The other thing I think I recall was that the prime reason for the disaster was down to human error and lack of understanding and/or training on the consequences of the procedures they were using
You need to watch it for the answer to that, not exactly human error more lack of correct info.
Is it a "docu-drama" or more 'drama'??? i.e. how much is based on the internationally accepted facts rather than dressed up for dramatic intent?
PS lack of correct info is still IMO 'human error'.
Not trying to be difficult, but I've seen comments elsewhere too about not realising what a disaster it was at the time - I find this really curious, since the scale of it wasn't hidden, but seemed to be continuously on the news and discussed, the deaths of the workers, the area of land rendered uninhabitable, the fallout blowing across Europe and the UK with some farm produce deemed unfit for consumption.
Not trying to be difficult, but I've seen comments elsewhere too about not realising what a disaster it was at the time - I find this really curious, since the scale of it wasn't hidden, but seemed to be continuously on the news and discussed, the deaths of the workers, the area of land rendered uninhabitable, the fallout blowing across Europe and the UK with some farm produce deemed unfit for consumption.
They only admitted there was a problem after a Swedish nuclear station picked up the radiation.... the Swedes originally thought it was a leak from their own reactor but finally realised it was in the atmosphere after lots of testing.Wracking my brains ~ but was it not the case that initially the Russians were very quiet about the incident let alone the the enormity of the disaster...............evidence(?) of some sort of radioactive emission was speculated by other non Russian sources before they admitted 'they had a problem'???
They only admitted there was a problem after a Swedish nuclear station picked up the radiation.... the Swedes originally thought it was a leak from their own reactor but finally realised it was in the atmosphere after lots of testing.
Haven't watch ep#4 yet, but can say it's a decent watch. they are using creative licence a fair bit, anyone who seen the Director/cast interview snippets after each episode will know this. There' one huge fictional element in particular ... but the gist of it is factual.
There always is some artistic licence in these things, one complaint I have seen is that all the actors sound english and
why couldn't they use subtitles ?
TBH I wouldn't have watched it if that was the case, I never really noticed it, was nice to be able to concentrate
on things properly without trying to keep up with subtitles.
One scene in the first episode had no talking but I found really moving was the crowds stood outside watching the fire
and ash starting fall on them, little knowing what the consequence would be
Chernobyl today
View: https://youtu.be/9DWnjcSo9J0
What I was referring to was a bit more than that though, can't really say without it being a spoiler.
I hadn’t seen about the convicts but I did see that they’d used soldiers to clear the roofs. They were only supposed to do one “tour” of a couple of minutes exposure but several guys have said they were called back three or four times more.I am enjoying it very much I think it is pretty accurate
I read a few years ago though that they used convicts to clear the worst roof of the waste and offered them a pardon if they did 20 minutes.
they all died in a week but that isn't on the show,
There's a couple of things I know of that aren't the truth but nothing that makes any difference to what
happened, one is just a different story of a couple of the characters affected by it
Not watched any but did see the trailer.
The one thing I recalled at the time was the news reports about the 'army' of brave souls who entered the hot zones with little more than clothing suitable for working in a very dusty environment. I wonder how many of those men are still alive today!
The other thing I think I recall was that the prime reason for the disaster was down to human error and lack of understanding and/or training on the consequences of the procedures they were using
It wasn't human error. I'm a retired electrical engineer who had a lot of experience of control systems in the 1970's and early 1980's. There were two things that were continually stressed in the training courses and questions asked on the subject in the examinations.
The first was that no system of control should be passed for service unless it had been thoroughly tested and proved to work under all possible fault conditions. My understanding from reports I have read is that the testing of the Chernobyl control system was terminated way before this point.
The second is that all the systems must be of the closed loop type. This means that the item being controlled must give a true indication of its actual position. The failure to do this at Three Mile Island; the position indicator on one of the vital valves in the cooling system was not actually attached to the valve as it was considered too difficult, resulted in the valve which failed giving a false position indication to the control room.
As one of the lecturers bluntly put it "Failure to ensure that both of these conditions are met will undoubtably result in a severe bite in your arse at some point in time
Hope you don't find out what happens at the end before thenyeah last one tonight, will be watching it with wife tomorrow eve probably
It wasn't about the aftermath though.I thought it was a bit of an anti-climax tbh, excellent series overall but it just fizzled out in the end without showing the true horror of the aftermath.
It wasn't about the aftermath though.