1 00:00:02,112 --> 00:00:03,445 Where are you going? 2 00:00:04,696 --> 00:00:05,737 Chernobyl. 3 00:00:06,261 --> 00:00:08,261 Previously on Chernobyl... 4 00:00:09,571 --> 00:00:12,654 Ignatenko, fire and rescue unit. I need to find him! 5 00:00:13,028 --> 00:00:14,862 Moscow. Hospital number six. 6 00:00:15,237 --> 00:00:16,903 Are you here because of the fire? 7 00:00:17,445 --> 00:00:19,279 Anything we should be worried about? 8 00:00:20,153 --> 00:00:21,237 No. 9 00:00:22,821 --> 00:00:24,737 It cannot go over the core. 10 00:00:29,195 --> 00:00:32,028 The nuclear plant in Sweden has detected radiation. 11 00:00:32,362 --> 00:00:34,445 At least evacuate Pripyat. 12 00:00:35,445 --> 00:00:37,195 When the lava enters these tanks, 13 00:00:37,279 --> 00:00:38,779 it will instantly superheat, 14 00:00:38,862 --> 00:00:42,195 causing a significant thermal explosion. 15 00:00:42,571 --> 00:00:44,028 And how long before this happens? 16 00:00:44,279 --> 00:00:46,445 Approximately 48 to 72 hours, 17 00:00:46,529 --> 00:00:48,404 but we may have a solution. 18 00:01:28,773 --> 00:01:36,673 CREDITS 19 00:03:18,779 --> 00:03:21,862 Is it possible that the water has already killed them? 20 00:03:21,945 --> 00:03:24,195 Yes. 21 00:03:24,279 --> 00:03:25,945 Then what? 22 00:03:27,112 --> 00:03:28,987 If it doesn't work? 23 00:05:01,696 --> 00:05:03,945 Get them in the truck. 24 00:05:04,028 --> 00:05:06,362 Get the hoses in! Start pumping! 25 00:05:10,779 --> 00:05:14,212 HOSPITAL NUMBER 6, MOSCOW APRIL 30, 1986 26 00:05:14,236 --> 00:05:17,736 FOUR DAYS AFTER THE EXPLOSION 27 00:05:22,571 --> 00:05:25,320 Uh, I'm here to see my husband, Vasily Ignatenko. 28 00:05:25,404 --> 00:05:28,153 He's a firefighter from Chernobyl. I have permission. 29 00:05:28,237 --> 00:05:31,112 Chernobyl? I'm sorry, no visitors. 30 00:05:33,112 --> 00:05:35,487 Well, but Major Burov told me, 31 00:05:35,571 --> 00:05:36,945 - he said... - No exceptions. 32 00:05:37,028 --> 00:05:39,779 Please. I've come all the way from Kievskaya Oblast. 33 00:06:05,654 --> 00:06:07,445 Excuse me. 34 00:06:08,862 --> 00:06:10,028 Excuse me, excuse me. 35 00:06:10,112 --> 00:06:11,821 Who are you? What are you doing here? 36 00:06:11,903 --> 00:06:14,529 - I have a pass. - You can't be here. It's not safe. 37 00:06:14,612 --> 00:06:16,195 I am here to see my husband. 38 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:17,529 Vasily Ignatenko. 39 00:06:17,612 --> 00:06:19,195 He's a firefighter from Chernobyl. 40 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:21,862 I know who Ignatenko is, but you can't. 41 00:06:21,945 --> 00:06:23,987 I have permission. I-I've... 42 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,195 You can see him for 30 minutes, not a minute more. 43 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:36,529 And you cannot touch him in any way. Do you understand? 44 00:06:36,612 --> 00:06:38,445 - Yeah. - Room 15. 45 00:06:40,696 --> 00:06:42,112 Thank you. 46 00:06:42,195 --> 00:06:44,112 - You're not pregnant, are you? - No. 47 00:06:51,903 --> 00:06:53,654 I won't have to give that to you. 48 00:06:53,737 --> 00:06:54,987 There they are. 49 00:06:55,070 --> 00:06:56,903 No, wait, wait, wait. I haven't finished yet. 50 00:06:56,987 --> 00:06:58,279 No, he hasn't. 51 00:06:58,362 --> 00:07:00,237 Yeah, that's good. 52 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:04,654 Yeah, better. 53 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:09,153 Look who the cat dragged in. 54 00:07:10,987 --> 00:07:12,987 What did I tell you? 55 00:07:14,028 --> 00:07:16,862 There's no hiding from you, is there? 56 00:07:19,028 --> 00:07:21,654 Easy, easy. It's okay. 57 00:07:21,737 --> 00:07:25,070 We're all okay. Yeah, we're okay. 58 00:08:35,070 --> 00:08:38,529 How, how, how did this happen? Who gave them the idea? 59 00:08:38,612 --> 00:08:40,487 - Are you suggesting I did? - Someone did. 60 00:08:40,571 --> 00:08:44,028 Someone decided that the evacuation zone 61 00:08:44,112 --> 00:08:47,320 should be 30 kilometers, when we know, here, 62 00:08:47,404 --> 00:08:50,070 Cesium-137 in the Gomel district. 63 00:08:50,153 --> 00:08:52,529 - That's 200 kilometers away! - It was decided. 64 00:08:52,612 --> 00:08:55,112 - Based on what? - I don't know! 65 00:08:56,279 --> 00:09:00,362 Forgive me. Maybe I've just spent too much time in my lab. 66 00:09:00,445 --> 00:09:02,195 Or maybe I'm just stupid. 67 00:09:02,279 --> 00:09:05,487 Is this really the way it all works? 68 00:09:05,571 --> 00:09:07,487 An uninformed, arbitrary decision 69 00:09:07,571 --> 00:09:09,821 that will cost who knows how many lives 70 00:09:09,903 --> 00:09:13,862 made by some apparatchik, some career party man? 71 00:09:16,112 --> 00:09:18,320 I'm a career party man. 72 00:09:18,945 --> 00:09:21,987 You should watch your tone, Comrade Legasov. 73 00:09:23,279 --> 00:09:25,028 Comrades... 74 00:09:25,112 --> 00:09:27,696 We have visual confirmation that the fire is nearly extinguished. 75 00:09:27,779 --> 00:09:29,987 There has also been a reduction in iodine 131 76 00:09:30,070 --> 00:09:32,070 and cesium-137 emissions. 77 00:09:32,153 --> 00:09:34,070 Good. Yes? 78 00:09:34,153 --> 00:09:37,070 But the temperature is rising. 79 00:09:37,153 --> 00:09:38,654 And, uh... 80 00:09:45,696 --> 00:09:48,821 There's a spike in zirconium-95. 81 00:09:49,987 --> 00:09:53,279 It's from the cladding on the fuel rods. 82 00:09:53,362 --> 00:09:55,737 Meaning what? 83 00:09:55,821 --> 00:09:58,362 The meltdown has begun. 