*CHERNOBYL* Episode 4 REACTION Video!

[@DavidMacDowellBlue]

03:25 That is not how that works. When you are exposed to radiation you do not become yourself very radioactive. Her husband got a massive dose. But her dose was that she lived one mile from the nuclear power plant for two days after teh explosion. Boris and Legasov have much more radiation exposure than her, but much less than her husband. 06:15 Chernobyl is part of a large exclusion zone. The plants and animals are sick. But at least the plant is covered with a special containment unit. Unfortunately, it is all in the middle of a Russo-Ukraine War. 13:14 Thousands of men, each supposed to spend 90 seconds each and no more. In fact, some people volunteered for more than one 'turn' clearing the roof, taking the place of younger men who did not yet have families. The courage of thousands upon thousands of people--including those doing "animal control" and the damage that must have done to their souls.

[@myphone4590]

"Is that not how it works"... Radiation vs radioactive material is like light vs a glowstick. Radiation burns your cells, and like sunburn the results may not show up for hours (you don't fully blister and peel for a day or two), but unlike sunburn it isn't just the surface but shining through into your organs and bones. Radioactive material is glowing with radiation. Imagine a leaking glowstick, but not visible light. You're tracking it everywhere, soaked into your clothes, the smoke from the burning reactor is full of it and they're all breathing it in, gets into the food, gets into the clouds and comes down in rain...

[@iKvetch558]

This is pretty much the toughest episode to watch for almost everyone...but it is good that you made it through it. Something that does not often get mentioned is that many of the men who went out onto those incredibly radioactive roof sections actually volunteered to go back out more than once in order to save others from having to be "biorobots". Also, that huge revelation that the Soviet State knew about the fatal flaw in the shutdown system and both covered it up and did nothing to fix it, all the while lying to even the plant operators about the safety of the RBMK reactors, is something that could only happen in a totalitarian state like the USSR...where there is no free press or free scientific establishment for whistleblowers to talk to when they know about wrongdoing by the State.

[@Arek66]

14:25 his leg was stuck and he was trying to get it out

[@엘제-k9u]

These days Chernovyl is open for tourists, but only if you agree to take responsibility to the radiation you will take. Of course due to the Ukrainian war it's off limits for now. Speaking of which, At the beginning of the war Russia had a troop of tanks and infantry to march across the "red forrest," which is near Chernovyl. By the time they reached their designated area, all the equipment was so severely contaminated that they had to dispose everything, including men. It's that bad.

[@frufruJ]

The Russian soldiers dug trenches in the Red Forrest and were wondering why they were getting sick. Nobody had told them. Today's Russia is eerily similar to the then USSR.

[@Zebryachok]

10:20 ... It's funny to say, but that was EXACTLY my first thought too.

[@frufruJ]

10:20 Hydrodynamic and aerodynamic shapes are going to be similar. Gases like air and liquids like water are both fluids and have identical dynamics.

[@iKvetch558]

Yes...lots of inexperienced people working at Chernobyl. It was the night shift, so the least experienced crew was working. Also, the Soviets had major problems training enough reactor technicians, and as I understand it, pretty much all their nuclear power plants were chronically understaffed.

[@neilaslayer]

Milk is one of the places radiation can concentrate the most because it is the very end of the food chain. Milk was very hard to come by in eastern Europe for about 6-8 months after the accident in Chernobyl. Powdered milk was a very hot commodity.

[@cherylsims5636]

This reactions was too short. U left out several of the key scenes. i se you have not read my comment from Episode 1 or you would not keep asking the same questions again. For this yo et a DISLIKE. In the next episode you finally find how how, what and why it all happened. BE SURE YOU SHOW ALL THE ENDING CREDITS

[@cuyhater]

A lot of those older people-- like the woman at the beginning-- secretly returned to the area to live out their lives, growing small vegetable gardens and foraging in the forests. In addition, for years there was a sort of look-the-other-way market for agricultural products from the exclusion zone: irradiated meat included in sausage, milk on store shelves that lacked "Grade A" labeling but was suspiciously cheaper than the other stuff, that sort of thing.