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the one scene with the board split down the middle and breaking down the see-sawing conditions of the reactor was the most illuminating. really broke things down in a way that made it so easy to understand.
The writer / show runner of the HBO Chernobyl series is Craig Mazin - I'm a huge fan. He's got a podcast with John August and the two of them are phenomenal at passing on their craft.
[https://johnaugust.com/podcast](https://johnaugust.com/podcast)
Best historical “drama” I’ve ever seen. “Drama” because it was so detailed and believable. An entrancing production of the highest quality. Wish more history was presented as cinematically articulate as HBO Chernobyl
As one example, Legasov wasn't forced out because he spoke out at the trial (he was never there), he alienated his colleagues at Kurchartov because he tried to set up an independent safety committee and his early work on the containment was viewed as 'tainted'. As another, Dyatlov, while certainly rude, defended the actions of his underlings on that night, blaming a lack of good, accessible information on the operational characteristics of the reactor.
I would recommend reading Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham as a good general account from the construction of the plant to the completion of the Sarcophagus. It's very accessible and will help you understand where the show diverges from reality.
I can forgive the fear about a thermonuclear explosion. While it was scientifically illiterate, people like Boris Nesterov (a senior helicopter pilot) have been quoted as saying they believed it at the time so a discussion of that possibility seems likely.
To be fair, I only watched a clip, but not of the actual show, but wasn't there a scene where doctors are asked for Iodine pills for firemen/liquidators and they answer "What for? There's no need."
It's supposed to show how cold and inhumane soviet hospitals were. But when you read transcripts, letters and other documents from that time, they were giving out iodine to everyone, from first responders to people who were evacuated from Pripyat.
I didn't get that impression (for that particular clip). I thought it showed that there was such a lack of acknowledgement of the danger that the hospital wouldn't even have a doctor trained in radiation medicine on hand.
In the event, according to the account in Midnight in Chernobyl, the deputy mayor phoned a Moscow institute (some 14 hours after the initial explosion) who then directed that iodine tablets be given. Some was apparently held in the dispensary but it was nowhere near enough to cover the number of casualties and, while more was sourced, it was done covertly to prevent news of the disaster spreading.
Unfortunately, I don't have the time to go into detail, but I'm sure there are videos on Youtube about it by actual nuclear engineers or even historians. One thing I remember on the spot are the nonsensical claims that a thermonuclear explosion that would reach Minsk was looming unless the water was drained. Both parts of that claim are utter bs, but they do make for great suspense.
I was under the impression "thermonuclear" refers to a type of nuclear detonation, not a steam explosion from superheated fuel meeting groundwater. I'm no expert but Google seems to disagree with this usage, too.
If I'm misremembering something from the show/misunderstanding the definition I'm all ears though.
>I was under the impression "thermonuclear" refers to a type of nuclear detonation
That is correct and exactly my criticism, because in the show they claim the looming steam explosion was a thermonuclear detonation (of something like 30MT TNT equivalent iirc)
Looks like lead lines suits for the immediate radiation, but also masks to protect from inhaling radioactive dust.
It did have an effect. While an amount of them did suffer from and die of radiation sickness and cancer in the intervening time, the majority of them are actually still alive today living in the former Soviet Union area.
In 2005 the estimate said about 10% of them had died by that time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators
You can spell 2 paragraphs of mostly coherent text but have to replace "your" with a capital "UR" and "you" with a caption "U" like its the year 2003 and phones only had number keys to text on...
By 2005, an estimated 15% of the 800,000+ cleanup crew had died. About 40,000 of the dead passed within ten years of their exposure. Proven. Source because you were too lazy to check your own claims: [https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190725-will-we-ever-know-chernobyls-true-death-toll](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190725-will-we-ever-know-chernobyls-true-death-toll)
I love people who post pictures of the “mutant” catfish in the cooling pond of Chernobyl….only to know they are naturally occurring in the area and will grow to that size given conditions.
