Chernobyl Episode 1 Reaction | 1:23:45

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  @SolidSnake8295 · 1 year ago

  Game of Thrones: you can’t have a great season with 6 episodes or less.<br><br>Chernobyl: hold my graphite.

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• AL

  @AL-fl4jk · 1 year ago

  “It’s our moment to shine”<br>“Because you’re irradiated”<br>ANGE 😂

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• KS

  @ksbsnowowl3569 · 1 year ago

  “It could be three times that.”<br><br>Understatement of the century. 🤣

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• JA

  @jasonmarbach · 1 year ago

  &quot;You stop communication. That&apos;s how you stop misinformation, right?&quot;<br><br>Ah yes, the Soviet way. In Soviet Russia, Information Misses You!

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• CL

  @clairealderwood1928 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I was an young environmental scientist when Chernobyl occurred. I now work with a Ukrainian who is angry to this day that they were not told and were led to participate in May Day parades rather than to shelter indoors. This series is well worth the journey if only to learn the history.

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• OR

  @orvilleredenpiller338 · 1 year ago

  &quot;It doesn&apos;t look the right color.&quot; Cherentov Radiation. Nothing goes faster than the speed of light IN A VACUUM. But some things can go faster that how fast light moves through a medium. When that happens it&apos;s similar to a sonic boom, but for light. It gives off a very distinct blue glow.

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• DA

  @DaveF. · 1 year ago

  On the &apos;use the good meter from the safe&apos; line. &nbsp;They&apos;re using &apos;bad&apos; meters - they&apos;re using meters that were designed for normal situations. &nbsp;Like a thermometer you&apos;d use to check someone&apos;s body temperature - it&apos;s not good for cooking because it doesn&apos;t go up high enough. &nbsp;They&apos;re in an impossible situation - one that no-one would have thought could be remotely possible.

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• SH

  @shihonage · 1 year ago

  The reason they were so poorly prepared for emergency, is because life in my former Soviet homeland was EXTREMELY SCARCE. Our hospitals were basically rooms without monitoring equipment, we had no toilet paper outside the 2 big cities, ambulances took 3+ hours to arrive. &nbsp;Everyone from kids to adults had their teeth drilled w/o anesthetics their whole life. Some surgeries were performed without anesthetics, too - they&apos;d strap you to a board.<br><br>Systemic scarcity was the norm, ranging from clothes to medicine to spare parts for your old television. They told us the USSR was the light of civilization and the way of the future. We thought the whole world lived like us.

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• TH

  @theelkrider · 1 year ago (edited)

  I was 20 when Chernobyl happened. The USSR tried to keep it under wraps (as if that was possible), but the Forsmark NPP in Sweden registered radioactivity on their grounds without finding any leak. After checking the wind patterns, it was clear that something had gone sour southeast of Sweden.<br><br>As an aside, at the time there was an experimental reactor in Hamm-Uentrop, Germany, with a thorium-cycle high temperature pebble bed core. They had a problem just a week after the Chernobyl incident, and to cover it up alert devices were disabled to vent radioactive aerosols to the environment without being detected, then blaming the increased readings nearby on the fallout from Chernobyl. This came to light when an isotope analysis revealed that the stuff outside the Hamm reactor couldn&apos;t have come from Chernobyl.

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• SH

  @shihonage · 1 year ago

  I grew up in adjacent Moldavia, and was 9 years old when this happened. Remember seeing the announcement on our TV, it lasted 15 seconds. My mother has thyroid issues now. Identical to my classmates&apos; mother, who had to have surgery. Curious how that works.<br><br>They actually sent my dad, a reservist, to clean up Chernobyl. He arrived to the staging site, where people were putting on the ineffective crappy masks, and the commander said to him, &quot;Wait, you have a child. Go home.&quot;

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• DA

  @DanielAura · 1 year ago

  Her comments and her getting angry at their incompetence while looking into the camera is so hilarious. I went through the same disbelief and anger when watching this show for the first time 🤣

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• AN

  @andromidius · 1 year ago

  I never get tired of this show. &nbsp;Its a masterpiece of true horror.

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