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9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
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❤BIBLE VERSES OF THE DAY❤
2 PETER 3:9 NIV
9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
Exposed damages you, Contaminated (covered with Dust etc) means you are a source of contamination for you and others
When he said "No" there's nothing to worry about to the couple at the Bar. They were KGB Operatives testing to see if he was a Party "security" risk
This is a documentary, not a drama film. don't be happy
@@SomeMildTrolling what about grandpa's speech in episode 1
@@SomeMildTrolling Soviet microdistrict is 15 minutes city
The General that drove the truck with the high range dosimeter on it was in fact the head of the Soviet Army's Nuclear, Biological, and chemical (NBC) warfare branch. In reality the vehicle he used was an Armored Personnel Carrier especially designed to protect against NBC warfare agents. He later stated he drove the vehicle because if a lower ranked person was sent in and came back with numbers the party did not like they would be dismissed as errors caused by untrained personnel. If he did it the higher ups in the communist party would not be able to just sweep his report under the table as a mistake,
his name is Pikalov im pretty sure
Boris has such a great arc, he's my favorite character in this series!
Little Boris who's 5?
@@johnnyjohnny-cg7np I see what you did there! 😂
Be like Boris. 👍
A lucky thing in all this mess was that the Soviet leader, the General Secretary of the Communist Party, Michail Gorbatjev, was a scientist (biology) before he became a politician. Gorbatjev had a respect for science and people who understood it and that was a necessity here. Otherwise, I would probably not write this today.
Gorbachev had only been in power for one year, if this had happened in 1985 Konstantin Chernenko would be Secretary General and the aftermath would have been much worse. I do not think we can even imagine what would have happened if it was not Gorbachev leading the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev has also stated that he believes that Chernobyl, and the Soviet state's handling of it, did more to cause the dissolution of the USSR than anything else.
Iodine is because it saturates your thyroid gland. And thus the radioactive iodine isotopes don't get absorbed there (we need iodine, it's why we iodize salt for instance) ... essentially taking lots of Iodine directly after a nuclear event prevents your thyroid gland from grabbing something that will give you almost certain cancer.
*directly* like before exposure to iodine-131
The soundtrack is haunting in part because it's not made up of traditional musical instruments -- it's assembled from noises recorded from a working nuclear reactor.
Not just any reactor either. She used the same make & model as the one that blew up.
Never seen someone so cheerful to watch Chernobyl.
I don't think she'll be quite so cheerful in the next 2 episodes...
There's a chance Blend may have experienced a fair share or tragedy in her short life. Her reaction my be atypical.
Also, Blend definitely has some film school under her belt. As a result, her approach tends to lean more professional/ analytical than emotional.
@@johnrenton3217specially 4
Cheerful is different from pleased, or happy.
3:45 Legasove talking back to Gorbachez (the guy with the birthmark on his head) was the equivalent of talking back to Darth Vader-you just didn't do it.
Gorbatchev was actually a quite pragmatic person and also someone surprisingly empathic and openminded for a high party official. It's definitively the kind of thing that people thought that you couldn't do in general, but that you in fact could do with him. I wouldn't have tried it with Chernenko, Andropov or Brejnev however! :D
Be aware episodes 3 and 4 are the hardest to watch for most people. Episode 5 provides a good catharsis and wrap up.
The three workers standing to volunteer is very moving
As John Adams once said, "Facts are stubborn things." And thank God they are.
Thank you for continuing this journey. The fifth episode will finally answer 99% of the questions you might have (or will have as you progress through Ep 3 & 4). The acting by Steven Skarsgard and Jared Harris is top notch....they both deserve much more recognition than they've been given for this.
its stellan skarsgård
@@FloarMin thanks…I didn’t notice I had been “corrected” by spell check.
@@kentbarnes1955 yeah they should have a feature to disable auto correct
The severity of this accident is actually crazy. I live in Norway, and in the northern part of my country there is still measurable radioactivity that came from Chernobyl.
Same here in Austria.
