Chernobyl

[tiggerblue10]

Has anyone else been watching this?

I'm finding it very hard to watch but it's very powerful and moving. It's like real life horror and it brings home the horrific circumstances these people faced when the disaster happened and also the impact felt afterwards.

I'm sure there are many inaccuracies but it is a dramatisation and you have to allow for some poetic licence.

[anneasquith]

Thank you bagpuss, I’m pleased to know it is * accurate *

[tiggerblue10]

Do you know about other nuclear power plants around the world, BagPuss? Are they all safe and regulated by a global governing body?

[Peter Pedant]

sky atlantic
so it will be on terrestrial for us poor folk

I lived thro it - and have a clear if inaccurate memory
starting from day 1 ( in the Norf ) when Windscale closed down automatically and they couldnt work out why ( all nuclear stuff in UK accounted for)

Armand Hammer ( v v rich American paid for the personnel to have bone marrow transplants - it didnt work, they all died from delayed radiation sickness ...). In the clear up - some bodies were so radioactive they couldnt be handled - 2500 rads for a head alone, and this caused grief for the survivors.....

and there was a lot of - oh you shouldnt have done that...
well we did and that is why we in the poo.....

[Peter Pedant]

yes they are saf-ish

Fukushima was built in a flood zone - and then when the flood shorted out all the leccy, and it kinda exploded, people who were paid to know better said:
o, that wasnt meant to happen!

and it turned out they had never modelled what a flood would do.

[ Happened in the York flooding when the water pumps to keep the floods out were physically below the water table so the water rose and shorted out the pumps ....and the sluice shorted out 'open']

and no there is no international control
they are all national - UK is UKAEA innit?

[maggiebee]

PP - slightly off OP - were you dropped on your head as a baby? Your attempts at humour are, well, lets just say they are not funny.

[Tilly2]

I watched a news clip on BBC or Yahoo this morning, which was reporting on the clearing up the aftermath of a nuclear reactor explosion somewhere in Japan. It was really interesting but I can't find it now. :-(

[Peter Pedant]

// PP - slightly off OP - were you dropped on your head as a baby? Your attempts at humour are, well, lets just say they are not funny.//

dont worry maggie - be as off colour as you like, and hey
I laugh alot at your posts as well

[Peter Pedant]

er it was Fukushima
forbidden area - 10th anniversary I think

and people are being let back slowly - altho the way the Geiger counter was buzzing in the tv piece, I am not sure if I would go willingly

[ichkeria]

Some people never left :-)
There’s an old woman lived in the forest relatively close by: she was interviewed in the recent BBC documentary.
The Sky production is scrupulously accurate according to existing records.
There was a lot of misinformation and inaccuracy flying around at the time some of which became accepted fact.

[Peter Pedant]

when it comes to events in Russia
what is truth ?

[Tilly2]

Can anyone find the report I watched?

[BagPussAA]

tiggerblue10. I do know a bit about othre nuclear power plants around the world. Ive studied the accidents more than the industry as a whole. They are no less safe than other power plants and are inspected by the nuclear governing body for each country rather than a global one. However, to put your mind at ease, it is good to know that the UKs worst disaster was the fire at Windscale in 1957 was our worst disaster which although we had the release of uranium into the atmosphere, there was no lasting damage and it was ranked as a 5 out of 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. There have only been two 7 out of 7 disasters which were Chernobyl and Fukushima and one 6 out of 7 which was an accident at Kyshtym which is also in the Soviet Union in 1957.

Although there are small accidents that happen at the plants, there are usually no lasting effects.

[Peter Pedant]

sky atlantic
had very good reviews - todays timesesh spek Fransh

zay aff no Roshan arx- ents
apparently they tried the awful eastern european - "I spik like zee Anglesh spek Fransh..."
and thought no no no

and so everyone speaks London English. Saleable apparently - serious drayma in the rest of the world, the actors cant have an american, Princess Meghan Suits accent

if they do - they wont buy .... and it is not taken seriously
oo-er Mrs ! socio-linguists will have a field day on that

[ichkeria]

That was the one thing that I found odd, tho probably unavoidable.
They did use actual Soviet radio broadcasts from the time which added a bit of “local colour”

[Lizruns]

Me and my hubby have started watching it on Sky, Only on the 3rd Episode buts its very sad and scary, it make me cry in some parts.. I am hooked..