r/ChernobylTV May 06 '19

Chernobyl - Episode 1 '1:23:45' - Discussion Thread

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u/fscottfitzgayerald Aleksandr Akimov May 07 '19

Oh, god. I forget his name, but that poor man instructed to climb to the roof and peer into the reactor—that broke my heart. From that moment on he knew he was going to die a painful death. I cannot imagine what that must have felt like.

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u/PreviousArmadillo May 08 '19

Do you guys know if this actually happened to a real guy, or was it fictionalized? god i hope it was just for the show...

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u/WikiTextBot May 08 '19

Individual involvement in the Chernobyl disaster

The Chernobyl disaster, (Ukrainian: Чорнобильська катастрофа) Chornobylʹsʹka katastrofa, was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (then part of the Soviet Union), now in Ukraine. The following is the individual involvement in the accident.

Most of the information here is based on Grigoriy Medvedev's work.In the night from 25 to 26 April in the two power plant complexes, there were 160 people on duty, including technicians and maintenance personnel of the various departments. Three hundred more workers were present at the building site of the third complex of the blocks 5 and 6.


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