1 00:02:16,882 --> 00:02:19,760 Is it possible that the water has already killed them? 2 00:02:20,177 --> 00:02:22,138 Yes. 3 00:02:22,221 --> 00:02:23,764 Then what? 4 00:02:24,974 --> 00:02:26,767 If it doesn't work? 5 00:03:59,652 --> 00:04:01,153 Get them in the truck. 6 00:04:02,113 --> 00:04:04,240 Get the hoses in! Start pumping! 7 00:04:20,714 --> 00:04:23,634 Uh, I'm here to see my husband, Vasily Ignatenko. 8 00:04:23,717 --> 00:04:26,178 He's a firefighter from Chernobyl. I have permission. 9 00:04:26,387 --> 00:04:28,764 Chernobyl? I'm sorry, no visitors. 10 00:04:31,058 --> 00:04:33,477 Well, but Major... Major Burov told me, 11 00:04:33,561 --> 00:04:34,895 - he said... - No exceptions. 12 00:04:34,979 --> 00:04:37,773 Please. I've come all the way from Kievskaya Oblast. 13 00:05:03,883 --> 00:05:05,593 Excuse me. 14 00:05:06,927 --> 00:05:08,387 Excuse me, excuse me. 15 00:05:08,471 --> 00:05:09,763 Who are you? What are you doing here? 16 00:05:09,847 --> 00:05:12,641 - I have a pass. - You can't be here. It's not safe. 17 00:05:12,725 --> 00:05:14,602 I am here to see my husband. 18 00:05:14,685 --> 00:05:15,686 Vasily Ignatenko. 19 00:05:15,769 --> 00:05:17,271 He's a firefighter from Chernobyl. 20 00:05:17,354 --> 00:05:19,815 I know who Ignatenko is, but you can't. 21 00:05:19,899 --> 00:05:21,901 I have permission. I've... 22 00:05:28,199 --> 00:05:31,577 You can see him for 30 minutes, not a minute more. 23 00:05:31,660 --> 00:05:34,455 And you cannot touch him in any way. Do you understand? 24 00:05:34,538 --> 00:05:36,790 - Yeah. - Room 15. 25 00:05:38,542 --> 00:05:39,543 Thank you. 26 00:05:40,169 --> 00:05:42,046 - You're not pregnant, are you? - No. 27 00:05:49,970 --> 00:05:51,639 I won't have to give that to you. 28 00:05:51,722 --> 00:05:52,765 There they are. 29 00:05:53,182 --> 00:05:54,767 No, wait, wait, wait. I haven't finished yet. 30 00:05:54,850 --> 00:05:55,976 No, no, he hasn't. 31 00:05:56,769 --> 00:05:58,103 Yeah, that's good. 32 00:06:00,981 --> 00:06:02,233 Yeah, better. 33 00:06:05,152 --> 00:06:06,862 Look who the cat dragged in. 34 00:06:09,490 --> 00:06:11,158 What did I tell you? 35 00:06:11,992 --> 00:06:14,328 There's no hiding from you, is there? Eh? 36 00:06:17,665 --> 00:06:19,667 Easy, easy. It's okay. 37 00:06:19,750 --> 00:06:23,045 We're all okay. Yeah, we're okay. 38 00:07:33,032 --> 00:07:36,535 How, how, how did this happen? Who gave them the idea? 39 00:07:36,619 --> 00:07:38,495 - Are you suggesting I did? - Someone did. 40 00:07:38,579 --> 00:07:42,082 Someone decided that the evacuation zone 41 00:07:42,166 --> 00:07:45,336 should be 30 kilometers, when we know, here, 42 00:07:45,419 --> 00:07:48,172 cesium-137 in the Gomel district. 43 00:07:48,255 --> 00:07:50,883 - That's 200 kilometers away! - It was decided. 44 00:07:50,966 --> 00:07:52,885 - Based on what? - I don't know! 45 00:07:54,345 --> 00:07:58,265 Forgive me. Maybe I... I've just spent too much time in my lab. 46 00:07:58,349 --> 00:08:00,017 Or maybe I'm just stupid. 47 00:08:00,809 --> 00:08:02,561 Is this really the way it all works? 48 00:08:03,687 --> 00:08:05,564 An uninformed, arbitrary decision 49 00:08:05,648 --> 00:08:07,900 that will cost who knows how many lives 50 00:08:07,983 --> 00:08:11,862 made by some apparatchik? Some career party man? 51 00:08:13,947 --> 00:08:16,033 I'm a career party man. 52 00:08:16,992 --> 00:08:19,787 You should watch your tone, Comrade Legasov. 53 00:08:20,913 --> 00:08:22,081 Comrades... 