Hey 👋 I have added titles to this video, please understand that this was my last resort on this my third attempt at posting the video. I will always post my reaction without titles first but unfortunately sometimes this happens. Hope you still enjoy it! My original version is on my Patreon for all tiers to watch!

I was 15 years old when this happened, living in Arizona in the USA, going to high school, and I remember watching the news and then talking about it in classes right after it happened. Around 10 years ago I was able to visit Pripyat/Chernobyl while on holiday in Ukraine. It was the most sobering place I have ever visited, and I have visited the killing fields in Cambodia, and a few of the concentration camps in Germany and Poland. This is one of my favorite mini-series.

In this episode, there were a few things the makers of the show changed for various reasons. For one thing, the character who said that they should close off the city in the first episode and is evacuated in this one, did not exist...he was added for dramatic purposes. Also, the helicopter crash did not happen so soon after the explosion...it really happened months later in October, 1986, and had little to do with radiation. As I mentioned in my comment to episode 1, once you are done with the series, the History vs Hollywood article on the show is a must read.

We still have radiation in mushrooms here in Finland, in some areas. Not dangerously high, but it's there. Quite far from Ukraine, but winds brought us some fall out pollution. Following couple of years after the disaster it was recommended by officials that people should not eat mushrooms at all here in FIN. I remember this very well.

Actually the evacuation was not official because no one wanted to say publicly: Yes we evacuate Pripjat, a model city in the Soviet Union. Ukrain leaders decided on their own hoping Moscow would agree. They pulled ALL buses out of Kief and other neighboring cities to do this (People had no public transport that day)

Radiation doesn't spread from person to person like a disease as such - even though further episodes of this series do suggest it does. It's radioactive materials that do the damage - a person who has absorbed a lot of radiation and is dying won't be dangerous to others if any and all particles have been washed off. But their own cells will continue to degrade if the exposure was high enough.

@maksphoto78

Ай бұрын

Radioactive contamination goes deep. Even your own sweat can be radioactive and damaging to others. You can't simply wash radiation off. In Moscow hospital, the victims' matrasses had to be changed all the time.

11:47 one of the reasons why there is such a fear of nuclear power in germany. that wind blew west and where ever it rained, all that nuclear waste got in the ground. google: chernobyl fallout map there was an antinuclear movement in germany even before chernobyl, but that event basically brought the entire poplation behind the idea that nuclear power is too dangerous in such a densely populated country. also the part with the thermal explosion is basically the only controversial part of the series, some say that the explosion would be way smaller and depending on how big the explosion would have been, the result would vary extremely. but thats not important, the explosion obviously didnt happen and if it had happend the results would be on a scale between terrible and unimaginably terrible.

Hi Marley first time on your channel. I just saw your Episode 1.. Yes the series is Historically accurate. The only thing which they take filmakers license is about radiation. If your at the spot where an atomic bomb explodes your vaporized from the heat. Radiation works much more slowly. Its effects take days, weeks, months , years to show effect, depending on level of exposure. Also you cannot get radiation sick from a person once their clothing has been removed and the body washed. Well only from their blood, but not by touch. Yes you get radiation from the cloths. In the evacuation notice they are saying ""An Unpleasant level or radiation has been detected. Take documents, medicines food and clothing for a few weeks"". The big problem with info here was the Soviet Nuclear Industry was classified as ""Secret" by the KGB (Soviet Secret Police) thats why there no safety equipment, procedures, no training. The helicopter which crashed hit its blades on cables hanging from a crane. The series gets emotionally worse, and worse. Be ready to cry. You wont find out what and how the accident happened till episode 5. Oh yes if the Soviets were unable to shut this down you and I would NOT be alive right now, nor most of the people in the world. Oh keep on with it. I don't want to give you spoilers.

@marleysmovies

Ай бұрын

Thank you!! That’s actually really helpful information - I am looking forward to watching the rest although I know it’s going to be a lot worse!!!

One thing you must understand about the United Soviet Socialist Republic is their ideology is a perfect society. ANYTHING that threatens that ideology is classified (information) or jailed or killed (people).

