@@rbsk999 so what happened, you get shit canned? Lol

He's the usual pass the buck, blame everyone else, toxic as fuck, arrogant, piece of shit hypocrite boss that projects their own insecurities on everyone else and burns through employees.

Black Panther They makes you just as bad as them.

@@MrMisanthrope84 Now who does THAT bring to mind?

He reminds me of me, lol. Not proud.

He died 5-7 years later from cancer. But hey, he was a cunt.

Akimov wasn't as innocent in all this as it seems. He, like Dyatlov, stubbornly refused to believe the reactor had exploded (despite clear evidence to the contrary). He then sent men to their deaths for no reason, and then he himself went on a suicidal mission to open water valves, which only served to further flood the basement and pose an imminent threat of an apocalyptic steam explosion had it not been for the life-endangering effort of conscripted miners. Akimov himself died horribly as a result of standing waist-deep in irradiated water for hours, and then remaining in his wet clothes for hours more. He was the one who's skin "slipped off his leg like a sock" when he tried to stand up in hospital.

@@wll1500 Akimov was "by the book" type, he wanted to stop the experiment, becasuse it was against all security rules. Too bad he had low self esteem, if he would stand up against Djatlov, even for loosing job, we would have no Chernobyl disaster today...And it really doesn't matter what he have done afterwards...

And he got out of prison 7 years early from what was only a 10 year sentence, when he should have been imprisoned for life.

ewrewrawdas It wasn’t just about losing his job, that’s not how things worked in the Soviet Union. You couldn’t just go and find another job if your reputation was ruined because you disobeyed orders. He would have lost everything and he had a family to support.

Safety first

@@devintariel3769 Always

UNLIMITED POWER

You could say they'll pull the brakes and really unleash the beast.

Raise the power.

Reactor explodes Dyatlov: Raise the power

@@quietplace4303 lmao

"There are no rules for 50%!!!" - Yeah, that is because it is sooo dumb to do so, they assumed it was a given.

And he did just served 4 years in prison instead of 10 for this mess

That's usually the case in real life. Idiots thinking everyone else is the moron just because they don't understand.

No rule no core it's a simple as that

“We have to lower the control rods.” “I don’t think there are control rods. I don’t think there’s a core.”

"There's no graphite"

I was reading this comment when the there is no rule line played

You're delusional, get yourselves outta here....

6 people are incompetent assholes 😁

He made a great dramatic portrayal but too over the top for historical accuracy.

@@VersusARCH Exactly. We don't know what exactly happened and how everybody reacted in those moments. A great dramatic portrayal from Ritter nonetheless.

@@VersusARCH yeah, according to most accounts, real-life Dyatlov was harsh, but also fair, and not as terrible nor careless as in the show. but compelling narratives require dynamics, and dynamics is borne out of contrast and extremes, so of course all characters will be sort of "turned up to 11". the show is terrific, but it baffles me how many people assume it's a re-enacted documentary, and seemingly believe every single scene is a faithful account of what actually went down. while pretty close to the truth overall, "Chernobyl" takes lots of liberties.

@@vibovitold “not great not terrible” 😉

he broke every protocol because of pressure from his boss and then died trying to mitigate the disaster (after being told he would be responsible for the event). I am not trying to excuse his supervisors but I am not sure hero is the right word for him.

Yes and no. He stood up to Dyatlov but he still did the 1 thing he shouldn't have done: raised the power after Dyatlov threatened him.

​@@Kamina.D.Fiercein real life dyatlov was calm the whole time. The control room was calm. Pressing A3-5 was part of the test. Power only increases after pressing it. And dyatlov was the one who knew the reactor exploded. Akimov denied it. That is what happened in reality

They did the exact same thing with the movie "The China Syndrome". No music whatsoever, beyond Stephen Bishop's song.

great point. the ever present low pitched drone in the background really raises the tension in this scene too. incredibly well made and well acted series

@@scrubly_jr and the more high pitched "screams" that make the reactor seem like some of mythical eldrich horror come to life

I agree, he was so nice and simpy

Dyatlov was probably stressed the test wasn’t completed on time you have to understand his anger and in their culture failure was not acceptable

@@AdvancedGaming4444 no it's more than that, he was given all the blame as the Soviets liked to do.

@Quiet Place4 wow, got 'em!

Raise the power!

@@yourstruly4817 LOL

that's why everything should be in email chains. not saying people are in bad faith, but lot of times have poor memories.

How many karate chops have you received 😂

@@psychoticmortacarn none because I'm union

Parents 3:50

You and your friend during next exam 4:08

@@mpik1283 lol xD

Normally I'd say lol but this was no laughing matter

The small guy was only on the job for 4 months before this

@@michawyszynski6372 literally recited 'this isn't a laughing matter' in my head too.