54 00:08:23,123 --> 00:08:25,793 We have visual confirmation that the fire is nearly extinguished. 55 00:08:25,876 --> 00:08:27,878 There has also been a reduction in iodine-131 56 00:08:27,961 --> 00:08:29,797 and cesium-137 emissions. 57 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:31,507 Good. Yes? 58 00:08:32,299 --> 00:08:35,135 But the temperature is rising. 59 00:08:35,219 --> 00:08:36,595 And, uh... 60 00:08:43,769 --> 00:08:46,647 There's a spike in zirconium-95. 61 00:08:47,981 --> 00:08:51,193 It's from the cladding on the fuel rods. 62 00:08:51,276 --> 00:08:53,612 Meaning what? 63 00:08:53,696 --> 00:08:56,073 The meltdown has begun. 64 00:09:34,695 --> 00:09:36,238 Get it off me! 65 00:09:38,866 --> 00:09:41,243 Get it off me! 66 00:09:48,751 --> 00:09:50,252 Stop moving! 67 00:09:50,335 --> 00:09:53,088 Get off him! You're hurting him! 68 00:09:53,922 --> 00:09:56,049 - You can't be in here. - What's happening to him? 69 00:09:56,133 --> 00:09:57,593 Get out! 70 00:09:57,676 --> 00:09:59,428 You can't be in here! 71 00:10:42,387 --> 00:10:43,388 Yes? 72 00:10:43,472 --> 00:10:44,973 Comrade Shcherbina is on the phone. 73 00:10:45,057 --> 00:10:46,433 Put him through. 74 00:10:47,893 --> 00:10:49,186 Well? 75 00:10:49,269 --> 00:10:50,938 The fire's nearly out. 76 00:10:51,021 --> 00:10:52,773 The bubbler tanks are being drained. 77 00:10:52,856 --> 00:10:55,818 We have successfully eliminated the risk of a thermal explosion. 78 00:10:59,029 --> 00:11:00,030 And? 79 00:11:01,532 --> 00:11:03,158 The situation inside the core 80 00:11:03,242 --> 00:11:06,119 is deteriorating faster than anticipated. 81 00:11:06,203 --> 00:11:09,081 The concrete pad will last for six to eight weeks, 82 00:11:09,164 --> 00:11:12,209 but after that, Legasov estimates a 50% chance 83 00:11:12,292 --> 00:11:14,002 that the fuel will breach the pad 84 00:11:14,086 --> 00:11:16,797 and melt down into the groundwater itself. 85 00:11:17,756 --> 00:11:20,300 And where does this groundwater go? 86 00:11:20,384 --> 00:11:22,427 The Pripyat River, 87 00:11:22,511 --> 00:11:25,430 which feeds into the Dnieper. 88 00:11:25,514 --> 00:11:28,892 The primary water supply for approximately 50 million people, 89 00:11:28,976 --> 00:11:33,105 not to mention crops and livestock, would be unusable. 90 00:11:33,188 --> 00:11:35,899 We're recommending we install a heat exchanger under the pad 91 00:11:35,983 --> 00:11:39,069 to lower the core temperature and halt the meltdown. 92 00:11:39,152 --> 00:11:42,197 And in order to do that, I'm told that we will need 93 00:11:44,533 --> 00:11:48,370 all of the liquid nitrogen in the Soviet Union. 94 00:11:50,831 --> 00:11:51,832 Oh. 95 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:54,084 All right. 96 00:11:54,167 --> 00:11:55,752 Yeah, and of course, we'll also need... 97 00:11:55,836 --> 00:11:57,129 Whatever you need, you have it. 98 00:11:57,212 --> 00:11:58,630 - That should be clear by now. - Yes. 99 00:11:58,714 --> 00:12:00,299 - Anything else? - Uh, no, no, no. Thank you. 100 00:12:00,382 --> 00:12:03,427 Yes. I'd like to address the 30-kilometer exclusion zone. 101 00:12:03,510 --> 00:12:06,263 Wait, what? Professor Legasov, is that you? 102 00:12:06,346 --> 00:12:07,598 What exclusion zone? 103 00:12:07,681 --> 00:12:09,725 Minor details, General Secretary. 104 00:12:09,808 --> 00:12:12,352 Um, Premier Ryzhkov has determined that... 105 00:12:12,436 --> 00:12:14,813 If he determined, then he determined. 