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I remember in the U.K. we had “acid rain” and contaminated rain water, particularly in Wales, Scotland and Northern England. We were advised to stay indoors initially, and the sheep had to be inspected as they were feeding on grass contaminated by rain water. U.K. is about 1600 miles away.

@JerzeyBoyz

Жыл бұрын

Crazy!!

@JonsTunes

Жыл бұрын

I remember it well 🤯

@JonsTunes

Жыл бұрын

The sheep and lamb in England and Wales had to be tested for 26 years 🤯

@pant-hootingchimp8917

7 ай бұрын

I remember the radioactive clouds reaching Devon and Cornwall too. I remember the weird luminous layer of dust on the water of my garden pond one morning. Was scary.

'Are they doing a second season?' God, I hope not, lmfao

Another thing, is that when you really think about it, this wasn't that long ago, less than 40 years, and there are still people that were in that room and surrounding reactors that are still alive .

I'm glad you're watching this! Wanted to share/explain a few things: - despite the city being evacuated later, noone else in the soviet union knew what was going on (ironically everyone else in the world knew). My parents were forced to attend the communist labor day parade on May the 1st as many other ordinary workers, mind you they still didn't know what happened 4 days later as my mom was pregnant with my older sister. Of course no precautions were taken and even though they lived almost 600 km away from Chornobyl my sister was stillborn 2 months later because of that disaster and those lies. - you mentioned something about the exclusion zone being open to the public, and yes, it's open to the public, you could go on a tour as a tourist (there are many vlogs on YT btw), of course you have to follow the rules and listen to your guide, stay out of the dangerous zones, but otherwise tourism was booming there, especially after the series came out...not now of course for obvious reasons. - one more "fun" fact: the Red forest (the one you see at the end of this episode) is extremely radioactive to this day and it is forbidden to go there, can you guess whose commanders gave orders to attack chornobyl and dig trenches there? Yes, they dug trenches in the red forest and then got radioactive-related sickness and many died from ☢️ poisoning, how f*cking stupid do you have to be? I guess karma is a b*tch.

@goldak6423

Жыл бұрын

And up to what extent should you NOT care about your own people to give that order. (To dig trenches in the Red Forest)

@felishahauswirth9336

Жыл бұрын

😟😟😔

@Cassxowary

10 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@goldak6423obviously they don’t, they just love power and money and such but so does all the politicians and war industries and those using fellow animals and keeping human and nonhuman slavery thriving and big pharma and the cancer industry and so on

I remember watching this show a while back. Anxiety and tension personified.

@playdoug12

Жыл бұрын

100%. This show is hard to watch and very well made!

So glad you guys are watching this! So many of us know about the incident but not in enough detail to know that it was far worse than any of us imagined.

@JerzeyBoyz

Жыл бұрын

It's really hard to believe this actually happened!!

@KbIPbIL0

11 ай бұрын

As a Ukrainian, all the little kids in my country know about the tragedy and just how non reliable and evil the government was about this issue. I was taught this at a young age, the dangers of radiation, how to protect yourself. Regarding the scale and impact of the incident, it honestly surprises me how little people really know. This event was so incredibly deadly for so many people. Imagine being a politician nowadays and ordering nuclear attacks due to lack of understanding of history, I'm so afraid of that. I know politicians are not completely stupid but i know how USSR, Russian and Ukrainian politics work or used to work and it's terrifying for human hands to have that in their grasp.

It's interesting that to this very day there is ongoing debate about how many people Chernobyl affected. From immediate deaths to long-term leukemia and cancers related to exposure ... nobody really knows the number. I'm of the opinion that unbiased data is impossible to obtain. But it's a big freakin' number. Was a great series - every single actor brought their 'A' game. I also liked that the series depicted the valor and self-sacrifice of the men fighting to contain the damage. Looking forward to re-watching with you guys!

Most engaging and pretty accurate series .. like a horror story

@jonesjeremiah

Жыл бұрын

A horror story that is real which makes it even crazier.

