Chernobyl | Official Trailer for the HBO Miniseries (HBO's got another one)

[Urbanmiracle]

Sorry to double post but this is good read. It also shows the real life counter parts to the show

https://www.history.com/news/chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-7-people-who-played-crucial-role

 

[Diunx]

As a dog owner this episode was hard as fukk to watch.



HBO still feeding the streets hot fire after all these years.

 

[B!tchuoffendingme]

This episode was even more brutal than the last one. Eastern Euros do things different, my god.

 

[KalKal]

So the graphite was super radioactive, is that why they had to get it off the roof?

I mean the whole fukken thing was radioactive so what was the big deal of getting the graphite off the roof?

The graphite was literally inside of the reactor core itself when it blew up. In the first episode it was so hot it was glowing in dark. They mentioned that the chunk that that one firefighter picked up exposed him to the equivalent of getting four million chest X-Rays at the same time.

 

[B!tchuoffendingme]

Man fukk NUCLEAR POWER. We as a planet need to come up with a better power source. fukk all that. I realise there's benefits to it, but my God, we could destroy this planet with that technology. fukk ALL OF IT.

 

[B!tchuoffendingme]

All caught up..wow, homie literally melted away.

I realise it's the Soviet Union and they were probably studying the effects of intense radiation poisoning, but those people really should have been put out of their misery. There was zero humane reason to keep those people alive once they got the point where theyre coughing up their own organs.

 

[FlyRy]

@MartyMcFly @HHR :Jimmy:

 

[Brandeezy]

at the roof scene, shyt had me tense af. Especially when he said they had 90 secs and if they weren't back in the time limit they were fukked

 

[HHR]

@MartyMcFly @HHR :Jimmy:

I'm in here man, don't need to @ me

 

[TheDarceKnight]

As a dog owner this episode was hard as fukk to watch.



HBO still feeding the streets hot fire after all these years.

Yep. Honestly I skipped through a few of the dog parts.

The guys on the roof was intense as fukk! I knew when they started the episode off saying there's no way that people could go up on that roof....that they would end up sending people to the off.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

at the roof scene, shyt had me tense af. Especially when he said they had 90 secs and if they weren't back in the time limit they were fukked

I watched a documentary on those guys and one was saying as soon as he got off that his teeth and eyes just hurt and he couldn't feel his face, along with a bunch of other shyt, and now tastes metal to this day.

This should start at 34:34. This guy went up 5 times.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

On an unrelated note, I know people are beating up the woman for touching her radioactive husband or the workers cleaning off the roof for $12, but let's put things in perspective yall. For myself and likely most of yall, our only real reference point to radioactivity is thanks to the after-effects of Chernobyl or the dropping of the A-bombs. The idea of radioactivity denaturing your body is not something the average person was aware of at the time. Heck, the second most important person in the show, who was a higher up in the government, didn't know shyt until it was explained by the nuclear physicist in the helicopter ride.

Exactly. No one really knew back then what they were even dealing with. On some level the engineers and certainly not the civilians. Not to mention the nurses did let her in to see her husband, and she probably saw them going in and out and thought "well if they're in here it can't be THAT bad, right?" No one knew just how bad the effects would be.

So the graphite was super radioactive, is that why they had to get it off the roof?

I mean the whole fukken thing was radioactive so what was the big deal of getting the graphite off the roof?

Maybe I missed something, why were they having to clean off the roof of graphite? Was it so it would fall into the core and help stabilize it?

Yeah, the graphite was at the tips of these control rods that drop down into the reactor core, and they were highly radioactive. They were the block looking things glowing on the ground in episode one...the things that that one firefighter picked up with his bare hand and then his hand looked like Freddy Krueger's face a few minutes later. Those were giving off the equivalent of twice the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, every hour. So they had to clear that stuff off the roof for sure because it was letting off that massive radiation and still poisoning the environment even though the actual fire had been put out.

There were essentially two fires. Both radioactive. One was a literal fire where materials that had become radioactive were burning, and the other was the actual radioactive reaction from the exposed reactor, that was sort of a fire in its own right. Once they got out the fires an cleared the roof, then they could get onto it and work to build the "sarcophagus" around the reactor 4 structure as a more long-term solution.

 

[Sghost597]

Only 1 more episode left. They could of gotten a few more episodes for the new Goat show

 

[Lord_nikon]

Just just watched S1E4 the furball family... that shyt hurt brehs

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Just just watched S1E4 the furball family... that shyt hurt brehs

I skipped thru it breh. I couldn't watch it. My big ole Cane Corso was cuddled up against me asleep in bed beside me too while I was watching the episode. I kept looking down at him tearing up.