I live in The Netherlands, which is about 2000 km (1250-ish miles) from Ukraine - and even over here people couldn't eat certain crops and veggies for the longest time. Cows all had to go inside, because radionuclides were found in rainwater and grass, which lead to "radioactive milk". Pregnant women were also adviced to stay inside back then. Crazy!
its even more here in sweden
@sprongledunk1551 Ohh yeah I know! Pretty sure I read somewhere that your farm industry still feels the effect today?
@@mosovanhe the people in my class who hunt as a hobby have to wait weeks before they can eat the meat
They're not going under water, they're going into water.
The reason so many people didn't believe the reactor core exploded in episode one is, from their knowledge and training on an RBMK reactor, it is in fact impossible for it to explode. We will find why it did, but from what they knew at that time, they just couldn't wrap their head around the possibility of a core explosion. Keep in mind this was not a nuclear explosion, like a nuclear bomb, this was a thermal explosion. It was bad as hell, but it wasn't an Atomic Bomb type explosion, more like a dirty bomb.
The firefighters clothes are still in the basement of that hospital and they are STILL radioactive! ☢️
They changed the date, but the helicopter crash did happen. It was months later though. Crews were still flying around the reactor and it's suspected the pilot suffered from radiation sickness and became disoriented and flew the rotor into some crane cables. There's video of it on youtube.
Another youtube account called Bionerd was given access to the sarcophagus and they show the rotor from the helicopter in the debris that got shoveled back into the reactor hall to be sealed up
To just expand on the helicopter point a bit - the crash likely wasn't caused *directly* by radiation. Internal combustion engines are quire durable machines, and what's more important, they're purely mechanical. They wouldn't be affected by radiation unless it was making the metal so hot it stops being rigid.
@jakistam1000 the OP said the operator suffered Radiation poisoning ,not the helicopter
A lot of the helicopter pilots flew many more missions than they were supposed to. They absorbed far above the safe levels of radiation and the radiation poisoning theory is highly likely.
A really good book titled Midnight in Chernobyl gives so much more information than was possible in this series.
Film crews and others have at times, returned to Chernobyl since the catastrophe. There’s a famous picture of the fireman’s clothing in the hospital basement, and a meter showing they’re still radioactive. 😟
There's two things going on here: radiation is basically invisible light giving you a sunburn, and radioactive material glows with that light.
Being exposed to radiation (in line of sight of a bright glow) will cook you in ways not immediately obvious (a bad sunburn doesn't show up for hours, blisters may not happen until the next day, and if it's bad enough to peel that may be several days later). It can damage your DNA and give you cancer, but the actual damage is done quickly.
But the more insidious problem is the radioactive material contaminating you and continuing to glow. You can't see it and can't feel it, but are continuing to be exposed to the glow. And if it gets inside your body, you glow from the inside out.
This is smoke everyone is breathing in. The graphite and uranium are mixed together in the reactor, the graphite is on fire and vaporizing uranium which is carried with the smoke, and it's settling on everything, and it's getting on all the surfaces and dissolving in the water and soaking into the dirt... and everyone is breathing it.
Radioactive decay means one type of atom breaks down into another type of atom, so the long lived unstable atoms are constantly producing shorter lived ones of different types.
Radioactive iodine gets taken up by your thyroid (which collects iodine to make hormones from), it has a half-life of 8 days (yhe popcorn kernels pop randomly but half of what's left will have popped every 8 days) so it glows really bright because it's burning itself up fast. It's a huge short-term problem, but goes away in months once the source stops releasing more.
The next most dangerous isotopes are radioactive cesium and strontium, which are straight down the periodic table from potassium and calcium, so the body stores them in the bone marrow. Those have a half life around 30 years.
An active open burning reactor is spitting out lots and lots of crap, but the long-lived diffuse stuff going out into the forests will break down more slowly, but it's still producing stuff your body thinks are micronutrients and will store in vital areas, so that when they decay your cells get cooked.
Oh and one of the early atoms in the uranium decay chain is radon, a gas. So that bubbles up out of the ground, you breathe it in, it turns into a solid in your lungs, and then zaps that same cell several times in a row as it traverses the rest of the decay chain to eventually become a stable atom of lead.
