to it because they didn't know the dangers.
Then again it's Soviet Union so you have a bias against them and blame them for knowing the dangers and letting people die anyways.
@@pauldenino2560 I don't find myself feeling anti-soviet sentiment at all watching this. I see it as simply individuals who were selfish and callously deflecting responsibility at the costs of others' lives, at least at the beginning with the graphite issue.
Everyone should feel resentment towards the USSR, now Russia hasn't even changed much since. The government are a bunch of evil corrupt motherfuckers for the most part. This isn't an isolated incident, this is Russia in a nutshell even today. Citizens do what their told because they've been oppressed
Seeing Vasili basically disintegrate later in the show makes this scene horrific.
Can we take a moment to appreciate at how well made the effects/stage is as well? It feels like you're actually there, even from the safety of your own home
You can see the ionized air glow through the fire over the reactor at 4:20... terrifying
Some helicopter pilot (who later died of cancer, I cannot remember his name), said in Readers Digest he saw a column of blue light rise towards the sky as he looked behind him while he was flying away from reactor 4 after completing his mission. He also said his meter recorded 300 roentgens per hour while flying near the reactor and it terrified him. Very strange that glow was sometimes blue, sometimes yellow. Maybe depended on time of the day too. Or maybe yellow glow is one of the only things that is inaccurate in that movie. Don't really know.
Anatoli Zakhraov: a fireman stationed in Chernobyl since 1980, offers a different description in 2008: "I remember joking to the others, 'There must be an incredible amount of radiation here. We'll be lucky if we're all still alive in the morning.'"[63] He also stated: "Of course we knew! If we'd followed regulations, we would never have gone near the reactor. But it was a moral obligation-our duty. We were like kamikaze" The explosion set bitumen on fire which was used in the roof construction against safety regulations, resulting in 5 separate blazes burning over Reactor 3, which threatened the cooling system for that reactor. The supervisor of the night shift wanted to shut it down, but was ordered by Fomin to keep it operating, and gave the crew respirators and potassium iodide pills. At 0500, he made the decision on his own to shut down Reactor 3 and only kept a small crew in charge of emergency cooling operations.
"Do you taste metal ?" I swear if I'm gonna hear these words ever in my life i will shit my pants
Because taste of metal in the mouth is actually a verdict. Too late to escape the radiation sickness. Death or disability worse than death are already guaranteed.
They taste graphite 📏📏
These poor men received a lethal dose of radiation within 48 seconds of stepping out of the truck. Mind blowing.
1:17 PUT IT DOWN NOOOOOW!!!!!
even getting that close.. still
1:12, DON'T YOU DARE TO TOUCH IT!
Don't fuck around with it!!!!!
That poor bastard who unknowingly picks up the graphite and within minutes, starts screaming like his arm is being eaten alive-that shit always manages to horrify me.
This part of the show, literally was one of the scariest things I've ever watched
This is absolutely scary 0:06 The fire brigade had no idea what they were heading towards
Its their jobs to Save the pepole right
Berkelele but their death shouldn’t have happened if mighty people with big ego’s could have just admitted that the core was open
There like cattle being heard to the slaughter house and they don’t even know it
4:04 that scene breaks my heart. When he stops for a second and lyudmila looks out the window
In December 1983, when Ignalina Unit 1 came online, a design flaw of the RBMK was noticed for the first time. When the graphite-moderated tips on its control rods were entered into the reactor, they immediately caused a power excursion. Unit 1's control rods did not get stuck; they reached the bottom of the reactor, and the boron in the control rods stopped the nuclear reaction. Other nuclear organizations and RBMK plants were informed of the problem, but it was not addressed until after a similar power surge partly caused the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster. The subsequent modifications were tested at Ignalina during 1987 and 1988. - Wiki
This show was filmed at Ignalina.
That column of trucks marching toward the reactor is a convoy of men heading to their deaths.
The firefighters, their clothes, their equipment, hoses, helmets, fire trucks, gloves and whatever they could grab.
They were all sponges, soaking up all the radiation from the air into themselves. 😨
*Sponges 100m below the Surface.
The Dosis was/is just Mind breakingly High
Most of the equipment, abandoned as radiactive waste, was in fact stolen. Look at the photographs of vehicles abandoned in Chernobyl - parts including engines stolen, all stores looted. Many people have radioactive parts and items at home not knowing, or was stolen in Chernobyl zone. For example TV sets from stores in Prypjat were sold in Kiev area for years.
@@petrberanek4230 correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the equipment of the firefighters still laying in the basement of the hospital? (where they also dumped it in the show)
@@tuffilaro1565 Problem is that those aren't sealed and left for looting,so many were stolen by tourists and thieves.
Tuffilaro Yes they are, they are still highly radioactive...you can find videos of people going in there...
the fact that he picked up a piece of the reactor core is scary
The fact they didn't know what really happened and how high radiation is, is fucking scary too.
"Don't fuck around with it." Wise words to live by.
00:10 you can se the radiation ionizing the air...
yes
They destroyed a nuclear power plant to shoot the film
-_-
Sherlock people : eYy İtS jUsT pRoBaBlY a GrEeNsCrEeN!!