In this case, nobody wins. Everyone dies. Trying to wish away physics pretty much never works.

they were far from fully trained

Dude was off the chains

@apocratos aww C'mon he doesn't deserve that

He fell down. That’s what the report would say. He fell down and may or may not have hit his head on the desk 2 or 3 times on the way down

In reality, the situation in the control room was perfectly calm, there was no power surge whatsoever before AZ-5 wass pressed, it was pressed as part of the test procedure (NOT in emergency) and no one actually had a clue the reactor was unstable. watch ukposts.info/have/v-deo/rV1eg5qtb4CZ1X0.html read page 17 of this (or more, you'll learn more) www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub913e_web.pdf Perhaps if people spent more time doing actual research rather than believing a dramatized TV show, you wouldn't be fed lies. I had the same opinion as you for a long while and it was eye opening to understand the truth.

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I'm in contruction too, well the logistical side of it, but im on the ground and not office based. Some bosses think they know it all. They get upset if something is taking longer than they'd like, and start shouting. Or get involved with things that they know very little about and start trying to tell you how to do things. Eugh, yea. Pisses me right off. Get back in your office and shut up.

@@mikeh2006 I've had the fortune of listening to guys who are in mining/construction like drilling and blasting. They did tell some stories indeed and the lesson is clear: The giant drill doesn't care about management.

Nobody poisoned the reactor it’s called catastrophic incident the worst possible outcome

@@AdvancedGaming4444 He didn’t say anyone poisoned anything… read his comment again…

And you are accusing poor dyatlov based on a fking movie who portrayed him this way so that it would be more attractive to the viewer and you say who deserves what? Do a bit of research on the real dyatlov...

Oh he knew about the poisoning, he just had too much faith in Soviet made fail-safes

Dyatlov almost certainly knew about reactor poisoning. The problem is that an automatic system that *should* have prevented it wasn't activated due to an imbalance in its ionization sensors. This is left out of the miniseries (probably because it makes things harder to keep track of for viewers), but was important in the actual disaster. The system worked by automatically removing control rods to stabilize the reaction. When control rods are removed, more neutrons are available, which "burn off" the xenon produced by the decay of iodine fission products (which are reactor poisons because of their high neutron absorption). With the ionization detector in one part of the system still showing adequate radioactivity, it didn't trip. The real Dyatlov actually blamed what happened next solely on the flawed system, although other reports blame one of operators for attempting to reduce the power further to trip the automatic system. Either way, removing far more control rods manually was the only way to keep enough thermal neutrons in the reactor to avoid it being poisoned until the radioactive xenon could decay naturally. This should have never been done, but Dyatlov was under pressure to conduct the test that night, and would have likely been disciplined severely for allowing the reactor to go down for several hours. This doesn't excuse his decision, but it's why he made it. Like the show highlights, Dyatlov believed that the reactor's failsafe would keep things from getting too out of hand. If they had to, they could activate the SCRAM sequence and shut the reactor down manually. Unfortunately, the neutron-moderating graphite displacers on the control rods (which take energy from neutrons to make them usable to sustain fission) would enter the reactor before the neutron absorbing boron, a fact that the technicians were unaware of. This, combined with the slow speed of the rods entering the core, caused the reaction to intensify and heat up, which boiled off lightly neutron absorbant water, which intensified the reaction and eventually caused a steam explosion. Again, none of this should have ever been done, but Dyatlov wasn't as ignorant as he's depicted here. He was also less aggressive, and actually defended the reputation of the people working under him during his trial. Given that he'd gotten them killed, that's not much, but it does highlight the fact that he was just a deeply flawed human being rather than a complete monster. The design of the reactor, and the decision to hide its flaws, made what should have been an impossible scenario far too likely. There were thousands of men like Dyatlov who were trying to hold onto their livelihood in an unforgiving system, and any one of them trying to run this already dangerous test could have made disaster inevitable.

The point was that he did know about it, but he also believed that the "panic button" would solve everything. Dyatlov wanted his promotion so he didnt care about the risks cause the "panic button" was always available. He didnt know the button worked as a nuclear bomb trigger under the wrong circumstances.

If this is how it all went down in 86 no wonder it blew up, too bad Akimov was forced to follow his orders , RIP everyone, I think Stoyarchuk is still alive

And AZ-5 did not work, because operators lifted too many control rods earlier. It was explicitly prohibited in the manuals, but Dyatlov ignored the instructions. That was his fatal mistake - he did not know that lifting too many rods would make AZ-5 ineffective. But still, he broke one rule that should not be broken. And tens of thousands people paid for it.

@@evgenyrus9980 And during the lowering of the rod in AZ - five they got jammed due to high pressure in a reactor core and the graphite tips got stuck in endlessly accelerating the reaction for 5 ms reactor four was producing more power in the entire Soviet electrical grid

@@evgenyrus9980 Dyatlov got charged with gross violation of safety regulation.

