![]() ![]() Later, because of their malfeasance, Bryukhanov and Fomin were sentenced to 10 years in prison one year after the Chernobyl disaster. Although he initially refused, he did follow the orders and received a fatal dose of radiation because of it. Fomin ultimately ordered deputy chief operational engineer Anatoly Sitnikov (Jaime Sives) to observe the reactor hall from the roof. Everyone but a handful of engineers believed that the core of reactor 4 was still intact, and two of those people were in charge of immediately managing the situation: Viktor Bryukhanov (Con O'Neill) and Nikolai Fomin (Adrian Rawlins). According to Mazin (via The Chernobyl Podcast), one such story is a worker who understood the reactor exploded, then chose to go home, take a nap, and return to work knowing that he'd most likely die.Ī large portion of Chernobyl episode 1 focuses on figuring out exactly what happened. Practically everything that the people from the control room did the night of the reactor's explosion was adapted into HBO's Chernobyl, but, unfortunately, some stories were left out of the miniseries since those accounts didn't directly affect the core story at hand. The two men who rushed into the control room to deliver the news of what happened actually did do that, and what they said, as well as the responses to what they said, are also true. In that regard, Chernobyl stays incredibly accurate to detail, even using real dialogue recorded in the book, Voices of Chernobyl, by Svetlana Alexievich. To them, or at least to Dyatlov, it was believed that one of the tanks had exploded, not the reactor itself, since that was considered impossible at the time. Eight years after his death and 10 years after the Chernobyl disaster happened, Legasov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation by Russian president Boris Yeltsin.Īfter Legasov hangs himself in episode 1, HBO's Chernobyl immediately switches over to the disaster itself beginning, with the explosion of reactor 4 and deputy chief-engineer Anatoly Dyatlov ordering everyone in the control room - all of whom were actually in the real-life control room when the accident happened, and some who died shortly afterward - to manage the situation. He then commits suicide in his home, two years to the day (but perhaps not to the minute) after reactor 4 exploded at Chernobyl. ![]() Legasov is shown recording tapes of the true account of what happened at Chernobyl - tapes that have been used to further understand the events that followed the fire - as a way to combat the failed cover-up by the Soviet Union. HBO's Chernobyl begins with the introduction of Valery Legasov, the deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy. ![]()
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