Chernobyl Episode 5 - Reaction ☾ FIRST TIME WATCHING

[@Centane]

Thank you guys so much for joining in on this journey! Excited to continue on Obi--Wan Kenobi ♥ want to connect? here are all my social medias: www.linktr.ee/centane ♥

[@MulberryBuccaneer]

I remember when this happened. I remember exactly where I was standing when the world found out. The shock I felt knowing a destroyed and out of control nuclear reactor was loose was chilling. And to think, I had witnessed the Challenger Disaster just 2 months before. I saw that with my own eyes, from 115 miles away.

[@utalomAlibbantakat]

now u cnow how work the reactor! and what hapend in chernobyl when bad pepol controll this rreactors I will gladly tell you how we lived through the disaster. unfortunately I lived in communism, and how really bad the communism

[@utalomAlibbantakat]

at the end of the movie I realized how little he knew about what happened in Chernobyl, I don't blame you for that! I was just surprised. this industrial disaster is in the history books

[@padfolio]

Where did you get your chair? It's good to see someone of your age commenting on Chernobyl. Very important that something like that is not forgotten by future generations.

[@Centane]

@@padfolio I got it from a friend after a fundraising campaign for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital! also thank you 🥹✨

[@davidmacy411]

The explanation of how the reactor worked has been praised by nuclear engineers as the best description in any movie or tv show ever of how these reactors work. It feels a little like the first class of nuclear engineering 101.

[@AlanCanon2222]

I agree. I studied physics (though not nuclear physics, rather, high energy physics) and I recognize a good explanation when I hear one. It's borne out by watching reactions like this one (I can't say "reactors" in this case, because that would cause confusion!). I don't feel those who react to Episode 5 are tuning out the science lecture part of the episode. It's just enough detail to give a sense of what went wrong, and I truly think that a non-scientist can learn at least something about how RBMK reactors worked by watching it, even with the simplifications for dramatic purposes.

[@deathninja16]

well it only makes sense the actors were taken to classes to become familiar with them and im pretty sure it was a multi week/ month process.

[@johnnydsnarkangel]

The channel Atomic Age has a Chernobyl reaction done by a nuclear engineer. He uses sections of the show as a starting point to delve into how RBMK reactors work, and the details of the accident that the show simply didn't have room for. It's fascinating

[@servantofmelian9966]

And I love how the preliminary description was given by none other than Boris Scherbina. You know, the guy who had to get the "Nuclear Reactors for Dummies" condensed version in an earlier episode?

[@AlanCanon2222]

@@servantofmelian9966 Yes, I love that part of his arc. From knowing nothing to being one of the world's experts, at least on the ruin of Reactor 4, as duty demanded of him. I wish we had the real Boris Yevdokimovich's memoir, since the real Shcherbina must have gone through the same. I'm sure these names have long been the stuff of legend in the former Soviet Union, and I'm so glad we in the West now know their names.

[@paulieluppino1856]

8:13 ...."The men who did, didn't understand it either"..... I love that line.... It's like "BOOM, HEADSHOT".....

[@dopam3m3xl]

One of the reasons why i love this show in which the actors played it perfectly; when someone doesn't want to listen but you can throw all the evidence in the world at them and it still wont change a single thought.

[@marcuscato9083]

I think it's important to point out, out of respect for the dead, that some reports contradict the portrait of Dyatlov as a raging Dbag. He was described as a tough but fair supervisor. Which is not to say that he did not play a major role in the catastrophe. As a side note, the three books I read about Chernobyl were all very good. The three I read were by Higginbotham, Plokhy, and Alexievich. The first two are journalistic reconstructions of events and the third is an account of the recollections of the survivors.

[@pinball1970]

11.19 broke me. Boris was a hard ass to begin with but his good soul could not be subdued by such a situation over all that time even in a regime like that. It is a beautiful moment. They went through a lot together and respected each other.

[@mignonthon]

5 episodes, one of the best serie i've ever seen.

[@Wattywatasaurus]

They somewhat overstated the part about the shift change, particularly with the Yuri Gagarin analogy. It’s generally understood that while Akimov and Toptunov were a bit put out because the test was sprung on them so suddenly, they weren’t overly concerned because it was well within their ability and competence. The problem was more that they couldn’t do it properly because of both the Xenon pit, and the overbearing Dyatlov hurrying them along and forcing them to break the rules.

[@iKvetch558]

There are a few things about this last episode that are not in line with real events, but not all of them are hugely important. For example, Legasov was not even at the trial of Dyatlov and the others, but that is not a very important alteration. An example of an important thing they got "wrong" is the "Bridge of Death"...the show states that "it has been reported" that everyone on the bridge dies, and that is true, it has been reported...but it is not actually true, and people who were on the bridge are still alive. The History vs Hollywood article on Chernobyl is really excellent, and details all the things they got wrong. Even if it is inly 70 percent real, the show is terrific and impactful, but it is not a documentary and cannot be taken as entirely true. 🖖✌

[@marcuscato9083]

They definitely took some poetic license. Still a great show though. The Bridge of Death info they presented definitely sounded inaccurate based on what I read.

