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What is the cost of lies

Who is to blame?

Doesn't matter it doesn't look right

You taste matter I

Think there's graphite on the ground you didn't see graphite

Didn't because it's not there

We seal off the city contain the spread of misinformation

Secretary Gorbachev has appointed a committee to manage the accident you're on it

You

You

You know

Наверное все-таки родина

Не дом городской где я празднично жил

А эти проселки что дедами пройдены

С простыми крестами их русских могилу

По русским обычам

Только божарища на русской земле раскида в позади

На наших глазах умирали товарищи

По русский рубаху рванув на груди

А спуле с тобою пока еще

Поверью что жизнь уже вся

Я все-таки горбал за самую миру

За горькую землю где я родился

You work too hard

Where is everyone? Oh, they refused to come in why Saturday

Why did you come in? Oh it's boiling in here

I'd never rumpin leak no

It would have gone off before it's coming from outside the Americans

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Did 131 it's not military it's uranium decay you two three five react to fill

Ignalina maybe 240 kilometers away

Yes, this is all Anna home milk with the Institute of new care and looking for

All right, stay calm

They're at four it's not them who's the next closest it's Chernobyl, but that's not possible

They're 400 kilometers away, and that's too far for eight mini-ronkin. They'd have to be sped open

Maybe they know something

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I did good to be a waste of

We'd be seeing other isotopes

nuclear test

You kind of bomb we'd have heard that's what how far people work on here

Something with a space program like a satellite or

No one's answering the phone

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Everyone started on an IV we don't have enough all the children then we don't have enough as many as you can

Where's the old man he said of a bird rolled in 16

What are you doing? What is that milk? It's milk much better than what stop stop

What are you doing? It is a radiation burns the clothes are contaminated

Help me

Get it all off we're taking it down to the basement

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Professor Lagasov

Oh, no, not yet. They're finishing up some other business. It'll be a few more minutes. Can I get you some tea? No, I'm fine

Thank you. Would you care to read deputy chairmanship in this report while you wait certainly. Thank you

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All right, professor, they're ready professor Lagasov

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Thank you all for your duty to this commission

We will begin with deputy chairman Sherbina's briefing and then we will discuss next steps if necessary

Thank you comrade general secretary. I'm pleased to report that the situation in Chernobyl is stable

Militarians civilian patrols have secured the region and Colonel general Piccolo

Who commands troops specializing in chemical hazards has been dispatched to the plant in terms of radiation?

Plant director Brigham reports no more than 3.6

Sronken I'm told it's the equivalent of a chest x-ray

So if you're overdue for a checkup and forum press totally unaware

Kdb first deputy chairman Sharkoff ensures me that we have successfully protected our security interests good

Very good. Well, it seems like it's well in hand

If there is nothing else meeting a charm

Pardon me

We can't churn

This is professor Lagasov of liquid chart of Institute professor if you have any concerns feel free to address them with me later

I can't

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry

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casualties a

Fyman was severely burned on his hand by a trunk of smooth black mineral on the ground outside the reactor building smooth

Black mineral graphite. There's graphite on the ground

Well, there was a tank explosion there's debris of what importance that could be only one place in the entire facility where you will find graphite

Inside the core if there's graphite on the ground outside

It means it wasn't a control system tank that exploded. It was the reactor core. It's open

Oh

Comrade Sherpina Comrade General's secretary. I can assure you that professor Lagasov is mistaken

We're kind of reports that the reactor core is intact and as for the radiation

Yes, 3.6 rontgen which by the way is not the equivalent of one chest x-ray, but rather 400 chest x-rays that number's been bothering me for a different reason though

It's also the maximum reading on low-limit decimeters. They gave us the number they had

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Think the true number is much much higher if I'm right this

Fireman was holding the equivalent of four million chest x-rays in his hand

Professor Lagasov, there's no place for alarmist hysteria

It's not alarmist if it's a fact. Well, I don't hear any facts at all

All I hear is a man. I don't know engaging in conjecture in direct contradiction to what has been reported by party officials

Um, uh, I apologize

I didn't mean uh

Please may I express my concern as as calmly and as respectfully as professor Lagasov

Boris

I will allow it

Um

An rbmk reactor

Uses uranium two three five as fuel

Every atom of u two three five is like a bullet

Traveling at nearly the speed of light kind of trading everything in its path woods metal concrete flesh

