Chernobyl Anyone ??

[74-911]

On HBO. Apparently about as close to what happened as could be done per the reviews. very realistic and it isn't a pretty picture. If accurate, they were just another bad decision and a couple of days away from making much of Russia, the Ukraine, Baltics, Nordics and much of western Europe a radioactive wasteland before they realized what was actually happening ?

Main thing that kind of ruins it is nearly all the actors have British accents (as they are nearly all British !)... go figure.

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Not seen it but agree....

American accents are so much closer to a Ukrainian accent

Chernobyl is on my 2nd bucket list of places to visit

[sc_rufctr]

I don't have HBO but Chernobyl was like a war for the Russians. More than 100,000 people died trying to stabilise the site and surrounding area.

[Sooner or later]

I have watched it. Not too bad.

The number of deaths is not close to 100k

[RedBaron]

I hope it doesn't instill more fear about nuclear power.

[biosurfer1]

One of my former supervisors was a nuclear operator at our now defunct plant and like he always said, and Chernobyl is no different, ALL nuclear disasters were caused or made much, much worse by human intervention.

[Sooner or later]

It had no containment dome.

[nota]

Originally Posted by tcar

Where did you get that?

Sources say fewer than 50

there are two counts 50 at the site direct kills
maybe a 100.000 life time early deaths

we got a man who lived miles away but in the zone on our crew
and was told to leave and offered a chance to go to the USA
so we had a engineer as a rod man [low crew man]
later he got his papers and was hired as an engineer
igor was a trip to work with smart and hard worker but childlike and clueless

he did not want to talk about the disaster

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by Sooner or later

It had no containment dome.

The building was made of WOOD!

[MBAtarga]

I've been watching the series - and have found it very entertaining. There was an Engineering Marvel type of show/documentary on the other day about the large structure which they have recently built over the sarcophagus which is designed to last 100 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement

The New Safe Confinement design is an arch-shaped steel structure with an internal height of 92.5 metres (303.5 ft) and a 12-metre (39.4 ft) distance between the centers of the upper and lower arch chords. The internal length of the arch is 245 metres (803.8 ft), and the external length is 270 metres (885.83 ft). The dimensions of the arch were determined based on the need to operate equipment inside the new shelter and decommission the existing shelter. The overall span of the structure is 150 metres (492.1 ft), consisting of 13 arches assembled 12.5 metres (41 ft) apart to form 12 bays. Vertical walls assembled around, but not supported by the existing structures of the reactor building seal the ends of the structure.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Sooner or later

I have watched it. Not too bad.



The number of deaths is not close to 100k

How did you see it if they still have two more episodes that have yet to be shown?

It has been interesting. And the accents are just to be ignored. If they all talked like Boris and Natachia from Bullwinkle it would be silly.

[Sooner or later]

I have seen the first two episodes. I think there are 5 episodes

[John Rogers]

Try to find the book named "We Almost Lost Detroit" if you want some scary stuff. There is an updated version now I think and probably everyone of us Navy nuclear power people read it even though it was "banned"!

[911Ghia]

Haven’t watched the series yet.. This young lady does have an interesting site
KIDDofSPEED - GHOST TOWN - Chernobyl Pictures - Kidofspeed - Elena

Rich

Watched the first episode. I thought it was a bit dull. Just read the book Midnight at Chernobyl last year. It was interesting.

[sugarwood]

Originally Posted by madcorgi

Watched the first episode. I thought it was a bit dull. Just read the book Midnight at Chernobyl last year. It was interesting.

The 2nd episode picks up steam.

[Sooner or later]

Originally Posted by madcorgi

Watched the first episode. I thought it was a bit dull. Just read the book Midnight at Chernobyl last year. It was interesting.

I thought the 2nd episode was much better.

[stealthn]

I’ve been watching it, it’s good. The last episode was really good. Interesting to see how much they tried to cover it up.

Apparently it quite a animal preserve now.

[onewhippedpuppy]

I find the nearby city to be interesting. Everyone left in a panic, leaving everything behind. Now it’s a post apocalyptic landscape.

[LakeCleElum]

Chernolbyl - Elena has great photo's. Go thru the 27 chapters at the bottom of her home page:

KIDDofSPEED - GHOST TOWN - Chernobyl Pictures - Kidofspeed - Elena