CHERNOBYL REACTION | EPISODE 3

Maple's first time watching Chernobyl in a reaction.
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[@Diegesis]

The rest of the show is not Patreon exclusive. I was just letting you know the rest of the episodes are *already* on Patreon so people know they don't have to wait if they don't want to.

[@utalomAlibbantakat]

really good idea!

[@hoshinoutaite]

The reason that she is shown holding his shoes, during the burial, is because his feet had swollen so much, they couldn't be put on. They were all buried in uniforms, but their bodies had bloated so much, that cuts had to be made in the uniforms to get them on properly.

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

Meanwhile, she was also getting radiation...

[@LtMetal]

"At the levels some of them were exposed. Ionizing radiation tears the cellular structure apart. The skin blisters, turns red, then black. This is followed by a latency period. The immediate effects subside. The patient appears to be recovering. Healthy, even. But they aren’t. This usually only lasts for a day or two. Then the cellular damage begins to manifest. The bone marrow dies, the immune system fails, the organs and soft tissue begin to decompose. The arteries and veins spill open like sieves, to the point where you can’t even administer morphine for the pain, which is unimaginable. And then three days to three weeks, you are dead." This is why you would be begging for a bullet...

[@rosssmith7753]

Something surprising I learned from reading about Chernobyl after I first saw the series: Remember the three men who volunteered to wade through the contaminated water to open the sluice gate valves? The effects of radiation can be a bit random, because of which particular cells in your body some particle happens to strike, and it turns out all three of them got very lucky and suffered no long term ill effects at all. One of them died of a heart attack 20 years later; the other two are still alive today.

[@aygianalt]

Another reason they survived was because of their Specialized Synthetic Rubber Suits. It wasn't know at the time, but those rubber suits may be better than even Lead Shielding at stopping Radiation.

[@Subjectivity13]

They said that in text at the end of the final episode, when they reveal the fates of everyone involved.

[@someguy7629]

The water was by far not as radioactive as they tought it was.

[@marvintpandroid2213]

@@aygianalt Total BS, care to provide a link to where this shown? You wont, because you cant.

[@kemojoaquin]

@@marvintpandroid2213 you are an angry, bitter, sad, and trollish man.

[@priyamd4759]

09:00 When one hard nosed person meets another person with harder nose! i love it.

[@ShawnTheDriver]

“KGButthole” had me laughing for almost the rest of the video 😂

[@idhunepijl1404]

“Just a bunch of dingdongs in a mineshaft” 😂

[@JenyaIsJustChilling]

no pun intended (?)

[@control2XS]

3:23 unexpected bit of Passion Pit in there, love it!

[@panzerwolf494]

After the investigation was over, the reactor operators were blamed by the government and the graves of the reactor engineers were vandalized repeatedly except for Toptunov's because of the picture on his headstone. He was so young people felt he was innocent. His parents had a small bench installed next to his grave that they would visit as often as they could. Much later on the government vindicated the engineers and issues citations to their families.

[@RB747domme]

Someone said that those bodies in the caskets, and the caskets themselves won't fully disintegrate for 150,000 years due to the lack of oxidation in the concrete.

[@mikeymike42]

Be interesting if the archeologists of the future find those after the next 2 or 3 cycles of extinction level events if humanity survives. " We used to be radioactive monkeys with concrete based burial traditions"

[@teslatrooper85]

15:45 that will be explained in Episode 5 in detail. 16:35 Yes, that is exactly what happens. The old cells die, but they do not get replaced with new cells anymore. Just like a body that just died.

[@panzerwolf494]

Basically, yes. Radiation destroys the DNA making your cells unable to live and do their job. As a result they die. Without a way for your body to make new cells you basically rot apart as the old cells die off either from the radiation or just their normal life cycle and can't replace them with new ones. That latency period is just the remainder of what living cells you have trying to repair the body till they die.