This!
Everybody smokes cigarettes in the movie. It's an intentional symbol -- we panic when a sudden disaster hits, but we're perfectly happy slowly giving ourselves cancer with tobacco and alcohol.
if you would be in that room shouting you would be sent to gulag with your entire family
Be prepared that there will be very difficult episodes, you can even burst into tears
The moment at the Bar when asked should we be worried and you replied Yes, they are KBG agents, game over for you haha. nice review :)
I've watched every person react to this series that I can, I love this show, it is so powerful. But this reaction, to this episode, has been far and away my favorite. You were on point with your observations, and understanding the information they gave us in this episode!
Can't wait to watch the rest!
I was a teenager in Stockholm, Sweden when this happened. I remember hearing on the morning news about the radiation detected at a Swedish nuclear power plant before they were sure it came from the Soviet Union. I'll write more about the consequences on a later episode.
They didn't volunteer to go open the tanks, they were just the people on shift that had the required knowledge to go do it so it was assigned to them. They also didn't have any flashlights
If you like Hildur Guðnadóttir's score here, you also might like scores by one of her influences/collaborators,
Jóhann Jóhannsson. The movies I've seen that were scored by him are Sicario (2015) and Arrival (2016), both directed by Denis Villeneuve.
Yes it was all over Europe, i live in northern Italy, and my mother told me when it happend they could not eat or collect wild mushrooms for years (mushrooms collect lots of radiation), they could not drink water from natural springs for years eather!
First of all love your commentary, second of all love that you just dive in without all the preamble. You’re the hero UA-cam deserves!
This happened when i was a kid. I'm in the UK and we couldn;t eat Welsh lamb for a long while after as the sheep and lambs had grazed on the grass that has fallout on it. Yes, the contanimation had made it to England and Wales. To put that into context thats the distance from New York to Denver, Co.
This series is great in not just revisiting the unfortunate events in history, but I feel it's to remind us of the people who participated in these events. While they were truly unprepared for such a casualty, people offered their lives to repair the resulting damage. They were the real heroes.
Yes. Everyone who saw something had to be done and volunteered to do it… they are heroes.
You understand a mother taking a bullet for her child but it’s so much more abstract to take the bullet for people you have never met, that only exist because you are told by books and newsreaders. You need a strong sense of duty and empathy to stand up and volunteer to die so that others will live.
Elevated radiation levels were measured as far away as the Welsh mountains and Scottish highlands, iodine tablets were given to school children in Germany. Restrictions on some British farms were in place until relatively recently.
General Pikalov (The one who decided to drive the truck himself to space one of his men) actually did it IRL. He figured that the word of a general would be better believed and taken seriously, as opposed to the word of one of his men.
The character Stellan Skarsgård is playing, Boris Shcherbina (an Ukrainian), was the highest-ranking person at Chernobyl. He was the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers in Moscow, basically Deputy Prime Minister of Soviet Union. He had the absolute power over everything at the site. He had the mandate, the license to kill, from Kreml. If he hadn't listened to Valery Legasov, half of Europe would have died. This man ordered 500 000 military and civilian forces to Chernobyl, the largest human undertaking in Soviet history since WWII. His price: Political and personal disgrace in the Communist system and early death of cancer.
I'm from Poland,i remember when i have 6 years and Charnobyl happened we must drink Lugola fluid for health.Greetings from Poland.
Boris Scherbina rose to the central committee running concrete production plants, so when he says he knows a lot about concrete he ain't kidding.
The main reason that Chernobyl was such a disaster was the Soviet system of infrastructure.
the Soviets convinced themselves they didn't need containment vessels in their nuclear reactors because of
their Superior scientific expertise.
at the same time promoted people not for their competence and expertise
but ONLY their loyalty to the Communist Party.
Soon after they finally extinguished the open fire, about a month later they designed a built a giant cover (a sarcophagus) over the reactor. But it was designed to last only 30 years. They built an additional cover over that one more recently.