84 00:10:36,779 --> 00:10:38,445 Get it off me! 85 00:10:40,945 --> 00:10:43,404 Get it off me! 86 00:10:50,487 --> 00:10:52,279 Stop moving! 87 00:10:52,362 --> 00:10:55,028 Get off him! You're hurting him! 88 00:10:55,112 --> 00:10:57,903 - You can't be in here. - What's happening to him? 89 00:10:57,987 --> 00:11:00,153 Get out! 90 00:11:00,237 --> 00:11:02,237 You can't be in here! 91 00:11:15,427 --> 00:11:19,527 MAY 2, 1986 92 00:11:32,644 --> 00:11:36,177 SUPREME SOVIET OF THE USSR 93 00:11:37,066 --> 00:11:39,266 'HELP US' PLEA BY MOSCOW Meltdown could kill 10,000 in 10 years 94 00:11:45,028 --> 00:11:47,153 - Yes? - Comrade Shcherbina is on the phone. 95 00:11:47,237 --> 00:11:48,654 Put him through. 96 00:11:50,112 --> 00:11:51,279 Well? 97 00:11:51,362 --> 00:11:52,987 The fire's nearly out. 98 00:11:53,070 --> 00:11:54,737 The bubbler tanks are being drained. 99 00:11:54,821 --> 00:11:57,945 We have successfully eliminated the risk of a thermal explosion. 100 00:12:01,153 --> 00:12:02,195 And? 101 00:12:03,696 --> 00:12:05,195 The situation inside the core 102 00:12:05,279 --> 00:12:08,070 is deteriorating faster than anticipated. 103 00:12:08,153 --> 00:12:11,028 The concrete pad will last for six to eight weeks, 104 00:12:11,112 --> 00:12:14,320 but after that, Legasov estimates a 50% chance 105 00:12:14,404 --> 00:12:16,487 that the fuel will breach the pad 106 00:12:16,571 --> 00:12:18,987 and melt down into the groundwater itself. 107 00:12:19,070 --> 00:12:22,362 And where does this groundwater go? 108 00:12:22,445 --> 00:12:24,404 The Pripyat River, 109 00:12:24,487 --> 00:12:27,404 which feeds into the Dnieper. 110 00:12:27,487 --> 00:12:31,028 The primary water supply for approximately 50 million people, 111 00:12:31,112 --> 00:12:32,862 not to mention crops and livestock, 112 00:12:32,945 --> 00:12:34,987 would be... unusable. 113 00:12:35,070 --> 00:12:37,945 We're recommending we install a heat exchanger under the pad 114 00:12:38,028 --> 00:12:41,028 to lower to core temperature and halt the meltdown. 115 00:12:41,112 --> 00:12:45,195 And in order to do that, I'm told that we will need... 116 00:12:46,654 --> 00:12:50,696 all of the liquid nitrogen in the Soviet Union. 117 00:12:52,612 --> 00:12:53,821 Oh. 118 00:12:55,112 --> 00:12:57,529 - All right. - Yeah, and of course we'll also need... 119 00:12:57,612 --> 00:12:59,153 Whatever you need, you have it. 120 00:12:59,237 --> 00:13:00,654 - That should be clear by now. - Yes. 121 00:13:00,737 --> 00:13:02,279 - Anything else? - No, no, no. Thank you. 122 00:13:02,362 --> 00:13:05,279 Yes. I'd like to address the 30-kilometer exclusion zone. 123 00:13:05,362 --> 00:13:08,445 Wait, what? Professor Legasov, is that you? 124 00:13:08,529 --> 00:13:09,529 What exclusion zone? 125 00:13:09,612 --> 00:13:11,696 Minor details, General Secretary. 126 00:13:11,779 --> 00:13:14,279 Um, Premier Ryzhkov has determined that... 127 00:13:14,362 --> 00:13:16,445 If he determined, then he determined. 128 00:13:16,529 --> 00:13:18,195 Look, Professor Legasov, 129 00:13:18,279 --> 00:13:20,279 you are there for one reason only. 130 00:13:20,362 --> 00:13:22,445 Do you understand? To make this stop. 131 00:13:22,529 --> 00:13:23,821 I don't want questions. 132 00:13:23,903 --> 00:13:25,612 I want to know when this will be over. 133 00:13:25,696 --> 00:13:27,862 If you mean when will Chernobyl be completely safe, 134 00:13:27,945 --> 00:13:31,070 the half-life of plutonium-239 is 24,000 years. 135 00:13:31,153 --> 00:13:34,362 So perhaps we should just say, "Not within our lifetimes." 136 00:13:46,696 --> 00:13:48,612 I think you and I should take a walk. 137 00:13:48,696 --> 00:13:50,737 It's late. I'm tired. 138 00:13:51,737 --> 00:13:54,279 We're taking a walk. 139 00:14:00,737 --> 00:14:03,320 Was it it you want? An apology? 140 00:14:04,696 --> 00:14:06,362 Not gonna sit back and... 141 00:14:08,529 --> 00:14:11,487 What will happen to our boys? 142 00:14:11,571 --> 00:14:13,862 Which boys? The divers? 143 00:14:13,945 --> 00:14:17,279 The divers, the firefighters, the men in the control room. 144 00:14:17,362 --> 00:14:20,945 What does the radiation do to them precisely? 145 00:14:22,571 --> 00:14:25,279 At the levels some of them were exposed? 146 00:14:25,362 --> 00:14:29,195 Ionizing radiation tears the cellular structure apart. 147 00:14:29,279 --> 00:14:32,862 The skin blisters, turns red, then black. 148 00:14:33,987 --> 00:14:36,696 This is followed by a latency period. 149 00:14:37,779 --> 00:14:39,571 The immediate effects subside. 150 00:14:39,654 --> 00:14:42,696 The patient appears to be recovering. 151 00:14:42,779 --> 00:14:45,195 Healthy, even. But they aren't. 152 00:14:46,779 --> 00:14:50,320 This usually only lasts for a day or two. 153 00:14:52,696 --> 00:14:53,987 Continue. 154 00:14:55,153 --> 00:14:58,862 Then the cellular damage begins to manifest. 155 00:14:58,945 --> 00:15:04,279 The bone marrow dies, the immune system fails, 156 00:15:04,362 --> 00:15:08,153 the organs and soft tissue begin to decompose. 157 00:15:08,237 --> 00:15:12,237 The arteries and veins spill open like sieves, 158 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,779 to the point where you can't even administer morphine 159 00:15:14,862 --> 00:15:19,112 for the pain, which is... unimaginable. 160 00:15:19,195 --> 00:15:22,696 And then three days to three weeks, you are dead. 161 00:15:24,945 --> 00:15:27,362 That is what will happen to those boys. 162 00:15:29,487 --> 00:15:30,987 And what about us? 163 00:15:34,237 --> 00:15:35,903 Well, we've... 164 00:15:35,987 --> 00:15:40,153 We've gotten a steady dose, but not as much of it. 165 00:15:40,237 --> 00:15:42,237 Not strong enough to kill the cells, 166 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:45,362 but consistent enough to damage our DNA. 167 00:15:46,862 --> 00:15:50,112 So, in time... cancer. 