I can't even fathom what it would be like to have radiation poisoning. It seems like the most painful death imaginable. RIP to all those who were effected by incompetence

One thing that’s good to understand is that there is little to no viable protective gear that you could wear to deal with radiation, especially against direct exposure. The radiation is literally fragments of shattered atoms and will slip right through pretty much any material save something incredibly dense like a thick lead shield. That sort of direct radiation exposure falls off relatively quickly with distance fortunately so you’d have to be pretty close to get lethal dosage (read up on the demon core for more on this, when that test core went momentarily supercritical only the closest man in the room received a lethal dose) Most people exposure would come through contact with radioactive materials, which is anything that has been close to the reactor. Irradiated dust and ash that was expelled into the air and settles on the surroundings, for example. Like the firefighter who picked up the broken graphite block. That’s directly from the core and would have off the charts radiation levels. He might as well have stuck his hand in the reactor.

This is such a masterpiece. Thank you for reacting to this show. You won’t be disappointed. It’s incredibly frustrating, infuriating, but it’s brilliant in every aspect of film/television making. I discovered this channel from you reacting to The Sandman. I am loving you guys! So excited to be a new member of your community! Keep up the great work! Thank you.

This show is so masterfully depressing and good at making you furious. Really well written, acted, directed... love it.

Just saw a documentary about Chernobyl, where they say the radiation level was 600.000 times higher than normal. And it was between 12.000-15.000 roentgen. 400 roentgen is considered a lethal dose...

Russians dug trenches on chernobyl exclusion zone on their kyiv offensive. Most of them got hospitalized

one of the best short series ever made. the cinematopgraphy and music are masterful.

It’s always interesting to see people watch this who didn’t live through the time of the Soviet Union and may not be aware of how much their public image was fed by State run propaganda. There is even a quote by a government minister later in the show admitting that “Our power comes from the perception of our power.” That’s huge in understanding that the goal of The State was to protect Itself and its image. It’s also important to note that there was no private industry to speak of, so everyone essentially worked for The State. I bring this up because I’ve watched people react to this show who couldn’t wrap their head around how the USSR seemed to care more about the coverup than doing the right thing until the world, especially the West, became aware of the catastrophe at Chernobyl.

Yall in for a treat one of the best shows ever made.

I remember in Italy we were forbidden to go to school for days and to eat some salads and other foods contaminated by the radioactive cloud. I was a little kid and I remember that period with terror.

My husband was in the Army serving in Germany at the time of the Chernobyl disaster. To this day he is not allowed to donate blood because of the possibility he was exposed to radiation.

@JerzeyBoyz

Жыл бұрын

Wow!! Glad he is doing well !! - John

I am so glad you two are reacting to this show! It's phenomenal I remember I was 16 when this disaster happened.

Glad you are reacting to this mini-series. It is a great show, but expect a VERY rough ride!!!

Part of the reason -- a small part -- of why no one accepted that the reactor core exploded is precisely what they were saying. The cores of an RBMK nuclear reactor could not and would not explode -- not unless an extremely unlikely series or equally unlikely events happened in precisely the right unlikely sequence, in which case the reactor turns into a bomb. And of course, this is exactly what happened at Chernobyl. Of course, the majority of why they refused to accept it was obstinance and bureaucratic blindness.

The two didn't admit to wrongdoing. They followed the orders they had but the orders were wrong. So they didn't do wrong, they were put in a position to do wrong by bad orders. My dad worked with a man from Pripyat. He and his family had so many health issues and looked older than he was due to radiation poisoning. You can visit the area for a limited amount of time for tours. But you have to sign waivers to go. Obviously with the invasion not right now, but prior to this year it was something you could do.

🐢 The infamous Turtle Club scene in the film The Master Of Disguise was filmed during 911 ✈️

The craziest thing about Chernobyl is that the supervisor who ordered the test procedure done (which caused the explosion) had already been exposed to a near-deadly amount of radiation from a previous incident at a different facility. During Chernobyl he received over 3 times the "deadly" dose in one hit. Anatoly Dyatlov lived until he was 1995, aged 64. I have no idea why he was able to survive so long after being hit with so much radiation - dude barely suffered from radiation poisoning. Guess he was just genetically different.

07:15 Severe irradiation damages the blood's ability to clot, so wounds never stop bleeding; you could potentially even bleed to death from a scratch. This was first discovered when attempting to provide first aid to those who were not immediately killed at Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

*It’s not always being dumb, it’s also brainwashing with fear, hurt, misinformation/selective one, and raised to only believe what you’re told and be against proper education*

The real horror is this film and its deafening lies about the causes of this tragedy and its victims

@PUARockstar

Жыл бұрын

And guess what? Same things happens in russia atm.