5:24 Yes, Chernobyl is still uninhabitable to this day.
Best cliffhanger ever.. LOL :D
Someone else on another video said:
"I've had stressful work meetings, but not "We're going to lose Eastern Europe in two days-stressful" ever". I know the matter was serious, but I could not help but lol
The 3 men that they sent in to open the valves to drain the water were engineers Alexei Ananenko and Valeri Bezpalov (who knew where the valves were), and shift supervisor Boris Baranov. All three men actually did live and continued to work in the nuclear industry. They were later awarded the Order For Courage by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in May 2018.
Thank you for reacting to this, I love seeing this from your perspective considering you started the series not being familiar with the subject, so I am enjoying going through this journey with you. Looking forward to the next episode!
"Wouldn't this still apply today?"
Answer: Yes, it is does very much apply today...so much so that now during the war in Ukraine (here Chernobyl is located), Russian soldiers took control over the 2nd nuclear powerplant still in operation and they dug trenches as defensive position.
The soldiers shortly after digging the trenches got so exposed to radiation buried in the soil that they got acute radiation poisoning.
"What does iodine do?" One of the decay products is radioactive iodine. It is particularly dangerous because the human body will readily absorb it and keep it for a long time once it does. It will end up highly concentrated in the thyroid where it will blast away cells with radiation emissions. Radioactive iodine exposure even in moderate doses can cause chronic health issues or death. Taking excessive amounts of normal iodine however fully stocks the body so any radioactive iodine absorbed should hopefully pass through the body in urine. So it is a way to protect from radioactive contamination not radiation itself (radiation is energy). It isn't a magic bullet though as there are other radioactive isotopes which are readily absorbed by the body but it is a good precaution.
the crackling, is the real sound for the old radiation meters
Also, notice the reaction of the woman sitting next to the KBG chairman when Khomyuk says "2-4 megatons". She is like "OHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT" lol
The residents evacuated were told to plan on being away for 3 days and pack only essentials - Its now been almost 40 years and they still have yet to be able to return.
That "lava" they are talking about is called _corium._ It flowed into the basement of the reactor, The prediction that the lady actress said about the lava hitting the water would instantly create stern creating another explosion was a concern but it proved not to happen. The lava actually cooled on own own when it hit the bubbler pools. They ended up draining those talks through valves. But there was still another concern that the molten hot core would burn down into the earth and contaminate underground water. So, they were going to try and fewer the ground underneath by drilling and pumping liquid nitrogen in but it was going to take too much so they scraped that plan and instead designed a makeshift layer of graphite sandwiched between two layers of concrete to prevent the melt. But it ended up being unnecessary because the fuel melt eventually cooled. So the channels they had begun dig underneath were instead just filled with concrete to help strengthen the foundation under the reactor.
Hilda did get an Emmy for the score. And she picked up an oscar for Joker the next year.
The soundtrack is haunting in part because it's not made up of traditional musical instruments -- it's assembled from noises recorded from a working nuclear reactor.
The reading of 15,000 rontengen which is what the worker on the roof got, means he was cooked in about 6 seconds.
Side note all yhe firefighter equipment is STILL in the hospital basement behind a wall of concrete.
Sweden here , we woke up to the news that something had happened in Ukraine but not what , only that evening the news spread what had happened in Chernobyl . A day later the first warning came from our nuclear power plants on the east coast about high levels of becerell , but no one knew or understood what it meant , and when the danger increased and the goverment tried to reach the people with all the means then available , no one really took the threat seriously. A threat no one could see hear smell or feel meant that it took a week before action was taken. All new food production was stopped , milk meat , all grain was destroyed , farmers were forced to slaughter and all hunting was banned . Ban on picking berries fruit and mushrooms in the forest. Can't remember how long this went on before the danger was over but it took some time i remember.
Also side note about why they decided to test the reactors ability to run without back up electrocity(the test on question). They ran it at night so they didn't inconvenience Kiev with rolling black outs. Also all the dogs that got left behind and worse... as a dog mom it hurt my heart.