168 00:15:50,195 --> 00:15:53,404 Or aplastic anemia. Either way, fatal. 169 00:15:56,362 --> 00:15:57,737 Well... 170 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:05,237 in a sense, it would seem we've gotten off easy then, Valery. 171 00:16:17,779 --> 00:16:19,779 I've seen them before. 172 00:16:25,529 --> 00:16:28,779 Now you know why I wanted to take a walk. 173 00:16:28,903 --> 00:16:31,404 We can presume the work site is bugged. 174 00:16:32,070 --> 00:16:35,987 And our rooms, even our bathrooms. 175 00:16:36,070 --> 00:16:38,487 They've been here the whole time. 176 00:16:38,571 --> 00:16:40,654 Of course they've been here the whole time. 177 00:16:41,903 --> 00:16:45,487 But if we're seeing them out in the open now, 178 00:16:45,571 --> 00:16:48,404 it's because they want us to know. 179 00:17:30,195 --> 00:17:31,654 You've seen that? 180 00:17:33,903 --> 00:17:36,028 The fuel is melting faster than we expected. 181 00:17:36,112 --> 00:17:39,153 I know. I have a plan. 182 00:17:39,237 --> 00:17:41,862 Heat exchanger, I hope. 183 00:17:41,945 --> 00:17:43,445 Yes. 184 00:17:46,362 --> 00:17:48,362 There's something I've wanted to ask you, comrade, 185 00:17:48,445 --> 00:17:51,862 but I see you're already asking yourself the same question. 186 00:17:55,862 --> 00:17:58,237 Why did it explode? 187 00:17:59,737 --> 00:18:01,945 I've worked the numbers over and over, 188 00:18:02,028 --> 00:18:05,903 presuming the worst possible conditions in an RBMK reactor. 189 00:18:07,654 --> 00:18:10,237 And I always get the same answer. 190 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:11,821 Which is? 191 00:18:13,153 --> 00:18:15,404 It's not possible. 192 00:18:15,487 --> 00:18:16,987 And yet... 193 00:18:20,070 --> 00:18:22,320 You're not going to solve this here. 194 00:18:23,862 --> 00:18:25,487 Not on paper. 195 00:18:26,987 --> 00:18:28,862 Everyone who was in the control room, 196 00:18:28,945 --> 00:18:31,237 Dyatlov, Akimov, Toptunov, 197 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:35,487 they're all in Moscow, Hospital Number 6. 198 00:18:35,571 --> 00:18:38,779 We need to find out exactly what happened that night, 199 00:18:38,862 --> 00:18:42,404 moment by moment, decision by decision. 200 00:18:43,612 --> 00:18:45,903 Go now while they're still alive. 201 00:18:45,987 --> 00:18:47,862 Talk to them. 202 00:18:47,945 --> 00:18:50,821 Because if we don't find out how this happened, 203 00:18:50,903 --> 00:18:53,237 it will happen again. 204 00:18:56,153 --> 00:18:57,945 And, Khomyuk... 205 00:18:59,404 --> 00:19:01,737 be careful. 206 00:19:13,771 --> 00:19:18,904 TULA, RUSSIAN SSR MAY 3, 1986 207 00:19:25,571 --> 00:19:26,945 Well, fuck you! 208 00:19:30,070 --> 00:19:32,070 Hey, here's one, here's one. 209 00:19:32,153 --> 00:19:34,070 What's as big as a house, 210 00:19:34,153 --> 00:19:37,028 burns 20 liters of fuel every hour, 211 00:19:37,112 --> 00:19:38,987 puts out a shit-load of smoke and noise, 212 00:19:39,070 --> 00:19:42,987 and cuts an apple into three pieces? 213 00:19:45,028 --> 00:19:48,445 A Soviet machine made to cut apples into four pieces! 214 00:20:27,779 --> 00:20:30,945 - Who's in charge here? - Glukhov: I'm the crew chief. 215 00:20:31,028 --> 00:20:35,028 I am Shadov, minister of coal industries. 216 00:20:35,112 --> 00:20:36,779 We know who you are. 217 00:20:38,903 --> 00:20:40,404 How many men do you have? 218 00:20:40,487 --> 00:20:44,612 On this shift, 45 here, a hundred in total. 219 00:20:44,696 --> 00:20:49,070 I need all 100 men to gather their equipment and get in the trucks. 220 00:20:49,153 --> 00:20:52,654 Do you? To where? 221 00:20:54,153 --> 00:20:55,487 That's classified. 222 00:21:01,821 --> 00:21:02,987 Come on, then. 223 00:21:03,070 --> 00:21:04,696 Start shooting. 224 00:21:04,779 --> 00:21:07,987 You haven't got enough bullets for all of us. 225 00:21:08,070 --> 00:21:10,070 Kill as many as you can, whoever's left, 226 00:21:10,153 --> 00:21:11,987 they'll beat the living piss out of each of you. 227 00:21:12,070 --> 00:21:15,404 - You can't talk to us like that! - Shut the fuck up! 228 00:21:15,487 --> 00:21:18,320 This is Tula. This is our mine. 229 00:21:19,279 --> 00:21:21,404 We don't leave unless we know why. 230 00:21:23,195 --> 00:21:24,571 Mm. 231 00:21:28,445 --> 00:21:30,529 You're going to Chernobyl. 232 00:21:32,571 --> 00:21:34,945 Do you know what's happened there? 233 00:21:35,028 --> 00:21:37,279 We dig up coal, not bodies. 234 00:21:37,362 --> 00:21:40,529 The reactor fuel is going to sink into the ground 235 00:21:40,612 --> 00:21:43,862 and poison the water from Kiev to the Black Sea. 236 00:21:43,945 --> 00:21:45,404 All of it. 237 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:47,903 Forever, they say. 238 00:21:49,821 --> 00:21:53,112 They want you to stop that from happening. 239 00:21:53,195 --> 00:21:55,445 And how are we supposed to do that? 240 00:21:56,862 --> 00:22:00,112 They didn't tell me, because I don't need to know. 241 00:22:01,362 --> 00:22:04,112 Do you need to know, or have you heard enough? 242 00:22:44,987 --> 00:22:47,987 Now you look like the minister of coal. 243 00:23:09,445 --> 00:23:10,945 Vasya? 244 00:23:12,445 --> 00:23:13,779 Vasya? 245 00:23:19,862 --> 00:23:21,779 No, no, no. 246 00:23:21,862 --> 00:23:24,112 They told you no touching. 