Every gram of u two three five holds over a billion trillion of these bullets

That's in one gram now Chernobyl holds over three million grams and right now it is on fire

Winds will carry radioactive particles across the entire continent rain will bring them down on us. That's

three million billion trillion bullets in the

In the air we breathe the water we drink the food we eat

Most of these bullets will not stop firing for 100 years

Some of them not for 50 000 years. Yes, and uh, this concern

Stems entirely from the description of a rock

Yes

Hmm

Comrade Shavina

I want you to go to Chernobyl

You take a look at the reactor you personally and you report directly back to me

Vice-decision comrade general secretary and take professor Lagasov with you

Forgive me comrade general secretary, but I don't do you know how a nuclear reactor works

No, no, well, then how will you know what you're looking at? Meeting adjourned

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Doesn't you correct to work what it's a simple question

It's hardly a simple answer, of course you presume are too stupid to understand

So I'll restate tell me how a nuclear reactor works or I'll have one of these soldiers throw you out of the helicopter

Nuclear reactor makes electricity with steam steam turns a turbine which generates electricity

Where a typical power plant makes steam by burning coal nuclear plant

In a nuclear plant we use something called fission

We take an unstable element like

Uranium 235

Which has too many neutrons a neutron is the bullet

Yes the bullet

So bullets are flying off of the uranium now

If we put

Enough uranium atoms close together

The bullets from one atom will eventually strike another atom

The force of this impact splits that atom apart releasing a tremendous amount of energy

Fission and the graphite

Yes, the neutrons are actually traveling so fast. We call this flux is relatively unlikely that the uranium atoms will ever hit one another

In rbmk reactors. We surround the fuel rods with graphite to moderate

Slow down the neutron flux

Good

I know how a nuclear reactor works

No, I don't need you

I need to find my husband not now

Take away from here take please get away from them. Oh my god. You want to get sick go. Please take please take please take

Please please please

Excuse me, I am Vasily Ignatenko's wife. He's a fireman Ignatenko

Ignatenko six paramilitary fire and rescue unit. I need to find him please

Ignatenko

He's being transported by helicopter to Moscow hospital number six. Why is he all right?

Can I see him you want to see him go to Moscow, but they're not letting us leave here

Tell them major borough allows it

When are they taking him now?

Oh

We're approaching the power plant

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Can't see inside I don't have to

Look that's graphite on the roof

The whole building's been blown open

The core is exposed. I can't see how you can tell that from here. Oh god sakes. Look at that glow

That's radiation ionizing the air like we can't see we don't know get us directly over the building Boris

Don't use my name directly over

Sir get us over that building where I'll have you shot

If you fly directly over that core, I promise you by tomorrow morning you'll be begging for that bullet

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Perhaps if you came back another day

Just wonderful deputy secretary garranin

Will I know how milk of the Belarusian Institute for nuclear energy? What a pleasure

Let me introduce. I'm here about your noble

Such a lovely time visit again soon. I will thank you

I must tell you this is why no one like scientists

When we have a disease to cure where are they?

In a lab noses in their books and so grandma dies

But when there isn't a problem, they're everywhere spreading fear. I know about Chernobyl

Oh

I know that the core is either partially or completely exposed

Whatever that means and that if you don't immediately issue iodine tablets and then evacuate the city

Hundreds of thousands of people are going to get cancer and god knows how many more will die

Yes, very good

There has been an accident at Chernobyl, but I've been assured there is no problem

I'm telling you that there is

I prefer my opinion to yours

I'm a nuclear physicist

Before you were deputy secretary you worked in a shoe factory

Yes, I worked in a shoe factory

And now I'm in charge

To the workers of the world

Stable iodine will keep your thyroid from absorbing radioactive iodine

Take one a day for as long as they last

And go east

Get as far from Minsk as you can

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I think so.

I don't know what I'm trying to do.

I'm just a bad guy.

I don't know what you're trying to do.

I'm just a bad guy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm just a good guy.

Yes.

Piccolo's showing off to make us look bad.

Doesn't matter how it looks.

Sabina is a pure bureaucrat.

Stupid as he is, pig-headed.

What's on the truth in the simplest terms possible will be fine.

Piccolo!

PICCOLO!

Good morning, Sabina.

Chief Engineer, Famin.

Colonel Donald Piccolo and I are honoured that you're arriving.

Deeply, deeply honoured.

Naturally, we regret the circumstances of your visit,

but as you can see, we are making excellent progress

in containing the damage.