@@kv2674 Actually, my opinion is it's an abandoned nuclear power plant.
Okay. I made a little research and found out that the Filming team used Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant as Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
It is said that Ignalina's construction and nuclear reactors are similar to Chernobyl's.
Chernobyl's reactors are RMBK-1000. Ignalina's reactors are RMBK-1500.
EDIT: Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant also got abandoned, by the way.
They used ignalina reactor to shoot many scenes including the channel caps jumping up and down lol not sure how they did that
It's terrifying when you see them turn red from the radiation.
That moment at 1:12 when he picked up the chunk of graphite is more terrifying than any horror movie ever could be.
More scary than a Friday the 13th scene filled with blood
The block was probably still fissioning also
Nice, bring modern politics into a discussion where there was no need to. What a miserable person you must be.@@qdpqbp
This breaks my heart to no end because these me were brave but they had no clue what just happened and what they were dealing with. While I have the highest respect for the men who volunteered and it hurts to know many died these men went in not knowing the horror that awaited them, going in unprepared and taking the full hit of the radiation honestly just heart wrenching to watch all the time.
Your HBO tv series, spit on this heroes. There is too many lies in that films.
Firefighters were brave, one of the best in USSR because Soviets knew it can happen. Pripyat was the most technical and technology town in the USSR. Firefighters all died and there is a monument in the Pripyat (dead town) dedicated to them. A lot of people died. I would say in Ukraine about 10 million died in the period of 15 years because of Chernobyl. My grandma was a medic and was helping. She died too.
Ussr solves problem, by blindly sending soldiers into to the problem to solve it. The Soviet Way!
@@zurkturk13 you sound very smart..for argument sake, what would you have done..or are you talking rubbish just because you hate "soviets"..after the accident they handled it the best they could and actually, it turned out to be the best way and only way to face the disaster..
Can’t believe this masterpiece of a show is already almost 4 years old. Time flys man (but not for those firefighters)
There was no way they could have known that morning
That they awoke upon a fateful day
The killer wind came down without a warning
and no one had the chance to get away
The firemen were brave they fought with honor
But the blaze was more than it appeared to be
And one by one they fell beside their comrades
The victims of a foe they could not see
Mama where are you - Papa where did you go
And where are all the children who used to play here
Only heaven knows
What they saw defied all explanation
Someone said the trees were glowing red
They say the light came from the radiation
But maybe it’s the spirits of the dead
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I love the breathy train whistle in the score that comes with scenes of high radiation. The tone is unnaturally consistent and comes from everywhere, like you can hear the billions of particles slicing up the air at the speed of light.
The power of 4 million chest X rays, in the palm of my hand
Some people knew what they were going into, but that’s what makes them even braver and I salute everyone for their act of courage and bravery to save millions and millions of lives.
God bless and keep these men. This brings a tear to my eye. Much love from the USA 🇺🇸
They all died. There is a monument to firefighters In Pripyat (dead city without a population). If they would not bring the fire down - it could be blow out of next reactors as well. These firefighters, saved the whole Europe and bought time for Bio Robots (another soldiers that did a construction of reactor buidling protection shield while conserving the radiation into the safe shield and splitting it`s power by anti-materials. A lot of bio robots died too. Some of them were volunteers but volunteers did not know that they will die. I heard a lot of horrible stories while I was in Ukraine. Some stupid citizen of Pripyat was taking they vehicle and coming to Kiev. Some places where those vehicles were parked was showing a lot of unsafe level of radiation during the 90x and I am sure maybe till this day but nobody talks about it.
Your god put them there in the first place, making them suffer horrible painful deaths, doesn't your god have a plan for you all ? For me its plan is just sending me to hell, with all the fun people. But yeah, may they rest in peace, poor guys
2:25 he understood that this place already killed him at that moment, he was afraid of it you can see, very good acting btw.
I remember watching a documentary 8 years ago or something that said at the time of it's making the fire trucks from that night were still dangerously radioactive.
All is still radioactive if it was decontamined
Me holding a shovel, and getting blisters after digging not even 20 cm.. I can't imagine how terrifying is to hold graphite less than 10 seconds..
Jesus, that's like 1000 inches
I'm told that this is equivalent of a chest X-Ray.
yeah...give or take about 40 million of them
Your delusional, get to the infirmary!
I'm straight up crying watching this scene. These men are being mutilated at the atomic level and don't realize it.
The gate of death is front of their eyes
As a firefighter whose department is within the immediate danger zone of a reactor, this scares the shit out of me. I can't even imagine what it would be like to be slowly burning to death like that, and not knowing what's causing it.
2:50 I believe this is a short screen time for lieutenant Vladimir Pravik, the fireman chief of Chernobyl NPP who got 600 roentgens just like the rest of his "Pravik's guard".
The crackling you hear at the end as he get closer to reactor is master class sound design, to people familiar with the sound geiger counter make, the crackling sound exactly like it. Were i think it really hits the mark is that it manages to convey the "sound" of radiation to people who know how geiger counter sound but also to people that never heard that sound ever
have to comment, back to watch this again. they had no idea what they were up against,,just brings me to tears..
Still amazed on how this happened.