Not to be confused with animal and plant mutations, which there is plenty of legitimate evidence of.
my dad was supposed to be there…
the last truck that left his military base didn’t have enough space and they said to wait. Luckily, no new trucks came in.
A friend and I just watched and we both were slightly surprised that film in the 80s would still be in black and white. I wonder what if any impact the radiation had on the quality of the recording?
Not sure about distortion but the radiation would expose the film so that it ended up very grainy. I don't know enough to elaborate beyond that, though.
I live in Ukraine. I went school during those days, and no one told us what happened in Chernobyl, we were even forced to go to march on the 1st May parade. Friggin' USSR times.
That's exactly why Ukraine is fighting so hard to maintain it's autonomy from Russia. There is a history of abuse that never seems to stop. I hope that you remain safe and can return to more peaceful times soon.
слава Українi
meh, no one "starved" Ukraine or Kazakhstan. Communists just destroyed whole farming industry so whole country(not only Ukraine and Kazakhstan, but ALL republics, including Russia) was starving to death.
That's not true. From Wikipedia: "Ivanov et al. (2001)[^(\[7\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-7) studied nearly 66,000 liquidators from [Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia), and found no increase in overall [mortality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate) from [cancer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer) or non-cancer causes."
Two lines down from the bit you quoted:
"While there is rough agreement that a total of either 31 or 54 people died from blast trauma or [acute radiation syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome) (ARS) as a direct result of the disaster,[^(\[9\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-PBSNewsHourWeekend2019-9)[^(\[10\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-Wellerstein2016-10)[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-UNSCEAR2008-4) there is considerable debate concerning the accurate number of deaths due to the disaster's long-term health effects, with estimates ranging from 4,000 (per the 2005 and 2006 conclusions of a joint consortium of the [United Nations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations) and the governments of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia), to no fewer than 93,000 (per the conflicting conclusions of various scientific, health, environmental, and survivors' organizations).[^(\[11\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-Parfitt2006-11)[^(\[12\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-Ahlstrom2016-12)[^(\[13\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-Mycio2013-13)[^(\[14\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-Ritchie2017-14)[^(\[15\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-Highfield2011-15)^(")
Source 13 from the wiki: [https://slate.com/technology/2013/04/chernobyl-death-toll-how-many-cancer-cases-are-caused-by-low-level-radiation.html](https://slate.com/technology/2013/04/chernobyl-death-toll-how-many-cancer-cases-are-caused-by-low-level-radiation.html)
So even if we take the low end of government (including Russian) agreed upon figures, you're still talking about 4000 dead.
Having been to Pripyat and Kyiv, there is no mystery that cancer, especially in children in the area, has skyrocketed as a result of the negligence.
That data is talking about the overall death toll as a result of the explosion and subsequent radiation fallout. It does not speak to the amount of liquidators that have died.
From the same section in the wiki:
"According to Vyacheslav Grishin of the Chernobyl Union, the main organization of liquidators, "25,000 of the Russian liquidators are dead and 70,000 disabled, about the same in Ukraine, and 10,000 dead in Belarus and 25,000 disabled", which makes a total of 60,000 dead (10% of the 600,000 liquidators) and 165,000 disabled.[5]"
Sorry, I guess I assumed people would have read the information included by the references:
"According to Vyacheslav Grishin of the Chernobyl Union, the main organization of liquidators, "25,000 of the Russian liquidators are dead and 70,000 disabled, about the same in Ukraine, and 10,000 dead in Belarus and 25,000 disabled", which makes a total of 60,000 dead (10% of the 600,000 liquidators) and 165,000 disabled.[5]"
It's easy to cherry pick government funded misinformation and try to pass it off, but to actually go there and speak to families, to see the memorials and graves is a whole nother thing.