We've begun our own inquiry into the cause of the accident,

and I have a list of individuals who we believe are accountable.

Professor Lagasoff, I understand you've been seeing dangerous things.

Very dangerous things. Apparently our reactor core exploded.

Please, tell me how an RBMK reactor core explodes.

I'm not prepared to explain it at this time.

If I presumed, there's no answer.

It's disgraceful, really.

To spread this information at a time like this.

Why did I see graphite on the roof?

Graphite is only found in the core,

where it's used as a neutron flux moderator.

Correct?

Famin, why did the Deputy German see graphite on the roof?

Father, there can't be.

Comrades should be in my apologies for graphite.

That's not my fault.

I'm sorry.

Comrades should be in my apologies for graphite.

That's not possible. Perhaps you saw burnt concrete.

Now, they are made mistake.

Because I may not know much about nuclear reactors.

I know a lot about concrete.

No, Comrade, I assure you...

I understand.

The thing Lagasoff is wrong.

How shall we prove it?

Our high-range decimator just arrived.

We could cover one of our trucks with lead shielding.

Mount the decimator on the front.

Have one of your men get as close to the fire as he can.

Give him every bit of protection you have,

but understand that even with lead shielding,

it may not be enough.

Then I'll do it myself.

Good.

Good.

Good.

Good.

He's back.

It's not through the round again.

It's 15,000.

Comrades, be with...

What does that number mean?

It means the core is open.

It means the fire we're watching with our own eyes

is giving off nearly twice the radiation

released by the bomb in Hiroshima.

That's every single hour.

Hour after hour.

20 hours since the explosion,

so 40 bombs worth by now.

48 more tomorrow.

And it will not stop.

Not in a week, not in a month.

It will burn and spread its poison

until the entire continent is dead.

Please escort Comrades Brachonov and Fomin

to the local party headquarters.

Thank you for your service.

No, no.

You're excused.

The atlas was in charge.

It's with the atlas?

Tell me how to put it out.

We'll use helicopters.

You don't understand. This isn't a fire.

This is a fissioning reactor

called burning at over 2,000 degrees.

The heat will instantly vaporize the water.

How do we put it out?

You are dealing with something

that has never occurred

on this planet before.

Buron.

Buron and sand.

They'll create problems of its own,

but I don't see any other way.

Of course it's going to take thousands of drops

because you can't fly the helicopters

directly over the course,

so most of it is going to miss.

How much sand, Buron?

For God's sake, roughly.

5,000 tons.

Obviously we're going to need to evacuate

an enormous area. Never mind that.

Focus on the fire. I am focusing on the fire.

The wind is carrying all that smoke.

All that radiation.

At least evacuate Pripyat.

It's three kilometers away.

That's my decision to make.

Don't make it. I've been told not to.

Is it or is it not your decision?

I'm in charge here.

This will go much easier if you talk to me

about the things you do understand

and not about the things you do not understand.

Where are you going?

I'm going to get you 5,000 tons of sand and Buron.

There's a hotel.

I'm in charge here.

Stop.

I'd prefer one of those.

I didn't have a heart to tell it.

I'd already.

There's more people here.

Otherwise, I'd do something very impressive.

Superstitious.

Moscow.

Well...

Are you here because of the fire?

Anything we should be worried about.

No.

No.

We're in position for the marching drop.

Let's proceed.

Copy.

We'll go one more time.

We're in position for the marching drop.

Let's proceed.

Copy. We'll go one by one in rotation.

Remind them about the perimeter.

They cannot fly directly over the fire, a minimum of a 10 meter perimeter.

10 meter perimeter. Lead one per pre-flight maintain minimum. 10 meter perimeter.

Copy that. 40 meters.

35. 13.

No, no, no. They're too close.

They can't get over the fire. How are these...

The wind will have to carry it. Tell them. They cannot go over the call.

Lead one is too close. I repeat, they are too close.

Copy. Lead one, you are inside the perimeter.

They're not copied. They're not breaking up.

Lead one.

Lead one, you copy. Lead one, come in.

Lead one. Lead one.

Sir, what do I tell the others?

Is there any other way the guys are?

Send the next one in.

Tell them to approach from the west.

Sir.

What's the chat of Institute Laboratory for?

Marina Gozenskaya. It's Alana Khomeyuk from Minsk.

Oh, yes. How nice of you to phone. It's been too long.

