Features combined footage from the HBO miniseries Chernobyl Episode 5 (Final Episode) and Episode 1, Cassette Tapes and Suicide of Valery Legasov and the Trial final scene. All rights reserved to Home Box Office Inc. and Sky.
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@toddstein54074 жыл бұрын
He not only committed suicide on the 2 year anniversary, but at the same time the reactor exploded, chilling
@PNolandS4 жыл бұрын
People know he killed himself on the 2nd anniversary, but no one knows the exact time. That was an assumption made by the show, he may have, maybe not.
@HunterPhenomMakoy4 жыл бұрын
Both this actor’s best known characters kill themselves tho.
@johnochiltree11704 жыл бұрын
How do you know what time he did it? He lived alone
@PNolandS4 жыл бұрын
John Ochiltree No one does. In the series they assumed he did it at the exact time, but no one knows for sure. Todd probably assumed that the series is all accurate, so he *must* have done it at the exact time, but no one knows.
@johnochiltree11704 жыл бұрын
The PNolandS I know that
@tramachi70274 жыл бұрын
I just love how Legasov literally didnt care about his life anymore in the court scene. Hes gonna die anyway and is fed up with the Soviet Apparatus.
@murry0013 жыл бұрын
@Bill Laswell the guy loved to party hard
@77Nex773 жыл бұрын
@juice Planks That is not true, don't spread lies. After the Chernobyl he defied the state for which everything was taken from him. Read up on him.
@spectre1112 жыл бұрын
"...we all die, we don't choose when, where or how, but you can choose why. Don't let anyone make that choice for you, because its the only choice you can make that will mean anything at all."
@jaredchamberlain57092 жыл бұрын
Either radiation, or the government, might as well go on his own terms instead
@ajc-ff5cm8 ай бұрын
@77Nex77 the state is not God you a$$. The state was wrong and they refused to admit it. They covered up flaws, the extent of the damage, and any ongoing danger, because the state can't fail. It did, people realized it and threw off communism. Communism dies as all statist ideologies must.
@guntherultraboltnovacrunch52484 жыл бұрын
"...Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth, sooner or later that debt is paid."
@Zargabaath4 жыл бұрын
Holy fuck. That face is so disproportionate that it's half scary, and half funny as fuck. God I love EVE.
@dinosaurdude56684 жыл бұрын
Thanks for capturing that quote. As soon as I heard it, I wanted it. These types of wisdom can only be spoke by people with nothing to loose (and thus truly free)
@pioneernut74874 жыл бұрын
@@dinosaurdude5668 it's a fiction. Legasov in fact didn't tell the truth. Don't believe in a hbo series. It's not document
@monicaulposhu3 жыл бұрын
@@pioneernut7487 still pretty epic
@StudioMod3 жыл бұрын
i honestly can't stand when people quote something that simple from a short video we all just watched and have already seen.
@angryzergling78323 жыл бұрын
I hadn't noticed one of the last things he did was set out multiple bowls of food for his cat. That's a really heartbreaking and touching detail - he knew he would no longer be there to feed her and wanted to ensure she would have something to eat between the time he died and the time his death was discovered.
@Dire_Hit3 жыл бұрын
He could have left the door open
@angryzergling78323 жыл бұрын
@@Dire_Hit House cats are generally not capable of surviving on their own if they get out. They think food comes from a can.
@Dire_Hit3 жыл бұрын
@@angryzergling7832 nah
@Vezteky3 жыл бұрын
@@Dire_Hit ignorance is bliss
@Dire_Hit3 жыл бұрын
@@Vezteky Bliss is ignorance
@MrLeeCummings4 жыл бұрын
So everyone is gangsta until the control rods start to jump up and down?
@bonybottoms24 жыл бұрын
Control rod rave party
@3star2nr3 жыл бұрын
U god damn right. Also those weren't control rods. Part of the problem with Chernobyl is one of the control rods snapped and was jammed 1/2 way in the core there was noway to stop it. Its very sad
@samuelkovanko71983 жыл бұрын
jump aroound jump up jump up and get doown
@OneBiasedOpinion3 жыл бұрын
@@3star2nr not just one. All of them.
@balls5363 жыл бұрын
Everybody irradiated when the control rods start jumping
@dreamliverock3 жыл бұрын
"If you mean to suggest the Soviet state is somehow responsible" He wasn't suggesting my dude, he said it outright.
@Nova22521 күн бұрын
He was delicately trying to tell him "is this your final answer?"
@lazylion4203 жыл бұрын
his handkerchief has dabs of blood on it. Valery was likely beginning to notice early symptoms of complications related to radiation exposure, which combined with overwhelming depression (not his first suicide attempt), made for a tragic cocktail of grief.
@jamesfrank32133 жыл бұрын
Aplastic Anemia...his red blood cells are failing. Can't blame him for killing himself.
@asylum-one6317 Жыл бұрын
His suicide also supposedly made those tapes unignorable.
@obilic93 Жыл бұрын
Well even without depresion with his knowledge what will come next after that red stains he would probably do the same.
