They say even dead bodies take longer to decompose , since radiation also kills all bacteria...

I couldn't imagine the family feelings. no service, no body, breaks my heart also

Its so sad

@bopp9 The zone around reactor 4 is completely unhabitable. Not even small lifeforms can survive under those conditions

@@dualtronix4438 wrong, after new safe confinement radiation lowered 4 times and is safe to visit the reactor.

Not exactly true :) It is extraordinary show, but from the first to the last episode, it's mix of truth, fantasies and lies. But still, awsome show thou. And yes, I remember disaster, I was forced to drink this iodyne shit :)

@@drab2000 This show can't have lies because it's not a documentary. Of course they changed some stuff for drama purposes. One must be seriously mentally impaired to say that TV-series lies. And what's the most important - these changes for drama purposes were not significant ones. Let's say naked miners? So what? What is changed if they did wear underpants? Nothing. But the main things - the lies of Soviet System were shown very well.

@@Zveruidfly Don't call me mentally impaired, pussy! I understand what tv show is, and I dont speak with you. I answered to @varus ez who said that the show is only truth.

drab2000 and he answered to you, what’s the problem? There is always someone with stupid arguments it’s so annoying, similar to the people that says “it’s my opinion if you don’t like it don’t read it ok”

@@Zveruidfly A show or TV show can have lies. Take Braveheart for example, a great film with fantastic characters, drama and battle sequences but very historically inaccurate. To say someone is "Mentally impaired" because they think TV Series lie is madness. TV series are made for profit.

Yes, that should have been included in the epilogue.

@Tan Jenner to all of them that deserve it. i highly doubt it was put in just for trump.

For all that concern, *two RBMK reactors* with their tip material changed *still operate in Russia today.* As for "other countries started re-examining their reactors", yeah NO. That did not happen. Because it was not required. *Countries don't wait for HBO to make TV series before they start taking action.* Current reactor designs are much much safer, and we saw even the design of the non-defective RBMK reactor was very safe. *Every time there is a nuclear accident, no matter how small, its report is made and circulated internationally. All countries look at these reports are periodically review the safety of their reactors.* Even incidents like natural disasters, such as in Fukushima prompted massive comprehensive reviews of reactors all over the world. *I live in India and we have a lot of reactors here.* I read the reports on safety features of Indian reactors whenever they are updated (since they are building a couple of Indian designed 700MWe PHWR very close to my own home). I can't see a catastrophe developing even if a Magnitude 7 Earthquake hitting that reactor, cutting off all power supplies, even the auxillary. I can't see a terrorist strike managing to damage the reactor. That is how safe modern nuclear reactors are. *Short of a nuke exploding at a precise point above the reactor* (extremely unlikely even during a war with Pakistan or China), *I don't see much danger from the reactor.* Nuke strikes on Indian reactors are implausible because of two reasons:- 1.) Each plant will be protected by at least a battery of Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile (18 ready to fire missiles) which have discrimination capability, telling real nukes apart from decoys well before the nuke hits. 2.) Entire region of the plant will be covered by an entire regiment of PDV Mk-I High Altitude Interceptor Missiles ( 36 ready to fire missiles ). 3.) All approaches to all Indian targets will be protected by a mid-course interceptor missile called PDV Mk-II. 4.) Pakistan and China also have reactors and we also have nukes, along with a policy of no-first-use but massive retaliation. Pak and China wouldn't dare to do something when they themselves are vulnerable and Pakistan (the more unstable of the two) doesn't even have a protective missile shield if India starts nuclear retaliation. In fact, Pakistan is too close to India majority of Pakistan's water comes from rivers that are formed in India and then flow to Pakistan after covering some distance in India. If they hit our reactors with nukes, they die as well. In the event the nuke does go off, though, the fact that the areas around the reactor upto 16 km have been designated as an emergency planning zone. All contingencies have already been planned in, NDRF (National Disaster Response Force) is on standby. The minute disaster strikes (although it won't), they will know the first actions to take without needing any approval or training at that time. My point is, modern reactors are VERY safe and don't need a TV series to review their security measures.

I guess they mean that the public is thinking more about nuclear power plants and corruption.