106 00:12:14,897 --> 00:12:16,315 Look, Professor Legasov, 107 00:12:16,398 --> 00:12:18,317 you are there for one reason only. 108 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,444 Do you understand? To make this stop. 109 00:12:20,527 --> 00:12:21,737 I don't want questions. 110 00:12:21,820 --> 00:12:23,447 I want to know when this will be over. 111 00:12:23,822 --> 00:12:25,866 If you mean when will Chernobyl be completely safe, 112 00:12:25,949 --> 00:12:29,119 the half-life of plutonium-239 is 24,000 years. 113 00:12:29,202 --> 00:12:32,372 So perhaps we should just say, "Not within our lifetimes." 114 00:12:44,635 --> 00:12:46,511 I think you and I should take a walk. 115 00:12:47,054 --> 00:12:48,722 It's late. I'm tired. 116 00:12:49,806 --> 00:12:52,142 We're taking a walk. 117 00:12:58,607 --> 00:13:01,026 What is it you want? An apology? 118 00:13:02,819 --> 00:13:04,529 Not gonna sit back and... 119 00:13:06,448 --> 00:13:08,533 What will happen to our boys? 120 00:13:09,451 --> 00:13:11,870 Which boys? The divers? 121 00:13:11,954 --> 00:13:14,873 The divers, the firefighters, the men in the control room. 122 00:13:15,582 --> 00:13:18,961 What does the radiation do to them, precisely? 123 00:13:20,671 --> 00:13:23,298 At the levels some of them were exposed? 124 00:13:23,382 --> 00:13:26,510 Ionizing radiation tears the cellular structure apart. 125 00:13:27,469 --> 00:13:30,305 The skin blisters, turns red, then black. 126 00:13:31,974 --> 00:13:34,476 This is followed by a latency period. 127 00:13:35,686 --> 00:13:37,562 The immediate effects subside. 128 00:13:37,646 --> 00:13:39,398 The patient appears to be recovering. 129 00:13:40,607 --> 00:13:42,985 Healthy, even. But they aren't. 130 00:13:44,611 --> 00:13:47,948 This usually only lasts for a day or two. 131 00:13:50,450 --> 00:13:51,660 Continue. 132 00:13:53,203 --> 00:13:56,915 Then the cellular damage begins to manifest. 133 00:13:56,999 --> 00:14:02,379 The bone marrow dies, the immune system fails, 134 00:14:02,462 --> 00:14:06,174 the organs and soft tissue begin to decompose. 135 00:14:06,258 --> 00:14:10,303 The arteries and veins spill open like sieves, 136 00:14:10,387 --> 00:14:12,806 to the point where you can't even administer morphine 137 00:14:12,889 --> 00:14:16,476 for the pain, which is unimaginable. 138 00:14:17,269 --> 00:14:20,522 And then three days to three weeks, you're dead. 139 00:14:22,774 --> 00:14:25,027 That is what will happen to those boys. 140 00:14:27,362 --> 00:14:28,739 And what about us? 141 00:14:32,159 --> 00:14:33,952 Well, we've... 142 00:14:34,036 --> 00:14:36,997 We've gotten a steady dose, but not as much of it. 143 00:14:38,331 --> 00:14:40,167 Not strong enough to kill the cells, 144 00:14:40,250 --> 00:14:43,295 but consistent enough to damage our DNA. 145 00:14:44,755 --> 00:14:47,507 So, in time, cancer. 146 00:14:48,050 --> 00:14:51,303 Or aplastic anemia. Either way, fatal. 147 00:14:54,056 --> 00:14:55,348 Well... 148 00:14:57,392 --> 00:15:03,023 In a sense, it would seem we've gotten off easy then, Valery. 149 00:15:15,702 --> 00:15:17,496 I've seen them before. 150 00:15:23,543 --> 00:15:26,838 Now you know why I wanted to take a walk. 151 00:15:26,922 --> 00:15:29,174 We can presume the work site is bugged. 152 00:15:30,175 --> 00:15:34,221 And our rooms, even our bathrooms. 