@blazephamous74253 ай бұрын
Its likely he got lung cancer
@heywoodfloyd92 ай бұрын
Nothing gets past you. 🙄
@danyalag33663 жыл бұрын
I swear... watching those control rods jump like that gave me literal chills.
@andrewsharp63362 жыл бұрын
The demon knocks at the gate.
@baron65012 жыл бұрын
plus the fact that each rods weight is 350 kg gave me more chills
@joeyfrink9691 Жыл бұрын
Okay yes wall, it is fucking scary to see the control rods jump. They didn’t actually jump when the thing exploded. I’m just trying not to get misconceptions proliferated about a pretty big nuclear disaster if you do not like the information sorry
@_Fulgur_ Жыл бұрын
The lid was several tons and got flipped like a coin
@VictorFiddler11 ай бұрын
Everybody gangsta till the control rods start jumping
@ReaverLordTonus Жыл бұрын
That "why" scene always gets me. When Legasov explains that they basically cut corners while playing with the most powerful and volatile force known to mankind. The look of shock on the man's face as he looks to the others, effectively saying "are you guys serious? How can you justify playing fast and loose with this shit?"
@hungryair15 Жыл бұрын
That's not what his reaction was about. He's angered because Legasov is exposing the ignorance and corruption of the Soviet Union in an interrogation that will absolutely be covered by international news. To suggest that the Soviets' reactors were cheaper and of less quality than western ones was exactly what the government didn't want him to say.
@concept563111 ай бұрын
Easy to justify if they don't understand the true ramifications of it.
@NathanSimonGottemer7 ай бұрын
It’s actually that the graphite displacer tips - which were to replace the control rod during the normal operation state where the reactor was at full power - were cut short to save on fuel and as a band-aid fuel burn inequality fix to allow the main feature of the reactor - the fact that you could refuel it while it was still running - to remain effective. It was to save effort rather than just money, which is just as bad but harder to make sound as simple and make a one-liner out of. Perfectly understandable though as this is still a drama
@miguelservetus95347 ай бұрын
@@NathanSimonGottemer Thanks for the explanation but isn’t saving effort by cutting safety corners really about saving money? Safety ain’t free.
@RainAngel1116 ай бұрын
It helps to realize that at the time Chernobyl was built, the idea of a power plant going critical was unthinkable, it had never happened. They thought it was impossible. It's easy to judge in retrospect, and with something like Chernobyl we absolutely should judge, however we must remember that the people involved didn't know what we know now. That cheaping out on your reactor design could turn a perfectly safe reactor into a bomb
@andraenicholson35573 жыл бұрын
"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Soon or later that debt is paid." Words with an alarming weight for us today.
@sonyxperiasmk3 жыл бұрын
I felt the same watching this
@Ezio4703 жыл бұрын
You think those in power gives a fuck? They don't. They're in it for their own personal gain. They have no care about the next generation to come
@naviblogger3 ай бұрын
A warning to the CIA MI6 RAw Musad and IsI
@dexterpoindexter35832 ай бұрын
@@naviblogger Add Covid deniers to the list, I think. A handful of leaders in each country made the difference between mild and gut-wrenching losses for their people.
@GuiR3X2 ай бұрын
@@dexterpoindexter3583 Covid deniers ? What do you mean ? The so called vaccines were never tested for engulfing contamination, it was a lie. I don't know how covid occurred, I do not believe it was deliberate, nor a lab accident. What I DO know though, is that in my country, France, I was denied public sphere for refusing to get a shot of a product I felt under informed about, and that my so called constitution didn't provide no help.
@Koronel793 жыл бұрын
09:52 Small detail, the napkin with drops of blood. The fate of Legasov was already sealed.
@StudioMod3 жыл бұрын
It was 'already sealed' when they first went to Chrenobyl. They pretty much said that about 100 times.
@Lemontarts013 жыл бұрын
We already knew that and so did he when they arrived in Chernobyl
@filipzimoch37913 жыл бұрын
He has hair loss too, and probablly experienced heavy vomiting and diarhhea
@hagamapama3 ай бұрын
Another small detail I only just now noticed -- he hung himself at 1:23:45
@taraswertelecki37862 ай бұрын
He was exposed to a fatal dose of radiation. Just because someone did not absorb enough for Acute Radiation Syndrome to develop does not mean fatal consequences would not set in later in the form of leukemia or cancer. Legasov certainly was exposed to a dose sufficient to cause ARS.
@shgstewart46743 жыл бұрын
I got so caught up in the story that I felt terrible for his cat.
@Jesus_paid_it_all3 жыл бұрын
What happened to it? I haven't watched the show.
@dostap77483 жыл бұрын
@@Jesus_paid_it_all Nothing happens to the cat, it's owner just dies
@YoungATUM3 жыл бұрын
At least he left it food for the time before his body was discovered. Cat probably made it.
@obiwankanoki33433 жыл бұрын
Lmfao me too
@loweel28973 жыл бұрын
Disclaimer: "no cats were mistreated while Chernobyl exploded:. Maybe later."