247 00:23:24,195 --> 00:23:26,445 It's not safe. 248 00:23:26,529 --> 00:23:28,821 They touch you. 249 00:23:29,862 --> 00:23:31,987 If it's safe for them, it's safe for me. 250 00:23:41,987 --> 00:23:43,903 Where are the others? 251 00:23:43,987 --> 00:23:46,487 They took them to a special room. 252 00:23:47,445 --> 00:23:49,195 They won't tell me where. 253 00:23:53,487 --> 00:23:55,945 Will you open the curtains? 254 00:23:56,028 --> 00:23:59,320 - Hmm? - Open the curtains. 255 00:24:02,737 --> 00:24:04,404 Aah. 256 00:24:21,404 --> 00:24:24,320 Please, tell me what you see outside. 257 00:24:24,404 --> 00:24:25,945 Tell me everything. 258 00:24:33,529 --> 00:24:34,862 Huh. 259 00:24:36,445 --> 00:24:38,529 I can see the Red Square. 260 00:24:41,279 --> 00:24:43,320 And... 261 00:24:43,404 --> 00:24:45,112 the Kremlin. 262 00:24:46,362 --> 00:24:49,821 Spasskaya Tower, the Mausoleum. 263 00:24:52,195 --> 00:24:54,696 You see St. Basil's? 264 00:24:54,779 --> 00:24:56,903 Yeah. 265 00:24:56,987 --> 00:24:58,862 Ah. 266 00:24:58,945 --> 00:25:00,737 Yes, it's beautiful. 267 00:25:02,362 --> 00:25:04,153 I told you. 268 00:25:04,237 --> 00:25:07,571 I told you I'd show you Moscow, didn't I? 269 00:25:07,654 --> 00:25:10,612 - Huh? - Yeah. Yes. 270 00:25:16,404 --> 00:25:18,237 Thank you. 271 00:26:05,362 --> 00:26:08,195 I'm not eating that. It's shit. 272 00:26:08,945 --> 00:26:11,195 Get me something else. 273 00:26:11,279 --> 00:26:14,028 I'm not a nurse, Comrade Dyatlov. 274 00:26:14,112 --> 00:26:16,070 I'm a nuclear physicist. 275 00:26:16,779 --> 00:26:19,404 Well, then, Comrade Nuclear Physicist... 276 00:26:20,696 --> 00:26:25,153 unless you happen to have a butter and caviar sandwich on you, 277 00:26:25,237 --> 00:26:28,487 you can get the fuck out of my room. 278 00:27:46,237 --> 00:27:47,571 What? 279 00:27:49,070 --> 00:27:51,571 I'm not good at this, Boris. 280 00:27:51,654 --> 00:27:53,404 The lying. 281 00:27:57,862 --> 00:28:00,779 Have you ever spent time with miners? 282 00:28:02,445 --> 00:28:03,737 No. 283 00:28:03,821 --> 00:28:06,362 My advice: tell the truth. 284 00:28:06,445 --> 00:28:10,070 These men work in the dark. They see everything. 285 00:28:11,445 --> 00:28:13,945 Andrei Glukhov, crew chief. 286 00:28:29,362 --> 00:28:31,279 Do these work? 287 00:28:32,195 --> 00:28:33,987 To an extent. 288 00:28:36,654 --> 00:28:38,654 Of course. 289 00:28:50,279 --> 00:28:52,612 So what's the job? 290 00:28:53,821 --> 00:28:57,404 We need to install a liquid nitrogen heat exchanger 291 00:28:57,487 --> 00:29:00,612 underneath this concrete pad. 292 00:29:00,696 --> 00:29:04,612 There's no way to approach from the interior of the building, 293 00:29:04,696 --> 00:29:06,737 so you have to get at it from underground. 294 00:29:06,821 --> 00:29:10,612 - And what's above the pad? - The core of the nuclear reactor, 295 00:29:10,696 --> 00:29:13,654 which is melting down. 296 00:29:13,737 --> 00:29:16,320 What? Like... 297 00:29:17,862 --> 00:29:19,070 Essentially. 298 00:29:20,903 --> 00:29:22,237 Is it gonna fall on top of us? 299 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,320 Not if you're done within six weeks. 300 00:29:26,279 --> 00:29:28,153 Dimensions? 301 00:29:31,153 --> 00:29:33,070 Break ground here, 302 00:29:33,153 --> 00:29:35,445 dig a tunnel 150 meters to here, 303 00:29:35,529 --> 00:29:38,654 excavate a space 30 by 30 meters 304 00:29:38,737 --> 00:29:40,362 for the heat exchanger. 305 00:29:40,445 --> 00:29:43,612 And because we need to keep disruption of the ground above to a minimum, 306 00:29:43,696 --> 00:29:45,571 you can't use any heavy machinery. 307 00:29:45,654 --> 00:29:47,028 It has to be done by hand. 308 00:29:47,112 --> 00:29:49,404 Then I need more men. 309 00:29:50,945 --> 00:29:52,279 Four hundred at least. 310 00:29:52,362 --> 00:29:54,862 We'll have to work around the clock. 311 00:29:54,945 --> 00:29:56,779 How deep do you want this tunnel? Six meters? 312 00:29:56,862 --> 00:29:59,779 - Twelve. - Twelve? Why? 313 00:29:59,862 --> 00:30:02,362 For your protection. 314 00:30:02,445 --> 00:30:06,279 At that depth, you'll be shielded from much of the radiation. 315 00:30:06,362 --> 00:30:10,612 The entrance to the tunnel won't be 12 meters below ground. 316 00:30:11,903 --> 00:30:13,737 No. 317 00:30:13,821 --> 00:30:16,862 And we're not 12 meters below ground now. 318 00:30:21,487 --> 00:30:24,445 No. We're not. 319 00:30:27,195 --> 00:30:29,195 We have some equipment here on site. 320 00:30:29,279 --> 00:30:32,445 More will arrive by midnight. 321 00:30:33,945 --> 00:30:35,445 You can start in the morning. 322 00:30:35,529 --> 00:30:37,028 No. We start now. 323 00:30:37,112 --> 00:30:41,070 I don't want my men here one more second than they need to be. 324 00:30:42,903 --> 00:30:46,571 If these worked, you'd be wearing them. 325 00:30:56,487 --> 00:30:58,195 Are they all like that? 326 00:30:58,279 --> 00:31:00,654 They're all like that. 327 00:31:07,378 --> 00:31:14,178 MAY 6, 1986 NINE DAYS AFTER THE EXPLOSION 328 00:32:16,828 --> 00:32:22,028 COMRADES! OUR TASK - ENSURE THE DAILY ADVANCE OF THE BOTTOM ENTRANCE BY 13M 329 00:32:24,821 --> 00:32:26,028 Yes? 330 00:32:26,112 --> 00:32:28,696 - What's it up to? - Uh, 50 degrees. 331 00:32:33,028 --> 00:32:34,279 Fuck! 332 00:32:38,571 --> 00:32:40,445 Hey! 333 00:32:40,529 --> 00:32:41,903 Hey you! 334 00:32:51,279 --> 00:32:54,279 - We need fans. - For what purpose? 335 00:32:54,362 --> 00:32:56,195 What do you mean, "For what purpose?" 336 00:32:56,279 --> 00:32:57,987 To dig your fucking tunnel, that's why. 337 00:32:58,070 --> 00:33:00,945 - Who's talking to you? - Whoa, whoa. Comrades. 