Excellent reaction Marley! Your work doesn’t go unnoticed ❤

I think I can somewhat answer your contamination questions. The ionizing radiation that is damaging to your body is emitted by the material that is supposed to be only inside the core of the reactor. So in normal operation unless you open the cover of it and go inside you are fine. Here the cover was destroyed and the core materials ejected to the immediate area plus set on fire. So the dust from the explosion contained particles emitting radiation and the smoke coming from the fire too. So now you have basically three ways to get contaminated: - go very near the destroyed reactor and get a direct dose of the radiation from it, those 15000 roentgen per hour the army guy measured with the dosimeter on the truck - get the dust and/or the smoke on your clothes and your sking where they continue emitting radiation to you even after you leave the area - breathe the dust and/or smoke into your lungs so then the radioactive particles in it get right inside your body pretty close to your organs and they keep on damaging you until they spend all the radiation in them The first think only applies to people who got really close. The firemen for example. The second and third to everyone else. If you are in the group than never got too close to the reactor then removing your clothes and washing yourself takes care of a very significant portion of the problem - you are no longer being irradiated from the outside. Depending on how much you got inside of you your risk of cancer or other diseases is increased. One of the reasons it is so hard to estimate how many people this killed is that this increase in health risk might be so small it would be hard to prove being near Chernobyl actually directly caused it. Like if you get cancer 20 years later, was it really just from this or half from this or would you get it anyway? Since this affected so many people statistics can help here but even so the estimate will have very large uncertainty. Unless you got such a high dose that it will kill you in weeks you are no danger to anyone around you after your contaminated clothes were removed and your skin washed.

@jasperzanjani

Күн бұрын

thank you Captain Wikipedia

Title of episode “Please Remain Calm”. Love it cause this episode is one “holy fuck” moment after another each worse than the one before.

I believe increased radiation was detected as far away as Wales.

A quality reaction! It is obvious you are emotionally invested in the story/event. It IS a very well done series. The dynamic of how the relationship of the two lead characters changes is powerful. That being said this is an episode where some liberties were taken for dramatic effect. For example the helicopter crash. We are lead to assume it was due to the plume of radiation being released above the damaged core. The crash did happen (that was a recording of the actual crash), however it occurred a significant time after the initial explosion and was the result of the helicopter hitting the wires used to support the primary stack of the reactor. Also radiation is unseen…and the fire produced very little smoke but the production team added the thick smoke to show how the winds moved the radiation toward the city, etc., (the later is a valid effect imho, the former is a bit deceptive). This accident happened just a few years after I had graduated…with a degree in Nuclear Engineering. Needless to say it caused a lot of interest from those of us in the US industry. With regard to your question about those being contaminated by radiation going home and contaminating their spouses etc., it is/was possible but not in the way someone would pass on a virus…any radiation transferred would come from radioactive particles/materials attached to their clothes or skin. And the severity of the radiation would depend on the type of radioactive materials involved (there are different types of radiation…some can be shielded with a piece of paper…others require a significant thickness of lead). This is why the nurse instructed the firefighters clothes be removed and dumped in the basement. Those clothes were covered in particles and materials (including particles from the reactor core itself) that were highly radioactive and giving off large doses of radiation. Again overall a very well done series and they get the “big picture “ mostly correct…just some of the “smaller pictures” are provided for dramatic effect. And of course detailed explanations of some things aren’t provided because most of the audience would be bored and fall asleep. I will be watching your continued reactions and weigh in when you have specific questions (like I did above…though I’ll try to use less words). Have a blessed week.

@marleysmovies

Ай бұрын

Wow that’s so interesting about the helicopter and the effects they added I suppose it’s for visual interest and for people to *get* it who like you say may not be so glued to the real situation as it was. Was the environment you were in at the time frightened of the event overall? Like did it shake people up? Thank you for your support and the information, you don’t need to restrict your comment length I enjoy reading it!

Glad you were able to get this episode on. This is a great series and I'm glad you are doing it.

@marleysmovies

Ай бұрын

I am really enjoying it - not in a fun way obviously but I find it fascinating and it wasn’t that long ago either!!!

How about episode 3? Will you upload it?

@marleysmovies

27 күн бұрын

Yes - please see my community tab, I am currently on holiday and will be back soon!

Democracy is messy, and it seems many think authoritarianism will work better. But, the governance that led to Chernobyl is inevitable in any authoritarian system where you either woroship the state (left) or worship a man or idea (right). Democracy is still best for actually meeting people's needs--the uncomfortable part is that it can be messy. But it's messy in a good way--and sometimes we forget that.