CHERNOBYL | EP. 1-3 (ENG)
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Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama television miniseries that revolves around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed. “A breathtaking dramatization of the horrors and chaos following a nuclear power plant disaster.”

STARRING: Jared HARRIS, Stellan SKARSGÅRD, Emily WATSON, Paul RITTER(d)

EP 1: 1: 23: 45
EP. 2: Please Remain Calm
EP. 3: Open Wide, O Earth

EP. 4-5: https://odysee.com/@ReluctantMystic:7/CH3RnObYL_A3-5:9?r=HJUcLJph8S43kqKqrNkyR7pRRka9QDYn

SYNOPSIS:
EP 1. : ON APRIL 27, 1988, Valery Legasov finishes the recording of his memoirs on audio cassette and then he hangs himself. Two years and one minute earlier on April 26, 1986, at 1: 23: 45 a.m., reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explodes near Pripyat, Ukraine. Deputy Chief Engineer Anatoly Dyatlov dismisses the severity of the explosion, despite the fact that the core has exploded and is now exposed. Emergency services arrive, unaware of the danger posed by debris strewn from the explosion. Dyatlov meets with the Pripyat Executive Committee, who disregard the danger posed to the city and its inhabitants by forbidding evacuation and suspending communication to the outside world. Under Dyatlov's orders, Aleksandr Akimov and Leonid Toptunov manually open water valves to flood the damaged reactor, but in doing so are exposed to lethal radiation doses. Legasov is informed of what has happened and is ordered to Chernobyl to provide technical advice to the committee managing the response.

EP. 2: IN MINSK, Belarus seven hours following the explosion, nuclear physicist Ulana Khomyuk detects a spike in radiation levels but her concerns are ignored by local authorities. At Pripyat Hospital (now overloaded with patients suffering from ARS), Lyudmilla Ignatenko finds out that her husband, firefighter Vasily has been sent to Moscow as well as several other ARS patients. Mikhail Gorbachev is briefed by Legasov that the event in Chernobyl is much more serious than initially reported, and Legasov is sent there with Boris Shcherbina to ascertain the severity in person. Boris remains adamantly skeptical that Legasov is wrong, even when Legasov points out the distinctive streak of blue light emanating from the reactor, meaning that the reactor is exposed and radiation is entering the atmosphere. A dosimeter reading also proves Legasov correct, and the military is instructed to stop the fire with sand and boron. Khomyuk also arrives in Chernobyl to investigate the spike, and warns Legasov and Shcherbina that a disastrous steam explosion will occur if the core makes contact with the accumulated valve water. A group of volunteers successfully drain the water, but further dangers lie ahead.

EP. 3: THOUGH the basement is drained, a nuclear meltdown begins and threatens to leak into and contaminate the Pripyat and Dnieper rivers, the local water supply for 50 million people, plus crops and livestock. Coal miners from Tula are enlisted to dig a tunnel and install a heat exchanger directly underneath the plant. Meanwhile, Khomyuk is sent to a Moscow hospital, where she finds Dyatlov uncooperative but learns from the dying Toptunov and Akimov that the emergency shutdown initiated by Akimov triggered the explosion, a scenario deemed impossible. Lyudmilla bribes her way into the hospital to be with her husband and sees with her own eyes his deteriorating condition. Khomyuk witnesses Lyudmilla entering Vasily's isolated bed and making contact with him, and threatens to expose the hospital's negligence but is arrested by KGB agents who had been following her. Legasov arranges her release; he and Shcherbina report to the Committee their plans, which require the mass mobilization of liquidators for decontamination. Lyudmilla later watches her husband and several other deceased ARS victims lowered into a mass grave, sealed in a zinc casket and buried in concrete.

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“Brilliantly structured and anchored by great performances from Jared Harris, Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard, and more, “Chernobyl” is relentlessly bleak, but it has a remarkable cumulative power. I found each hour more impressive than the one before it, as Johan Renck’s complex, layered vision of an entire nation altered by a nuclear event becomes more and more devastating.” - Roger Ebert