@jamesfrank32133 жыл бұрын
Computer models indicate the power output went supercritical to beyond 330,000MW at the instant the core exploded. It accelerated exponentially in a runaway reaction in the course of 5 seconds from 200MW to 330,000MW. The pressure blew the 2,000,000lb lid off the core and it bounced off the ceiling and wall, landing sideways back onto the core, with the fuel and control rod channel tubes sticking out mangled in every direction. The burning reactor spewing over 15,000R/hr at the source with zero water flow to cool it down. As the uranium melted, it mixed with the dumped sand and boron creating corium and it flowed down underneath the core chamber into the infamous Elephant's Foot, where it still sits today.
@Aeradom20002 жыл бұрын
What I find most fascinating is that you can actually visit the Elephant's Foot today and it not kill you. In fact, the deputy direct went down and took pictures of it. I wouldn't have thought that much radiation would have decreased by now.
@ShreeNation2 жыл бұрын
@@Aeradom2000 My layman's theory is that because corium is a mixture of a lot of things within the plant is what's making the radiation go down. Without it, the radiation levels might have been much higher.
@grylltheonion Жыл бұрын
@@Aeradom2000 As long as you don't linger there, you should be okay.
@wolfdale_3m Жыл бұрын
@@Aeradom2000 Source? As far as I know, the EF is still hot today, in terms of radioactivity. It can still kill you.
@CraigAnybody6 ай бұрын
That's incorrect. Supercritical is a specific nuclear term that has a defined meaning. It DOES NOT mean "runaway reaction". ALL nuclear power plants go supercritical. In normal operation. EVERY SINGLE ONE. Because what "supercritical" means is "more than the critical mass" - that is, the mass is sufficient to support self-contained fission. That's literally how a nuclear power plant produces heat - through chain reactions. The condition of supercriticality is REQUIRED for a nuclear plant to generate power. What happens is that in each fission event, there are two releases of neutrons: the Prompt and the Delayed ones. The Prompt ones come from the actual split of the fissionable element, while the Delayed ones come from radioactive decay of the products of the fission. Once the fission process is started, it is known as Supercritical. However, if, in order to sustain the chain reactions the process requires both the Prompt and Delayed neutrons, then it is merely supercritical. And it won't ever explode itself. However, if the mass gets to a certain point where only the Prompt neutrons are required to keep the chain reaction going, that is known as Prompt Critical. Things that go Prompt Critical tend to go BOOM withing a few milliseconds. Going Prompt Critical means you have a nuclear explosion. Only specifically designed weapons can do this. Chernobyl went Supercritical when it was turned "on", just like any other reactor would. What happened at Chernobyl was not that it was on a path to become Prompt Critical, because that's pretty much impossible for anything other than a specifically designed weapon to do. Rather, Chernobyl had the problem that it was running at far above the normal design levels of chain reactions, and that caused an excessively huge amount of heat. Which had the effects described. People confuse supercritical with prompt critical. They are VERY different.
@davidmiller92207 ай бұрын
They really nailed the look of a soviet era apartment. Especially the kitchen where he is recording.
@Celebmacil6 ай бұрын
Probably because it was filmed in a Soviet era apartment in Vilnius, I would guess, like most of the rest of the series.
@KCOLBURN_83 жыл бұрын
Valerys later life was dedicated to Chernobyl. The pain he had to go through, man that guy had some passion there.
@tylisirn3 жыл бұрын
The graphite tips did have design reasons beyond just cost reductions. They helped to restart the chain reaction after a reactor shutdown by allowing to temporarily increase the reactivity. In normal operation an inconsequential side effect, as the operational rules as written ensured that there would always be enough control rods in the core to stop the reaction. On the night of the test almost all, far more than was allowed, had been fully retracted out of the core. Directly violating of both the operational procedures and the test procedures, and the inconsequential became fatal.
@pepijnstreng46433 жыл бұрын
Yeah but like, don't design a reactor that can explode if you operate it wrong?
@Astrocat-od5cy2 жыл бұрын
@@pepijnstreng4643 If you're homeless just buy a house
@pepijnstreng46432 жыл бұрын
@@Astrocat-od5cy that's a bad analogy
@Astrocat-od5cy2 жыл бұрын
@@pepijnstreng4643 explain yourself
@pepijnstreng46432 жыл бұрын
@@Astrocat-od5cy A homeless person doesn't have the resources to buy a house. But a government definitely has the resources to build safe nuclear reactors. Especially ones that don't explode if you press the button to TURN THEM OFF.
@thlee32 жыл бұрын
he’s such a brilliant actor. he was magnificent in this series
@darinattard32442 жыл бұрын
A fitting tribute to the heroes that saved Europe. A gem of a series.
@petermorris98186 ай бұрын
Truly, a real gem!