338 00:33:01,028 --> 00:33:03,404 It's 50 degrees down there. 339 00:33:03,487 --> 00:33:05,112 We can't breathe without the masks, 340 00:33:05,195 --> 00:33:06,654 we can't breathe with the masks. 341 00:33:06,737 --> 00:33:09,612 It's like a fucking oven. We need ventilation. 342 00:33:09,696 --> 00:33:12,821 Fans will put dust in the air, the dust will go in your lungs. 343 00:33:12,903 --> 00:33:15,571 I've been breathing dust in my lungs for 20 years. 344 00:33:15,654 --> 00:33:18,279 Not this dust. I'm sorry. 345 00:33:18,362 --> 00:33:21,571 For your own good, no fans. 346 00:33:49,571 --> 00:33:51,696 My name is Ulana Khomyuk. 347 00:33:51,779 --> 00:33:55,279 I'm a nuclear physicist with the Chernobyl Commission. 348 00:33:57,112 --> 00:33:59,237 I want you to tell me everything that happened 349 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,445 on the night of the accident. 350 00:34:02,445 --> 00:34:04,112 Is that all right? 351 00:34:06,862 --> 00:34:08,153 Yes. 352 00:34:10,279 --> 00:34:11,862 I want to tell. 353 00:34:12,945 --> 00:34:14,487 All right. 354 00:34:27,112 --> 00:34:29,945 Your official title was? 355 00:34:32,487 --> 00:34:37,237 My name is Leonid Fedorovych Toptunov. 356 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:43,487 I am the senior reactor control chief engineer 357 00:34:43,571 --> 00:34:46,195 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. 358 00:34:49,821 --> 00:34:52,195 Senior engineer? 359 00:34:54,153 --> 00:34:55,987 How old are you? 360 00:35:00,612 --> 00:35:02,737 I'm 25. 361 00:35:50,487 --> 00:35:52,362 Lyusya? Lyusya? 362 00:35:52,445 --> 00:35:54,862 Yes, I'm here, I'm here. I'm... 363 00:36:09,862 --> 00:36:11,945 Have you been here this whole time? 364 00:36:12,028 --> 00:36:14,571 No one said I should leave. 365 00:36:14,654 --> 00:36:15,987 I did. 366 00:36:16,070 --> 00:36:17,320 Thirty minutes, I said! 367 00:36:17,404 --> 00:36:20,903 Well, where have you been? When he's in pain? 368 00:36:20,987 --> 00:36:22,237 When his sores stick to his gown? 369 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:23,945 When he soils himself five times a night? 370 00:36:24,028 --> 00:36:25,821 I've been looking after him. Where have you been? 371 00:36:25,903 --> 00:36:27,737 I've been In the north and west wing, 372 00:36:27,821 --> 00:36:31,320 where there are dozens of patients from Chernobyl exactly like him. 373 00:36:31,404 --> 00:36:33,070 - It isn't safe for you here. - He's my husband. 374 00:36:33,153 --> 00:36:34,195 Not anymore. 375 00:36:34,279 --> 00:36:36,153 He's something else now. Do you understand? 376 00:36:36,237 --> 00:36:38,987 He's dangerous to you. 377 00:36:39,070 --> 00:36:41,612 He's burned. 378 00:36:41,696 --> 00:36:43,362 Go home. 379 00:36:44,153 --> 00:36:45,529 Please. 380 00:36:48,612 --> 00:36:51,487 It won't take much longer. I, uh... 381 00:36:54,987 --> 00:36:57,945 I don't want him to die alone. 382 00:37:00,153 --> 00:37:02,487 Stay on the other side of the plastic. 383 00:37:04,070 --> 00:37:05,945 Or I'll have you removed by security. 384 00:38:05,195 --> 00:38:07,362 - Lyusya? - Yes, my love. 385 00:38:10,362 --> 00:38:13,112 Is it day? 386 00:38:13,195 --> 00:38:15,445 No, it's nighttime now. 387 00:38:19,404 --> 00:38:21,279 I think I had a dream, 388 00:38:21,362 --> 00:38:23,279 it's just gone. 389 00:38:24,945 --> 00:38:26,529 Vasya. 390 00:38:32,195 --> 00:38:34,195 We're going to have a baby. 391 00:39:11,028 --> 00:39:12,404 The fire's out. 392 00:39:15,070 --> 00:39:16,654 It's out, Valera. 393 00:39:17,779 --> 00:39:20,404 The miners are making incredible progress. 394 00:39:21,404 --> 00:39:24,612 They say the whole job will be finished in four weeks. 395 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,237 Four weeks. 396 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,445 Can you believe that? 397 00:39:36,237 --> 00:39:38,445 I know the job isn't over. 398 00:39:39,987 --> 00:39:41,987 But it's the beginning of the end. 399 00:39:47,571 --> 00:39:50,445 I'm sorry to bother you, Deputy Minister, but... 400 00:39:52,404 --> 00:39:53,779 it is the miners. 401 00:40:41,987 --> 00:40:43,237 What? 402 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,903 You wouldn't give us fans, it's too hot for clothes. 403 00:40:45,987 --> 00:40:49,028 So we're digging the old way. This is how our fathers mined. 404 00:40:51,028 --> 00:40:52,821 We're still wearing the fucking hats. 405 00:40:52,903 --> 00:40:54,696 What do you want? 406 00:40:57,696 --> 00:41:00,445 You're not as protected now. 407 00:41:00,529 --> 00:41:03,237 Are you telling me it will make a difference? 408 00:41:08,487 --> 00:41:10,571 When this is over, 409 00:41:10,654 --> 00:41:12,571 will they be looked after? 410 00:41:16,070 --> 00:41:17,862 I don't know. 411 00:41:28,612 --> 00:41:30,404 You don't know. 412 00:41:49,070 --> 00:41:54,153 So the power level jumped from 200 to 400 megawatts? 413 00:41:54,237 --> 00:41:56,070 Yes. 414 00:41:56,987 --> 00:41:58,737 Very fast. 415 00:42:00,070 --> 00:42:03,612 Why didn't you initiate an emergency shutdown? 416 00:42:03,696 --> 00:42:06,404 Why didn't you press the AZ-5 button? 417 00:42:07,987 --> 00:42:09,279 We did. 418 00:42:09,362 --> 00:42:12,945 I reported the increase to Akimov, 419 00:42:13,028 --> 00:42:15,112 and he pressed the button. 420 00:42:16,112 --> 00:42:19,529 Leonid, that's... that's not possible. 421 00:42:20,987 --> 00:42:22,779 He did. 422 00:42:22,862 --> 00:42:24,821 I s-swear. 423 00:42:24,903 --> 00:42:27,028 I saw him do it. 424 00:42:30,612 --> 00:42:32,862 And that's when it exploded. 