holy shit, didnt realise that at the time but in the script for the first ep legasov kills himself at the exact same time reactor 4 exploded - 1:23:45
Yeah, the title of that episode has two meanings
It's great to go back at the old trailer thread and to look at the comments.
https://forum.facepunch.com/vidz/bvndq/Chernobyl-2019-Official-Trailer-HBO/1/
Look at all of you pessimists who thought it wouldn't be historically accurate! I'm kidding, we couldn't have known that it was going to be this good.
just like dyatlov couldn't have known the rbmk reactor exploded, because there is absolutely no way an rbmk reactor could explode!
Chernobyl isn't a good series because reactor 4 DIDN'T EXPLODE!
Honestly, Legasov's 'bullet' analogy is incredibly weak to me, so it irks me that they used it in the trailer. It doesn't at all convey the point that it's invisible, can't be felt, and yet will still kill you. And what the hell does he mean by "Chernobyl holds over three trillion of these bullets", what, over three trillion uranium atoms? I probably have literally over three trillion uranium atoms in my body right now.
I know RT is propaganda and they just made an article making fun of that nobody British woman for complaining about lack of PoCs in the show but I did find this interesting.
https://www.rt.com/news/461078-chernobyl-black-liquidator-hbo/
Just about every liquidator story is interesting so this is kinda cool.
I thought you just pulled that out of your ass and might've overstated things by a couple orders of magnitude, but if I did the math correctly, having about a nanogram of uranium in your body does sound plausible.
I did the math too, and if I've done it correctly we have over 200 quadrillion uranium atoms in our bodies, and way over 3 trillion of specifically U-235.
He actually says a billion trillion in just a single gram of uranium 235. Then goes on to say 3 million billion trillion "bullets".
Considering what Mazin had written before and the general reviews on said movies, I'm surprised it wasn't more cynical.
I'd like to see him tackle other accidents in a similar manner, not necessarily nuclear but I'd imagine ones like the tenerife airport disaster would work well in a similar format.
ive been digging for more videos of rbmk reactors on youtube
A visit of reactor 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe_zzTQFV3o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyvFJcgcDIk
Tons of photos of the interior of reactor 2 and 4 here Nuclear Tourism | Special Nuclear Material
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WVMMJ7O2Zc
strong accent and weird music choice, but otherwise a super accurate model of reactor 4 after the explosion and liquidation
https://i.imgur.com/w69YqHh.jpg
Mazin gets most of the attention regarding his previous works, but Johan Renck, the director mostly just worked on music videos previously, and he is mostly known as Swedish pop star from the 90s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNK-cOtxSs
I don't know why the execs at HBO thought this would be a good idea, but holy shit they were right
I um, ahem... I walked around the exterior of [Composition of the human body]... I think there's [Uranium - 1*10^-7 kg] on the article, in the list...
Contaminated references, he's been around it all day. Get this man to the library.
This thread made me go and watch this series and it was well worth it, it's an amazing series!
Whole soundtrack playlist.
This could be nice in STALKER.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC1aBVDsoWw&list=OLAK5uy_kB2pMh8lkv3GPewkQu9_6mu3JMWSGeNVE
Still kinda digesting it all, but this show handled radiation so well. Its usually a terrifying thing in most media, but the pure destruction and devastation it causes to the people and the location is completely nuts.
It adds to the overwhelming tension this show has so well. You can almost feel the graphite chunks vibrating with the energy whenever they are on screen, and watching the fireman pick up a chunk of it, or the member of the roof team getting his foot caught under one is somehow some of the most gripping television I've ever seen. Those pieces where you can see the holes where the fuel rods used to be are visually terrifying, especially when you realise what exactly they are and "Do you taste metal?" is such a well used wham line.
It's like a fire. These people and the location itself are constantly on fire, burning these people from the inside out, but it's invisible until it's way too late to stop it. Not to mention how absolutely horrific of a way to die it is. Even though this show had a lot of restraint when it came to gore, I don't think I've seen such a nightmarish, terrifying and agonising way to die in a non-fiction setting before...