153 00:15:34,304 --> 00:15:36,473 They've been here the whole time. 154 00:15:36,556 --> 00:15:38,558 Of course, they've been here the whole time. 155 00:15:39,810 --> 00:15:43,688 But if we're seeing them out in the open now, 156 00:15:43,772 --> 00:15:46,441 it's because they want us to know. 157 00:16:28,316 --> 00:16:29,484 You've seen that? 158 00:16:31,945 --> 00:16:33,989 The fuel is melting faster than we expected. 159 00:16:34,072 --> 00:16:36,366 I know. I have a plan. 160 00:16:37,117 --> 00:16:39,703 Heat exchanger, I hope. 161 00:16:39,786 --> 00:16:41,246 Yes. 162 00:16:44,457 --> 00:16:46,376 There's something I've wanted to ask you, comrade, 163 00:16:46,459 --> 00:16:49,838 but I see you're already asking yourself the same question. 164 00:16:53,592 --> 00:16:55,844 Why did it explode? 165 00:16:57,554 --> 00:16:59,848 I've worked the numbers over and over, 166 00:16:59,931 --> 00:17:03,518 presuming the worst possible conditions in an RBMK reactor. 167 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:08,148 And I always get the same answer. 168 00:17:08,231 --> 00:17:09,649 Which is? 169 00:17:11,067 --> 00:17:12,235 It's not possible. 170 00:17:13,445 --> 00:17:14,863 And yet... 171 00:17:17,949 --> 00:17:20,035 You're not going to solve this here. 172 00:17:21,703 --> 00:17:23,205 Not on paper. 173 00:17:24,915 --> 00:17:26,708 Everyone who was in the control room, 174 00:17:26,791 --> 00:17:29,169 Dyatlov, Akimov, Toptunov, 175 00:17:29,252 --> 00:17:32,756 they're all in Moscow, Hospital Number 6. 176 00:17:33,673 --> 00:17:36,718 We need to find out exactly what happened that night, 177 00:17:36,801 --> 00:17:40,263 moment by moment, decision by decision. 178 00:17:41,681 --> 00:17:43,683 Go now while they're still alive. 179 00:17:43,767 --> 00:17:45,977 Talk to them. 180 00:17:46,061 --> 00:17:48,647 Because if we don't find out how this happened, 181 00:17:48,730 --> 00:17:51,024 it will happen again. 182 00:17:54,236 --> 00:17:55,946 And, Khomyuk... 183 00:17:57,322 --> 00:17:58,949 Be careful. 184 00:18:23,515 --> 00:18:25,058 Well, fuck you! 185 00:18:28,019 --> 00:18:29,980 Hey, here's one, here's one. 186 00:18:30,063 --> 00:18:31,982 What's as big as a house, 187 00:18:32,065 --> 00:18:35,110 burns 20 liters of fuel every hour, 188 00:18:35,193 --> 00:18:37,028 puts out a shit-load of smoke and noise, 189 00:18:38,238 --> 00:18:40,490 and cuts an apple into three pieces? 190 00:18:43,034 --> 00:18:46,496 A Soviet machine made to cut apples into four pieces! 191 00:19:25,827 --> 00:19:28,288 - Who's in charge here? - I'm the crew chief. 192 00:19:29,956 --> 00:19:33,168 I am Shadov, Minister of Coal Industries. 193 00:19:33,251 --> 00:19:34,544 We know who you are. 194 00:19:36,755 --> 00:19:38,423 How many men do you have? 195 00:19:39,007 --> 00:19:42,510 On this shift, 45 here, a hundred in total. 196 00:19:43,428 --> 00:19:46,389 I need all 100 men to gather their equipment and get in the trucks. 197 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:50,060 Do you? To where? 198 00:19:51,811 --> 00:19:53,021 That's classified. 199 00:19:59,736 --> 00:20:00,904 Come on, then. 200 00:20:01,488 --> 00:20:02,739 Start shooting. 201 00:20:03,198 --> 00:20:05,909 You haven't got enough bullets for all of us. 202 00:20:05,992 --> 00:20:08,161 Kill as many as you can, whoever's left, 203 00:20:08,495 --> 00:20:10,121 they'll beat the living piss out of each of you. 204 00:20:10,205 --> 00:20:12,457 - You can't talk to us like that! - Shut the fuck up! 205 00:20:13,625 --> 00:20:16,127 This is Tula. This is our mine. 206 00:20:17,170 --> 00:20:18,963 We don't leave unless we know why. 207 00:20:21,007 --> 00:20:22,092 Mmm. 208 00:20:26,262 --> 00:20:28,264 You're going to Chernobyl. 