Chernobyl 2019 S1 E1 Explosion scene 1:23:45 HBO

The Show Chernobyl from HBO who recreated the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant wich caused people to die evacuate and much worse

[brianmarin]

“Do you taste metal?”

Such a small line spoken so quickly but one of the most terrifying lines ever.

[Plathismo]

I love how Dyatlov sees the graphite chunks with his own eyes, and yet still keeps telling everyone the core didn't explode.

[AxeDharme]

I love how they stayed true to science here. First the light, then the sound

[sethraelthebard]

The decision to put the explosion in the distance of the first episode was genius! We see the initial explosion where the lid was blasted off the reactor, and then the second, larger explosion which ruptured the building and exposed the core. Brilliant work which started the journey that would take us to the climactic moment in episode 5.

[carljohnson]

The final reading was 33.000 megawatts, but some people estimate that the power went 10 TIMES higher than that. If this is true, reactor 4 produced enough electricity to illuminate the entire continent.

[jon-umber]

One of those series where everything comes together. Excellent writing, fantastic performances, pitch-perfect pacing and editing. Even the sound editing is utterly superb. All of it contributes to the atmosphere that makes the first episode utterly engrossing. It's so dreadful it feels more like a horror series than a disaster series.

[soarinskies]

I mean when you have watched this series and you know the real life accounts of Dyatlov, it is safe to say that Dyatlov did see graphite outside of the reactor core, he just tried to convince himself the whole time that he didn’t because he knew what graphite chunks outside of the core meant, and what horrors such an event would bring.

[evancraft]

I love the little addition of the noise of whistling bombs in Dyatlov's POV. I bet that was the first thing he thought of.

[brinsonharris]

That core really tied the reactor together.

[RideAcrossTheRiver]

"That's graphite down there, so it can't be graphite."

[thomthumbe]

Chernobyl was a massive steam explosion, scattering remaining fuel….but worse was that it also scattered stored-up fission products like proverbial “shit hitting the fan”. Most of which are horribly radioactive, some for seconds or fractions of a second all the way to many thousands of years. It is the short, or half-lived gunk that is the worst to deal with. Products with half-life lasting thousands of years….wear a mask and you’ll be fine. Through all this, I’ve often wondered: How long after the initial explosion did the neutron flux cease to create daughter products? Immediately or could some neutron flux have kept going in the scattered fuel for seconds, minutes, an hour or so? Could some fuel have been “splattered” on a hunk of graphite that could have kept some weird fissioning results going, thus creating non-normal or weird daughter products? Could there have been some residual neutron flux that was a danger to still-living workers at the power plant? Neutrons don’t travel too far, so their danger would have been limited close in to the reactor.

[death_parade]

This line "RBMK reactor cores don't explode" is what most people tell me when I try to explain to them why its physically impossible for the new Indian 3+ Generation reactor (IPHWR-700) to explode. They just say "yeah that is what they also said about the Chernobyl reactor before it exploded". Looks like they went to sleep when the show explained what a void coefficient is in episode 5.

[CFLsurfr]

To be fair, if this explosion is anywhere near the actual explosion, a containment building wouldn't have helped at all. It would have probably collapsed entirely and killed even more of the workers.

[nathanrobinson]

Imagine looking out your window and seeing the thing which is going to kill you - and you don't even know it. Horrifying.

[ShadoCroc]

"There's no core!" and "Do you taste metal?" are always bone chilling.

[bend]

Great scene. Seeing the actual explosion and then hearing the blast a second later.

[OfficerFlatFoot]

3:30 it was at that moment he knew he f*cked up

[SpecialistAim]

1:25 because this is supposed to emulate deafness, because of how loud the explosion was

[JdTV]

When you turn 40 (the age I was when the series came out) the element of surprise becomes very rare while watching tv series or films. And yet, the explosion seen and felt through the window shook me enormously when I first saw it, and still shakes me today.

[kaycey]

In reality dyatlov was the one who acknowledged the core might be exposed.
The movie needed a a villain character. He even volunteered to go as first response team to the damage location. He was allowed. By the time he can he was vomiting and had radiation sickness.