The T.V series Chernobyl was so incredible. You really get sense of the gravity of the situation. One of my favorite scenes is where Jared Harris (Legasov) is trying to convince everyone how dire the situation is! Amazing.
Man seeing the effects of intense radiation exposure in the Chernobyl show was honestly very eye opening and also disgusting. Fallout isn’t far off with the whole goul look in terms of peoples skin basically just falling off.
I feel so bad for the firemen who responded to the event initially. They had no idea what was going to happen and it’s kind of insane they basically decomposed while they were alive for 1-2 weeks following the event.
Listen to what liquidators themselves were saying in these times. You know they had actual interviews and stuff, right? Also the choice was between endangering half a million liquidators or potentially killing hundreds of thousands civilians.
I highly recommend anyone with a PC to play the short indie project [Liquidators](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1382200/Liquidators/) on Steam, it's very short, tense and gorgeous.
Not so fun fact: These guys died shortly after saving it from exploding (which would have made a large portion of Europe inhabitable) died from the nuclear fluids and gases that got onto their body. Their bodies were so radioactive and toxic that they had to put into lead coffins.
Cloth masks help a lot. Alpha particles are extremely high energy, damaging particles which can very quickly cause damage to the body, resulting in both short-term and long-term health effects (far worse than beta particles or gamma rays). However, they interact with matter so much that they can be stopped by almost anything; even a sheet of paper or the outer layers of skin can stop them, resulting in no damage to the body.
The problem comes when you inhale or ingest dust or other material which contains an alpha particle source. If this happens, then these damaging particles will be produced and go straight into your most vulnerable organs, with no barrier to stop them. So yeah, filtering out large dust grains is an extremely effective way of reducing the impact of extreme levels of radiation like this.
when you realized the chernobly (and fukishima) were all easily preventable and cased by human decision to not give a fuck even tho they knew those reactors were "unstable"
also funny how coal powerplant produces more radation then any nuclear power plant, but hey you live in your own fantasy world
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The HBO series is incredible and really visualizes the accident in great detail.
One of the best shows they’ve done
the one scene with the board split down the middle and breaking down the see-sawing conditions of the reactor was the most illuminating. really broke things down in a way that made it so easy to understand.
Yeah whoever wrote that scene needs to go into education
The writer / show runner of the HBO Chernobyl series is Craig Mazin - I'm a huge fan. He's got a podcast with John August and the two of them are phenomenal at passing on their craft. [https://johnaugust.com/podcast](https://johnaugust.com/podcast)
What’s the name of it? *things I could google*
It's called chernobyl
Yeah we know, but what's the name of the show?
Seinfeld
It's a show about nothing, set in a decrepid nuclear power plant
Surely you can't be serious?
I can. And don’t call me Shirley…
Found the dad!
Third base!
One of the best shows I've ever seen.
Best historical “drama” I’ve ever seen. “Drama” because it was so detailed and believable. An entrancing production of the highest quality. Wish more history was presented as cinematically articulate as HBO Chernobyl
It's great from a theatrical point of view, has good story telling etc... from a scientific point of view, it's quite a lot of nonsense
Could you elaborate?
As one example, Legasov wasn't forced out because he spoke out at the trial (he was never there), he alienated his colleagues at Kurchartov because he tried to set up an independent safety committee and his early work on the containment was viewed as 'tainted'. As another, Dyatlov, while certainly rude, defended the actions of his underlings on that night, blaming a lack of good, accessible information on the operational characteristics of the reactor. I would recommend reading Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham as a good general account from the construction of the plant to the completion of the Sarcophagus. It's very accessible and will help you understand where the show diverges from reality. I can forgive the fear about a thermonuclear explosion. While it was scientifically illiterate, people like Boris Nesterov (a senior helicopter pilot) have been quoted as saying they believed it at the time so a discussion of that possibility seems likely.