@mopedman6666 ай бұрын
It’s a good series. It has enough to properly educate people like me who weren’t around for this incident
@darinattard32446 ай бұрын
@@mopedman666 - I remember it well during the 80’s era. There was a similar accident before that of Chernobyl on three mile island in America. The American accident, half of the core melted with no explosion. The Chernobyl accident explosion spewed radioactivity through Europe. It was paramount to the dissolution of the USSR and the heroic efforts by thousands who died from radiation poisoning- unknown to this day. I remember the cover up by Russia new agency and the fear we had because of the radioactive cloud that emanated from the core. It extended to the northern parts of Italy. It is meticulously made very close to the real deal.
@IJustSkitMyPants3 жыл бұрын
Dyatlovs face after Legasov said "33,000" 💀
@markkoetsier6475 Жыл бұрын
😐
@Obi-WanthepyromaniacАй бұрын
Not great, not terrible
@girl12133 жыл бұрын
He went into this with open eyes and gave no BS to a government that, in his own words, preferred a lie over the truth. Chernobyl would forced so many to face that fact and take a long hard look at themselves. All the glory their predecessors had built up since the Revolution was long over and now the due to their ways was set to come. Valery Legasov was a braver man then he ever knew. That is why he deserves honor of "Hero of the Russian Federation."
@EminencePhront8 ай бұрын
He's 100 times the hero of anyone who ever fought in the Russian military except maybe the guy who drove the truck into the hot zone to get a dosimeter reading.
@comradeweedity16486 ай бұрын
@@EminencePhrontstfu your the same dude who thanks US vets 😂
@klarak66242 жыл бұрын
The explanation of what actually happened in detail was the most interesting thing of the whole series.
@Darthquackius2 ай бұрын
shame it wasn't quite accurate in its details. Decent enough to give a lot of people with no clue, but not really accurate. Especially the design of the control rods. Wasn't because it was cheaper, was because it made the mechanism to control the reactor simpler and more effective. But they stole those designs from a research reactor and no other country implemented that design at large scale because it had a lower safety margin.
@klarak66242 ай бұрын
@@Darthquackius Yeh, the " it´s cheaper" moment was for effect. I listened to a guy who explained the real details of the control rods design. There were many "for effect" things, I remember I disliked all these a lot the first time I watched it, irritated me. I also missed the feel of communist "apparatchiks" and the overall atmosphere wasn´t "socialistic country" enough for me. Still, not badly executed...
@ankitojha4593Ай бұрын
Valerie - Reactor 4 of Chernobyl designed for 3200 MW went above 33000. Dyatlow - Hmm 33000, not great, not terrible
@ArthurMorgan-_-3 жыл бұрын
I love the irony in how the ideals of the state are more important than the physical existence of it
@wallacegrommet93433 жыл бұрын
More like ideology first, last, and foremost
@geraldfillion49043 жыл бұрын
9:43 now thats the definition of ''one last cigarette then im done''
@muttibill_44692 жыл бұрын
Love how he slipped in “like those in the west”
@emp100k2 жыл бұрын
Legasov took his own life not only due to the realization of the futility of his efforts (the Soviet state would simply cover everything up) but also because he knew they would have him killed sooner or later. Edit: also he probably didn't have that much longer to live anyway as the radiation poisoning was taking it's toll on him.
@shaneturner50010 ай бұрын
In the last episode, the head of the KGB said that Legasov would not be killed, he’d simply be forced to live the rest of his life in enforced solitude.
@gionevadead40793 жыл бұрын
This guy deserves an Oscar he was great in the terror too
@BrettHowell-wo1ik10 ай бұрын
Yes. Is is a good actor.
@deathofchanel85682 жыл бұрын
I feel like people are ignoring a huge reason why he committed suicide, not only was he suffering from the effects of radiation exposure he also just exposed the KGB and the Soviet Union in front of the entire World, he was a dead man walking.
@comradeweedity16486 ай бұрын
A lot like the wiki-leaks guy
@Aryan_H16 ай бұрын
@@comradeweedity1648 exactly
@evanburrows16979 күн бұрын
No, the KGB had already decided not to shoot him. Their punishment was to leave him alive with his academic title and office intact, but to leave him with no classes to teach, no work to do, and no friends to interact with. Basically, the psychological torture of existing with no purpose.
@CarolAnneChapman4 жыл бұрын
In a previous episode of the HBO series, Legasov explains to the government official he worked with that the last stage of radiation sickness is excruciatingly painful. He also said that, if I remember correctly, the radiation sickness causes the cells to break open. As a result, morphine won't work to alleviate the pain. Is that why he chose suicide?
@31Geeko4 жыл бұрын
I don't think so - from what I understood there is a difference between ARS (Acute radiation sickness), which is what anybody in the vicinity of the reactor or who'd received high doses of radiation had to endure, and long term exposure to mild levels of radiation. What Legasov describes is ARS, the firefighter, the plant workers and some liquidators on the roof went through that excruciating fate. Legasov was never exposed to fatal high levels of ionising radiation, but his prolonged stay in the exclusion zone (along with the 600k other liquidators) meant that he developed illnesses quite rapidly including cancer: that is why he loses his hair towrads the end of the series. He probably knew he had a few months or years left to live and didn't want to go through the pain (albeit infinitesimally lesser than that of ARS).
