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You work too hard.
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-Where is everyone?
-Oh, they refused to come in.
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-Why?
-It's Saturday.
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-Why did you come in?
-I work too hard.
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It's boiling in here.
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Eight milliroentgen. A leak?
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No.
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It would've gone off before.
It's coming from outside.
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The Americans?
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Iodine 131.
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It's not military.
It's uranium decay, U-235.
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Reactor fuel?
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Ignalina. Maybe, uh,
240 kilometers away.
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Yes, this is Ulana Khomyuk
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with the Institute of Nuclear En--
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Looking for--?
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-All right, stay calm.
-Don't tell me to stay calm.
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They're at four. It's not them.
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-Who's the next closest?
-It's Chernobyl,
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but that's not possible.
They're 400 kilometers away.
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That's too far
for eight milliroentgen.
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They'd have to be split open.
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Maybe they know something.
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-Iodine.
-Could it be a waste dump?
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No.
We'd be seeing other isotopes.
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Nuclear test?
Uh, new kind of bomb?
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We'd have heard. That's what
half our people work on here.
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Something with the space program
like a satellite or...?
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No one's answering the phone.
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-Get everyone started on an IV.
-We don't have enough.
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-All the children then.
-But we don't have enough!
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As many as you can.
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-Where's the old man?
-He's set up a burn ward in 16.
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What are you doing?
What is that?
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Milk. It's milk.
Much better than water.
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No, no, no.
Stop. Stop!
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-What are you doing?
-These are radiation burns!
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Their clothes are contaminated!
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Help me!
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Get it all off.
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We're taking it
down to the basement.
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He was a firefighter from Chernobyl.
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Can you stop pushing, please?
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We have our orders!
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-Disperse!
-Hey, there! Get him!
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Why you
keeping us out here?
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Professor Legasov?
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Oh, no, not yet.
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They're finishing up some other
business. It'll be a few more minutes.
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-Can I get you some tea?
-No, I'm fine. Thank you.
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Would you care to read Deputy Chairman
Shcherbina's report while you wait?
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Certainly. Thank you.
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All right, Professor.
They're ready.
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Professor Legasov?
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You have my support.
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Thank you all for
your duty to this commission.
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We will begin with Deputy
Chairman Shcherbina's briefing,
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and then we will discuss
next steps if necessary.
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Thank you,
comrade General Secretary.
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I'm pleased to report that the
situation in Chernobyl is stable.
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Military and civilian patrols
have secured the region,
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and Colonel General Pikalov,
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who commands troops specializing
in chemical hazards,
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has been dispatched to the plant.
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In terms of radiation,
plant director Bryukhanov
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reports no more
than 3.6 roentgen.
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I'm told it's the equivalent
of a chest X-ray.
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So if you're overdue
for a check-up...
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-And foreign press?
-Totally unaware.
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KGB First Deputy Chairman
Charkov assures me
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that we have successfully
protected our security interests.
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Good. Very good.
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Well, it seems like
it's well in hand, so...
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if there's nothing else,
meeting adjourned.
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No!
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Pardon me?
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Uh, we can't adjourn.
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This is Professor Legasov
of the Kurchatov Institute.
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Professor, if you have any concerns,
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feel free to address
them with me later.
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I can't. I am sorry.
I'm so sorry.
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Page three,
the section on casualties.
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Uh... "A fireman was severely
burned on his hand
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"by a chunk of smooth, black mineral
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on the ground, outside
the reactor building."
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Smooth, black mineral-- graphite.
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There's-There's graphite
on the ground.
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Well, there was a... a tank
explosion. There's debris.
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-Of what importance--?
-There's only one place
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in the entire facility where you will
find graphite inside the core.
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If there's graphite
on the ground outside,
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it means it wasn't a control
system tank that exploded.
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-It was the reactor core.
-It's open!
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Um, Comrade Shcherbina?
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Comrade General Secretary,
I can assure you
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that Professor Legasov is mistaken.
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Bryukhanov reports that
the reactor core is intact.