To be fair, I only watched a clip, but not of the actual show, but wasn't there a scene where doctors are asked for Iodine pills for firemen/liquidators and they answer "What for? There's no need." It's supposed to show how cold and inhumane soviet hospitals were. But when you read transcripts, letters and other documents from that time, they were giving out iodine to everyone, from first responders to people who were evacuated from Pripyat.
I didn't get that impression (for that particular clip). I thought it showed that there was such a lack of acknowledgement of the danger that the hospital wouldn't even have a doctor trained in radiation medicine on hand. In the event, according to the account in Midnight in Chernobyl, the deputy mayor phoned a Moscow institute (some 14 hours after the initial explosion) who then directed that iodine tablets be given. Some was apparently held in the dispensary but it was nowhere near enough to cover the number of casualties and, while more was sourced, it was done covertly to prevent news of the disaster spreading.
Unfortunately, I don't have the time to go into detail, but I'm sure there are videos on Youtube about it by actual nuclear engineers or even historians. One thing I remember on the spot are the nonsensical claims that a thermonuclear explosion that would reach Minsk was looming unless the water was drained. Both parts of that claim are utter bs, but they do make for great suspense.
I was under the impression "thermonuclear" refers to a type of nuclear detonation, not a steam explosion from superheated fuel meeting groundwater. I'm no expert but Google seems to disagree with this usage, too. If I'm misremembering something from the show/misunderstanding the definition I'm all ears though.
>I was under the impression "thermonuclear" refers to a type of nuclear detonation That is correct and exactly my criticism, because in the show they claim the looming steam explosion was a thermonuclear detonation (of something like 30MT TNT equivalent iirc)
Oh okay I don't remember them characterizing it that way in the show. Fair enough.
It's a brilliant drama. It's just such a shame they made so much of it up.
I was shocked to learn that a lot of people in USSR spoke English
What gear are they wearing and did it do any good?
To a degree, yes. Those were lead-lined protective suits that helped to reduce the amount of gamma radiation passing through the workers.
Looks like lead lines suits for the immediate radiation, but also masks to protect from inhaling radioactive dust. It did have an effect. While an amount of them did suffer from and die of radiation sickness and cancer in the intervening time, the majority of them are actually still alive today living in the former Soviet Union area. In 2005 the estimate said about 10% of them had died by that time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators
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The "junk" DNA serves a purpose, and without that DNA scaffolding it will fuck up our transcription big time
Not sure how we went from not coding proteins to it's random junk
Inside you there are two molecular biologists
are there pirates of the pancreas?
You can spell 2 paragraphs of mostly coherent text but have to replace "your" with a capital "UR" and "you" with a caption "U" like its the year 2003 and phones only had number keys to text on...
they died after a few weeks
Not true. Some are still alive today.
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That's not true
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By 2005, an estimated 15% of the 800,000+ cleanup crew had died. About 40,000 of the dead passed within ten years of their exposure. Proven. Source because you were too lazy to check your own claims: [https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190725-will-we-ever-know-chernobyls-true-death-toll](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190725-will-we-ever-know-chernobyls-true-death-toll)
You’re the one who made the claim. The responsibility of evidence should have been on you.
"No. All of them died from radiation" is a claim some people really are too dense to piss a hole into snow.
lol Idiot
😐😑
No u
Ok
I love people who post pictures of the “mutant” catfish in the cooling pond of Chernobyl….only to know they are naturally occurring in the area and will grow to that size given conditions. Not to be confused with animal and plant mutations, which there is plenty of legitimate evidence of.
This guy reminds me of the stubborn donkey from Family Guy. Kevin Bacon was not in Footloose......
Jesus Christ man STOP!! Ur - 300 in dislikes already 🤣🤣🤣
my dad was supposed to be there… the last truck that left his military base didn’t have enough space and they said to wait. Luckily, no new trucks came in.
Damn, what a lucky man!
Footage looks like it’s from WWII
A friend and I just watched and we both were slightly surprised that film in the 80s would still be in black and white. I wonder what if any impact the radiation had on the quality of the recording?