It has. I was actually calling about our friend. You know, the one in the country.

Oh, yes, of course. I wanted to see how he's doing it. So hot there right now.

Yes, it's extremely hot. But his nephews are flying down.

And they always bring cool weather.

Which nephews?

Sinka, who's 14, and little Boris, who's five.

Well, that's wonderful.

The children can make you even hotter when they're crawling all over you.

Maybe I should visit them.

No, they don't want visitors.

I'm sorry. I have to get back to work. It's very busy right now. Goodbye.

They're dropping sand and boron on the fire.

That's what I would do.

Yes, I'm sure it is.

Where are you going?

Chernobyl.

It's been smooth.

20 drops.

What?

There are 50,000 people in this city.

Professor Ilian, who's also on the commission.

Says the radiation isn't high enough to evacuate.

Ilian isn't a physicist.

Well, he's a medical doctor. If he says it's safe, it's safe.

Not if they stay here.

We're staying here.

Yes, we are. And we'll be dead in five years.

What is it?

I'm sorry. I...

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Serbina.

Thank you.

A new clip line to Sweden has detected radiation

and identified it as a by-product of our fuel.

The Americans took satellite photos,

the reactor building and the smoke, the fire.

The whole world knows.

The wind has been blowing toward Germany.

Not letting children play outside.

In Frankfurt.

I'm going to smile.

There has been a nuclear accident in the Soviet Union

and the Soviets have admitted that it happened.

The Soviet version is this.

One of the atomic reactors at the Chernobyl atomic power plant

in the city of Kiev was damaged

and there is speculation in Moscow

that people were injured and may have died.

The Soviets may have been fairly quick

to acknowledge the accident because evidence

in the form of mild nuclear radiation

had already reached beyond the Soviet borders to Scandinavia.

I'm sorry.

Attention, attention.

Attention, attention.

Attention, attention.

Dear comrades,

the City Council of the People's Department

reports that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

in the city of Pripyat

is in a bad,

radiation situation.

The Soviet authorities

and the Russian authorities

are taking the necessary measures.

The aim is to provide

people with full security

and first aid to the children.

There is a need

to conduct a temporary evacuation

of the residents of the city

to the settlement points of the Kiev region.

For this,

each resident of the house

today, on April 27,

starting at 14.00

an hour

will be given by the bus

to the administration of the police

and representatives of the city council.

It is recommended

to take the necessary things with you

as well as,

in the first case, food products.

It is recommended

to take the necessary things

with your help.

It is recommended

to take the necessary things

as well as,

in the first case, food products.

The rest of the residents

of the city will be taken

and taken to the city.

It is recommended

to take the necessary things

as well as,

in the first case, food products.

Don't forget to close the windows, turn off the electric and gas devices, and close the windows.

We ask you to watch the calm, organized and well-organized evacuation.

Attention attention.

Attention attention.

Attention attention.

Attention attention.

I said turn around, this is a restricted zone.

I'm from the Belarusian Institute for Nuclear Energy.

Do you have permission?

Listen to me, I need to speak to someone urgently.

Turn around right now, or I'll arrest you.

If you arrest me, you should take me

to the highest possible authority.

We have to start a radiological survey,

sector by sector, on foot, the symmetry's in hand.

Are you all right?

Of course.

Comrades, the guards arrested this woman at the South checkpoint.

I'd have put her in a cell.

But he thought you should know that I know.

I know that your reactor core is exposed.

I know the graphite's on fire, the fuel is melting,

and you're dropping sand and boron on it,

which you probably thought was smart,

but you've made a mistake.

Well, I know your revenue,

your home-yook, chief physicist,

Belarusian Institute for Nuclear Energy,

and your Valery Alexeyevich Legasov.

Smothering the core will put the fire out,

but the temperature will eventually increase,

it will melt down.

Leave me perfectly aware.

But I estimate at least a month

before it melts through the lower concrete pad,

which gives us time.

No, you don't have a month,

you have approximately two days.

Yes, the fuel would take a month

to reach the concrete pad here.

But first, it's going to burn through

the biological shield here by Tuesday.

And when it does, it's going to hit these tanks,

bubbler pools, reservoirs...

Reservoirs for the ECS.

I understand your concern.

But I confirmed it with plant personnel.

The tanks are nearly empty.

No, they weren't nearly empty.

Each of these points here, here, and here,

all drain to the bubbler pools.