209 00:20:30,392 --> 00:20:31,976 Do you know what's happened there? 210 00:20:33,103 --> 00:20:35,105 We dig up coal, not bodies. 211 00:20:36,272 --> 00:20:38,566 The reactor fuel is going to sink into the ground 212 00:20:38,650 --> 00:20:41,569 and poison the water from Kiev to the Black Sea. 213 00:20:41,653 --> 00:20:42,987 All of it. 214 00:20:44,114 --> 00:20:45,615 Forever, they say. 215 00:20:47,742 --> 00:20:50,286 They want you to stop that from happening. 216 00:20:51,663 --> 00:20:53,832 And how are we supposed to do that? 217 00:20:54,666 --> 00:20:57,293 They didn't tell me, because I don't need to know. 218 00:20:59,254 --> 00:21:01,756 Do you need to know, or have you heard enough? 219 00:21:43,006 --> 00:21:45,800 Now you look like the Minister of Coal. 220 00:22:07,363 --> 00:22:08,781 Vasya? 221 00:22:10,241 --> 00:22:11,493 Vasya? 222 00:22:17,665 --> 00:22:18,875 No, no, no. 223 00:22:19,876 --> 00:22:21,711 They told you no touching. 224 00:22:22,212 --> 00:22:24,464 It's not safe. 225 00:22:24,547 --> 00:22:26,799 They touch you. 226 00:22:27,884 --> 00:22:29,802 If it's safe for them, it's safe for me. 227 00:22:39,896 --> 00:22:41,731 Where are the others? 228 00:22:41,814 --> 00:22:43,650 They took them to a special room. 229 00:22:45,318 --> 00:22:46,945 They won't tell me where. 230 00:22:51,241 --> 00:22:52,367 Will you open the curtains? 231 00:22:53,868 --> 00:22:54,869 Hmm? 232 00:22:55,161 --> 00:22:56,538 Open the curtains. 233 00:23:00,625 --> 00:23:01,626 Ah. 234 00:23:19,185 --> 00:23:21,354 Please, tell me what you see outside. 235 00:23:22,438 --> 00:23:23,940 Tell me everything. 236 00:23:31,447 --> 00:23:32,448 Um... 237 00:23:34,242 --> 00:23:36,202 I can see the Red Square. 238 00:23:39,289 --> 00:23:40,415 And 239 00:23:41,291 --> 00:23:43,084 the Kremlin. 240 00:23:44,377 --> 00:23:47,547 Spasskaya Tower, the mausoleum. 241 00:23:50,008 --> 00:23:51,676 You see St. Basil's? 242 00:23:53,303 --> 00:23:54,804 Yeah. 243 00:23:54,887 --> 00:23:56,598 Ah. 244 00:23:56,889 --> 00:23:58,600 Yes, it's beautiful. 245 00:24:00,143 --> 00:24:02,103 I told you. 246 00:24:02,186 --> 00:24:04,939 I told you I'd show you Moscow, didn't I? 247 00:24:05,148 --> 00:24:06,232 Huh? 248 00:24:06,316 --> 00:24:08,318 Yeah. Yes. 249 00:24:14,282 --> 00:24:16,075 Thank you. 250 00:25:03,373 --> 00:25:06,042 I'm not eating that. It's shit. 251 00:25:06,876 --> 00:25:08,086 Get me something else. 252 00:25:09,462 --> 00:25:11,923 I'm not a nurse, Comrade Dyatlov. 253 00:25:12,006 --> 00:25:13,841 I'm a nuclear physicist. 254 00:25:14,801 --> 00:25:17,220 Well, then, Comrade Nuclear Physicist, 255 00:25:18,763 --> 00:25:23,267 unless you happen to have a butter and caviar sandwich on you, 256 00:25:23,351 --> 00:25:25,687 you can get the fuck out of my room. 257 00:26:44,599 --> 00:26:45,850 What? 258 00:26:46,934 --> 00:26:48,519 I'm not good at this, Boris. 259 00:26:49,562 --> 00:26:51,397 The lying. 260 00:26:55,818 --> 00:26:58,321 Have you ever spent time with miners? 261 00:27:00,239 --> 00:27:01,574 No. 262 00:27:01,741 --> 00:27:04,368 My advice, tell the truth. 263 00:27:04,452 --> 00:27:07,830 These men work in the dark. They see everything. 264 00:27:09,332 --> 00:27:11,667 Andrei Glukhov, crew chief. 265 00:27:27,266 --> 00:27:28,434 Do these work? 266 00:27:30,228 --> 00:27:31,771 To an extent. 267 00:27:35,066 --> 00:27:36,067 Of course. 