By the way that 5000 tons of sand they dumped to cover up the core actually missed its target and it ended up being just a big 5000 ton pile next to the opening of the core. The helicopters couldn't see where they were dumping because of all the smoke.
3:31 I laughed hard when she said “deh-bree.”
Making noise & being vocal ect at the meeting, You'd likely be shot, People have no idea about the culture in the Soviet Union at the time, They think their governments are oppressive 😂
That pile of clothes from the firemen? Still there, and it's still radioactive enough that anyone going to Chernobyl for any reason (even trained scientists) are told to stay away from it.
02:21 There are treatments even then for radiation. It depends on the specifics of exposure, how much healthy tissue you have left, how strong you are, how soon you get treatment, plus a lot of luck. But there were people inside the powerplant who are still alive to this day. Others are long dead.
05:25 YES
I really like your reaction. You are sharp, and wear your heart on your sleeve.
Mocking british accent like 100 times is so intelligent.
I love your reactions!! ❤
You. Are. Brilliant. PLEASE continue.
The keys for radiation exposure is for how long and how much.
The firefighters cloths were contaminated with nuclear material which was constantly hitting them with more and more radiation, so the longer it was on them the more damage their bodies took. While yes the doctors probably should have had some protective clothing on the key was getting the radioactive material away for the patents as soon as possible.
And now we have a war going on around the nuclear power station.
Yup. Fortunately the ZNPP is much more safe. If there is ever to be another meltdown it's not going to be another Chernobyl. Still, it's very serious and it must be avoided at all cost.
The Russians just can’t stop themselves when it comes to endangering Ukrainian nuclear reactors, can they?
The iodine saturates the thyroid gland with it so you don´t pick up (as much) of the highly radioactive isiotope of it... That is seriosuly bad..
The thyroid gland makes a hormone using iodine and it needs it. if you get that isotope that is radioactive it sits there and irradiate you from the inside.. iirc all variants of radiation. Alpha from inside is not good... Even though the skin can stop it from the outside, for example.
The explosion happened April 1. May 1 is a major holiday in the Soviet Union known as May Day. There was a big parade scheduled in Kiev Ukraine on May Day. Even though lethal levels of radiation had been blowing in the direction of Kiev since the explosion, the authorities told no one and the parade went ahead as scheduled. Many people received large doses of radiation that day.
Gen. Pikalov, who drove the modified vehicle to measure radiation, I consider a hero here. He also later was the head of the "Liquidators Union", the people who cleaned up the area the next few years.
The Swedish nuclear power plant at Forsmark, 684 miles from Chernobyl, was the first to notice increased radiation. Workers coming in for the day shift were setting off radiation alarms there.
I still don't think she understands how communism works. You don't shout, scream, or protest. You get shot or put into the gulag.
When this came out they had the official podcast go through each episode to talk more about what happened and what we saw in the episode. At the end when the men were going to release the water and their flashlights where flickering because of the radiation, in the real events they couldn’t use flashlights. They did that in the dark. The only reason why the film crew used lights was so us the audience could see. Incredible!
United States has 92 nuclear reactors..172 in Europe.. 140 in Asia.. just tidbit of information :)
Love your reactions they are so funny. This is a very heavy show but your reactions ease the suspense without disrespecting the material.
I sometimes like watching on yt trips to Chornobyl and Pripyat. My very creative countrymen, Poles, quite often manage to sneak into that hospital's basement and find the clothes of those fireman. Well over 30 years later and they're still radioactive, the same goes for trucks and other equipment used during the clean up
Love these reaction videos, also thank you for the bible verses of the day, Never have been a religous person, but i appreciate the message, and community it inspires, 👍
Good to see you... hope you are doing well. Keep up the good work. All the best.
24:00 yea radiation is eating through the flashlights.
A little fact about that scary meter sound: a Geiger counter is equipped with small low-vacuum tube with electrodes on it. It creates a small electric discharge every time radioactive particle flies through it. It is registered by a speaker as a single click.