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-And as for the radiation--
-Yes, 3.6 roentgen,
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which, by the way, is not the
equivalent of one chest X-ray,
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but rather 400 chest X-rays.
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That number's been bothering me
for a different reason, though.
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It's also the maximum reading
on low-limit dosimeters.
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They gave us the number they had.
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I think the true number
is much, much higher.
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If I'm right, this fireman
was holding the equivalent
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of four million
chest X-rays in his hand.
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Professor Legasov, there's no
place for alarmist hysteria--
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It's not alarmist if it's a fact!
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Well, I don't hear any facts at all.
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All I hear is a man I don't know
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engaging in conjecture
in direct contradiction
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to what has been reported
by party officials.
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I'm, uh...
I apologize.
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I didn't mean, uh...
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Please, may I express my concern
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as calmly and as respectfully as I--
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-Professor Legasov--
-Boris.
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I will allow it.
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Um...
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An RBMK reactor
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uses uranium 235 as fuel.
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Every atom of U-235 is like a bullet
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traveling at nearly
the speed of light,
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penetrating everything in its path:
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woods, metal, concrete, flesh.
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Every gram of U-235 holds
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over a billion trillion
of these bullets.
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That's in one gram.
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Now, Chernobyl holds
over three million grams,
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and right now, it is on fire.
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Winds will carry radioactive particles
across the entire continent,
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rain will bring them down on us.
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That's three million
billion trillion bullets
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in the... in the air we breathe,
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the water we drink, the food we eat.
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Most of these bullets will not
stop firing for 100 years.
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Some of them, not for 50,000 years.
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Yes, and, uh, this concern
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stems entirely from
the description of a rock?
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Yes.
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Hmm.
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Comrade Shcherbina...
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I want you to go to Chernobyl.
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You take a look at the
reactor, you personally,
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and you report directly back to me.
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A wise decision,
comrade General Secretary--
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And take
Professor Legasov with you.
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Uh...
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Forgive me, comrade
General Secretary, but I--
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Do you know how
a nuclear reactor works?
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-No.
-No.
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Well, then how will you know
what you're looking at?
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Meeting adjourned.
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How does a nuclear reactor work?
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-What?
-It's a simple question.
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It's hardly a simple answer.
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Of course, you presume
I'm too stupid to understand.
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Tell me
how a nuclear reactor works,
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or I'll have one of these soldiers
throw you out of the helicopter.
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A nuclear reactor makes
electricity with steam.
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The steam turns a turbine
which generates electricity.
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Where a typical power plant
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makes steam by burning coal,
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a nuclear plant...
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In a nuclear plant, we use
something called fission.
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We take an unstable element
like uranium 235,
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which has too many neutrons.
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-A neutron is, uh--
-The bullet.
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Yes, the bullet.
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So, bullets are flying
off of the uranium.
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Now...
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if we put enough
uranium atoms close together,
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the bullets from one atom will
eventually strike another atom.
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The force of this impact
splits that atom apart,
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releasing a tremendous
amount of energy, fission.
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-And the graphite?
-Ah, yes.
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The neutrons are actually traveling
so fast-- we call this "flux"--
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it's relatively unlikely
that the uranium atoms
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will ever hit one another.
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In RBMK reactors, we surround
the fuel rods with graphite
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to moderate, slow down,
the neutron flux.
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Good.
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I know how a nuclear reactor works.
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Now I don't need you.
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Can you help me? I need
to find my husband.
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No. Not now.
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-Mikhail!
-Lyudmilla.
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Take her.
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Take her away from here, please.
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-Get away from them!
-Oh my God.
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-You want to get sick? Go!
-Please take her, please take her.
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Please take her, please.
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Please! Please!
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Please take her!
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Excuse me, I am
Vasily Ignatenko's wife.
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He's a fireman.
Ignatenko.
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Ignatenko, Sixth Paramilitary
Fire and Rescue Unit.
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I need to find him. Please.
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Ignatenko...
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He's being transported
by helicopter to Moscow.
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Hospital number six.