[@lucillebluth2616]

That's terrible 🙏

[@BillzhereImeanpillz]

3:14 "Suck on those 'atoms'" lol

[@MaskHysteria]

My favorite character arc in this series is Boris. In Episode 1 he comes off as an uncaring bureaucrat/apparatchik. In Episode 2, he goes from a jerk to a just "hard man" doing his job. In Episode 3 you start to get a sense that he has a deep sense of duty but has some endearing traits. By Episode 5 you're crying for the man out of abject sympathy and realize what a good man he truly is/was.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

Boris Shcherbina also oversaw the Soviet response to the 1988 earthquake in Armenia, which killed thousands of people. On the other hand, he was a hard-line communist and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, who actually opposed Gorbachev and Gorbachev's reforms. He was a true believer in a system that killed millions.

[@McKamikazeHighlander]

The "Frickin' KG-Butthole" comment killed me lol

[@utalomAlibbantakat]

4:27 political observers, the bespectacled scientist in the "tavern", it was not by chance that he said "reassuring" words to the girl, because he recognized who they were, and they would have imprisoned him immediately

[@alesksander]

Trust but verify 😉

[@luisdotespinal]

"Just a bunch of ding dongs in a mine shaft". Oh my Gawd, I'm dying here with your commentary, hahahaa.

[@thenecessaryevil2634]

The coal miners putting coal dust on him was actually a sign of respect, 'you've acted like one of us, been straight and honest, so now look like one of us."

[@lamprdo]

I think those three guys must be the closest anyone has come to single-handedly saving the world, and it involved their own sacrifice. Everyone should remember their names: Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov

[@maksphoto78]

Quite a different story in real life. They just went in and turned a valve. There was a bit of water and they just walked along a pipe. All three were more or less fine, two are still alive today, and one passed away due to cancer a few years ago.

[@lamprdo]

@@maksphoto78 Fair enough, thanks for the info! It’s understandable the risk to them was exaggerated for dramatic effect. Still, I can’t think of another singular act that could be credited with saving so many lives.

[@leathewolf]

The "I'll show you Moscow" dialog sounds like pure Hollywood, but it happened.

[@daveb9920]

You're right ... the most heartbreaking part of this episode

[@SteveNaranjo]

But she was not seeing The Red Square, she said that to please him, to make him feel better.

[@Subjectivity13]

The whole point of trust is that you don't verify. "Trust but verify" just shows the person saying it doesn't know what "trust" means.

[@someguy7629]

This is a full status of current RBMK reactors : 8 operational 1 Involved in accident (Chernobyl) 1 partially damaged 9 cancelled 9 decommissioned 3 small EGP-6 graphite moderated BWR operational (as of December 2021) EDIT : Of the 17 RBMKs built (Unit 5 was still under construction at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant), all three surviving reactors at the Chernobyl plant have now been closed. Unit 1 was closed in 1996, Unit 3 in 2000, (Unit 4 having been destroyed in the accident, and Unit 2 disabled after a hydrogen explosion in 1991). Chernobyl 5 and 6 were under construction at the time of the accident at Chernobyl, but further construction was stopped due to the high level of contamination at the site limiting its longer term future. Both reactors at Ignalina in Lithuania were also shut down. Russia is the only country to still operate reactors of this design: Leningrad (2 RBMK-1000), Smolensk (3 RBMK-1000) and Kursk (3 RBMK-1000), Kursk Unit 1 was shutdown via its BSM key at 00:24, December 19th, 2021, bringing an end to the last time the plant would run all four of its units side by side. There are currently no further RBMK Reactors under construction in Russia. The last RBMK Reactor in Russia is expected to shut down in 2034 at Smolensk-3.

[@cliveklg7739]

The temp was 120 degrees F. They didn't show Akimov because essentially half his face was falling off. 😢

[@MrSinEon]

They did the makeup but decided against showing it because it was too groosome

[@maksphoto78]

Nothing to do with temperature. Radiation burns are not temperature burns.

[@cliveklg7739]

@@maksphoto78 Are you stupid? Those are two SEPARATE and UNRELATED statements that have nothing to do with each other commenting on different parts of the show. Try some basic reading comprehension.

[@lolmao500]

The difference between ghosts and radiation is... radiation actually exists. :p

[@Forbidaxe]

Oooh dang Diegesis, I have just been reminded of an ages old movie you have to watch... Interview with the Vampire (1994) Some big names in that belter.

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

17:07 Yes, they had to bury them in lead coffins because they were so radioactive and will be for who knows how long.