I wish i had friends like akimov

No one cares about office or retail drama where the worst consequences as are paper cuts and crying teenage girls.

@@forestdenizen6497 Read this: qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merger-led-to-the-737-max-crisis/ This is quite common in the states now. There are guys like this making decisions about how your personal financial data is handled and how your car's steering and brakes are programmed. All on the cheap and fast to look good for their bosses and performance reports. I've seen it. Sleep tight. Are you going to fly on the 737 max after that gets greased through review and back into the sky?

Raise the power.

Ralph Tomkinson femalesss lol

I'm just waiting for him to say "lovely bit of squirrel" or make some stupid joke and then laugh really loud

when the reactor fails. SHIT ON IT.

HBO is feeding you lies, HBO essentially switched the roles, Legasov being shown as a saint who tries to get the truth out (while he was a typical partyman in real life :)). Dyatlov fought to get the truth out, even from the inside of a prison cell. He deserves his own series and the poor guy can't even defend himself because he passed away. Mazin is not a historian, he's a fiction writer. There's an interview with Lyudmila in Ukranian and she moved from Kiev to live with her mother because the media wouldn't leave her alone. The fictional HBO series made her beg to people to stop contacting her. It's sad. HBO is based on the infamous Chernobyl Notebook by Medvedev)) Essentially, they didn't blame the reactor designers and the moron who decided that the rods should have a couple meters of graphite. So the next people on their checklist were the power plant personnel. I'm getting quite used to being called an idiot/ asshole/ moron by members of the holy Legasov cult who's career consists of binge-watching a fictional series based on Medvedev's bullshit. I've been researching Chernobyl for years and other people as well who have way more knowledge, and the series is a bunch of misinformation and fiction. They villanized Dyatlov, the true hero who fought to get the truth out to the point that people are slandering him en masse.

@@crownvicnl if you say so. So many historical films or TV series if I must say so are not 100% accurate, they are slightly altered to try and captivate an audience. Believe me I can think of other historical films with inconsistencies and inaccuracies.

@@crownvicnl Agreed, a lot or pretty much all series/movies based on real events, really make a person look way worse in than in real life to add more drama. I understand they need to make a story, but doing it at the cost of completely ruining someone's reputation is just not right... After the event he indeed genuinely tried to help the cause..

"Nuclear reactors for dummies"

@@safe-keeper1042 lol good one 😂

"30 megawatts? It's stone cold! You fucking donkey!" Except Ramsey would be furious with breaching safety protocols.

*TAKE YOUR JACKET OFF AND G E T O U T*

Gordon Ramsay wouldn’t have done this

It was both, strictly speaking. Had the reactor been built more safely, the disaster wouldn't have happened. Had Dyatlov followed the rules, the disaster wouldn't have happened. It's a chicken-or-the-egg kind of thing. But yes, of course none of the other RMBK reactors suffered meltdowns, so.

Everybody alive until Dyatlov kills them all with his incompetence.

Dyatlov gangsta until he blows up the reactor and Legasov explains him what he did.

Everybody gangsta until the real history comes out. Show is good dramatization, but 0 truth.

Yes! Everything would have been fine and dandy but noooo! Comrade dyatlov wanted his way lol

That’s because if you will recall, a job promotion was in order. If the test was a success, he’d stand to move up.

jdspreest shit! Imagine dyatlov even higher in the chain of command! Sends chills down my spine

In reality, the situation in the control room was perfectly calm, there was no power surge whatsoever before AZ-5 wass pressed, it was pressed as part of the test procedure (NOT in emergency) and no one actually had a clue the reactor was unstable. watch ukposts.info/have/v-deo/rV1eg5qtb4CZ1X0.html read page 17 of this (or more, you'll learn more) www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub913e_web.pdf Perhaps if people spent more time doing actual research rather than believing a dramatized TV show, you wouldn't be fed lies. I had the same opinion as you for a long while and it was eye opening to understand the truth.

@@cpthrki5852 you realize that the report in Vienna was a propaganda report right? The Soviet Union practically refused to say how bad it really was for years

I don't think they did, because Akimov had been working there for a while, BUT, Toptunov had only been working there for a few months, don't think he messed it up though.

Steele Comrade I was expecting him to say shit on it

"Don't tell your Mother Russia about the exploding reactor core!"

@@somanytakennames ok I wont

Fucking Amateurs how the fuck did u get this job!

Comrade Dytalov, i am sorry, but i think you should show just a little bit more patience to your subordinates, i am not trying to insult you

@Quiet Place4 your mom is so fat, that she has a cargo elevator in her house

Course not. He was being ordered, gaslit, and threatened by Dyatlov.

They refused to believe the science.

yes but none of them are full trained

They are even wearing chef hats.

I was like, what's a dude with a German name doing in a Soviet nuclear reactor in the Ukraine xD ?

Yes, he's very reminiscent of factory owners during the Romanov era.