268 00:27:48,246 --> 00:27:49,705 So what's the job? 269 00:27:51,707 --> 00:27:55,419 We need to install a liquid nitrogen heat exchanger 270 00:27:55,503 --> 00:27:58,714 underneath this concrete pad. 271 00:27:58,798 --> 00:28:02,468 There's no way to approach from the interior of the building, 272 00:28:02,552 --> 00:28:04,887 so you have to get at it from underground. 273 00:28:04,971 --> 00:28:08,432 - And what's above the pad? - The core of the nuclear reactor, 274 00:28:08,516 --> 00:28:10,852 which is melting down. 275 00:28:12,353 --> 00:28:14,021 What? Like... 276 00:28:15,731 --> 00:28:16,858 Essentially. 277 00:28:18,860 --> 00:28:20,194 Is it gonna fall on top of us? 278 00:28:20,278 --> 00:28:22,071 Not if you're done within six weeks. 279 00:28:24,031 --> 00:28:25,992 Dimensions? 280 00:28:29,036 --> 00:28:30,997 Break ground here, 281 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,457 dig a tunnel 150 meters to here, 282 00:28:33,541 --> 00:28:36,502 excavate a space 30 by 30 meters 283 00:28:36,586 --> 00:28:38,379 for the heat exchanger. 284 00:28:38,462 --> 00:28:41,549 And because we need to keep disruption of the ground above to a minimum, 285 00:28:41,632 --> 00:28:43,426 you can't use any heavy machinery. 286 00:28:43,509 --> 00:28:44,927 It has to be done by hand. 287 00:28:45,761 --> 00:28:47,680 Gonna need more men. 288 00:28:48,764 --> 00:28:50,141 Four hundred at least. 289 00:28:50,224 --> 00:28:52,768 We'll have to work around the clock. 290 00:28:52,852 --> 00:28:54,604 How deep do you want this tunnel? Six meters? 291 00:28:54,687 --> 00:28:57,732 - Twelve. - Twelve? Why? 292 00:28:57,940 --> 00:29:00,401 For your protection. 293 00:29:00,484 --> 00:29:04,363 At that depth, you'll be shielded from much of the radiation. 294 00:29:05,197 --> 00:29:08,492 The entrance to the tunnel won't be 12 meters below ground. 295 00:29:09,785 --> 00:29:11,662 No. 296 00:29:11,746 --> 00:29:14,624 And we're not 12 meters below ground now. 297 00:29:19,337 --> 00:29:22,214 No. We're not. 298 00:29:25,134 --> 00:29:27,178 We have some equipment here on site. 299 00:29:28,220 --> 00:29:30,264 More will arrive by midnight. 300 00:29:31,807 --> 00:29:33,184 You can start in the morning. 301 00:29:33,267 --> 00:29:35,144 No. We start now. 302 00:29:35,937 --> 00:29:39,732 I don't want my men here one more second than they need to be. 303 00:29:41,025 --> 00:29:44,445 If these worked, you'd be wearing them. 304 00:29:54,622 --> 00:29:56,165 Are they all like that? 305 00:29:56,999 --> 00:29:58,709 They're all like that. 306 00:31:22,460 --> 00:31:23,461 Yes? 307 00:31:24,128 --> 00:31:25,296 What's it up to? 308 00:31:25,379 --> 00:31:26,672 Uh, 50 degrees. 309 00:31:30,634 --> 00:31:31,635 Fuck! 310 00:31:36,182 --> 00:31:37,266 Hey! 311 00:31:38,476 --> 00:31:39,560 Hey, you! 312 00:31:49,111 --> 00:31:50,529 We need fans. 313 00:31:50,613 --> 00:31:52,198 For what purpose? 314 00:31:52,531 --> 00:31:54,033 What do you mean, "For what purpose?" 315 00:31:54,116 --> 00:31:55,910 To dig your fucking tunnel, that's why. 316 00:31:55,993 --> 00:31:57,787 - Who's talking to you? - Whoa, whoa. Comrades. 317 00:31:59,121 --> 00:32:00,539 It's 50 degrees down there. 318 00:32:01,499 --> 00:32:04,543 We can't breathe without the masks, we can't breathe with the masks. 319 00:32:04,627 --> 00:32:07,505 It's like a fucking oven. We need ventilation. 320 00:32:07,588 --> 00:32:10,508 Fans will put dust in the air, the dust will go in your lungs. 