Chernobyl is such incredibly terrific television. But it will give you PTSD. Not even joking.

it was devastating without being gratuitous. I sat there holding my own doggy girl so tightly.

As our own government is systematically dismantling the health and safety protections we've relied on for much of a century, displaced trained, knowledgable scientists with political hacks, and wantonly ignored all the coming risks of climate change, don't think something similar could not happen here.

So it didn't go overboardin that respect. But the humanity aspect....the kid basically being enlisted to go to war with house pets. Damn.

And yes, this is an extremely relevant series for something that ostensibly occurred in 1986. From the very first lines about the death of truth.

Thanks. I hadn't heard about it.

up to 60 million dead were predicted in the midst of the crisis - many Hiroshima's per day, etc.

In Episode 3 - the pregnant woman holding her husband's hand up to her belly, faces melting off, the fact that the workers at the plant followed all procedures correctly and the core still exploded.

This is essential viewing, IMHO.

to this happening here

Remember 3 Mile Island

and now with all the incompetency of the idiots running the country it could happen again

And the accident was contained because we are smart enough to PLAN for accidents which is why we build containment buildings around our reactors. An accident like Chernobyl would never happen here. All nuclear reactors in this country are run by members of the IBEW, of which I am a brother. There could never be some political appointment to run a reactor. The union wouldn't stand for it.

Back then who was rapidly anti-nuke. When he said "I wish it had really melted down." I had to restrain myself from punching him cut.

I told him he was an unrepentant asshole, he replied "I do not care". That was the end of our relationship.

I'm glad they tried to address what happened to some of the major figures and give a bit better estimates on how many died, when, and how. I think Gorbachev had it about right--Chernobyl was the beginning of the end of USSR. Sadly, under Putin, it is clear nothing has been learned in terms of secrecy, lies, cover-ups, and threats.

And after that, watched Diary of Anne Frank. Last night was rough.