Oui. Vous avez raison

Yes, I always thought it was like they were looking into Hell. Just seeing it was enough to kill you, though they didn't know it yet.

@@dirdib69 they were nuclear scientists, they knew as soon as they saw graphite

I hope he was able to realize how much he actually did... I hope the talk between him and Valery was real, even if not exactly like that. It was so true what he said to Boris. It wasn't just the people who had to figure out what had happened and how to stop it from getting any worse... The show did a good job of showing what the system and the sort of people in charge were like. To have everything work like that... And yet end up with a man who actually listened, learned, could set aside his pride, and just do what was right. And who could do all that while actually having the power to do so, and get the scientists and workers the things they needed. Forget lunar rovers... All the liquid nitrogen in the entire Soviet Union, ffs sake. Who else in that government would've let him ask for that and backed him up on it?

@@Knight-Bishop Because it was a centralised system, it was possible for everything to be pulled together by whoever was at the top when absolutely necessary, for leadership to be very decisive in that way, because it was a pyramid and a dictatorship. It was just all the bullshit down through the system that came along with that, slowing everything down for all the less important stuff, the daily life stuff like toothbrushes and deodorant and extra socks, and the tendency for the massive resources available for investment centrally to be frittered away on a growing number of projects that kept taking longer to finish, that local party heads and enterprise chiefs and ministers would come up with to justify a bigger slice of funding.

@@patrickholt2270 The President of the US has pretty similar emergency powers though, they can do pretty much everything Gorbachev did in this series, although in the long term Congress would need to authorize more funding to deal with it.

Boris was MVP. RIP.

Didn't the USSR also have a sub get stuck somewhere in the ocean and they didn't ask for anyone's help until after everyone on the submarine was dead? I remember my mom saying something about how the US had to go and help them retrieve the bodies and the submarine. Idk if this is just mom brain saying things to me tho.

It is not her score in this sequence. It is in fact an Eastern Orthodox church chant for memorial service at funerals. The episode title "Vichnaya Pamyat" (Everlasting Memory) is in fact the name of this chant and it is performed by an actual church choir.

@@juriskrumgolds5810 You’re right, but she actually did the arrangement of the song.

​@@juriskrumgolds5810What do the lyrics actually mean though?

Quite all the song just words “everlasting memory”. It is not just 2 words in Russian/Ukrainian, but also a typical phrase in memory of people who died

In addition, because of the logarithmic rate of nuclear decay, in 100 years the radiation danger will be very significantly reduced. It won't be anywhere near halfway reduced, but it will still be a very marked decrease. The mathish explanation: If you have 1,000 atoms, by the end of one half-life you'll have 500 atoms, but by the end of the second you'll have 250 atoms. So the average rate of loss for the first half-life is 500 atoms per half-life, but the rate for the second is only 250 atoms per half-life, and the rate slows and slows and slows. What that means is that during the first hundred years, the rate of decay will be at its highest, and the radiation at the end of that first 100 years will have dropped significantly. The hard math: coming when I've gone to bed and can think straight.

They say complete cleanup of the disaster could take hundreds or even over 1000 years, and we will have to build new confinement structures over it for this whole period. The Empire State Building will be gone, the Burj Khalifa will be gone, the Petronas Towers will be gone, but the Chernobyl confinement will remain in some form. It's like the Industrial Age's equivalent of an Egyptian pyramid, only in true disposable-economy fashion of our times we have to "upgrade" the pyramid every 100 years. Possibly the only lasting legacy of our time.

The Confinement Structure has a 55 ton crane and 3 sub cranes 5-25 ton. with the ultimate goal of removing the fuel from Chernobyl and this includes the reactor core (whats left of it). its a true feat of engineering.

@@LauraSti Still, plutonium's half-life, as Dr Legasov said, is 24,000 years. It'll be nowhere near half in 100 years.

@@CST1992 as I understand it, the shorter the half life of a radionuclide, the faster it decays and the more radioactivity it gives off at any one time. They were much more concerned about the spread of cesium-137, which has a half life of about 30 years

And their only hope.

Or it shows that some people create disaster and others have to solve it

@@Itisdone0 it wasnt just "some people"... humanity as whole has this drive to push everything to the limit and sometimes whe dont realize how dangerous our ambitions could be...