425 00:42:35,654 --> 00:42:37,112 What? 426 00:42:50,945 --> 00:42:52,153 Um... 427 00:42:53,279 --> 00:42:56,362 - Which room is Akimov? - Twenty-seven. 428 00:43:11,153 --> 00:43:15,070 I pressed it... before the explosion. 429 00:43:15,153 --> 00:43:16,862 Before. 430 00:43:18,987 --> 00:43:21,612 But why? 431 00:43:21,696 --> 00:43:23,737 Why would that happen? 432 00:43:25,195 --> 00:43:28,654 I shut it down. I pressed AZ-5. 433 00:43:34,445 --> 00:43:36,404 Thank you, Comrade Akimov. 434 00:43:41,237 --> 00:43:43,279 I did everything right. 435 00:43:44,737 --> 00:43:46,862 I did everything right. 436 00:44:17,903 --> 00:44:19,445 Get out. 437 00:44:19,529 --> 00:44:21,070 Get out. Get out of here. 438 00:44:21,153 --> 00:44:23,487 Let me go! Let me go! 439 00:44:23,571 --> 00:44:26,112 Stop it! Stop it! 440 00:44:28,737 --> 00:44:31,362 You let her in that room? Inside the plastic, touching him? 441 00:44:31,445 --> 00:44:33,987 - Did you know she's pregnant? - It's not true! 442 00:44:34,070 --> 00:44:37,779 - What have you done? - What kind of place is this? Where is her protection? 443 00:44:37,862 --> 00:44:40,821 - Do you have any idea what you're dealing with? - Of course I do. 444 00:44:40,903 --> 00:44:42,362 - Please, I do not... - No. 445 00:44:42,445 --> 00:44:44,654 - People are going to hear about this. - Wait. 446 00:44:44,737 --> 00:44:46,487 People are going to hear. Do you understand? 447 00:44:46,571 --> 00:44:48,487 Everyone is going to hear. 448 00:44:48,571 --> 00:44:50,612 What is everyone gonna hear? 449 00:44:56,779 --> 00:44:58,654 I am with the official Chernobyl Commission, 450 00:44:58,737 --> 00:45:00,862 and I've been authorized by Valery Legasov. 451 00:45:00,945 --> 00:45:04,195 - You can check this. My name is Ulana... - We know who you are. 452 00:45:07,612 --> 00:45:10,529 What is everyone gonna hear? 453 00:45:18,192 --> 00:45:20,859 MOSCOW MAY 7, 1986 454 00:45:30,487 --> 00:45:32,445 You have your notes? 455 00:45:32,529 --> 00:45:34,112 Yes. 456 00:45:36,362 --> 00:45:38,070 Khomyuk was arrested last night. 457 00:45:38,153 --> 00:45:40,862 What? Why? 458 00:45:40,945 --> 00:45:42,404 I don't know. 459 00:45:43,571 --> 00:45:46,903 - Was it...? - Of course it was. 460 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:49,445 I'm working on it. 461 00:45:49,529 --> 00:45:52,362 - Boris... - I'm working on it. 462 00:45:53,612 --> 00:45:55,737 What more do you want from me? 463 00:45:55,821 --> 00:45:57,320 Fix your tie. 464 00:46:03,821 --> 00:46:05,237 They'll see you now. 465 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:18,903 After thousands of sorties, our brave helicopter crews 466 00:46:18,987 --> 00:46:20,404 successfully extinguished the fire. 467 00:46:20,487 --> 00:46:23,112 The miners are working heroically to ensure 468 00:46:23,195 --> 00:46:25,320 that the fuel does not reach the groundwater. 469 00:46:25,404 --> 00:46:27,571 And furthermore, there is no longer 470 00:46:27,654 --> 00:46:29,195 a threat of additional explosion. 471 00:46:29,279 --> 00:46:34,112 The Soviet people have faced the challenge and risen to the task, 472 00:46:34,195 --> 00:46:36,779 and they and everyone in this room are to be commended. 473 00:46:41,987 --> 00:46:44,612 Lastly, Professor Legasov and I have been vigilant 474 00:46:44,696 --> 00:46:47,070 to protect the security interests of the State. 475 00:46:47,153 --> 00:46:49,737 And since the unfortunate release of information 476 00:46:49,821 --> 00:46:51,112 directly following the accident, 477 00:46:51,195 --> 00:46:54,153 we believe that there has been no further lapse. 478 00:46:54,237 --> 00:46:56,654 Comrade Charkov, 479 00:46:56,737 --> 00:47:00,696 we hope we have lived up to the highest standards of the KGB. 480 00:47:00,779 --> 00:47:01,821 You have. 481 00:47:01,903 --> 00:47:03,571 Thank you. 482 00:47:04,737 --> 00:47:08,112 Professor Legasov will now speak about 483 00:47:08,195 --> 00:47:09,654 the work that remains. 484 00:47:11,779 --> 00:47:13,445 Thank you. 485 00:47:16,903 --> 00:47:19,821 Deputy Chairman Shcherbina has given you the good news, 486 00:47:19,903 --> 00:47:21,821 and it is good. 487 00:47:21,903 --> 00:47:24,445 The immediate danger is over. 488 00:47:24,529 --> 00:47:27,654 Now, I'm afraid, a long war must begin. 489 00:47:28,779 --> 00:47:31,529 There is an enormous amount of radioactive debris 490 00:47:31,612 --> 00:47:33,737 and contamination spread out across a zone 491 00:47:33,821 --> 00:47:36,279 of approximately 2600 square kilometers. 492 00:47:36,362 --> 00:47:41,737 This entire region must be completely evacuated. 493 00:47:41,821 --> 00:47:45,945 We must go to every town, every village to ensure this. 494 00:47:46,028 --> 00:47:51,862 And all animals still surviving within the zone, 495 00:47:51,945 --> 00:47:54,571 whether domesticated or wild, 496 00:47:54,654 --> 00:47:58,903 must be presumed contaminated and will have to be destroyed 497 00:47:58,987 --> 00:48:02,362 to prevent the spread of radiation and disease. 498 00:48:02,445 --> 00:48:05,862 In the immediate area surrounding Chernobyl, 499 00:48:05,945 --> 00:48:11,404 uh, every rock, every tree, the very ground itself, 500 00:48:11,487 --> 00:48:15,362 has absorbed a dangerous amount of radionuclides, 501 00:48:15,445 --> 00:48:18,445 which will be carried by the wind and the rain if left exposed. 502 00:48:18,529 --> 00:48:20,862 So we will have to raze entire forests. 503 00:48:20,945 --> 00:48:23,028 We will have to rip up the top layer of earth 504 00:48:23,112 --> 00:48:24,404 and bury it under itself, 505 00:48:24,487 --> 00:48:28,028 approximately, 100 square kilometers. 