[@mrchainsaw4139]

I say it every time but maple is a delight, big fan.

[@MapleDivine]

Thank you friend! Means a lot!

[@GreydonIselmoe]

@@MapleDivine Ah! Awesome!! Cool top btw!

[@MapleDivine]

@@GreydonIselmoe thanks I got it for the renaissance festival! 😊

[@Short_Round1999]

The fuel they use was Uranium, not Plutonium, the half-life of U-235 is 4.5 billion years. They mention Plutonium cuz one of the expected purposes of these power plants with the RBMK was to produce Plutonium for nuclear weapons

[@markkettlewell7441]

That noise is the sound of the Geiger counter registering radiation.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

The first time we see the firefighters wife, she is in the bathroom vomiting from morning sickness.

[@planet_gardener4031]

3:24 PASSION PIT!

[@whereisCarmenSandiego]

“These men work in the dark…they see everything”…..that is some profound shit right there. But, the head miner guy is my favorite character of all. He’s lived a rough life and he sees the world for exactly what it is.

[@markkettlewell7441]

The guy with the strawberry mark on his head is Mikhail Gorbachev the head of the USSR at that time.

[@bigsoos]

Maple w/ the princess outfit 🤩

[@yellowjacket588]

The miners made no difference, they did all that work to prevent something that wasn’t going to happen anyways.

[@burntpork8067]

Ah but you see, the radiation that these firefighters are dealing with is actually downplayed compared to the real stuff, in fact it was so bad that trying to move your arm could cause the bone to come out.

[@darkforestcinema]

In reality the firemen were no longer radioactive. That was mostly on their uniforms which are still in the hospital basement and still very lethal to touch. The husband wasn't a danger to her and the baby. In reality she was a danger to him since the radiation wiped away his immune system. Besides the little Hollywooding the situation, still a great episode.

[@panzerwolf494]

Not entirely true. The firefighters inhaled a lot of radioactive particles that were still lodged in their lungs and ingested more just from the act of swallowing. Perhaps not *that* radioactive, but they still had those particles inside them emitting radiaition

[@patrickdematosribeiro1845]

The character is based on a real person and she had severe health issues and lost her child after visiting her husband. It cannot be proven directly she would have been healthy without visiting him, but the nurses did tell her not to touch him and she didn't listen. This part is actually pretty close to what really happened.

[@maddogminecrafter8828]

the significance of her holding his shoes is in reality the effects of the radiation was much worse then they were allowed to show,his feet swelled up and as they were taking off his shoes the flesh of his legs fell off like lose socks

[@YekouriGaming]

A lot of the regular staff at the time did believe that a contaminated person was dangerous. Lyudmilla did explicetely say in the biography interview that a nurse told her that he was dangerous to her (she was around him on the hospital for the entire duration, just like if someone had been in a serious accident, and even came with flowers and home made cakes). Also @Triple Viktor the radioactive particles inside of them were hitting their own cells and never escaped outside of them again, which is why inhaling radioactive particles and or eating/drinking something contaminated is incredibly more dangerous than just being near something radioactive. The firefighters straight up inhaled some radioactive graphite (which can be some very fine particles as noted by pencils for example). We can even straight up eat uranium rocks and not emit any more radiation than after eating a banana (it contains a very small amount of radioactive particles), and we can on the other hand also stand a couple of meters away from an uranium rock and not have anything measureable penetrate into our bodies.

[@panzerwolf494]

@@YekouriGaming Gamma does not stop at the cells. Gamma is what screws you up the most. Gama is not stopped by flesh. Also this is not uranium rock we're dealing with here. Uranium in nature is pretty much inert to us unless you like live on top of a huge pile for years. this is uranium fuel and graphite burning. Basically you're comparing drinking some water from a sink that has a few drops of Clorox added to sanitize to drinking straight from the jug. Uranium fuel is hugely concentrated. That rock plus another thousand pounds of it made a fuel pellet. There were about 22,000 of these burning and laying right along side the graphite.

[@Short_Round1999]

They gave them light for the show so the audience can see what they’re doing. Reports said that after their lights went out, they had to make their way and work on the dark.