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Why, is he all right?
Can I see him?
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You want to see him?
Go to Moscow.
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But they're not
letting us leave here.
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Tell them Major Burov allows it.
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-Oh. When are they taking him?
-Now.
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We're approaching
the power plant.
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What have they done?
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Can you see inside?
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I don't have to. Look.
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That's graphite on the roof.
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The whole building's been blown open.
The core's exposed!
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I can't see how you can
tell that from here.
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Oh, for God's sakes.
Look at that glow!
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That's radiation ionizing the air!
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Well, if we can't see,
we don't know.
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Get us directly over the building!
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-Boris, if we fly...
-Don't you use my name!
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...directly over an open reactor,
we'll be dead within a week!
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Dead!
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-Sir?
-Get us over that building,
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or I'll have you shot!
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If you fly directly over
that core, I promise you,
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by tomorrow morning, you'll
be begging for that bullet.
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Perhaps if you came
back another day.
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Just wonderful.
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Deputy Secretary Garanin.
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Ulana Khomyuk of the Byelorussian
Institute for Nuclear Energy.
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What a pleasure.
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-Let me introduce--
-I'm here about Chernobyl.
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Such a lovely time.
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-Visit again soon.
-I will. Thank you.
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I must tell you, this
is why no one likes scientists.
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When we have a disease
to cure, where are they?
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In a lab, noses in their books,
and so Grandma dies.
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But when there isn't a problem,
they're everywhere, spreading fear.
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-I know about Chernobyl.
-Oh?
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I know that the core is either
partially or completely exposed.
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-Whatever that means.
-And that if you don't immediately
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issue iodine tablets
and then evacuate this city,
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hundreds of thousands of people
are going to get cancer,
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and God knows
how many more will die.
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Yes, very good.
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There has been
an accident at Chernobyl,
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but I've been assured
there is no problem.
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I'm telling you that there is.
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I prefer my opinion to yours.
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I'm a nuclear physicist.
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Before you were Deputy Secretary,
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you worked in a shoe factory.
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Yes, I worked in a shoe factory.
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And now I'm in charge.
253
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"To the workers of the world."
254
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Stable iodine will keep your thyroid
from absorbing radioactive iodine.
255
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Take one a day
for as long as they last.
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And go east.
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Get as far from Minsk as you can.
258
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It's overkill.
259
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Pikalov's showing off
to make us look bad.
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It doesn't
matter how it looks.
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Shcherbina is a pure bureaucrat,
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as stupid as he is pigheaded.
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We'll tell him the truth in
the simplest terms possible.
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We'll be fine.
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Pikarov!
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Comrade Shcherbina,
Chief Engineer Fomin,
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Colonel General Pikalov, and I
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-are honored at your arrival.
-Deeply, deeply honored.
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Naturally, we regret
the circumstances of your visit,
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but, as you can see, we are
making excellent progress
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in containing the damage.
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We have begun our own inquiry
into the cause of the accident,
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and I have a list of individuals
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who we believe are accountable.
275
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Professor Legasov, I understand
you've been saying dangerous things.
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Very dangerous things.
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Apparently,
our reactor core exploded.
278
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Please, tell me how an RBMK
reactor core explodes.
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I'm not prepared to explain it
at this time.
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As I presumed, he has no answer.
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It's disgraceful, really.
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To spread disinformation
at a time like this.
283
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Why did I see graphite on the roof?
284
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Graphite is only found in the core,
285
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where it's used as
a neutron flux moderator.
286
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Correct?
287
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Fomin, why did the Deputy Chairman
see graphite on the roof?
288
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Well, that... that can't be.
289
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Comrade Shcherbina,
my apologies, but graphite...
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that's not possible.
Perhaps you saw burnt concrete.
291
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Now there you made a mistake,
292
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because I may not know much
about nuclear reactors,
293
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but I know a lot about concrete.
294
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-Comrade, I assure you--
-I understand.
295
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You think Legasov is wrong.
296
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How shall we prove it?
297
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Our high-range dosimeter
just arrived.