Mirror of Society thers no great evil, no god who wants to punished us, no advanced civilization.... Theres only us

You compare how it is now to how it was then and you’d be grateful to live in today’s society of people

Your uncle is a hero my friend. Like the many who helped to contain that catastrophe. May he Rest In Peace .

your uncle was a true hero. pls tell him "thank you" from a fellow european for his bravery when you visit his site next time.

Same i was like they need to see this part

Me too. I waited for these minuttes since they watched the first episode

becayse they want another vid for more views.....

@@bulmnstr3116 lol no, they can only show 10 minutes of footage from an episode. The credits would have been a significant portion of those 10 minutes meaning they couldnt show as much of the actual episode. So it had to be split up for the time.

here is a video to react too. but u will cry

I don't know what you saw but... a nation is made of their citizens and amongst them i saw tons of honor in this series.

Hit hard.

@a nissan The show doesn't state it either, they say it has been reported.

I wouldn't remotely be surprised if it's chernoybl tours that started calling it "the bridge of death". It doesn't seem to be used colloquially.

@@OriginalRAB it has been called that for years

@@alex_gaimar yes. But by whom? Like I said, The term doesn't seem to be one colloquially used.

Legasov also had a family...

Amen to that.

Major drag, huh... 😔

A masterpiece of a show. And such an important one. They should show this to students in secondary school.

I recommend the podcast to everyone who watched this, the creator really is transparent about what he changed and why, it’s very very interesting. It’s the Official Chernobyl Podcast.

I loved the creation of Khomyuk's character, it makes perfect sense from a storytelling perspective to do that because it made us feel something for the character, they couldn't have achieved that with a hundred different characters all contributing one piece of info and disappearing.

i think trial was way off road for the show,.. reproduction of Vienna conference may be much better.

I've been on a jury before. Yeah... Hands down the most boring experience of my life. So I can understand why movies and shows try to shorten it and spice it up. If they had shown an actual trial proceeding it would have basically killed the series by having it end on such a boring note.

It's a Ukrainian saying not russian. It does mean eternal memory and its always sung at Ukrainian funerals. Chernobyl was is Ukraine

what man are you if u cry with your girlfriend ? xD

@@bulmnstr3116 It is no laughing matter.

@@bulmnstr3116 A human being?

@@bulmnstr3116 you really gonna act tough in front of your own girlfriend? then it kinda the whole point of having a GF

@@bulmnstr3116 TF dude? Men are humans too. Not some superheros. They feel the same emotion, can be broken etc. You have some complexes that you write this kind of bs on the internet or what?

My understanding is they also have remote controlled cranes for the eventual dismantlement of the core.

And this structure will keep radioactivity emitted from the reactor at least for 100 years.

Its not a permanent structure, its a temporary structure to contain and aid the dismantling of the reactor inside. In theory by the time the structure becomes unstable the reactor will be long gone.

@@voiceofraisin3778 We shouldn't except things going that well, since the building of this new containment building was facing financial issues all the times already. Ukraine isn't in position to deal with this heritage on it's own today, and I'm pretty sure it won't be much easier 100 years later for them. I highly doubt they could decontaminate the site by that time.

@@jbwebster then a new one will be built, if not by ukraine then by the eu. no need to worry.

And all that crap? Where are they going to plow it under?

@@whattheflyingfuck... most likely, in a safe confinement underground somewhere else, like most nuclear waste

The big thing is getting it away from large sources of groundwater it could affect in the event of a breach. Part of the problem of moving it is that the "lava" that they talked about is still not only insanely radioactive up close, and is actually still hot enough to be elastic; the center of any thick bits of it might still be molten thanks to the heat that the radioactivity can maintain so long after it originally melted. Because of the material that formed on the outside of the lava versus the inside... If the crust gets cracks and the inside is still hot, it means the inner material was still quite reactive compared to the outside, and exposing it could start to release even more radiation than it was giving off when sitting in place. So they have to move something where its physical instability could unleash its nuclear instability if not moved perfectly, and may need shielding stronger than the external readings let on.

@@Knight-Bishop they need a huge lava resistant spoon for that xD

Wow, I noticed they mentioned it offhand a couple times in the series (about the other reactors still running) but I can't believe they stayed open that long afterward. I guess I thought it was a stopgap power problem until they increased the production elsewhere.