@mrsmith2051

Жыл бұрын

@@PUARockstar Exactly. But there is a difference. In Russia, shitty movies are now being made with even more lies. In this series, at least the feat of people was shown

Love this show, so well made. There's also a podcast for each ep where they talk about behind the scenes, things they changed & why, Really good podcast def recommend!

Kyle Hill, who has a youtbue channel, visited Chernobyl. He posted his video of it on his channel on May 22 2022. The video title is I Explored Pripyat - Chernobyl's Ghost Town. It was filmed in October 2021. He has another video he posted a year ago called Chernobyl Like You've Never Seen it Before... where he gets to tour Chernobyl itself.

Stellan Skarsgard was loving Sweden when this happend and according to him, they weren't allowed to eat the wild Reindeer, for fear of contamination.

There is a podcast in five parts by the writer explaining about the realities of the show . you can watch it side by side of the show if you wish as there are no spoilers. He explains in the 1st podcast how some of the fireman were wearing tea shirts , but did not put it in as would of seemed unreal.kzread.info/dash/bejne/pImZqrJ8ide9ibQ.html

5:03 - So as someone who has done a fair bit of research on Chernobyl and nuclear physics, immediately after the explosion at Chernobyl, the most irradiated areas of the building were emitting ~ 5.6 R/s or ~ 20,160 R/h, (Keep in mind that Dyatlov said it was 3.6 R/h), which will result in a generally swift ( but incredibly agonizing ) death within a matter of hours. Ionizing radiation breaks the atomic bonds that make up our bodies, causing cell death, mutation, or cancer on the molecular level. And physical damage can manifest in countless ways; nausea, dizziness, vomiting, hair loss, anorexia, diarrhea, fever, swelling, cataracts, fatigue and weakness, decreased white blood cell counts, temporary and permanent sterility, radiological burns, ulcers, spontaneous bleeding and hemorrhaging, radiological lesions (skin necrosis), tremors, seizures, organ failure, and death. Death from ionizing radiation exposure is immeasurably agonizing, regardless of if you die within months or hours. The pain victims suffer is immeasurable. (Roentgen measures exposure of X-rays and Gamma rays, symbolized by ‘R’ , however there are other measurements like Gray or Sieverts, along with a lot more units of measurement related to radiation and I’m not going into that because I’m not an expert or professional.)

I'm going to add a little hindsight to each episode on a non-spoiler basis. Dyatlov really was like that, according to his survivning colleagues. Not all the time, but enough. Concerning the denial: you had to pretend the Soviet Union was as worker's paradise, and if you surfaced a problem, it was all your fault. They started building a tractor factory. Construction slipped, but the kept the paperwork moving on time. When the fire marshall came to inspect, he found a cement slab. One other thing: there was a guy suntanning on the roof of one of the apartments, and he commented on how fast he was tanning.

Hell yeah, this is gonna be fun

There's a small documentary called, "Chernobyl's Heart". It's roughly 50 minutes start to finish and I have been trying to understand how I feel about nuclear power. It showed the 1st generation of children born after the first kids grew up in the Ukraine. There's a whole area where all the teens were having thyroid cancer and born with holes literally in their hearts. But it was the orphanages at the start. Those children were so deformed, so injured. I swear that I was extremely happy it was only 50 minutes long...but I also felt like I was weak for not facing the fallout of nuclear power when it is everywhere around us. We cannot escape it. It is safer...but I don't think it's worth it. "Silkwood" also shows us how strong the nuclear power is in our world. You can't find that movie. It's got Cher & Meryl Streep in it. It was about how a power plant was making people sick IN THE USA. She "died" in a car accident on her way to be a whistle-blower against the plant she worked in. She was positive that they dosed her home as well. I remember this. I was 5. But I never forgot how my parents were freaked out. My grandparents were afraid. We understood only so much about nuclear power...but my grandparents were Midwest farmers. They worried about their food. My grandfather had an understanding of it...but it made us re-evaluate dependence on nuclear energy. We'd prefer solar, wind, water, etc that's cleaner than coal. They grew up with a relative who died from working in coal mines and had black lungs so ...yeah.

There are still places in the original building (which is now in the safe confinement), that regardless of wha you are wearing, you would die within a week after being exposed for 30 seconds. It will remain that way for 5-7,000 years.

I've read many of the comments and was surprised at how many people really remember this. I was 21 and spent two months in Austria that summer. I remember that there were some bombings at train stations but have no recollection of Chernobyl at all. Great reaction and I look forward to seeing the rest...