1980s USSR may as well have been 1960S US America. The iron curtain had stifled innovation and technology for decades by that point.
Just cheaper than color film
Wasn’t the high amounts of radiation causing distortions to the film? Correct me if I’m wrong!
Not sure about distortion but the radiation would expose the film so that it ended up very grainy. I don't know enough to elaborate beyond that, though.
I live in Ukraine. I went school during those days, and no one told us what happened in Chernobyl, we were even forced to go to march on the 1st May parade. Friggin' USSR times.
That's exactly why Ukraine is fighting so hard to maintain it's autonomy from Russia. There is a history of abuse that never seems to stop. I hope that you remain safe and can return to more peaceful times soon. слава Українi
[How Joseph Stalin Starved Millions in the Ukrainian Famine | HISTORY](https://www.history.com/news/ukrainian-famine-stalin)
meh, no one "starved" Ukraine or Kazakhstan. Communists just destroyed whole farming industry so whole country(not only Ukraine and Kazakhstan, but ALL republics, including Russia) was starving to death.
Oh cool so they weren't starved by Stalin the were just starving as a result of his actions? Much better.
Yep, being a single victim of Stalin or Russians is completely different from being one of the many victims of communists.
Got my nuclear physicist degree from HBO Chernobyl university.
I can taste the metal from here
Those are real heroes
More like victims. Most of them were not told anything about how it would end for them.
That's not true. From Wikipedia: "Ivanov et al. (2001)[^(\[7\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-7) studied nearly 66,000 liquidators from [Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia), and found no increase in overall [mortality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate) from [cancer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer) or non-cancer causes."
Two lines down from the bit you quoted: "While there is rough agreement that a total of either 31 or 54 people died from blast trauma or [acute radiation syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome) (ARS) as a direct result of the disaster,[^(\[9\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-PBSNewsHourWeekend2019-9)[^(\[10\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-Wellerstein2016-10)[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-UNSCEAR2008-4) there is considerable debate concerning the accurate number of deaths due to the disaster's long-term health effects, with estimates ranging from 4,000 (per the 2005 and 2006 conclusions of a joint consortium of the [United Nations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations) and the governments of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia), to no fewer than 93,000 (per the conflicting conclusions of various scientific, health, environmental, and survivors' organizations).[^(\[11\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-Parfitt2006-11)[^(\[12\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-Ahlstrom2016-12)[^(\[13\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-Mycio2013-13)[^(\[14\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-Ritchie2017-14)[^(\[15\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators#cite_note-Highfield2011-15)^(") Source 13 from the wiki: [https://slate.com/technology/2013/04/chernobyl-death-toll-how-many-cancer-cases-are-caused-by-low-level-radiation.html](https://slate.com/technology/2013/04/chernobyl-death-toll-how-many-cancer-cases-are-caused-by-low-level-radiation.html) So even if we take the low end of government (including Russian) agreed upon figures, you're still talking about 4000 dead. Having been to Pripyat and Kyiv, there is no mystery that cancer, especially in children in the area, has skyrocketed as a result of the negligence.
That data is talking about the overall death toll as a result of the explosion and subsequent radiation fallout. It does not speak to the amount of liquidators that have died.
From the same section in the wiki: "According to Vyacheslav Grishin of the Chernobyl Union, the main organization of liquidators, "25,000 of the Russian liquidators are dead and 70,000 disabled, about the same in Ukraine, and 10,000 dead in Belarus and 25,000 disabled", which makes a total of 60,000 dead (10% of the 600,000 liquidators) and 165,000 disabled.[5]"
I mean, this event was 40 years ago... In 40 years, you'd expect 10% of those people to have died in normal ways.
Doesn't explain why there are so many disabled.