@kevinhoffman65924 жыл бұрын
Sad story he paid the bill for the lies of their leaders
@CarolAnneChapman4 жыл бұрын
@@kevinhoffman6592 Thankfully, he had the courage to tell the truth.
@kevinhoffman65924 жыл бұрын
@@CarolAnneChapman he knew he was going to die after doing his job there . And he kept his Morales .
@bigbuilder104 жыл бұрын
Guillaume Roux Even though he doesn’t receive a dosage sufficient for acute radiation sickness, he does receive a fatal dose. Radiation is a hard poison to quantify its deadliness. A high enough dose will kill you quickly and dramatically in the short term, but a low dose over a long time will do the same but through different means, in his case, he had chronic radiation sickness signs (hair loss) and at least lung or esophageal cancer from the coughing of blood. The way in which radiation kills us (either actually or long term) is that gamma radiation rips through our DNA, destroying it. Too much DNA lose and are bodies decay and fall apart spectacularly and quickly. Little lose, but that more importantly causes the right mutations to DNA and you get cancer
@KermitTheArchitect3 жыл бұрын
The only painful scene here is that, his kitty will never know what happened and be alone.
@Leisurelee533 жыл бұрын
"every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth" That's not a line from an entertainment program. That's an axiom you should burn into your mind.
@ResidentEddyАй бұрын
“Sooner or later, that debt is paid.”
@pho3nix-4 жыл бұрын
The last smoke....
@treyb3873 жыл бұрын
This is the best miniseries I've ever seen. Even compared to Band of Brothers and John Adams
@benlaskowski3573 жыл бұрын
The lie: they told themselves this couldn't happen. Lie #2: thinking you can buy greatness on a budget instead of earning it at great expense.
@RyanWehr3 жыл бұрын
I did not realize there were two explosions. One from the pressure to blast the lid off and the Second was the air rushing in set off the second one.
@ArcaneAzmadi3 жыл бұрын
"What is the cost of lies? Not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognise the truth at all." Pay heed, America.
@Strategic_Reformer10 ай бұрын
" we do not know how high the final power went, we only know the final reading. Chernobyl reactor number four, designed to operate at 3300 megawatts, went beyond 33,000." So, in reality, the scale of the design flaw and/or human error could have been even WORSE than an entire magnitude of error, if not for the inaddequacy of the insruments used to measure it
@Darthquackius2 ай бұрын
more human error than design error, but the design allowed for greater human error.
@philipiano0012 ай бұрын
No one ever presumed to design for a castrophe. 🤔
@brianhecimovich44883 жыл бұрын
This was one of the best edited videos I’ve ever seen
@AHModuckTube4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant cinematography Reminds me of Dunkirk and Memento!
@edwardmakabling4184 жыл бұрын
Hbo bounce back after GOT season 8 failure.
@catie73844 жыл бұрын
Etiti Yulolo i forgive them for s8 because they gave us this masterpiece of a show
@TheRealAwesomePossum4 жыл бұрын
Got sucked
@furocity27 күн бұрын
I've seen the series multiple times and it's still one of my favourites. I'll will watch it again for sure
@CultistOfNimrod3 жыл бұрын
If you liked him in this show you should definitely watch “The Terror”
@adamjensen17164 жыл бұрын
Do you think that they put all the scenes together in chronological order before the explosion, before the trial, after the explosion and after the trial and such right up to valery legasov's suicide and the epilogue
@overlord-66444 жыл бұрын
Adam Jensen just watch the show and you don’t have to ask
@adamjensen17164 жыл бұрын
@@overlord-6644 i have watch but i just was making an opinion
@adamjensen17164 жыл бұрын
@@overlord-6644 but like i said do you think they will
@overlord-66444 жыл бұрын
Adam Jensen that’s a question not an opinion
@overlord-66444 жыл бұрын
Adam Jensen just watch the show and you will know the answer
@pranayranjan37773 жыл бұрын
The story is so perfectly illustrated in this series, that for most of the time you'll forget it's a 📺TV series
@meems43783 жыл бұрын
He actually had a wife & children. Really heartbreaking. I'd be interested to know if there is any links between radiation & depression or other mental health crisis.
@Lemontarts013 жыл бұрын
Lemme put it like this for you. Ever hit the mystery box? Thats radiation. Random (there will be common symptoms of course, but) Radiation deletes/erases DNA/RNA structures. Sometimes it just "modifies" the DNA/RNA structure - thus a mutation is born. So - depending on your dose. Yes what you said can happen - or quite literally anything else
@wickedshadesproductions52542 жыл бұрын
And the stress
@michaelpopescu3700 Жыл бұрын
he knew he was dying of radiation poisoning, and I believe he knew that his msg would be heard if he committed suicide. His story wouldn’t go unnoticed… unfortunate
@TheJotaroKujo Жыл бұрын
Quite possibly. Although my guess is that he was already sick and he knew what was coming. So he decided to end it while he was still "healthy". No one could blame him.