Well, that does make sense; the only reason Chernobyl exploded was sheer human arrogance. After people knew exactly what NOT to do, there wouldn't be a problem and people still needed power in their homes. The only thing that surprises me is that the reactors are fairly close together, which means that they would still be contaminated, even to a lesser degree.

I am not surprise buy that, Three Mile Island, which is home of the US worst nuclear accident, still operated until 2020.

Buddy, hate to tell you this, but people still work there to this day. It's being decommissioned at this point, but 7000 people still work there.

NOVA: Building Chernobyl's Megatomb

I watched this, it's really good 👍

Now it's the USA suffering an epic USSR type collapse under mismanagement

everyone should also watch the interview with Dyatlov in 1994.

Fucken Dyatlov lol

And have a second accident in 1992 with complete destruction of reactor 2 turbine hall.

And Ciarán Hinds who played Mance Rayder. I fully support your suggestion. I made the same on the main reaction.

yes, the terror is good

Loved him as Layne Price in Mad Men.

He also played Moriarty in the 2nd Sherlock Holmes movie :)

He was great in "The Terror."

Sadly, the son had nothing but misery his whole life. He had severe problems growing up and developing. He's in his late 20s and still collecting disability. Its not all rainbows as the ending makes it sound for her.

To be fair, most of it was her own damn fault in the show and it was really hard for me to feel any sympathy for someone who just ignored all warnings after being told repeatedly how dangerous it was and how she couldn't touch him or get near him

@@DarkTider you can't be blamed for feeling like that. she absolutely should've listened to the nurses. oddly enough, the way radiation is shown in the show isn't totally factual (as she would've been more dangerous to HIM than other way round near the end), she still absorbed a good amount of the stuff.

@@DarkTider here's the problem: The show wasnt true to life at all when it comes to the characters. Pretty much none were accurate. Lyudmilla was in the hospital for a long time, not as a clingy over emotional wife, but actually took car e of her husband and all the other fire fighters and other civilians affected by radiation, because the hospital was shortstaffed and many didnt want to treat them out of fear.

The USSR was created to preserve the effort of common workers who work without classic supervision by wealthy overlords. However it was not long before authoritarian leaders took charge.

And they looked death straight in the eye and said "I will fear no evil for I'm the baddest, most unforgiving motherfucker in the goddamn valley"

If only. Place has been looted (yes, honestly) and gear has gone missing (photos of part of the firefighter gear in the hospital lobby instead of the basement was floating around on the net, and now it's not even in the lobby anymore so someone took it). After some idiots start to sneak in bicycles to bike around in the basement levels the government of Ukraine dumped sand in the staircase to seal it permanently.

@@Thedutchjelle i hear about that total disrespect

The real miracle is this series coming along raising awareness for all of these people and the increase in international donations, because, unfortunately, people like Lyudmilla's son whom is plagued with health issues due to his mother exposure to radiation has never gotten a cent of financial support from the soviet/russian government in 3 decades...

@@sirsecular1277 Except that part is fake. The men themselves weren't radioactive. That's simply not how radiation sickness works. I recommend looking up an interview a woman who worked there says about the show. I can't remember the woman's name but there is a video of her reacting to bit of the show and talking about what actually happened.

In some parts of Bavaria in Germany and other places in southern germany and austria it's still the same. My father is actually an expert in the field of mushrooms, that's kind of how I learned about this as a child. Mushrooms are fantastic at drawing the radiation our of the ground because of their vast sponge-line network underground, and all of that gets conentrated into the fruit, the actual thing we consider the mushroom we eat. That's why they're still dangerous to eat in certain areas so long after the fact.

Actually not only Ukraine people did that. There was people from entire USSR.

Also i should point out, the New Safe Confinement ( the arch ) that now sits over the Entombed reactor is not just designed to contain the radiation, but to it will also dismantle the crumbling Sarcophagus and assist in decommissioning what remains of Reactor 4, it will be collected and stored deep underground like all over high level waste. till such a time as it can be made safe. this is why its designed to last 100 years, the theory being that when it needs replacing the job will be done