506 00:48:29,737 --> 00:48:33,070 Um, and finally, we will need to construct 507 00:48:33,153 --> 00:48:38,112 a containment structure around the power plant itself, 508 00:48:38,195 --> 00:48:41,737 which will, of course, still be extremely... 509 00:48:44,404 --> 00:48:46,320 There will be deaths. 510 00:48:49,654 --> 00:48:51,445 What amount of time, 511 00:48:51,529 --> 00:48:53,153 and how many men do you require? 512 00:48:53,237 --> 00:48:56,987 We expect this liquidation effort to take three years 513 00:48:57,070 --> 00:48:59,404 and approximately 750,000 men, 514 00:48:59,487 --> 00:49:04,862 including a number of doctors and structural engineers. 515 00:49:04,945 --> 00:49:07,404 How many deaths? 516 00:49:07,487 --> 00:49:09,445 Thousands. 517 00:49:09,529 --> 00:49:12,070 Perhaps tens of thousands. 518 00:49:19,487 --> 00:49:21,195 Begin at once. 519 00:49:26,612 --> 00:49:29,195 - Comrade Charkov. - Valery! 520 00:49:30,862 --> 00:49:32,195 Yes, Professor? 521 00:49:33,237 --> 00:49:36,112 My associate was arrested last night. 522 00:49:36,195 --> 00:49:37,529 Oh? 523 00:49:38,529 --> 00:49:41,737 I mean no disrespect, but I was wondering if you could tell me why. 524 00:49:41,821 --> 00:49:44,112 I assure you, I don't know who you're talking about. 525 00:49:44,195 --> 00:49:46,987 She was arrested by the KGB. 526 00:49:47,070 --> 00:49:50,112 You are the first deputy chairman of the KGB. 527 00:49:50,195 --> 00:49:51,654 I am. 528 00:49:51,737 --> 00:49:54,654 That's why I don't have to bother with arresting people anymore. 529 00:49:54,737 --> 00:49:57,153 But you are bothering with having us followed. 530 00:49:58,487 --> 00:50:00,945 I think the deputy chairman is busy. 531 00:50:01,028 --> 00:50:03,153 No, no. It's perfectly understandable. 532 00:50:03,237 --> 00:50:07,153 Comrade, I know you've heard the stories about us. 533 00:50:07,237 --> 00:50:09,571 When I hear them, even I am shocked. 534 00:50:09,654 --> 00:50:11,571 But we are not what people say. 535 00:50:11,654 --> 00:50:14,404 Yes, people are following you. 536 00:50:14,487 --> 00:50:16,903 People are following those people. 537 00:50:16,987 --> 00:50:18,237 You see them? 538 00:50:20,654 --> 00:50:22,362 They follow me. 539 00:50:22,445 --> 00:50:26,529 The KGB is a circle of accountability. 540 00:50:26,612 --> 00:50:27,821 Nothing more. 541 00:50:27,903 --> 00:50:30,320 You know the work we're doing here. 542 00:50:31,696 --> 00:50:34,445 - You really don't trust us? - Of course I do. 543 00:50:34,529 --> 00:50:37,737 But you know the old Russian proverb: 544 00:50:37,821 --> 00:50:39,862 "Trust but verify." 545 00:50:41,779 --> 00:50:45,362 And the Americans think that Ronald Reagan thought that up. 546 00:50:45,445 --> 00:50:46,779 Can you imagine? 547 00:50:47,903 --> 00:50:50,362 It was very nice speaking with you. 548 00:50:50,445 --> 00:50:52,028 I need her. 549 00:50:54,612 --> 00:50:57,195 So you will be accountable for her? 550 00:51:01,779 --> 00:51:03,320 Then it's done. 551 00:51:04,153 --> 00:51:07,195 - Her name is... - I know who she is. 552 00:51:07,279 --> 00:51:09,112 Good day, Professor. 553 00:51:18,821 --> 00:51:22,404 No, that went surprisingly well. 554 00:51:22,487 --> 00:51:24,654 You came off like a naive idiot. 555 00:51:26,028 --> 00:51:28,821 And naive idiots are not a threat. 556 00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:46,987 I'll come back when the paperwork is complete. 557 00:51:54,654 --> 00:51:57,571 - Are you all right? - They didn't hurt me. 558 00:51:59,362 --> 00:52:01,862 They let a pregnant woman into a room with a... 559 00:52:01,945 --> 00:52:05,112 It doesn't matter. 560 00:52:05,195 --> 00:52:07,862 They were stupid. I was stupid. 561 00:52:09,279 --> 00:52:11,279 Dyatlov won't talk to me. 562 00:52:12,487 --> 00:52:16,070 Akimov, yes, Toptunov, yes, but... 563 00:52:16,153 --> 00:52:18,779 Valery, 564 00:52:18,862 --> 00:52:20,362 Akimov... 565 00:52:21,571 --> 00:52:23,279 his face was gone. 566 00:52:26,028 --> 00:52:27,696 You want to stop? 567 00:52:29,571 --> 00:52:32,028 Is that a choice I even have? 568 00:52:39,862 --> 00:52:43,654 Do you think the fuel will actually melt through the concrete pad? 569 00:52:43,737 --> 00:52:47,237 I don't know. A 40% chance maybe. 570 00:52:49,737 --> 00:52:52,529 I said 50. 571 00:52:52,612 --> 00:52:54,903 Either way, the numbers mean the same thing: 572 00:52:54,987 --> 00:52:57,028 "Maybe." 573 00:52:58,903 --> 00:53:02,195 Maybe the core will melt through to the groundwater. 574 00:53:02,279 --> 00:53:04,654 Maybe the miners who I've told to dig under the reactor 575 00:53:04,737 --> 00:53:07,153 will save millions of lives. 576 00:53:08,404 --> 00:53:10,903 Maybe I'm killing them for nothing. 577 00:53:14,737 --> 00:53:16,779 I don't want to do this anymore. 578 00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:19,821 I want to stop. 579 00:53:21,529 --> 00:53:23,028 But I can't. 580 00:53:24,195 --> 00:53:27,279 I don't think you have a choice any more than I do. 581 00:53:28,654 --> 00:53:32,028 I think, despite the stupidity, 582 00:53:32,112 --> 00:53:34,862 the lies, even this... 583 00:53:34,945 --> 00:53:37,028 you are compelled. 584 00:53:37,112 --> 00:53:39,529 The problem has been assigned, and you will stop at nothing 585 00:53:39,612 --> 00:53:41,028 until you find an answer. 586 00:53:41,112 --> 00:53:44,279 Because that is who you are. 587 00:53:46,112 --> 00:53:47,987 A lunatic, then. 588 00:53:49,821 --> 00:53:52,070 A scientist. 