321 00:32:10,591 --> 00:32:13,094 I've been breathing dust in my lungs for 20 years. 322 00:32:13,177 --> 00:32:15,971 Not this dust. I'm sorry. 323 00:32:16,055 --> 00:32:18,432 For your own good, no fans. 324 00:32:47,378 --> 00:32:49,713 My name is Ulana Khomyuk. 325 00:32:49,797 --> 00:32:52,633 I'm a nuclear physicist with the Chernobyl Commission. 326 00:32:54,927 --> 00:32:57,388 I want you to tell me everything that happened 327 00:32:57,471 --> 00:32:58,681 on the night of the accident. 328 00:33:00,391 --> 00:33:01,559 Is that all right? 329 00:33:04,562 --> 00:33:05,604 Yes. 330 00:33:07,940 --> 00:33:09,150 I want to tell. 331 00:33:10,359 --> 00:33:11,402 All right. 332 00:33:24,748 --> 00:33:27,084 Your official title was? 333 00:33:30,296 --> 00:33:35,259 My name is Leonid Fedorovych Toptunov. 334 00:33:36,177 --> 00:33:41,432 I am the Senior Reactor Control Chief Engineer 335 00:33:41,515 --> 00:33:43,517 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. 336 00:33:47,605 --> 00:33:49,523 Senior engineer? 337 00:33:51,859 --> 00:33:52,943 How old are you? 338 00:33:58,657 --> 00:34:00,034 I'm 25. 339 00:34:48,540 --> 00:34:50,542 Lyusya? Lyusya? 340 00:34:50,626 --> 00:34:52,878 Yes, I'm here, I'm here. I'm... 341 00:35:07,810 --> 00:35:09,228 Have you been here this whole time? 342 00:35:09,895 --> 00:35:11,355 No one said I should leave. 343 00:35:12,273 --> 00:35:13,315 I did. 344 00:35:13,983 --> 00:35:15,276 Thirty minutes, I said! 345 00:35:15,359 --> 00:35:18,320 Well, where have you been? When he's in pain? 346 00:35:18,904 --> 00:35:20,447 When his sores stick to his gown? 347 00:35:20,531 --> 00:35:21,949 When he soils himself five times a night? 348 00:35:22,032 --> 00:35:23,867 I've been looking after him. Where have you been? 349 00:35:23,951 --> 00:35:25,661 I've been in the north and west wing, 350 00:35:25,744 --> 00:35:28,622 where there are dozens of patients from Chernobyl exactly like him. 351 00:35:29,373 --> 00:35:30,958 - It isn't safe for you here. - He's my husband. 352 00:35:31,041 --> 00:35:32,084 Not anymore. 353 00:35:32,167 --> 00:35:34,128 He's something else now. Do you understand? 354 00:35:34,211 --> 00:35:35,504 He's dangerous to you. 355 00:35:36,797 --> 00:35:38,841 He's burned. 356 00:35:39,550 --> 00:35:40,884 Go home. 357 00:35:41,885 --> 00:35:42,928 Please. 358 00:35:46,473 --> 00:35:48,726 It won't take much longer. I, uh... 359 00:35:52,855 --> 00:35:54,481 I don't want him to die alone. 360 00:35:58,235 --> 00:35:59,903 Stay on the other side of the plastic, 361 00:36:02,031 --> 00:36:03,490 or I'll have you removed by security. 362 00:37:03,008 --> 00:37:04,635 - Lyusya? - Yes, my love. 363 00:37:08,555 --> 00:37:09,640 Is it day? 364 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:13,102 No, it's nighttime now. 365 00:37:17,231 --> 00:37:18,565 I think I had a dream, 366 00:37:19,149 --> 00:37:20,567 it's just gone. 367 00:37:22,778 --> 00:37:23,946 Vasya. 368 00:37:30,119 --> 00:37:31,829 We're going to have a baby. 369 00:38:08,866 --> 00:38:10,033 The fire's out. 370 00:38:12,744 --> 00:38:13,954 It's out, Valera. 371 00:38:15,664 --> 00:38:17,875 The miners are making incredible progress. 372 00:38:19,376 --> 00:38:22,212 They say the whole job will be finished in four weeks. 373 00:38:23,964 --> 00:38:24,965 Four weeks. 374 00:38:26,300 --> 00:38:27,384 Can you believe that? 375 00:38:34,141 --> 00:38:35,684 I know the job isn't over. 376 00:38:37,811 --> 00:38:39,354 But it's the beginning of the end. 377 00:38:45,444 --> 00:38:47,779 I'm sorry to bother you, Deputy Minister, 378 00:38:50,407 --> 00:38:51,408 but it is the miners. 