[@iKvetch558]

@@marcuscato9083 I concur...a very great show, regardless of the things they did not get right.

[@bobcharles1204]

Another wonderful reaction! Before I watched this, I was watching on the news about the Artemis rocket that is meant to go to the moon. The launch got scrubbed this morning. It made me think of another HBO series that I think everyone should watch. It was produced by Tom Hanks, so you know its good. It's called From the Earth to the Moon. But, as you said, you receive thousands of recommendations. One more can't hurt.

[@alder2460]

This episode was amaizing in explaining how nuclear reactor work and how Chernobyl happened. So simple yet so good. Here are some few more things about disaster About graphite tips of control rods - they were not a tip. Control rods in RBMK reactor are made of two rods connected together, boron one to slow reaction down, and shorter graphite one to speed it up. When you want to slow down reaction, boron one is inserted, graphite is pulled out, when you want to increase reaction, boron one in pulled out, graphite one is inserted. Why? Without graphite rods water would fill its place, and water also slows down the reaction like boron, so when you would pulled out boron rod to speed up reaction, it would be replaced with water, that is also a neutron absorber, so it also slows reaction down. That's why there is whole graphite rod, to displace water and speed up the reaction. It was well known what control rods were made of. However none knew how it behaves in low power circumstances when majority of boron rods are pulled out. The power in the reactor did not increas until AZ-5 button was pressed - that's when graphite rods started to be slowly withdrawn from the reactor, pushing out remaining water at the bottom of the reactor, creating perfect conditions for neutrons to split uranium atoms that resulted in huge power spike. This sudden power rise, led to temprature rise, water turned into steam, steam ruptured pipes and channels, blocking graphite rods in this position, which led to bigger increase in power, leading to explosion. Some estimate the power spike may have gone more than 300000 MW. The atmosphere in control room was completely different from depicted in the show. Diatlov was also not the ahole person presented on the screen. No screaming, no ordering, no threatening, everyone knew what to do - and that is from the testimony of the people that were that night in the control room. Atmosphere was calm and quiet. Pressing AZ-5 button WAS part of the test, so it wasn't done in reaction to increase of power, there was none before that button was pressed - however only Akimov and Toptunov were near the button and made decision to pressed it, but from others perspective they were calm without any sight of worry. The reactor lid nicknamed Elena that's weighing 1000 tons was thrown upwards and rested back verticly supported on debris - it is likly that it will collapse someday and potentially damage the Sarcophagus yet with new shelter on top of Sarcophagus it now presents no risk to outside. Diatlov was done dirty in this series, he wasn't a villain, he was also a victim. He was strict but not tyrannical, he had huge respect among his coworkers, he knew his job. But yes, his actions and bad decisions against safety protocols led to this disaster. After the explosion, he as almost anyone there denied the truth, but he acted in the best interest. He was the first to go to see if everybody is ok, to see fires, he led firefighters to the fires and hydrants, and even led the search for Khodemchuk. He also told staff to go home to save them form more exposure (people in control room were mostly shielded). He was not a bad guy, he had no idea what could happen that night, he had no clue about the fatal flow of the RBMK reactor. Noone knew how badly this reactor was design. He was the last chain in the chain of the disaster, if it was not him, disaster would happen somewhere else in simmilar way. You can even watch interviews with him on YT with english subtitles.

[@johnnydsnarkangel]

As much as I love Scherbina in this show, two years after Chernobyl the real life Scherbina drafted a law that prevented Soviet doctors from citing radiation as a cause of death or illness, which is one of the main reasons it is so hard to find an accurate casualty estimate. And in the 70s, he used police to brutalize Siberian workers in order to create a profitable oil and gas industry there. Definitely a mixed bag of a person. Credit to Stellan Skarsgard for making me love Scherbina anyway. The trial intermission scene, where he worries that he didn't matter, hits me so hard

[@TheWitcherX]

In 1988, 2 years after the Chernobyl Scherbina coordinated the rescue mission after Armenian earthquake saving thousands of lives and earned a monument and a street named after him

[@hernerweisenberg7052]

Nobody can tell for sure why somebody got cancer or other illnesses anyway. Naming radiation in single cases only works if they died directly from an radiation overdose. And only a handfull of people died that way. For making statements about other effects like contamination with radioactive isotopes and their longterm effects... you need statistics covering decades and millions of people to establish that. You cant just say he died from cancer, he was at chernobyl, case closed. What about everyone else in the world who dies from cancer and who was not in chernobyl, or all the people that were there and didnt get it? So that law how you state it forbidding them to call it in single cases essentialy only forbids them from making unprovable guesses.

[@taral2]

Great channel, thank you for reacting to this. Helped distract me from bad thoughts, subscribed. :) keep it up!

[@Cuddlestrike]

You're such an emotional creature Stine! I love getting to share and seeing you're reactions!