298
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We could cover one of our
trucks with lead shielding,
299
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mount the dosimeter on the front.
300
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Have one of your men get as
close to the fire as he can.
301
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Give him every bit
of protection you have.
302
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But understand that
even with lead shielding,
303
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it may not be enough.
304
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Then I'll do it myself.
305
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Good.
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He's back.
307
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It's not three roentgen.
308
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It's 15,000.
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Comrade Shcherbina--
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What does that number mean?
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It means the core is open.
312
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It means the fire we're
watching with our own eyes
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is giving off nearly
twice the radiation
314
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released by the bomb in Hiroshima.
315
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And that's every single hour.
316
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Hour after hour, 20 hours
since the explosion,
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so 40 bombs worth by now.
318
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Forty-eight more tomorrow.
319
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,000
And it will not stop.
Not in a week, not in a month.
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It will burn and spread its poison
321
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until the entire continent is dead.
322
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,000
Please escort Comrades
Bryukhanov and Fomin
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to the local party headquarters.
324
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-Thank you for your service.
-Comrade--
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You're excused.
326
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,000
Dyatlov was in charge.
327
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,000
It was Dyatlov!
328
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,000
-Tell me how to put it out.
-We'll use helicopters.
329
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We'll drop water on it like a forest
fire.
330
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,000
No, no. You don't understand.
This isn't a fire.
331
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This is a fissioning reactor core
burning at over 2,000 degrees.
332
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The heat will instantly
vaporize the water--
333
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000
How do we put it out?
334
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,000
You are dealing with something
335
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:54,000
that has never occurred
on this planet before.
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Boron.
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Boron and sand.
338
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,000
Well, that'll create
problems of its own,
339
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,000
but I-I don't see any other way.
340
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,000
Of course, it's going to take
thousands of drops,
341
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,000
because you can't fly the
helicopters directly over the core,
342
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,000
so most of it is going to miss.
343
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,000
-How much sand and boron?
-Well, I can't be--
344
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000
-For God's sake, roughly!
-Five thousand tons.
345
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,000
And obviously, we're going to need
to evacuate an enormous area--
346
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,000
Never mind that.
Focus on the fire.
347
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,000
I am focusing on the fire.
348
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,000
The wind, it's carrying
all that smoke,
349
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,000
all that radiation.
350
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,000
At least evacuate Pripyat.
It's three kilometers away.
351
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,000
-That's my decision to make.
-Then make it.
352
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,000
-I've been told not to.
-Is it or is not--
353
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,000
I'm in charge here!
354
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,000
This will go much easier
if you talk to me
355
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,000
about the things you do understand
356
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,000
and not about the things
you do not understand.
357
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,000
Where are you going?
358
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000
I'm going to get you
5,000 tons of sand and boron.
359
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,000
There's a hotel.
360
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,000
I'd prefer one of those.
361
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,000
Superstitious?
362
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,000
Moscow?
363
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,000
Are you here because of the fire?
364
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,000
Anything we should be worried about?
365
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,000
No.
366
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,000
Ah.
367
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,000
We're in
position. Approaching drop.
368
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,000
Clear to proceed.
369
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,000
Copy. We'll go
one by one in rotation.
370
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,000
Remind them about the perimeter.
371
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,000
They cannot fly directly
over the fire.
372
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,000
A minimum of a ten-meter perimeter.
373
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,000
Ten meter perimeter. Copy.
374
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,000
Lead One, per pre-flight:
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00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,000
maintain minimum
ten-meter perimeter.
376
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,000
Copy that.
Forty meters... 35...
377
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,000
30...
378
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,000
No, no, no!
They're too close!
379
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,000
They can't get over the fire.
How are they supposed--
380
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,000
The wind will have to carry it.
381
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,000
Tell them, they cannot
go over the core.
382
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,000
Lead One is too close.
I repeat, they are too close.
383
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,000
Copy.
384
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,000
Lead One, you are
inside the perimeter.
385
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,000
Did not copy.
Signal's breaking up.
