You who would be socialists....watch Chernobyl

HBO has produced a brilliant, grim, believable account of this event....demonstrating just how expendable people were when the ideology was threatened. Government workers are protected if they support the party position.....under capitalism, executives would have been sued and spent many years in prison. But whatever you believe this is must see material......imagine yourself deep underground in a chamber filled with radioactive water, and then your torch is extinguished by the radiation, you can see nothing, but you can hear the geiger counter.

9m,m .6/10 11,156 Chernobyl  TV-MA | 1h 4min | Drama, History | TV Mini-Series (2019) Episode Guide 5 episodes 2:28 | Trailer 12 VIDEOS | 22 IMAGES In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. Creator: Craig Mazin Stars: Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Jessie Buckley | See full cast & crew » Reviews 184 user | 14 critic Popularity 4 ( 84)

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Series cast summary: Jared Harris ...  Valery Legasov 5 episodes, 2019 Stellan Skarsgård ...  Boris Shcherbina 5 episodes, 2019 Jessie Buckley ...  Lyudmilla Ignatenko 5 episodes, 2019 Adam Nagaitis ...  Vasily Ignatenko 5 episodes, 2019 Con O'Neill ...  Bryukhanov 5 episodes, 2019 Sam Troughton ...  Akimov 5 episodes, 2019 Robert Emms ...  Leonid Toptunov 5 episodes, 2019 Adrian Rawlins ...  Fomin 5 episodes, 2019 Emily Watson ...  Ulana Khomyuk 4 episodes, 2019 Paul Ritter ...  Anatoly Dyatlov 4 episodes, 2019 Karl Davies ...  Viktor Proskuryakov 3 episodes, 2019 David Dencik ...  Michail Gorbatchev 3 episodes, 2019 Barry Keoghan ...  Pavel 3 episodes, 2019 Nadia Clifford ...  Dr. Svetlana Zinchenko 2 episodes, 2019 Ron Cook ...  Old Maternity Doctor 2 episodes, 2019 Laura Elphinstone ...  Oksana 2 episodes, 2019 Michael Socha ...  Mikhail 2 episodes, 2019 Jan Ricica ...  Oksana's Kid 2 episodes, 2019 Donald Sumpter ...  Zharkov 2 episodes, 2019 Joshua Leese ...  Igor Kirschenbaum 2 episodes, 2019 Tomas Zaibus ...  Policeman / ... 2 episodes, 2019 Baltasar Breki Samper ...  Ananenko 2 episodes, 2019 Oscar Dyekjær Giese ...  Baranov 2 episodes, 2019 See full cast » Edit

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In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes.

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Country: USA | UK Language: English Release Date: 6 May 2019 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Chernobyl See more » Filming Locations: Vilnius, Lithuania See more »

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  So far looks excellent 8 May 2019 | by Lladerat – See all my reviews

Im ukrainian, born in 1988 and still live here. I want to give the authors of this show a big thumbs up for the whole set they have made. Every little detail of the buildings, flats, uniforms, clothes, cars, especially big thumbs up for ambulance "RAFiks" (RAF-2203), almost everything is 99% identical to the real things of the time, just a few mistakes on some signs that have been written in a mix of russian\ukrainian and some other unknown language, but it all doesnt matter, because what i have seen previously in other movies about soviets were so bad that its not even comparable to this. The other thing is this "comrade" word that almost everyone throws while calling or shouting at someone, its just one of those stereotypes thats still left in western world, in reality no one in an everyday life talked like that, especially not in Ukraine in 1986, it was mainly used in 'official' language in meetings and media, people just talked like you and i would today. Apart from this two small inaccuracies i am shocked at the level of production of this show, it is very good, no one outside of Ukraine has ever made a good tv series about Chernobyl before, i have a weird feeling it was made by someone from USSR, because there was zero moments where i cringed watching it. It was mostly "spot on", "spot on", "wow, spot on". Can't wait for the next episode!!!

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It's not the event I'm referencing, it's the failure of officials to protect people first....criminally rampant in Chernobyl. In Japan they evacuated quickly. But there is still the lasting contamination as you point out Chabal. As for nuclear plants, clearly never in Japan or any seismically active region. But we will come back to nuclear and not with 70year old technology. Think about how much better cars are today. Here's a sample of the thinking: ................... Transatomic's reactor is also designed to automatically shut down during a power outage, with fuel draining into an escape tank and freezing solid, avoiding the kind of meltdown that has made more traditional nuclear power plant development abhorrent to power companies, alternative-energy proponets, environmentalists, and policymakers, many of whom remain alarmed by the prospect of more nuclear power. But Transatomic also offers a solution to the problem of where to store spent nuclear fuel, which has long vexed scientists. Typical nuclear reactors consume only a fraction of the energy in their uranium fuel, which has lead to vast amounts of spent radioactive fuel rods. Transatomic's molten salt reactors would use that spent waste. “The world’s stockpile of nuclear waste is about 300,000 metric tons, about a football field’s worth that’s two meters deep,’’ Dewan says. “There’s a tremendous amount of energy that’s left. With that waste, a waste-consuming molten salt reactor could produce enough electrical energy to power the world for decades.” She calls herself an environmentalist at heart: “I think I can save the world with nuclear power." ............. Very sorry about your friend's daughter Chabal....sad.