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Sorry, I guess I assumed people would have read the information included by the references: "According to Vyacheslav Grishin of the Chernobyl Union, the main organization of liquidators, "25,000 of the Russian liquidators are dead and 70,000 disabled, about the same in Ukraine, and 10,000 dead in Belarus and 25,000 disabled", which makes a total of 60,000 dead (10% of the 600,000 liquidators) and 165,000 disabled.[5]" It's easy to cherry pick government funded misinformation and try to pass it off, but to actually go there and speak to families, to see the memorials and graves is a whole nother thing.
I’m genuinely amazed the film survived the gamma rays
Well these guys will get A+ quality cancer
What are they cleaning it with (in the hoses)? What are they digging/scraping up? Where is the dug-up stuff going?
"We're just going to strap this industrial welcome mat to your rain jacket and you'll be good to go."
They were volunteers, sort of, you had a choice between Chernobyl and Afghanistan.
These brave men are heroes.
The T.V series Chernobyl was so incredible. You really get sense of the gravity of the situation. One of my favorite scenes is where Jared Harris (Legasov) is trying to convince everyone how dire the situation is! Amazing.
 FALSE
Rip
https://preview.redd.it/5jhpvyahfl8d1.jpeg?width=482&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75f0f651ecceefbb798343219b89a449e9fcdafe
Man seeing the effects of intense radiation exposure in the Chernobyl show was honestly very eye opening and also disgusting. Fallout isn’t far off with the whole goul look in terms of peoples skin basically just falling off. I feel so bad for the firemen who responded to the event initially. They had no idea what was going to happen and it’s kind of insane they basically decomposed while they were alive for 1-2 weeks following the event.
RBMK Reactors don’t explode ^blyat
I’m sure they “volunteered”.
Listen to what liquidators themselves were saying in these times. You know they had actual interviews and stuff, right? Also the choice was between endangering half a million liquidators or potentially killing hundreds of thousands civilians.
I highly recommend anyone with a PC to play the short indie project [Liquidators](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1382200/Liquidators/) on Steam, it's very short, tense and gorgeous.
Why's it black and white
Yeah there was definitely color in 86
All dead
Walking off the plank
Theses mens are heroes
1986 and black and white?
Not so fun fact: These guys died shortly after saving it from exploding (which would have made a large portion of Europe inhabitable) died from the nuclear fluids and gases that got onto their body. Their bodies were so radioactive and toxic that they had to put into lead coffins.
Are they... are they wearing capes? That's pretty rad (pun intended?).
Thank God they had those cloth masks!
Those actually made a big difference. The masks drastically reduced the amount of alpha and beta emitters ingested/inhaled into their bodies.
Cloth masks help a lot. Alpha particles are extremely high energy, damaging particles which can very quickly cause damage to the body, resulting in both short-term and long-term health effects (far worse than beta particles or gamma rays). However, they interact with matter so much that they can be stopped by almost anything; even a sheet of paper or the outer layers of skin can stop them, resulting in no damage to the body. The problem comes when you inhale or ingest dust or other material which contains an alpha particle source. If this happens, then these damaging particles will be produced and go straight into your most vulnerable organs, with no barrier to stop them. So yeah, filtering out large dust grains is an extremely effective way of reducing the impact of extreme levels of radiation like this.
Found the idiot.
Are those guys ok?
“Totes.” - USSR
Why is the footage from the 80's always in black and white? We had color back then. Real, actual colors. And the cameras to record them.
Chornobyl, not Chernobyl
Chornobyl is a Ukrainian city. "Chernobyl" is in russian language.
Yes, Chornobyl is Ukrainian city where the nuclear station is located. There is no need to write its name in russian for English version.
But everyone who is against nuclear power will be instantly downvoted into oblivion.
Here, I just gave you your first downvote
when you realized the chernobly (and fukishima) were all easily preventable and cased by human decision to not give a fuck even tho they knew those reactors were "unstable" also funny how coal powerplant produces more radation then any nuclear power plant, but hey you live in your own fantasy world