@woopimagpie10 ай бұрын
No idea if there's a direct correlation between radiation and depression, but there definitely is between chronic pain and depression. It's fair to say that radiation causes chronic pain as things break down, so that's probably a one degree of separation link.
@therealtoxicbeast22674 жыл бұрын
I didn’t know thats Richard Harris son. Sounds like him.
@archlich44893 жыл бұрын
IT IS?
@binduanand62533 жыл бұрын
@@archlich4489 yes he is Jared harris
@nosorab34 жыл бұрын
So who's Jared Harris going to play in the inevitable HBO Coronavirus miniseries?
@toddstein54074 жыл бұрын
Anthony fauchi
@saintroddy3 жыл бұрын
"A just world is a sane world. But there was nothing sane about Wuhan."
@MikeJones-qn1gz3 жыл бұрын
@@saintroddy *The first Wuhan Doctor who recognized it* "The Virus is spreading and we have no way to treat it, we have to shut down the city" *PRC official* "you didn't see a new virus... YOU DIDNT BECAUSE ITS NOT THERE!!"
@dimaignatiev63703 жыл бұрын
@@toddstein5407 Dude...That's hardcore of you...
@OneBiasedOpinion3 жыл бұрын
I swear unless it covers how much over-exaggerated bullshit got created around that virus, I will throw hands with the directors.
@RobintheHood17 Жыл бұрын
Love this edit! So good!
@MikeHawke834 жыл бұрын
Richard Harris would've been proud of his son
@raywhitehead7306 ай бұрын
Great acting, great directing, great writing great sets.
7 ай бұрын
The perfect man for the perfect role. Maravelous.
@MrSpeedyAce2 ай бұрын
Everyone is gangster until the fuel rods start dancing around
@ge2623 Жыл бұрын
The music is great in this scene.
@falcon32682 жыл бұрын
I was two years old when the accident happened, I don't think I ever heard about it til much later through zero hour although this series opened my eyes as there was so much they didn't explain in Zero Hour that I now understand what really happened.
@MichaelTheRead2 ай бұрын
3:56 Each light on that control panel lights up when a control rod/fuel channel cap is removed, such as during refueling. You can see the entire panel start to light up all at once. Then at 3:59, the entire top half lights up, and then the bottom half.That's because the biological shield is, in that moment, in the process of blowing off.
@willyboy2563 жыл бұрын
The cat's looking up and saying to itself "Well FFS who is going to feed me know!" lol
@miscellaneousgoblin9102 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Mr. Seldon!
@ds_the_rn26 күн бұрын
This was 2019 already? Geez. What a stunning miniseries.
@equarg17 күн бұрын
I bought the DVD…. Amazing series.
@ZeeshanSaadiq3 жыл бұрын
Great acting Great actors
@philipiano0012 ай бұрын
...and great script. 🤔
@pranayranjan37773 жыл бұрын
7:46 "every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth... And Sooner or later that debt is paid"
@zaftred87773 жыл бұрын
It's not the form of government, it's a form of arrogance and arrogance knows no bounds.
@philipiano0012 ай бұрын
...and hubris. 🤔
@honey_Badger4123Ай бұрын
5:30 didn't notice until now the blue light after the explosion. Crazy
@user-sk3zr4eh5h11 күн бұрын
Incredibly brave man, he looked at executioners eyes and laughed..
@Salemchevy3 жыл бұрын
Also something else watching this little series has shown me one thing. At the center of almost all things like this it is never a machine failure or something like that. It is always the human mind. One that cares about its image so much that it goes out of its way to keep secrets
@CandleWisp6 ай бұрын
Well it is a drama. Drama emphasises people. Not that the real thing didn't involve people. Just keep in mind how the medium can skew the situation.
@trevordillon19216 ай бұрын
@@CandleWisptrue, but it’s actually the truth here regardless, even in the mechanical aspects. It all starts well before the failed test, or even the construction of the plant at all. It starts with Soviet pride. They desired to be seen as an equal to the United States, but the lacked the financial weight to design a comparable reactor. So they conspired to build one that could emulate the appearance of an equal, but they’re lack of funds meant it couldn’t actually *be* equal. That money had to be saved somewhere, and that somewhere comprises a rather tragic chain. The reactor design they came up with has an issue at low power levels, one that caused issues in trying to actually start the reactor. Actually solving that problem legitimately would have been costly, so they tipped the rods in graphite such that when they were first inserted, they aided in priming the reactor to build power. This on its own is sufficiently bad to cause major issues, but it’s just one example of how cost cutting measures, which I must remind you are necessary due to human pride, reduced the safety of the plant. There was no doubt a failure to install sufficient redundancy within the plant for failures, another reason the plant blew. The fact a single failsafe was expected to save the reactor was in of itself a horrid oversight, one no doubt intentionally overlooked as redundancy adds to cost without improving performance, only safety, and under ideal conditions, there is no difference without it. At the core of every Nuclear Power disaster, and frankly every other disaster in Industry, is a story of human errors. It is, after all, the job of engineers to design in such a way that safety is ensured. When this does not happen, you can always find someone to trace it back to, and it’s never one person, always a system. After all, redundancy is the nature of the process, one engineer does not have sole discretion. If a flaw goes unresolved, it is far more likely it was a product of mismanagement than the subsequent mistake of many engineers.