386
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,000
Lead One?
387
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,000
Do you copy?
388
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,000
Lead One, do you copy?
389
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,000
Lead One, come in.
390
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,000
Do you copy, Lead One?
391
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,000
Lead One!
392
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,000
Sir? What do
I tell the others?
393
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,000
Is there any other way, Legasov?
394
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,000
Send the next one in.
395
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,000
Tell them to approach from the west.
396
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,000
Lead Two,
approach from the west.
397
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,000
Kurchatov Institute
Laboratory Four.
398
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,000
Marina Gruzinskaya,
it's Ulana Khomyuk from Minsk.
399
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,000
Oh, yes, how nice of you to phone.
400
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,000
-It's been too long.
-It has.
401
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,000
I was actually calling
about our friend.
402
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,000
-You know, the one in the country.
-Oh, yes, of course.
403
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,000
I wanted to see how he's doing.
It's so hot there right now.
404
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000
Yes, it's extremely hot,
405
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,000
but his nephews are flying down,
406
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,000
and they always bring cool weather.
407
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,000
Oh? Which nephews?
408
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,000
Simka, who's 14,
and little Boris, who's five.
409
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,000
Well, that's wonderful.
410
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,000
Though children can
make you even hotter
411
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,000
when they're crawling all over you.
412
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,000
Maybe I should visit them.
413
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,000
No, they don't want visitors.
414
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,000
I'm sorry, um,
I have to get back to work.
415
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,000
It's very busy right now.
Goodbye.
416
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,000
They're dropping sand
and boron on the fire.
417
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,000
It's what I would do.
418
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Yes, I'm sure it is.
419
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,000
Where are you going?
420
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,000
Chernobyl.
421
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000
It's been smooth.
Twenty drops.
422
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,000
What?
423
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,000
There are 50,000 people
in this city.
424
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:46,000
Professor Ilyin, who's
also on the commission,
425
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,000
says the radiation isn't
high enough to evacuate.
426
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,000
Ilyin isn't a physicist.
427
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000
Well, he's a medical doctor.
If he says it's safe, it's safe.
428
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,000
-Not if they stay here.
-We're staying here.
429
00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:00,000
Yes, we are, and we'll be dead
in five years.
430
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,000
I'm sorry, I...
431
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,000
I'm sorry.
432
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,000
Shcherbina.
433
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,000
Thank you.
434
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,000
A nuclear plant in Sweden
has detected radiation
435
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,000
and identified it
as a byproduct of our fuel.
436
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,000
The Americans took satellite photos.
437
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,000
The reactor building,
the smoke, the fire.
438
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000
The whole world knows.
439
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,000
The wind has been blowing
toward Germany.
440
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,000
They're not letting
children play outside...
441
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,000
in Frankfurt.
442
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Want a smoke?
443
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,000
There has been a
nuclear accident in the Soviet Union
444
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000
and the Soviets have
admitted that it happened.
445
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,000
The Soviet version is this:
One of the atomic reactors
446
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,000
at the Chernobyl Atomic Power
Plant near the city of Kiev
447
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,000
was damaged, and there is
speculation in Moscow
448
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,000
that people were injured
and may have died.
449
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,000
The Soviets may have been fairly
quick to acknowledge the accident
450
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,000
because evidence in the form
of mild nuclear radiation
451
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,000
had already reached beyond the
Soviet borders to Scandinavia.
452
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,000
I said turn around.
This is a restricted zone.
453
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,000
I'm from the Byelorussian Institute
for Nuclear Energy.
454
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,000
Do you have permission?
455
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,000
Listen to me, I need to speak
to someone urgently.
456
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,000
Turn around right now,
or I'll arrest you.
457
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,000
If you arrest me, you should take me
to the highest possible authority.
458
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,000
We have to start
a radiological survey.
459
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,000
Sector by sector, on foot,
dosimeters in hand.
460
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,000
Are you all right?
461
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,000
Of course.
462
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:15,000
Comrades--
463
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,000
The guards arrested this woman
at the south checkpoint.
