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TommyGunn said: For that show at least, it's worth it. I thought it was quite good.
@kiho: I know where you're coming from, but I feel the show portrayed just about everyone but some of the politicians in a positive life. I'm not saying there isn't corruption in other countries, but you have to admit Russia has always been the type to attempt to admit nothing and bury everything.
The Soviet Union was initially quiet about the accident but very quickly became totally transparent and forthcoming about the accident. More so that any other country vis-a-vis a nuclear accident has up to that point. I refer you to the UK windscale disaster, which was covered up at the time for fear that the US would not continue joint nuclear weapons development. read more....
People were not threatened as portrayed in the series to do was was needed, people just did it, just like technicians at Browns Ferry entered the containment to manually operate valves because it was needed to prevent a massive meltdown. Just like the technicians at Windscale which fought the fire in the graphite core. Just like firefighters enter burning buildings to save trapped people. They all know it is dangerous, but they do it because it is there job.
The series tries too hard to create drama, when there was plenty of drama to be had without invoking literary license. Unlike what was portrayed in the series, no one was forced to remain in Pripyat, many people fled any way they could. Soviet army engineers even deployed a pontoon bridge to facilitate evacuation along the safest routes.
Three Mile Island at one point was less than 30 minutes away from a complete loss of coolant, which would have resulted in a hydrogen explosion that would have breached the secondary concrete containment. It was only luck that prevented such a disaster at Three Mile Island, it was a lack of luck that doomed Chernobyl. It was just one fateful choice that doomed Chernobyl and just one fateful choice that saved the day at Three Mile Island.
Kiho
about 3 years agoPeople were not threatened as portrayed in the series to do was was needed, people just did it, just like technicians at Browns Ferry entered the containment to manually operate valves because it was needed to prevent a massive meltdown. Just like the technicians at Windscale which fought the fire in the graphite core. Just like firefighters enter burning buildings to save trapped people. They all know it is dangerous, but they do it because it is there job.
The series tries too hard to create drama, when there was plenty of drama to be had without invoking literary license. Unlike what was portrayed in the series, no one was forced to remain in Pripyat, many people fled any way they could. Soviet army engineers even deployed a pontoon bridge to facilitate evacuation along the safest routes.
Three Mile Island at one point was less than 30 minutes away from a complete loss of coolant, which would have resulted in a hydrogen explosion that would have breached the secondary concrete containment. It was only luck that prevented such a disaster at Three Mile Island, it was a lack of luck that doomed Chernobyl. It was just one fateful choice that doomed Chernobyl and just one fateful choice that saved the day at Three Mile Island.