Now that I've finished watching the first two episodes, it's apparent as far as the Nuclear Power plants were concerned the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing. If it wasn't for a couple of scientist going way beyond their job title, all of Russia could of been lost and much of Europe. This is a really good and well done mini-series. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frazod:
I was in the Navy and my ship was in the Med at the time. I might well have gotten caught up in the fallout.
I was living in Germany at the time. I was very young and don't remember a thing but I was told people were pretty scared that fallout would hit the area [Reply]
Had the soviet higher ups had their way and just tried to cover it up, things would have went a lot differently. Holy hell, had they not got the tanks emptied, shit would have hit the fan.
Crazy to think how that part of the world would be right now. [Reply]
Listen to the accompanying podcast.
Lots of other insights.
One thing they keep bringing up is that why they didn't believe anyone who said it had exploded is because they didnt think it was even possible.
They had made it up in their minds it was something else and stuck to it. (Like Sau...some on this board about Hill)
The line "this has never happened on the planet before " is exactly what they were up against. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lprechaun:
Listen to the accompanying podcast.
Lots of other insights.
One thing they keep bringing up is that why they didn't believe anyone who said it had exploded is because they didnt think it was even possible.
They had made it up in their minds it was something else and stuck to it. (Like Sau...some on this board about Hill)
The line "this has never happened on the planet before " is exactly what they were up against.
That attitude helped in the Japan nuclear disaster. Lots of stuff happened that wasn't supposed to happen.This isn't possible? Remember Chernobyl. Okay, maybe its true. Helped with a faster response. Well it also happened in a Democracy that cared about its citizens more than bad publicity. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
That attitude helped in the Japan nuclear disaster. Lots of stuff happened that wasn't supposed to happen.This isn't possible? Remember Chernobyl. Okay, maybe its true. Helped with a faster response. Well it also happened in a Democracy that cared about its citizens more than bad publicity.
Agreed all around, but probably doesn't hurt that Japan might have about the most "self-sacrificing for the good of their fellow citizens/country" mentality of any population on earth. [Reply]
After watching episode 1, I was just sick about how all those people just died these horrible deaths, and how the town must've been completely abandoned. Got on the googles, and found out that most of the health scares were completely overblown, and that (like notorious said) they still ran part of the plant adjacent for years afterward. [Reply]
I don't have HBO. Let me know which number they are using for fatalities - 8, 40, 400, 11,000 or 44,000. They've all been used by different people with different agendas, and none are really accurate because all of them are counted within varying constraints of time and space that selectively ignore the real world.
Not including someone's death because they died one day after you stopped counting, or because they lived one kilometer farther away than you were looking, or just on the other side of a border, or because they committed suicide instead of going through the full course of acute radiation syndrome, or their death came from a radioisotope your chosen detection instrument didn't detect, or the inclusion of their deaths would make the numbers too high to be politically palatable, or discussing their deaths would prompt people to look further into things you'd rather they avoid are all just ways and excuses to fudge the numbers to be what you want them to be.
Even the 44,000 doesn't include people across the border in Belarus who sheared the contaminated sheep and handled their contaminated wool months after the accident. [Reply]
Yeah I listened to them explain their thinking. I personally on the other hand believe anything is possible and prepare for the worst.
The whole of the Russian people were as much maybe cocky ignorant as they were willing to sacrifice themselves under certain death. [Reply]
Soviet’s will never give up the true number of deaths.
The USSR lied to cover up so many things that I don’t 100% believe the 3 guys made it out alive. They could have died, and the commies pick another 3 loyal workers to create their living heroes.
I got a creepy nostalgic vibe from watching the past two weeks. Same with watching Stranger Things to some extent. The whole USSR thing both fascinated and terrified me as a 1980's midwestern youth. Watching Chernobyl made me think of this song.