[@Diegesis]

their lights went out in the episode and they were in the dark. we just cut away then cause there's nothing to look at

[@CloudJLaw]

16:32 They were doing a draft.

[@Fantomex.]

Love watching maple react to things

[@rask004]

Bring a box of tissues for the next episode, you will need it

[@darkceptor44]

no one: people in the comments: fun fact... jokes apart i do love these facts, keep them up!

[@ozimakistvan]

Half of those miners did not live to see their 40th birthday... and sadly they died for almost nothing.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

Nothing? Protecting the Pripyat and Dneiper watershed from being poisoned by heavy radioactive metals from a meltdown saved millions of people. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnieper#/media/File%3ADnipro_Basin_River_Town_International.png

[@airsoftsniperm40a33]

They didn't die for nothing. That heat exchanger is still working, preventing the end of Europe and Asia. They were true heroes

[@ozimakistvan]

@@airsoftsniperm40a33 Kedves Sándor! Nem tudom honnan van az infó, hogy a hőcserélő a mai napig működik, de nagyon érdekes! Ugyanis sosem készült el... helyette az egészet feltöltötték betonnal. De látom már van egy likeolója is, a hülyeség ragadós. Nézzen utána! István

[@ozimakistvan]

@@airsoftsniperm40a33 Annyi az igaz belőle, hogy a betonban vannak csövek. Ennyi. Sosem voltak használva, mert a magma nem érte el az alsó padozatot. Még előtte lehűlt és megszilárdult ("elefántláb" pl.).

[@ozimakistvan]

@@airsoftsniperm40a33 Nem véletlenül nem láttuk a filmben, hogy mi történt a kivályt "lyukkal".

[@maksphoto78]

It's horrible how acute radiation sickness destroys your body. You can feel better for a while, walking around, joking, smoking, etc, but the DNA gamage is progressing, and soon later your body just disintegrates, your skin burns and dies.

[@ciaranconlon84]

Every time one of your vids shows up on my feed the closed captioning always says "Welcome back to diet Jesus..." KZbin thinks you're marketing a religion aimed at people who only step foot in a church on Christmas, Weddings and Funerals!

[@MapleDivine]

😈

[@Poss1]

Ah. It's always a pleasure to see you. Thanks! Things are getting complicated. See you later!

[@MapleDivine]

Same to you my friend!

[@andydoesntknow]

I'm in full support of Patreon exclusive content. Y'all need to get paid and your direct supporters deserve bonus content and exclusive reactions. This half on YT and half on Patreon thing though, I'm not a fan of. The reactions to the first 3 episodes were great, but with no resolution to this series coming to YT, I really wish I hadn't spent my time on these videos. If this is the way going forward, please give a heads up at the start. Just of bit of feedback from a viewer who's most likely in the minority.

[@Diegesis]

it's not patreon exclusive. I was just letting you know the rest of the episodes are already on Patreon. we've brought it up every episode so people know they dont have to wait if they dont want to

[@Iymarra]

It appears that the others are coming to YT after a period of being on patreon.

[@MapleDivine]

Yeah it takes Chad a lot of time to edit everything movies we watch this show and then Ariana’s video so we just upload right away to pateron. If not you’ll just get the edited version when Chad is done on YT. It’s not exclusive it’s just available immediately for those who aren’t wanting to wait!

[@andydoesntknow]

Ah. I misunderstood and feel a bit foolish. I'm sorry y'all for making assumptions. Carry on. :)

[@bushhhyy]

KGButthole is wild lmaooo

[@Zilch.0]

What's the name of the outro music used?

[@Diegesis]

Ruthless - Dated

[@Zilch.0]

@@Diegesis Wow, that was quick. Thanks!

[@stern12akachris32]

America came close . Look up Three Mile Island

[@oneguyatthesametime]

Touching somebody with radiation poisoning will not harm you whatsoever.

[@Thunderchicken69]

Yes, reportedly before Akimov died most of his face fell off, including his entire lower jaw.

[@jimmygreer2140]

That KGB agent in the hospital is just the absolute worst. I realize that nearly the entire cast isn't Russian and have British accents. But his British accent is just SOOOOOOO over the top that it takes me out of the show. Also, this happened in the Ukraine. If I were in Europe I would be EXTREMELY worried that Russia is gonna fuck up and bomb the Chernobyl sarcophagus releasing all that radiation. Hell, they just had to redo it not that long ago cause it started failing sooner than expected.

