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i’ve been watching that too, but very slowly!! I have to watch each episode or 2 spaced out with at least a week between and i have to watch it in the afternoon. i don’t know why i started it because it’s so scary but it’s so good i can’t stop watching LOL
I’m also obsessed with mike schur sitcoms, i’ve watched the office and parks and rec, and i’m almost done with the good place. I’m also on season 3 of brooklyn nine-nine, which is OBSESSED with. I could literally watch it all day (but my parents won’t let me lol. We watch a couple episodes at night and we’ve been alternating the good place, which i don’t like as much, and b99 weekly. hmph)
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I watched a documentary the other night that really got me. Return To Chernobyl. April 26th was 35 years since the disaster.
It was all interviews with people who were there when the nuclear reactor exploded. Emergency services personnel, residents who were children at the time, military and power station staff.
Those who were there, either living near to the reactor or working there or in the aftermath were only told that it was a fire for weeks.
Over 600,000 people were drafted in to fight the "fire" and make it safe, around 95% have since died of related illness. Those who were interviewed were terminally ill.
One man who was a commander in the fire service had a horrifying experience, one that even now reduces him to tears, he has not slept well since cos he sees what happened everytime he closes his eyes.
He was ordered to attend the fire, so he and three other fire engines went to the power station, he had been told to find another three fire engines already there but who were not responding to radio calls. He and his team arrived, puddles of water glowing yellow all around....he walked to the three other fire engines already there, all the firefighters were dead, their skin bubbled and hanging off.
A then junior doctor working at a local hospital was interviewed, she explained that on the day streams of people came in to casualty, badly burned but that the burns looked different, the hospital asked authorities what had happened, was told just a big fire, nothing to worry about. The first night after the explosion she and her colleagues carried out over 40 abortions due to pregnent women all arriving, at various stages of pregnancy, saying they watched the explosion and were now feeling ill and their babies had stopped moving. The unborn babies were most at risk of radiation, they had all died in a matter of hours.
The power station designer and security officers explained that the helicopters were needed to spread soil onver the exposed reactor cos the firefighters had been spraying it with water and that had the water reached the graphite rods the whole of the Ukraine would have been wiped off the map....but at the time no-one told the firefighters to stop putting water onto what they still were being told that it was "just a bad fire".
One firefighter unaware of the dangers took his wife to see the burnt out remains of the reactor, he is terminally ill now, his wife died of a brain tumour a year after he took her to see the reactor from a "safe" distance.
Firefighters could only work 20 minute shifts before being replaced due to radiation, but they were not told that it was radiation, they were told that it was a "precaution". They handled radioactive materials with bare hands for days and days....no-one told them not to.
A woman, Oksana, who had been 12 years old at the time explained that she had gone to school as normal, no-one said anything even though they knew something was wrong, no-one said what it was. They were told to pack a light bag as they had to leave for 4 days to allow a clean up crew in to sort the wreckage out. They weren't told not to go watch the firefighters......and as kids, they did just that, they went to watch. The woman's sister died of leukaemia, her own children have birth defects.....but no-one warned them.
Those who lived nearby, who fought the fires and subsequently encased the reactor in the months after the explosion are true heroes. They literally saved the world and yet they are largely forgotten. Most died within the first 5 years after the explosion, those who are left will not see this year out......but they have never received any recognition, no apologies for sending them into what was a death trap....all who were there and all who came after are classed as accident victims but none get extra financial help. The footage from the time, much not seen before, was harrowing, the injuries, the way they worked all hours to save lives whilst giving their own life.
Much has been said about Chernobyl but that film brought it home just how much the world did not know. It was horrific....from one man's point of view...."we were called bio-robots, we meant nothing to them then and we still mean nothing now, but even if we had known the truth about what had happened, we would still have done what we did as that was our duty and none of us would have walked away, how could we have done?"
Heroes....every single one of them.
It was all interviews with people who were there when the nuclear reactor exploded. Emergency services personnel, residents who were children at the time, military and power station staff.
Those who were there, either living near to the reactor or working there or in the aftermath were only told that it was a fire for weeks.
Over 600,000 people were drafted in to fight the "fire" and make it safe, around 95% have since died of related illness. Those who were interviewed were terminally ill.
One man who was a commander in the fire service had a horrifying experience, one that even now reduces him to tears, he has not slept well since cos he sees what happened everytime he closes his eyes.
He was ordered to attend the fire, so he and three other fire engines went to the power station, he had been told to find another three fire engines already there but who were not responding to radio calls. He and his team arrived, puddles of water glowing yellow all around....he walked to the three other fire engines already there, all the firefighters were dead, their skin bubbled and hanging off.
