Chernobyl miniseries - coming to Sky and HBO in May 2019

Gee · 21 May 2019 at 22:53

arc@css said:
Is this on Prime?

Sky Atlantic

azazl187 · 21 May 2019 at 22:57

Donnie Fisher said:
So has azazl187 said whether he's watched it yet ?

Not yet. My bro seems to think it's worth a watch as well.

Maybe I'll wait for them all and binge them?

arc@css · 22 May 2019 at 00:06

Gee said:
Sky Atlantic

Ok, ta. I'll have to wait it out.

Dougsnake · 22 May 2019 at 00:41

EVH said:
Episode 3 is one of the best of any tv show.

The miners gave me a chuckle

Glad it wasn't just me then, not sure if it was intentional I know on the whole its not a funny scenario but twice I laughed out loud at them

Rest of the episode was pretty grim so glad for the few seconds of relief.....

Vexr · 22 May 2019 at 06:26

Muska said:
You can just subscribe to NowTV for a month and you'll be able to watch them

Good idea. Might also work to help wean me off Sky rather than going cold turkey, cheers

Malevolence · 22 May 2019 at 06:44

Jesus, the scenes in the Moscow hospital were somewhat grim.

molinari · 22 May 2019 at 08:44

Really enjoying this series, it's a fascinating story and the cast is great.
Those hospital scenes were grim, in their position you'd be begging for mercy from someone with a gun.

something daft already!! · 22 May 2019 at 08:59

I was eating my tea when I first put it on, I quickly chose to watch something else while I ate. Fantastic episode.

Junglist · 22 May 2019 at 09:51

EVH said:
Episode 3 is one of the best of any tv show.

The miners gave me a chuckle

Yeah I really liked them. You could not pool the wool over their eyes at all, he knew what was up from the get go. That "I don't know" really annoyed me though. Both my girlfriend and I let out some foul language when we saw the hospital scenes. Both for not listening and for how grim it all looked.

Brilliant show so far

gettothechopper · 22 May 2019 at 12:12

watched the first episode last night

wow this is a special program - really. really good

The horror of seeing those people exposing themselves so fatally, the firefighter with the graphite, the guy holding the door open, the guys looking at the exposed core, terrifying stuff

physichull · 22 May 2019 at 12:35

azazl187 said:
Not yet. My bro seems to think it's worth a watch as well.

Maybe I'll wait for them all and binge them?

Not sure its a show I could binge watch, its just so desperately grim! You need to watch a Disney film after each episode to cheer up.

elmuzzy66. · 22 May 2019 at 12:43

Love the way they finish the episodes. Especially 2.

azazl187 · 22 May 2019 at 13:28

physichull said:
Not sure its a show I could binge watch, its just so desperately grim! You need to watch a Disney film after each episode to cheer up.

Sounds like a challenge to me

V_R · 22 May 2019 at 13:29

If I could wait I'd binge it, I hate waiting a week between episodes!

cu3ed · 22 May 2019 at 16:18

It is only 4 episodes though right?

Makeup poeple deserve an award for the 3rd show, I figured they would have to show the reality of what it did to them. And to think that still just what they can show on tv.

The Miners getting royaly shafted as well.

The frustration in the main character is so well done, everyone watching feels as annoyed.

Im not sure I get the relevance of the safety switch thing not working. Does that elude that there is a inherent design fault or something?

V_R · 22 May 2019 at 16:21

5 episodes, 2 left.

cu3ed · 22 May 2019 at 16:21

Ohh that even better then.

smr · 22 May 2019 at 16:21

my stomach felt a bit off watching yesterday's ep

smr · 22 May 2019 at 16:22

cu3ed said:
It is only 4 episodes though right?

Makeup poeple deserve an award for the 3rd show, I figured they would have to show the reality of what it did to them. And to think that still just what they can show on tv.

The Miners getting royaly shafted as well.

The frustration in the main character is so well done, everyone watching feels as annoyed.

Im not sure I get the relevance of the safety switch thing not working. Does that elude that there is a inherent design fault or something?

allude. I'm not sure on the answer to your question though.

V_R · 22 May 2019 at 16:29

cu3ed said:
Im not sure I get the relevance of the safety switch thing not working. Does that elude that there is a inherent design fault or something?

This explains it well.

http://www.chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/cause/

At 1:23:40, as recorded by the SKALA centralised control system, an emergency shutdown of the reactor, which inadvertently triggered the explosion, was initiated. The SCRAM was started when the EPS-5 button (also known as the AZ-5 button) of the reactor emergency protection system was pressed: this fully inserted all control rods, including the manual control rods that had been withdrawn earlier. The reason why the EPS-5 button was pressed may never be known, whether it was done as an emergency measure or simply as a routine method of shutting down the reactor upon completion of the experiment.

There is a view that the SCRAM may have been ordered as a response to the unexpected rapid power increase, although there is no recorded data conclusively proving this. Some have suggested that the button was not pressed, and instead the signal was automatically produced by the emergency protection system; however, the SKALA clearly registered a manual SCRAM signal. In spite of this, the question as to when or even whether the EPS-5 button was pressed has been the subject of debate. There are assertions that the pressure was caused by the rapid power acceleration at the start, and allegations that the button was not pressed until the reactor began to self-destruct but others assert that it happened earlier and in calm conditions.

After the EPS-5 button was pressed, the insertion of control rods into the reactor core began. The control rod insertion mechanism moved the rods at 0.4 m/s, so that the rods took 18 to 20 seconds to travel the full height of the core, about 7 meters. A bigger problem was a flawed graphite-tip control rod design, which initially displaced coolant before inserting neutron-absorbing material to slow the reaction. As a result, the SCRAM actually increased the reaction rate in the lower half of the core.

A few seconds after the start of the SCRAM, a massive power spike occurred, the core overheated, and seconds later this overheating resulted in the initial explosion. Some of the fuel rods fractured, blocking the control rod columns and causing the control rods to become stuck at one-third insertion. Within three seconds the reactor output rose above 530 MW.