@TheMagister6 ай бұрын
I get what you're saying. Pride goeth before a fall, as one famous text implies.
@aaronleverton42213 жыл бұрын
Best episode of Seconds from Disaster yet.
@19dec19813 жыл бұрын
a dog... wouldve called an ambulance
@johnolive3425 Жыл бұрын
And THAT is how an RBMK reactor explodes, Lies.
@isoSw1fty Жыл бұрын
5:03 sight and sound is the cosmic horror
@beckysprang55174 жыл бұрын
So he says the rods were tipped in graphite to save money but they can make reaction rates skyrocket in wrong situation. So, if they had had standard rods (whatever that is), would Chernobyl have still occurred or would it have been to a lesser extent? Prevented?
@thrash13374 жыл бұрын
It's a little more complicated than the just tips having been 'tipped' in graphite. AFAIK the boron control rods had graphite on the other end which was pulled into the reactor when the boron rods were pulled out. Because when you pull out the boron rods what's left is water - which is still good at absorbing neutrons and halting the nuclear process - that's why you need to accelerate the reaction with graphite. So really, to prevent the accident, from a purely technical aspect, a different reactor design was needed. But as you know it wasn't only the reactor design flaw which led to the explosion.
@beckysprang55174 жыл бұрын
@@thrash1337 thank you for the explanation :)
@alex-marquette4 жыл бұрын
The series boils the cause down in my opinion a bit too much. The rods aren't necessarily tipped with graphite, but instead are two rods connected essentially one side being an inhibitator (boron), the other being an accelerator (graphite). When the shutdown begins the rods are pushed in and the first thing that enters the area is the graphite causing the reaction to speed up until the boron part of the rods can get in a slow the reaction down, which this process results in an initial power surge and then goes down as the reaction stops. The big culprit to the explosion was Xenon Poisoning that the crew manning the reactor didn't realize. Xenon-135 is the product of Iodine decaying from the reaction. Normally Xenon isn't a big deal most of it is burned off from the heat of the reaction. The problem started when they dropped the rate of reaction too low to burn off Xenon at a consistent rate. Iodine still decayed and Xenon was still forming at the lower rate but was accumulating instead of being burned off. This lead to a slowing of the reaction to a point where the reactor can shutdown also known as Xenon poisoning since Xenon absorbs neutrons and being a noble gas is really stable. In the case of Chernoybl Reactor #4 suffered this while it was being setup for the test, obviously the crew manning the reactor didn't know this was happening because the designers of the reactor never said anything about it. So when the control rods (the boron side of the rod) was removed this allowed the reactor to produce enough heat to start burning off Xenon, but this must be controlled correctly to achieve proper balance again as if you leave the graphite in too long the Xenon will burn off too quickly thus causing a runaway reaction. And by the time the AZ-5 button was pressed the reactor was past the proper balance and was a runaway timebomb. Thus creating the worst nuclear disaster to date.
@edgarramos14994 жыл бұрын
@@alex-marquette How do you know, are you a nuclear physicist? Not being sarcastic, genuinely asking? How does one know so much about reactors
@EnaiSiaion4 жыл бұрын
In addition to the graphite explanation above, the design flaw was pretty subtle and not discovered during the design phase. It turned out that the graphite in its intended position in the middle of the reactor accelerated the reaction less than the same graphite at the bottom of the reactor on its way out. This resulted in a brief power spike when many rods were inserted at once and a lot of graphite moved down at the same time. The issue was reported by other crews performing planned AZ-5 shutdowns but it was within safety margins (because those other crews were running with a reasonable number of rods withdrawn instead of almost all of them) so it was not considered very important.
@MissMilly3213 жыл бұрын
this shit was so bad that even Sweden got warnings about this.
@equarg17 күн бұрын
Yea! Sweden initially thought one of their own facilities as having a melt down. They went bonkers until they realized that the radiation was coming from the outside, not the inside……. A quick check if wind direction, and Sweden basically blackmailed Russia to tell a partial truth. “Either you tell them, OR WE WILL”. Yea. Sweden may of been a neutral nation during the Cold War technically, but I was not shocked when they applied to join NATO after 2022.
@pyroslev2 ай бұрын
This happened a year before I was born, and I've tried for years to understand all the literature about what happened. A friend who is very intelligent engineer claims is the best 'general purpose' understanding you'll get on what happened.
@filthycasualgaming97154 жыл бұрын
Oh Roose Bolton is hanging out in the courtroom too
@Aedrion-10 ай бұрын
7:43 we hear him say "It is (The Truth)... still there" and the camera pans towards that row of red plaques detailing what the truth means here. A radioactive core gone critical doesn't care about what anyone thinks about it. It'll still happen and it'll still kill you. I liked that touch a lot. Good job camera-crew.