A then junior doctor working at a local hospital was interviewed, she explained that on the day streams of people came in to casualty, badly burned but that the burns looked different, the hospital asked authorities what had happened, was told just a big fire, nothing to worry about. The first night after the explosion she and her colleagues carried out over 40 abortions due to pregnent women all arriving, at various stages of pregnancy, saying they watched the explosion and were now feeling ill and their babies had stopped moving. The unborn babies were most at risk of radiation, they had all died in a matter of hours.
The power station designer and security officers explained that the helicopters were needed to spread soil onver the exposed reactor cos the firefighters had been spraying it with water and that had the water reached the graphite rods the whole of the Ukraine would have been wiped off the map....but at the time no-one told the firefighters to stop putting water onto what they still were being told that it was "just a bad fire".
One firefighter unaware of the dangers took his wife to see the burnt out remains of the reactor, he is terminally ill now, his wife died of a brain tumour a year after he took her to see the reactor from a "safe" distance.
Firefighters could only work 20 minute shifts before being replaced due to radiation, but they were not told that it was radiation, they were told that it was a "precaution". They handled radioactive materials with bare hands for days and days....no-one told them not to.
A woman, Oksana, who had been 12 years old at the time explained that she had gone to school as normal, no-one said anything even though they knew something was wrong, no-one said what it was. They were told to pack a light bag as they had to leave for 4 days to allow a clean up crew in to sort the wreckage out. They weren't told not to go watch the firefighters......and as kids, they did just that, they went to watch. The woman's sister died of leukaemia, her own children have birth defects.....but no-one warned them.
Those who lived nearby, who fought the fires and subsequently encased the reactor in the months after the explosion are true heroes. They literally saved the world and yet they are largely forgotten. Most died within the first 5 years after the explosion, those who are left will not see this year out......but they have never received any recognition, no apologies for sending them into what was a death trap....all who were there and all who came after are classed as accident victims but none get extra financial help. The footage from the time, much not seen before, was harrowing, the injuries, the way they worked all hours to save lives whilst giving their own life.
Much has been said about Chernobyl but that film brought it home just how much the world did not know. It was horrific....from one man's point of view...."we were called bio-robots, we meant nothing to them then and we still mean nothing now, but even if we had known the truth about what had happened, we would still have done what we did as that was our duty and none of us would have walked away, how could we have done?"
Heroes....every single one of them.
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It was very thought provoking, not least cos it was entirely from first hand. Alot was made of the world effect but so very little made of those who were actually there and how it has affected their lives and still affects them now 35 years later. Seeing grown men and women sob uncontrollably as they describe what happened.....utterly utterly devastating, and they have never received any recognition f what they did or how it has changed their lives forever.
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Yes, Pripyat is where most of those who were interviewed lived and worked. Its a beautiful city and footage from before the accident showed how happy a place it was too. Pripyat served as a future plan should any other large city need to be evacuated in years to come. It was quite an achievement to evacuate over 50k people in such a short time.
Tourists can visit the city now, although they do have to carry Geiger counters and have radiation patches. It is somewhere I would like to visit, especially now that the reactor is secured under its new casing. I don't think you can get a real feel for a place so devastated until you actually walk down the streets.
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Yes I actually saw an episode of river monsters that was filmed there too they're doing an ongoing scientific study of the flora and fauna and the radiations effects and in the wells catfish seems like I remember that the radiation didn't actually make it giant or grow bigger or faster it actually stunted it's growth
There are still people living in what were the suburbs of Pripyat, one is an elderly lady who refused to leave her home when the accident happened. She will happily talk to tourists and describe what happened but she absolutely will not leave despite the potential dangers.
Even Top Gear visited the city with Hammond, Clarkson and May doing a city car test to see if they would run out of fuel before reaching the city...Hammond did but the other two drove around it for quite a while before running dry.
The everlasting images of the city, to me at least, are the Ferris wheel and the remains of the reactor now encased in very shiny steel in the distance. The Ferris wheel especially brings it home I think.
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I don't have a TV, so all I watch I watch online. I also neither have Netflix, Sky or Amazon Prime. I also don't watch much TV anyway.
Right now I basically only watch the latest season of Taskmaster UK and a documentary series filmed at german zoos, showing behind the scenes material.
Right now I basically only watch the latest season of Taskmaster UK and a documentary series filmed at german zoos, showing behind the scenes material.
I have FreeSat, no subscription fee...I refuse to pay extra for things I can get for free.
I like watching "behind the scenes" type programmes too, zoo's are fascinating, my favourite is usually the CCTV that they have when one of their animals is due to give birth, extraordinary watching that happen
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