Chernobyl (HBO Mini Series)
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Pesty said:
Thats great, not played half life in years! Might have to give it another go now...
Pesty said:
Ah boo, blocked alreadyEarlOfHazard said:
Pesty said:
Ah boo, blocked already
Frimley111R said:
Just finished this too. f
k ME!! The most mind blowing part was when they said what would happen if the molten fuel hit the water tanks!!!!! Beyond terrifying.
Seriously good series that everyone should watch.
"... All that was required to cause the catastrophe was 5% of the reactors nuclear fuel. Originally it had contained more than 250 pounds of enriched uranium - enough to pollute and devastate most of Europe..."k ME!! The most mind blowing part was when they said what would happen if the molten fuel hit the water tanks!!!!! Beyond terrifying. Seriously good series that everyone should watch.
"...If the other three reactors of the Chernobyl power plant had been damaged by the explosion of the first, then hardly any living and breathing organisms would have remained on the planet..."
[Serhii Plokhy, Harvard University Professor, "Chernobyl, History of a Tragedy", 2018]
Edited by SeanyD on Thursday 19th September 16:00
p1stonhead said:
How can men walking over a roof covered in ‘rocks’ be one of the scariest scenes I’ve ever seen on TV?!
Side note - someone found the German robot in a scrapyard nearby!
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Quoted to show the pictureSide note - someone found the German robot in a scrapyard nearby!
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Edited by p1stonhead on Tuesday 28th May 20:47
The lunar rover is in the background too.
SeanyD said:
"...If the other three reactors of the Chernobyl power plant had been damaged by the explosion of the first, then hardly any living and breathing organisms would have remained on the planet..."
Properly scary!!!I watched the whole series on a couple of long haul BA flights recently - riveting!
SeanyD said:
"...If the other three reactors of the Chernobyl power plant had been damaged by the explosion of the first, then hardly any living and breathing organisms would have remained on the planet..."
[Serhii Plokhy, Harvard University Professor, "Chernobyl, History of a Tragedy", 2018]
He was talking b[Serhii Plokhy, Harvard University Professor, "Chernobyl, History of a Tragedy", 2018]
ks though.
another watch is on the cards before then, along with looking for lead pants on Amazon 
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