464
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,000
-I'd have put her in a cell--
-But he thought you should know
465
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:24,000
that I know. I know that your reactor
core is exposed.
466
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,000
I know the graphite is on fire,
the fuel is melting,
467
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,000
and you're dropping sand
and boron on it,
468
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,000
which you probably thought was
smart, but you've made a mistake.
469
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,000
Ulana Yuriyvna Khomyuk,
Chief Physicist,
470
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,000
Byelorussian Institute
for Nuclear Energy.
471
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:40,000
And you are Valery
Alexeyevich Legasov?
472
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,000
Smothering the core
will put the fire out,
473
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,000
but the temperature will
eventually increase--
474
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,000
Believe me,
I'm perfectly aware.
475
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,000
But I estimate at least a month
476
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,000
before it melts through
the lower concrete pad,
477
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,000
-which gives us time--
-No, you don't have a month.
478
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,000
You have approximately two days.
479
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,000
Yes, the fuel would take a month
480
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:00,000
to reach the concrete pad here.
481
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:04,000
But first...
it's going to burn through
482
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,000
the biological shield here
by Tuesday.
483
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,000
And when it does,
it's going to hit these tanks--
484
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,000
bubbler pools, reservoirs--
485
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,000
Reservoirs for the ECS.
I understand your concern,
486
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,000
but I confirmed it
with plant personnel.
487
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,000
-The tanks are nearly empty.
-No, they were nearly empty.
488
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,000
Each of these points
here, here, and here
489
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:24,000
all drain to the bubbler pools.
490
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,000
I'm guessing that every pipe
in the building ruptured.
491
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,000
And then there are those fire
engines that I saw on the way in.
492
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,000
The fire hoses are still connected.
493
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,000
They've been gushing water into
the structure this whole time.
494
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,000
The tanks are full.
495
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,000
The tanks are full.
496
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:23,000
I have ten minutes,
then I'm back on the phone
497
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,000
apologizing to our friends,
498
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,000
apologizing to our enemies.
499
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,000
Our power comes from
the perception of our power.
500
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:36,000
Do you understand
the damage this has done?
501
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,000
Do you understand what's at stake?
502
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,000
Boris.
503
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:48,000
Professor Legasov
will deliver our briefing.
504
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,000
There is some good news.
505
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,000
The air drops are working
to douse the fire.
506
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:57,000
There's been a reduction
in radionuclide emissions,
507
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,000
but the fire will not
be extinguished
508
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,000
for at least another two weeks.
509
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,000
There is also an additional problem.
510
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,000
Nuclear fuel doesn't turn cold
511
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,000
simply because it is not on fire.
512
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:14,000
In fact, the temperature
will likely rise
513
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,000
as a result of the blanket
of sand we've dropped.
514
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,000
The uranium will melt the sand,
515
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,000
creating a kind of lava
516
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,000
which will begin to melt down
through the shield below.
517
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,000
You have made lava?
518
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:30,000
I anticipated this.
519
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,000
I believed there was
time to reinforce
520
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,000
this lower concrete pad
521
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,000
before the lava reached the earth
522
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:39,000
and contaminated the groundwater.
523
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,000
But as it turned out, I was
worried about the wrong thing.
524
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,000
Uh, um...
525
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:48,000
It was my understanding
that these large water tanks
526
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,000
under the reactor were
essentially empty.
527
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,000
This is Ulana Khomyuk
of the Byelorussian Institute.
528
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,000
Thanks to her insight,
we are now aware
529
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,000
that the tanks are, in fact, full.
530
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:03,000
Of water. Why is that
a problem, professor?
531
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:08,000
When the lava enters these tanks,
532
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,000
it will instantly
superheat and vaporize
533
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,000
approximately 7,000
cubic meters of water,
534
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:18,000
causing a significant
thermal explosion.
535
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,000
How significant?
536
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,000
We estimate between
two and four megatons.
537
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,000
Everything within
a 30-kilometer radius
538
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:28,000
will be completely destroyed,
539
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:32,000
including the three remaining
reactors at Chernobyl.
