Posted on 06/12/2019 2:19:48 PM PDT by Steve1999
People chase bears away in Gatlinburg too.
There are several excellent Chernobyl documentaries out there, including one made by the Ukrainians, which comport very well with the story recounted in the mini series. Some of these are available on Amazon Prime or Netflix. The Russian ones are in Russian with English subtitles. Dyatlov comes off as an overbearing, arrogant ass who did not follow established protocols for the test in all of them. The Ukrainian one was made in the still operating reactor control room of Chernobyl Reactor #2 in 2005 and used actors who looked exactly like the original people. It was uncanny.
There were fictionalized characters in the mini-series such as the female physicist who did the interviews of the irradiated workers. If you had watched the after program “podcast” discussions of the producers, writers, and directors, you’d know she was a composite character of all the scientists who had investigated and did the interviews to keep the story simpler for filming. They discussed this completely and the reasons for it. . . Otherwise they would have expended too much screen time in portraying meetings and discussions. The KGB events that occurred to her did indeed occur to various investigators and the roadblocks put up by the state and KGB to uncovering the facts of the RBMK reactor that had been classified by the state had also been run into by the various team members when trying to discover why it happened.
The truest thing in the entire series was the typical Soviet joke:
What's as big as a house, burns 20 liters of fuel every hour, puts out a shitload of smoke and noise, and cuts an apple into three pieces?
A Soviet machine made to cut apples into four pieces.
“Safety Margin” is a nebulous concept for Russians. Look at their subs and spaceships.
CC
I watched the first season and yes it was naughty all the way around. Once they took a lot of the sex out it probably was less interesting to many.
Read some W.W. II history on what Stalin did to make his troops do what they did. Brutal is not even the word. Many millions were sued for cannon fodder and the troops had no choice but to go forward and die or die from behind.
Topless with a baseball bat?
No...
Actually, they have us beat in space travel accidents. NASA's pathetic bureaucrats are damned hard to beat!
But we have them down cold in nuclear capital ships and powerplants.
CC
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