I'm guessing that every pipe in the building

is corrupted, and then there are those fire engines

that I saw on the way in.

The fire hoses are still connected.

They've been gushing water into the structure

this whole time.

Tanks are full.

Tanks are full.

From the Council of Ministers of the USSR,

an accident occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

One of the nuclear reactors was damaged.

The measures to eliminate the consequences of the accident

were taken.

The government commission was created.

I have ten minutes.

Then I'm back on the phone.

Apologizing to our friends.

Apologizing to our enemies.

Our power comes from the perception of our power.

Do you understand the damage this has done?

Do you understand what's at stake?

Boris?

Professor Legasso will deliver our briefing.

There is some good news.

The air drops are working to douse the fire.

There's been a reduction in radio-nuclide emissions,

but the fire will not be extinguished for at least

another two weeks.

There is also an additional problem.

Nuclear fuel doesn't turn cold simply because it is not on fire.

In fact, the temperature will likely rise as a result

of the blanket of sand we dropped.

The uranium will melt the sand,

creating a kind of lava,

which will begin to melt down through the shield below.

You've made lava.

I anticipated this.

I believed there was time to reinforce this lower concrete pad

before the lava reached the earth and contaminated the groundwater,

but as it turned out, I was worried about the wrong thing.

It was my understanding that these large water tanks

under the reactor were essentially empty.

This is Ulana Khomukov, the Belarusian Institute.

Thanks to her insight, we are now aware that the tanks are, in fact, full.

Of water? Why is that a problem, Professor?

When the lava enters these tanks, it will instantly superheat in vaporize

approximately 7,000 cubic metres of water,

causing a significant thermal explosion.

How significant?

We estimate between two and four megatons.

Everything within a 30-kilometre radius will be completely destroyed,

including the three remaining reactors at Chernobyl.

The entirety of the radioactive material in all of the cores

will be ejected at force

and dispersed by a massive shockwave,

which will extend approximately 200 kilometres

and likely be fatal to the entire population of Kiev,

as well as a portion of Minsk.

The release of radiation will be severe

and will impact all of Soviet Ukraine,

Latvia, Lithuania, Belarusia,

as well as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,

Romania, and most of East Germany.

What do you mean, impact?

For much of the area, a nearly permanent disruption of the food and water supply,

a steep increase in the rates of cancer and birth defects.

I don't know how many deaths there will be, but many.

For Belarusia and Ukraine, impact means completely uninhabitable

for a minimum of 100 years.

There are more than 50 million people living in Belarusia and Ukraine.

60, yes.

And how long before this happens?

Approximately 48 to 72 hours.

But we may have a solution.

We can pump the water from the tanks.

Unfortunately, the tanks are sealed shut by a sluice gate

and the gate can only be opened manually from within the duct system itself.

So we need to find three plant workers

who know the facility well enough to enter the basement here,

find their way through all these ductways,

get to the sluice gate valve here,

and give us the access we need to pump out the tanks.

Of course, we will need your permission.

My permission for what?

The water in these ducts.

The level of radioactive contamination.

They'll likely be dead in a week.

We're asking for your permission to kill three men.

Comrade Legasso,

all victories inevitably come at a cost.

Comrade Legasso,

all victories inevitably come at a cost.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

And open the sluice gate valve here.

The valve will be difficult to operate,

so we'll need three men.

We'll need to know the basement layout.

And of course, any volunteers will be rewarded.

A yearly stipend of 400 rubles.

We'll need to know the basement layout.

And of course, any volunteers will be rewarded.

A yearly stipend of 400 rubles.

And for those of you working in reactors one and two,

promotions,

why are reactors one and two still operating at all?

My friend was a security guard that night,

and she's now dying.

And we've all heard about the firemen.

And now you want us to swim underneath a burning reactor?

Do you even know how contaminated it is?

I don't have an exact number.

You don't need an exact number to know if it will kill us.

But you can't even tell us that.

Why should we do this?

For what, 400 rubles?

You'll do it because it must be done.

You'll do it because it must be done.

You'll do it because it must be done.

You'll do it because nobody else can.

And if you don't, millions will die.

If you tell me that's not enough, I won't believe you.

This is what has always set our people apart.

A thousand years of sacrifice in our veins.

And every generation must know its own suffering.

I spit on the people who did this.

And I cause surprise I have to pay.

I'm making my peace with it.

And now you make yours.

And go into that water.

Because it must be done.

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