My mom lived in Hungary before I was born and her parents Mt grandparents had side affects from Chernobyl mainly thyroid issues many people in Hungary had some issues of cancer and such. Now I know what your thinking well were they not warned? Answer no they were not informed about the accident for a while.

I remember when it happened, countries in Europe started to detect high levels of radioactive weather wafting out of the USSR. Even though it was the height of the cold war, the whole West was like "hey, you need any help with anything over there?" And for months, all they'd say was "NOPE, EVERYTHING'S FINE, IT'S ALL UNDER CONTROL, NOTHING TO SEE HERE!" Which was the standard USSR response to everything. But that just made the whole situation even more frightening. It wasn't until much later that we discovered the full scope of what had happened.

Was there in 2011. Beautiful and unsettling.

The really sad part is that most people in the room that night , were under the age of 50 , some were younger than 30. And that the l Collective experience of the workers was only 4 months

I’ve watched you guys for a while now and I already know who which characters y’all gonna love lol(besides the MCs). All I’m gonna say is they bring a small respite of humor in ep3 during this depressingly tragic show. Have fun! 😅

If you want to give it a try, there's a really interesting movie called METAMORPHOSEN. The director went to a sort of a ghost town to film the effects of radiation on people and land after a nuclear explosion occurred. He had to do it in a clandestine way because the government was covering up what happened.

You're in for a treat with this miniseries.

What is water going to do. It’s boiling point is 100 degrees Celsius. That melted reactor fire is probably thousands of degree Celsius. The water will evaporate before it reaches the fire.

In France the news was told to say the cloud stopped at the border. Oh I was so glad when the truth came out, was a disaster for the gouvernement. Thanks for your reaction guys, can't wait for the rest of the show!

I am so glad they got him to do the last of us..this show was outstanding

That cat, though!😻

This a really good series...one of the best ever made...but the producers did get some things wrong. Some things were changed intentionally for the purposes of storytelling, and the makers of the series put in a series of notes at the end of the last episode of the series explaining some of them. However, I do recommend you check out the History vs Hollywood article on Chernobyl when you are done watching the whole series, so you can find out about the other things that the producers got wrong that they do not admit to. Definitely wait until you are done with the series so you do not spoil anything for yourself. ✌💯

And now there fighting a war around the power plant.

They actually muted the worst of the radiation damage for the show. For example, in hospital some of the most exposed guys started vomiting up their internal organs.

7:01 Radiation goes in a straight line. Those poor bastards just got a fatal dose by looking into the open core.

This show is hard, heavy and does NOT let up. But it is wonderfully and beautifully done, and needs to be watched. Also (and I think yall are) remember the time period that this was set in, and that the Soviet culture was very different than the Western culture, and that the KGB were everywhere, always.

Man you have been pumping out content, I remember watching your Avatar reactions in early 2022 and now you have like 10 shows that I love to see reactions of. Have a sub, I will be busy catching up with your series. Show recommendation if you haven't seen it is Netflix's The Umbrella Academy.

Love this series. You should also watch "Dark" if you haven't already.

“ are they doing another season “ Man I sure hope not…… lol

"i dont think theres a season two" god i really hope not lol

Yeah you real hard

Brilliant reaction! Just keep in mind that a lot of it is fictionalised.

Hi Guys. It's hard to think that this really happened. OMG that cat is so FAT!! How can he even walk! Best diet him. Well this whole thing is scary and to think if it wasn't contained we would all be dead right now.

One of the most horrifying things I've ever watched, specially because it's based on real events which had to be toned down in parts because they were too gruesome. But it's a very important piece of media, nonetheless.

Please react to The Last of Us when it comes out this month on HBO. Same people who made Chernobyl

@JerzeyBoyz

Жыл бұрын

We will be!!

John is always mean to the cat 😺😺.. not cool dude 😁

@JerzeyBoyz

Жыл бұрын

hahaha not always!! - John

The show does a really great job weaving the science into the drama in a way normal people can understand it. Although there are some things the show does get wrong. And yeah. Dyatlov fucking sucks.

House of the dragon when?

@denisebennettahrentzen8340

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!!

Hey cut the phonelines to stop the spread of misinformation.....sounds like somebody we know.

I came from ATLA and this is probably my favorite TV series ever made due to the details and the horrors it conveys. Thank you for doing this: Remember most of those men are Ukrainian. 🇺🇦

@JerzeyBoyz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!! Part of my family is from the Ukraine!! - John