@Bobuliss7 ай бұрын
Critical doesn't mean what you think it means in terms of reactivity.
@Aedrion-7 ай бұрын
@@Bobuliss Yea okay whatever, when a meltdown happens xD
@Wolfcone2 ай бұрын
I find it crazy how we evolve as humans. The amount of knowledge we gained from this, right or wrong, is immeasurable.
@kele85592 жыл бұрын
The soviet union feels like a fever dream in real life
@kleetus922 жыл бұрын
0:13 Holy shit I have that same deer print as a cloth mural hanging on the wall at my Dad's place!
@chili_420_23 жыл бұрын
Yes the debt was paid when the Soviet Union fell
@antonpokusaev39333 жыл бұрын
CHili_420 _ no it wasn’t. Nothing was paid, Russia’s architecture is still dogshit and people die to this day, some still live in the radiated zone, nothing was paid.
@wallacegrommet93433 жыл бұрын
They’re back and worse than ever
@AdrianDucao3 жыл бұрын
this is why you should have hired engineers instead of cooks to run the place
@philipiano0012 ай бұрын
Engineers with authority to make decisions. 🤔
@spudpud-T67Ай бұрын
"F**K call that a button push, do it again you f**kin idiot". Truly Hell's kitchen.
@batu_cagan21 күн бұрын
@@philipiano001 i believe he is talking about the clothing that was on them
@KenobiStark16 ай бұрын
I love that history knows the truth now.
@huntersmith84772 жыл бұрын
“What is the cost of lies?”
@Demetri450Ай бұрын
Now, today we have learned nothing. How quickly we forget
@AA-xu5kr4 жыл бұрын
I just noticed that he hung himself at 1:23:45.
@Anna-sd4zl4 жыл бұрын
Same time the reactor exploded in chernobyl
@kulkidz334 жыл бұрын
So what happened to the cat?
@dragonkamran4 жыл бұрын
Johnny Poyner judging by the way it continues to eat and wash itself like nothing happened, I doubt that
@mikespearman14144 жыл бұрын
The cat was charged with harboring a subverse criminal and sentenced to fifty years hard labor. For the glory of The State, Comrade!
@ryanmat024 жыл бұрын
Nothing because he’s an actor
@russianoldschoo484 жыл бұрын
If you read midnight in Chernobyl he left a bunch of food for the cat
@kulkidz333 жыл бұрын
@America THEY FUCKING SHOT THE CAT?!
@TheBulbasaurKing9 ай бұрын
"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid." Chilling line
@ge26234 ай бұрын
So true.
@ericscottstevens6 ай бұрын
Episode 1 and 5 are interchangeable to begin this series. You could watch episodes in this order 5, 1, 2, 3, 4 all well within 3.5 Roentgen (not great not horrible). Only issue I have with the series is it should have been about 10 or 12 episodes as it is one of the most consequential pieces of story telling and acting in recent history.
@JGAnimation3 ай бұрын
The one detail i find interesting in the first episode when Legasov hangs himself, he does it on the exact same date and time the disaster took place, only two years in advance. obviously not accurate, at least i don't think so, but i love the creative and symbolic attempt they made to reference the accident in the first episode.
@Crazyman1212 Жыл бұрын
25,000 dead and 70,000 disabled for this clean up.
@anitaandagana91934 жыл бұрын
La parte de la explocion fue mi favorita
@ranchhandrandy32133 жыл бұрын
Makes me wish I had HBO
@RepellentJeff8 ай бұрын
4:55 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. 5:10 And Hell followed with him.
@vendetta6088 Жыл бұрын
suicide before a slow death. brutal.
@alexsuarez95563 жыл бұрын
I know this is extremely off topic, but do you think anyone found his cat later :/?
@sethpelletier95783 жыл бұрын
Gosh don't we all.
@Jesus_paid_it_all3 жыл бұрын
Most certainly as his body was found along with the living cat.
@Lemontarts013 жыл бұрын
I hope that people looked like that and realized "Ahhhhh SH*T - we CANNOT cut corners" In real life
@linkanator3 жыл бұрын
Are those tapes real, or were they added for the mini-series?
@JefferyWisdom3 жыл бұрын
The tapes themselves are real, in fact there's an entire site dedicated to their transcriptions. The dialogue is completely different though
@johncrash28 Жыл бұрын
@@JefferyWisdom do you know the website my good sir?
@nickynack5 ай бұрын
To think this actually happened. Madness
@SK-hz5hl3 жыл бұрын
Where can i watch the full episode?
@penguinkothe83233 жыл бұрын
HBO i guess, idk how you can access that, it costs money though
@them43093 жыл бұрын
Should have seen it coming. Dr. Moriarty is your nuclear specialist? How about someone that's not a well known villain?
@nasonh4324 Жыл бұрын
theres about 20 seconds at the end that needed to be included. I watched this the first time and had no idea what was going on. It"s HBO .... why did they pussy foot around the suicide ... I've seen the Red Wedding .... i know you could have done it