589 00:54:13,028 --> 00:54:15,987 Did you know that they were running a safety test? 590 00:54:17,195 --> 00:54:19,987 - Yeah. - There's something else. 591 00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:24,487 Akimov says they shut the reactor down, 592 00:54:24,571 --> 00:54:26,903 and Toptunov confirms it. 593 00:54:26,987 --> 00:54:30,821 - They pressed AZ-5. - Apparently not soon enough. 594 00:54:30,903 --> 00:54:32,445 No. 595 00:54:32,529 --> 00:54:37,153 They say Akimov pressed AZ-5, 596 00:54:37,237 --> 00:54:39,862 and then the reactor exploded. 597 00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:44,195 If it had been just one of them, I would have put it under 598 00:54:44,279 --> 00:54:46,529 faulty memory or delusion even, 599 00:54:46,612 --> 00:54:50,404 but they both agreed. They were adamant. 600 00:54:54,903 --> 00:54:56,404 Comrade? 601 00:54:58,529 --> 00:55:02,112 - Do you think it's possible? - I think it makes no sense. 602 00:55:02,195 --> 00:55:05,654 I think it's what I would say if I was trying to cover my own mistakes. 603 00:55:05,737 --> 00:55:07,362 But? 604 00:55:08,487 --> 00:55:10,195 I believed them. 605 00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:13,779 Then you should pursue it. 606 00:55:13,862 --> 00:55:17,862 We have to pursue every possibility, 607 00:55:17,945 --> 00:55:20,529 no matter how unlikely, 608 00:55:20,612 --> 00:55:23,571 no matter what or who's to blame. 609 00:55:25,070 --> 00:55:29,404 I'll go back to the hospital and reinterview Akimov and Toptunov. 610 00:55:32,028 --> 00:55:33,654 If they're still awake. 611 00:55:35,028 --> 00:55:36,612 They're not. 612 00:55:38,404 --> 00:55:39,821 Khomyuk. 613 00:56:25,721 --> 00:56:29,221 RESIDENT LIST 614 00:56:56,382 --> 00:56:58,249 UNDER THE BANNER OF MARXISM-LENINISM, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP 615 00:56:58,273 --> 00:57:00,473 OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, FORWARD TO THE VICTORY OF COMMUNISM! 616 00:59:50,689 --> 00:59:55,689 CREDITS 617 01:02:49,869 --> 01:02:52,602 NEXT ON CHERNOBYL 618 01:03:02,487 --> 01:03:04,404 To hell with our lives. 619 01:03:06,070 --> 01:03:08,028 Someone has to start telling the truth. 620 01:03:09,070 --> 01:03:10,529 You think the right question 621 01:03:10,612 --> 01:03:11,696 will get you the truth? 622 01:03:12,571 --> 01:03:13,945 I know they're listening. 623 01:03:14,529 --> 01:03:16,070 There is no truth. 624 01:03:27,028 --> 01:03:28,445 You're going to Chernobyl. 625 01:03:30,442 --> 01:03:33,342 ELEMENTS OF CHERNOBYL EPISODE THREE: "OPEN WIDE, O EARTH" 626 01:03:34,529 --> 01:03:37,070 The miners in the Soviet Union were tough guys. 627 01:03:37,362 --> 01:03:39,153 It was like the rules didn't apply to them in a sense. 628 01:03:39,487 --> 01:03:41,320 They had a lot of power in the Soviet Union 629 01:03:41,404 --> 01:03:44,571 because the Soviet Union needed coal for energy. 630 01:03:44,903 --> 01:03:46,945 You know, you look like the minister of coal. 631 01:03:47,696 --> 01:03:49,737 The miners who were willing to dig that coal 632 01:03:49,821 --> 01:03:50,987 had pretty good leverage, 633 01:03:51,070 --> 01:03:53,362 and they were not to be messed with in any capacity 634 01:03:53,445 --> 01:03:55,612 because you couldn't afford them not going to work. 635 01:03:56,404 --> 01:03:57,445 We need fans. 636 01:03:57,862 --> 01:03:58,945 For what purpose? 637 01:03:59,737 --> 01:04:00,903 What do you mean "For what purpose?" 638 01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:02,945 To dig your fucking tunnel, that's why. 639 01:04:03,195 --> 01:04:04,779 - Who's talking to you? - Whoa, whoa, comrades. 640 01:04:04,862 --> 01:04:07,237 They were characters with attitude. 641 01:04:07,571 --> 01:04:10,153 They built it in a hurry, they worked 24 hours a day. 642 01:04:10,237 --> 01:04:12,987 It was a mess that's all loose and toothy. 643 01:04:13,070 --> 01:04:15,195 Eight guys at the back just constantly... 644 01:04:15,279 --> 01:04:17,779 constantly digging out earth and sending it back out. 645 01:04:18,028 --> 01:04:19,529 All in all, around 400 miners 646 01:04:19,612 --> 01:04:21,612 dug 13 meters a day. 647 01:04:22,070 --> 01:04:24,654 There was this amazing nobility 648 01:04:24,737 --> 01:04:26,404 and self-sacrifice. 649 01:04:26,571 --> 01:04:28,862 We don't know their names, and they did it without 650 01:04:28,945 --> 01:04:31,696 any expectation of glory or anything like that. 651 01:04:32,779 --> 01:04:35,529 As it turns out, it was a big sacrifice for the miners 652 01:04:35,612 --> 01:04:38,112 who were sent down there and who didn't need to be. 653 01:04:39,070 --> 01:04:40,737 They worked around the clock 654 01:04:40,821 --> 01:04:42,195 in impossible conditions, 655 01:04:42,279 --> 01:04:44,070 not only radiation but heat, 656 01:04:44,404 --> 01:04:47,945 and they dug this tunnel in record time. 657 01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:50,028 Now, what happens to these men? 658 01:04:51,821 --> 01:04:55,195 When this is over, will they be looked after? 659 01:04:56,612 --> 01:04:57,696 I don't know. 660 01:05:01,529 --> 01:05:03,153 They did it on the understanding 661 01:05:03,237 --> 01:05:06,195 that they were saving millions of people. 662 01:05:06,445 --> 01:05:08,237 Extraordinary acts of heroism. 663 01:05:08,487 --> 01:05:10,404 The work they were doing was incredibly dangerous. 664 01:05:10,487 --> 01:05:12,237 They knew it, and they did it anyway. 665 01:05:12,571 --> 01:05:17,195 And the reports are that quite a few of them died very young.