540
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,000
The entirety of the radioactive
material in all of the cores
541
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,000
will be ejected at force
542
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,000
and dispersed by
a massive shock wave,
543
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:46,000
which will extend
approximately 200 kilometers
544
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,000
and likely be fatal
to the entire population of Kiev
545
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:51,000
as well as a portion of Minsk.
546
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,000
The release of radiation
will be severe
547
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:58,000
and will impact
all of Soviet Ukraine,
548
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,000
Latvia, Lithuania, Byelorussia,
549
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,000
as well as Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
550
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,000
Romania, and most of East Germany.
551
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,000
What do you mean "impact"?
552
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,000
For much of the area,
a nearly permanent disruption
553
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,000
of the food and water supply,
554
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:22,000
a steep increase in the rates
of cancer and birth defects.
555
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,000
I don't know how many deaths
there will be, but many.
556
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,000
For Byelorussia and the Ukraine,
557
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,000
"impact" means
completely uninhabitable
558
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:33,000
for a minimum of 100 years.
559
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,000
There are more
than 50 million people
560
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,000
living in Byelorussia and Ukraine.
561
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,000
Sixty, yes.
562
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:50,000
And how long before this happens?
563
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:54,000
Approximately 48 to 72 hours.
564
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,000
But we may have a solution.
565
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:01,000
We can pump the water
from the tanks.
566
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,000
Unfortunately, the tanks are
sealed shut by a sluice gate,
567
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,000
and the gate can only
be opened manually
568
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:08,000
from within the duct system itself.
569
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,000
So we need to find
three plant workers
570
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:13,000
who know the facility well enough
571
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,000
to enter the basement here,
572
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:19,000
find their way through
all these duct ways,
573
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,000
get to the sluice gate valve here,
574
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:25,000
and give us the access we need
to pump out the tanks.
575
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,000
Of course, we will need
your permission.
576
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,000
My permission for what?
577
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:33,000
Uh, the water in these ducts,
578
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,000
the level of radioactive
contamination--
579
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,000
They'll likely be dead in a week.
580
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,000
We're asking for your
permission to kill three men.
581
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:52,000
Well...
582
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,000
Comrade Legasov...
583
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:58,000
all victories
inevitably come at a cost.
584
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:24,000
And open the
sluice gate valve... here.
585
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,000
The valve will be
difficult to operate,
586
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,000
so we'll need three men
587
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:31,000
who will need to know
the basement layout.
588
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:35,000
And, of course, any volunteers
will be rewarded.
589
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:39,000
A yearly stipend of 400 rubles.
590
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:50,000
And, uh, for those of you working in
reactors one and two, promotions.
591
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:54,000
Why are reactors one and two
still operating at all?
592
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,000
My friend was a security
guard that night,
593
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:57,000
and, uh, she's now dying.
594
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,000
And we've all heard
about the firemen.
595
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:04,000
And now you want us to swim
underneath a burning reactor?
596
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:07,000
Do you even know how
contaminated it is?
597
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:10,000
I... I don't have
an exact number.
598
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,000
You don't need an exact number
to know if it'll kill us.
599
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,000
But you can't even tell us that.
600
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,000
Why should we do this?
For what, 400 rubles?
601
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,000
You'll do it
because it must be done.
602
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:33,000
You'll do it
because nobody else can.
603
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:38,000
And if you don't, millions will die.
604
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,000
If you tell me that's not
enough, I won't believe you.
605
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:48,000
This is what has always
set our people apart.
606
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,000
A thousand years
of sacrifice in our veins.
607
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,000
And every generation
must know its own suffering.
608
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,000
I spit on the people who did this,
609
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,000
and I curse the price I have to pay.
610
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:05,000
But I'm making my peace with it,
611
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,000
and now you make yours.
612
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,000
And go into that water.
613
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,000
Because it must be done.
614
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,000
Ananenko.
615
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:36,000
Bezpalov.
616
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:43,000
Baranov.
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