2:18 is a very powerful and impressive scene from a filmmaker point of view.
Even tho it never happened
Past episodes become so much creepier in retrospect. The more you learn the better the first episodes get.
The firefighter scenes hit super close to home. Growing up my father was a volunteer fire fighter in the local county which sits in the shadow of a nuclear power plant. He had to get special training in case he ever got the call to fire at the plant. These days its super scary to think about.
On top of that a few years ago I started college at the local campus nearby on the lake. The student handbook literally had this whole section in it about evacuation protocols for the dorms and student housing and shit if anything happened the instructions are wors for word (get this).
"Only pack/take the essentials and prepared to be gone for up to a minimum of three days. Buses will come and transport you to a safe location."
It wasnt until this show came out that I realized it was literally an exact copy of the soviet evscuation plan for Pripyat.
The thing that’s truly terrifying in this scene is just that glowing beam shooting up in the sky.
1:13 here we go...
Deduti0n again
Scarier than any horror film you'll watch.
That firefighter picking up a piece of graphite and asking "whats this?"
*Death*
Whatever the situation is.... You gotta respect the firemen and medical workers man.... These people sacrifice A LOT
RIP to all the firemen and health personnel who worked and died during this calamity....
"Do you taste metal?"
"Yeah what is that"
"I don't know"
Radiation is invisible murderer...
I absolutely loved this show. Severe radiation like that being totally invisible is scarier than any monster on earth.
1. Someone must put out these fires manually and fast
2. there is no existing protection against this level of radiation
So, they did it. There was no way to save anyone, who entered the roof and reactor hall after explosion. Reactor hall was not showed in the series, propably too expensive. Firefighters who enter the roof continued inside collapsed building and they extioguished all fires.
It is weird. I remember well the day this happened. My family and I just barely arrived at Clark Air Force Base. As an engineer, I recall I was directed to set up several radiation Geiger tubes and Ion Chambers to closely keep in touch with our surroundings. I don’t think we measured much of anything out of the ordinary. Maybe a few milli-rem on a handful of days, but even so after a few spectral tests we never concluded anything was a result of the catastrophic events in Chernobyl. But I do remember wondering what kind of hell was going on in Russia.
"Do you taste metal?"
"Yeah- what is that?"
Heartbreaking. All they wanted to do was save people.
They managed to capture the horror of the whole situation perfectly in this show. Like, this is legit eerie to watch.
This scene alone is why I will have everlasting respect for EMTs, firefighters, police, and first responders.
The guys that worked that fire, so many of whom died terrible deaths, were true heroes.
This genuinely sends shivers down my spine, the way his hand looked and how they tasted metal plus their faces getting reddish by the minute and that guy just slumped over
Those poor bastards, they had no idea that they were walking into death. Could not see it, could not smell it, but they tasted it.
They did their jobs to the last possible minute, without proper guidance or equipment, without these men and their efforts Chernobyl would have burnt brighter and longer
It's pure shock to see these guys without any protection 😳 brave men they just did not know what they were facing 🤐
There is no protection and job must be done.
"Do you taste metal?" You're done for, buddy...
Imagine being a firefighter and just going in there and not knowing what was going to happen
No one of the younger generations really cared about the chernobyl disaster until they watched Chernobyl on HBO... Kinda sad
People would care about such events if they were broadcasted more often, these days the only thing that takes the media by storm is some shit like fortnite or social justice, if they instead talked about such events, there'd be more awareness
Before HBO mini series, people were harping on Fukushima... Saying it's couple times worse than chernobyl.
The main reason why people say it's worse because it's more recent and its perceived more as a threat , While chernobyl is covered by the sarcophagus and the NSC. Even when the NSC was moved into place a year ot two ago, it didn't make international news headlines.
Part of reason why people don't want to hear about such stories is they been bombarded by fear mongers like Alex Jones and others.
Push enough fear you end up with paranoid people or people who shut off/down. Paranoid people buy the snake oil and perpetuate the fear mongering. While the shut off people ignore the problem entirely.
As a result, these disasters get poor coverage until something major happens. People nowadays are more concerned social identity and status.
If we came together as humanity, these problems would be solved faster.
BTW next problem might be Marshall Island concrete dome. If sea levels rises too high, that's another radioactive spill into the ocean
Easily the scariest scene in the show. All these men had no idea they've been sentenced to an agonizing death.
This movie, is scarier then ANY horror movie EVER. That is just so scary lokking how they picked up Granite, good job to HBO for such a expirience.
There is just no words to express the sheer horror of this. So sad that something like this came to pass.
This show is soooo good! I can’t wait for season 2
Fukushima!
There is no season 2, all what they could say was in first season, miniseries
Can you imagine that you absorbed so much radiation until you became nuclear reactor yourself? That's what happened to Vasily.
BergerMan Gaming woah really? This spooks the hell out of me
@@JacobN-hg8tv yea, that's why he puked until his internal organs came out. He had the worst painful death among others.
The worst part is that even IF they were properly informed on the matter, it wouldn't change anything. The fire still needed to be put down.
I like that the soundtrack provides a subtle hum everytime the character gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.
It's isn't there in real life.