So, it clicks every time a radiation ray passes through it's small tube. And now, hearing this instant loud diver's devices sound, you can imagine an amount of radiation penetrating into whole human body area
The series is very commendable for showing the public the terrifying and real danger of power plants, especially the old ones;
They also give the public a view into the incredible narrow mindset of old-school communism and their party politics;
and the awful truth is that the Russian government(even in the time of the Tsaar) didn't care much for their common people, treated them like expendable tools and never officially acknowledged the true scale of this disaster...
Wondering how many episodes before she drops the bubbly opening. 😂
The music definitely gives the radiation a lurking monster vibe, spooky
*I've been watching your videos for years and just realized that you are an artist and you know some of my Artist homies...one of them worked on Niobe*
I was in 5th grade in the early 1970s, near San Francisco. We regularly had bombing (nuclear) drills. We got underneath our desks and laced our fingers behind our necks and huddled there. Some kid sitting next to the classroom windows would be tasked with closing the curtains. We cold war kids KNEW that we should be allowed to see (for a fraction of a second) the bright light of the bomb explosion and go in the first blast - poof gone. Because to survive was to be in misery for a few hours to a few days and nobody - not even jaded cynical fifth graders want any part of that. That area of Ukraine is still contaminated and will be for a very very long time. Differences in plants and wild animals in the area are exhibiting entirely odd permutations to their physicality and behaviors. There is no real survival under nuclear radiation poisoning.
Every click on the Ginger counter is a bullet hitting the sensor, possibly having ripped its way through the person holding it. Steve. P.s. get your tissues ready
The regular iodine prevents the body (esp. the thyroids) from absorbing radioactive iodine.
No. If you had been in that room, you, too, would have been quiet. Gorbachev was quite clear when he said that the Soviet's power came from the WORLD'S PERCEPTION of its power. If you pay attention, you will notice that NO Soviet politician will nay-say their government. It's only the scientists that dare speak out. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has had a long, tough history. That is seen throughout this series every time you see someone from the general public. They are a strong, tough people.
Skarsgaard is a phenomenal actor. And this entire episode is basically "Oh, you think THIS is bad? Hold my beer!" Ep 5 does a good job of explaining how badly the commies screwed up, even if you're a layman. Because all of this is just commies being commies, and screwing up everything according to Murphy's Law (anything that can go wrong, will go wrong). Mostly because the senior party members calling all the shots are idiots (but loyal), and have no idea what they're doing, but won't take no for an answer. And the people who know, don't have the authority to make the call for fear of the consequences.
To run the test, they had to disconnect one of the safety systems. That had no bearing on what happened, but when the test was postponed, they just left the safety system off for 10 hours, because they didn't care.
To that end, films about the old Soviet Union are fascinating to see how crazy the system was. If you could track down a tv series called "Aquarium: a spy's loneliness" (or something like that, I don't know if it's available in English, maybe with subtitles), it's worth a watch.
Those clothes are still in the basement of that hospital and they are still contaminated and emitting radiation
I feel like the sound of a geiger counter making noise to register radiation sets off this instinctual fear in people. I have no idea why because the vast majority of people have never heard the noise in real life, nor have they had first hand experience with large amounts of radiation itself. Most people don't even know how radiation physically works and it's not like it shows up in media **that** often. Yet every reaction I see to this show and to that noise, including my own, has been this sense of deep dread and visceral fear. I wonder why that is. Perhaps the fear has been subconsciously and unintentionally subliminally coded into American culture (and others) based on the experiences through the Cold War and the extended period of constant fear of a nuclear attack. Next generations, like our own, inherited that fear. Maybe the snippets we've heard about Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and nuclear meltdowns like Chernobyl were horrifying enough to plant that seed of fear. Once we heard the geiger counter noise on TV, it created an association to that deeply imbedded fear and every time we hear it, it's like a sharp poke at the horror and dread in the recesses of our minds. Maybe it's just the physical noise itself and the way the pitch and unreliable pattern creates a natural discomfort that can be explained by the science of sound. I don't know. But it's certainly interesting to think about.