[@leslieturner8276]

There are five HBO Chernobyl podcasts + one bonus sixth podcast (which looks at the reactions to the series) they are all worth a listen

[@jinchoung]

it's crazy that the three suicidally noble souls that volunteered to go into the radioactive water to save everyone actually lived and are STILL alive! fortune smiled here on those who were truly deserving of some luck to go their way.

[@jinchoung]

@D G oh no... that's too bad. hope the other two are doing well.

[@maverickcoolboy]

5 years ago I went to Pripyat and also to the nuclear power plant. It was impressive. (I am from Ukraine, my grandfather participated in the cleanup of radioactive waste). Everything was hidden. Grandfather called my mother and told her not to leave the house and to close the windows.

[@utalomAlibbantakat]

this movie is a masterpiece

[@MinecraftAedda]

Thank you for this wonderful reaction. I will definitely be checking out more of your content.

[@pinball1970]

I have enjoyed your reactions. I remember the incident very well and the whole of Europe held its breath. I was 19 and got soaked one evening on the way home. By then all the radiation was over Europe.

[@johnnyd1790]

This is one of the best episodes in television, must have seen it like 10 times, the explanation of how a RBMK reactor and the end statistics bit are stellar delivered "Where once I feared the cost of truth, now I only ask: what is the cost of lies!?" Epic. PS: The prosecutor is Reis Bolton from GOT! The Lannisters send their regards! Heh. PS addendum: This show is really bad advertisement for neuclear power, I can tell you that, lol. PS**: Boris did have just one year left, he was told / diagnosticated more than 3 years after the reactor explosion, if you remember he did tell Legasov as time passed he thought it will not happen to him as Legasov predicted but it did. 3 years plus 1 year = 4 years and a bit.

[@Rothbard_is_God8082]

It was the fault of the soviet govt. They kept crucial information from the engineers. Dyatlov didnt know the control rods were tipped with graphite.

[@proosee]

The fear of one of engineers of going low power is not only for dramatic part of the show - the knowledge of Xenon pit (or Xenon poisoning) is pretty much basic nuclear reactor physics, it was known for years before the disaster. No one knows what exact;y went on in control room, but solely the fact that man in control never recognized that by reducing power he led reactor to Xenon poisoning make me call him incompetent.

[@Shiftry87]

Imagen being those 2 workers and then find out they memorialized your acions in this.

[@Yuhoui]

Another great video, thank you for watching this series! Such a great show T_T

[@Centane]

thank you for hanging out 🥹🤍

[@djJaXx101]

There are currently: 167 Nuclear Reactors in Europe/UK/Russia 92 Nuclear Reactors in the USA

[@MTaye7]

We need more.

[@Iymarra]

The bouncing fuel caps still makes my skin crawl.

[@Sir_AlexxTv]

Welcome back, and with a nice reaction 😎

[@Thepirireis]

Her reactions are completely natural. No unnecessary blabbing!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@StarkRG]

I think Shcherbina was probably depicted quite a bit better than he was in real life. For example, his Wikipedia page says this about his cause of death four years after Chernobyl: "It is unclear if his death was related to radiation as a 1988 decree, drafted by himself, prevented Soviet doctors from citing radiation as a cause of death or illness." For that matter, Legasov was probably portrayed slightly better than the real man as I find it hard to believe that anyone could achieve the position he did in such a corrupt regime without being a little corrupt himself. That said, I'd still classify him as a hero.

[@SJHD]

I love your curls but god you are so beautiful with straight hair too!

[@marcuscato9083]

Well, I wasn't going to say anything, but... yes. 😂

[@ariochiv]

Looking forward to Arcane.

[@inmate1614]

Chernobyl managed to better just about every other major tv series in just 5 episodes!

[@thomascasteran4195]

15:54

[@kentbarnes1955]

Thank you for an excellent reaction series to this. If you wish to know more check out Kyle Hill's KZbin channel. He recently visited the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Fascinating series he has on Chernobyl. Have a Blessed week. I truly appreciate your reviews.

[@alaskaforever3879]

Remember that this is a dramatization and changes many key facts and doesn't accurately represent events on that night

[@noahshuaib8668]

That’s cool! You should react to cars movie mow

[@pinball1970]

I hope you and your generation, my son and niece NEVER have to go through this.

[@asiantiger2834]

I have a request. Please make a reaction video of the movie Die hard. Have a nice day!

[@HerrNilsson.]

A reactor reacting to a reactor

[@Centane]

Living in a loop

[@DacianRider]

these people haven't undergone enough hardships already.. now they have to suffer current day Russians too.

[@Dene181]

Lovely. 👌😊

[@malmofanatico]

Hemskt

[@sorde21]

So sad to hear you have to react to Obi-wan. Thankfully you opted to react to a decent show like this at least. XD

[@koyabsbk1]

This is simply how former communist e.g. socialist countries in the Eastern Europe worked. Probably even better you can see it in the movie "Dear comrades." I recommend it to you for reaction as well.

[@mz3912]