[@musicmashup9597]

lol

[@floridabrn]

11:19 Ah, she has a thing for the dad bod. lol.

[@tahnadana5435]

generation kill is an awesome series to react to you know

[@icarus_falling]

That pregnant woman pissed me off something awful. What's worse is she's a real person and actually did this. Her stupidity led to the death of her baby. She did however have a son later on in life

[@CyberWar666]

It's easy to judge her with the benefit of hindsight, but consider that it was her beloved husband and nobody was telling her anything besides a vague warning to keep her distance. People don't think straight when they're worried out of their minds and are being kept in the dark. Unlike the scientists and doctors, Lyudmila is an average Soviet housewife who doesn't know much about radiation or the dangers it poses, and nobody cares to explain her anything or tell her what's wrong with her husband because of enforced secrecy. Can't really fault her for acting like a normal loving wife would, given the information available to her.

[@lucillebluth2616]

@@CyberWar666 exactly, prayers to her 🙏

[@jrepka01]

She was in town when the accident happened and for a day or so after. For all intents and purposes, that is where she got her primary radiation dose. I have to emphasize here that her husband was not radioactive at all and presented no danger to her or the baby. The series got this part wrong -- She presented a serious threat to him by being there, because he had no functioning immune system at the time. Filling graves with concrete was overkill, the bodies carried no significant radiation.

[@unseenentity326]

You should check out "The China Syndrome", another nuclear power plant movie.

[@marcballard9428]

Please do "Good boys" reaction....it's a comedy that will transport you back to early teen like you never could imagine lol

[@cendererol]

17:17 tells everything

[@lawrencegough]

The most depressing episode of the most depressing show ever made. Utter genius.

[@thebatman5852]

Nah you meant to say about Peaky Blinders

[@gene7887]

you clearly forgot about the next episode

[@lawrencegough]

@@gene7887 humans mean more to me than dogs. Unpopular opinion I know.

[@lawrencegough]

@@thebatman5852 only watched a few episodes, didn't grab me.

[@Diegesis]

The Peaky Blinders is my all time favorite show but I would never say it's more depressing than this show. On the other hand I would argue that Episode four is more depressing than episode 3 and for more than one reason.

[@eraldorh]

I have to wonder why they didnt give alot of these poor guys bullets instead of leaving them to suffer so horrifically given that they knew the end result. I know id choose the bullet.

[@toolthoughts]

a spirit box when you're ghost hunting?

[@IsdudeMe]

Next episode is gonna be so rough

[@petrutmarcu9450]

Thumbnail says ep 2.

[@Diegesis]

Thanks

[@Archie2c]

Maple Girl Make sure you got Tissues for Part 4

[@JenyaIsJustChilling]

she wasted all her tissues watching dingdongs

[@markkettlewell7441]

I was your age when this happened lady 😢

[@Muhle2]

Any reason as to why the rest of the episodes will be on Patreon?

[@Diegesis]

I mean the rest are already on patreon as full reactions. If you don't wanna wait

[@Muhle2]

@@Diegesis I was just curious that's all

[@Diegesis]

I hope I cleared up the confusion

[@Andreaskentorp]

Are the other episodes not going on youtube? :(

[@Diegesis]

they are. they're just already on patreon. we arent watching week to week, she's already seen it all

[@utalomAlibbantakat]

KGB new name fsb..i think

[@joshuacampbell7493]

Are you guys going to watch Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse or No Way Home or what ?

[@MapleDivine]

Eventually!!! We have been working on a lot of things

[@neilbrideau8520]

Diet Jesus needs moar Chernobyl .

[@markkettlewell7441]

She is pregnant

[@stenspeed1]

No touching is bullshit

[@sld1776]

"If this things work, you'd be wearing them..." annoys me. Maybe they are imprudent, staying mostly indoors, whatever.

[@davebcf1231]

Staying indoors means nothing unless the walls are made of lead or several feet of concrete. Not sure why his accurate observation annoys you