The winds blew the majority of the radioactive particles northward into neighboring Belarus which had more fallout form the explosion that Ukraine has had. Belarus is where most to the cases of babies born with deformities and thyroid cancers in children have occurred even into recent times. As for the Chernobyl site, It will not be safe for another estimated 20,000 years
Your body extracts iodine and then uses it in you basic biochemistry. If it is radioactive then your are concentrating that in your thyroid, and other locations. As it decays you then get lots of genetic damage. If you take iodine pills, then you absorb less of the radioactive iodine, and therefore take less damage from iodine decay.
Potassium iodide is used to thin mucus and loosen congestion in the chest and throat. Potassium iodide is used in people with breathing problems that can be complicated by thick mucus, such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, or emphysema.
Potassium iodide is used during a nuclear radiation emergency to block radioactive iodine from entering your thyroid gland. For this purpose, the medicine is usually taken only once or twice.
With things going on these days you should keep a few on hand. They will not hurt you and little to no side affects. Have a few on hand. Oh and a breathing apparatus.
I tthink there are two kinds of radiation damage - first is gamma radiation, like X-rays but higher energy - that messes up the chemical bonds in the tissues of your body, especially DNA -- the second kind is neutrons, which are absorbed by the atomic nuclei of the chemicals that make up your body, so that your own flesh becomes radioactive and gives off its own gamma rays -- and of course, it depends if there is still radioactive matter (dust, ash, graphite and uranium) that has settled on your skin and clothing -
Dinner will be ready in 10 or so
That's such a nasty cliffhanger
Blend... Do you know anything about this accident?
Did you not read about this in school?
When she was shocked over "100 years".. I thought: She cannot be for real.
I wish every person in the USA who wants to bring down capitalism and live in a communist society would watch this series so they get a glimpse of what they are dreaming of...
All of that SOUNDS good...
Until you remember the old ussr would WILLFULLY lie to make itself look good or hide embarrassing failures.
Where are all these phantom people who want communism?
This will be hard to watch. Those nurses should wear gloves to protect themselves.
Love the description of a geiger counter 🤖
Eh- minor spoilers about radiation.. .. ..
The primary thing to know about radiation is that when this energy is released quickly (hours or days), this is called a short half-life and can be deadly based on exposure time/distance. Touching material with a short half-life will give you burns.
A long half-life (releasing energy evenly over thousands to billions of years - like raw uranium in the ground) is benign, zero danger radiologically. Because the uranium in a reactor has by-products after being split, there are some short lived, dangerous materials there for a few days & weeks. But those decay away and become less dangerous in that same time frame.
After a week there is still cause for concern, but it is no longer deadly dangerous for brief (a minute or two) exposures. Time out of the reactor, time a person is exposed, distance from the material, and shielding with metal, lead, or cement are all factors. If any any of these factors are sufficient to keep a person safe, then they are safe regardless of the other factors.
There is iodine which is stable and iodine (like from a rector) which is radioactive with a mere 8 day half-life. The thyroid gland loves to absorb all the iodine it can hold, but if it's already full (by eating kelp or taking tablets) then it cannot take in more. When the plume sprinkled iodine over pastures, cows were mostly unaffected but their milk became filled with iodine. The primary drinkers of milk are children (!), and adults were at a decreased risk because of their larger bodies. After 3 months, the radioactive iodine has completely decayed away, and all is well again, but that first month after.... BTW- thyroid cancer is easy to detect and easy to treat, there are several now-adults who had their thyroid removed and still take medication to balance their lack of thyroid. A few others weren't so lucky - RIP.
Like many who have seen it, I regard HBO's Chernobyl a triumph of film making, and it's always fun to see a fresh reaction to it. Just be warned -- if you thought this episode was heavy, you ain't seen NOTHIN' yet! The next episode is among the most gut wrenching pieces of drama I've ever seen, and I'm a heartless cynical bastard. You may need to take the occasional booze break mid-episode.
Cali B, you almost lost your lunch and dinner when they announced the reall radiation number of 15,000 Rotgen. Trust me it's shocking to hear such a figure.
the divers actually did this in vain since the melted fuel had already reached the water but instead of an explosion it cooled it down