379 00:39:39,748 --> 00:39:40,791 What? 380 00:39:41,250 --> 00:39:43,544 You wouldn't give us fans, it's too hot for clothes. 381 00:39:43,919 --> 00:39:46,338 So we're digging the old way. This is the way our fathers mined. 382 00:39:49,007 --> 00:39:50,467 We're still wearing the fucking hats. 383 00:39:51,426 --> 00:39:52,511 What do you want? 384 00:39:55,639 --> 00:39:57,808 You're not as protected now. 385 00:39:58,559 --> 00:40:00,102 Are you telling me it will make a difference? 386 00:40:06,149 --> 00:40:07,359 When this is over, 387 00:40:08,402 --> 00:40:09,611 will they be looked after? 388 00:40:13,907 --> 00:40:14,950 I don't know. 389 00:40:26,587 --> 00:40:27,588 You don't know. 390 00:40:47,190 --> 00:40:51,320 So the power level jumped from 200 to 400 megawatts? 391 00:40:52,946 --> 00:40:53,989 Yes. 392 00:40:55,073 --> 00:40:56,199 Very fast. 393 00:40:57,993 --> 00:41:00,996 Why didn't you initiate an emergency shutdown? 394 00:41:01,538 --> 00:41:03,832 Why didn't you press the AZ-5 button? 395 00:41:05,667 --> 00:41:06,668 We did. 396 00:41:07,919 --> 00:41:10,756 I reported the increase to Akimov, 397 00:41:10,839 --> 00:41:12,299 and he pressed the button. 398 00:41:13,967 --> 00:41:16,345 Leonid, that's... That's not possible. 399 00:41:18,597 --> 00:41:19,640 He did. 400 00:41:20,682 --> 00:41:21,933 I swear. 401 00:41:22,976 --> 00:41:24,394 I saw him do it. 402 00:41:28,315 --> 00:41:30,400 And that's when it exploded. 403 00:41:33,236 --> 00:41:34,237 What? 404 00:41:48,919 --> 00:41:49,920 Um... 405 00:41:51,254 --> 00:41:52,673 Which room is Akimov? 406 00:41:52,756 --> 00:41:53,757 Twenty-seven. 407 00:42:09,064 --> 00:42:12,442 I pressed it, before the explosion. 408 00:42:12,943 --> 00:42:14,111 Before. 409 00:42:17,114 --> 00:42:18,407 But why? 410 00:42:19,658 --> 00:42:20,909 Why would that happen? 411 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,997 I shut it down. I pressed AZ-5. 412 00:42:32,295 --> 00:42:33,714 Thank you, Comrade Akimov. 413 00:42:39,052 --> 00:42:40,554 I did everything right. 414 00:42:42,597 --> 00:42:44,015 I did everything right. 415 00:43:15,547 --> 00:43:16,590 Get out. 416 00:43:17,424 --> 00:43:18,717 Get out. Get out of here. 417 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,136 Let me go! Let me go! 418 00:43:21,219 --> 00:43:23,513 Stop it! Stop it! 419 00:43:26,767 --> 00:43:29,394 You let her in that room? Inside the plastic, touching him? 420 00:43:29,478 --> 00:43:30,854 Did you know she's pregnant? 421 00:43:30,937 --> 00:43:32,105 It's not true! 422 00:43:32,189 --> 00:43:33,398 What have you done? 423 00:43:33,482 --> 00:43:35,734 What kind of a place is this? Where is her protection? 424 00:43:35,817 --> 00:43:37,944 Do you have any idea what you're dealing with? 425 00:43:38,028 --> 00:43:39,821 - Of course, I do. Please, I do not... - No. 426 00:43:40,697 --> 00:43:42,282 - People are going to hear about this. - Wait. 427 00:43:42,699 --> 00:43:44,451 People are going to hear. Do you understand? 428 00:43:44,534 --> 00:43:45,577 Everyone is going to hear. 429 00:43:46,411 --> 00:43:47,913 What is everyone gonna hear? 430 00:43:54,711 --> 00:43:56,713 I am with the official Chernobyl Commission. 431 00:43:56,797 --> 00:43:59,007 I've been authorized by Valery Legasov. 432 00:43:59,216 --> 00:44:00,217 You can check this. 433 00:44:00,300 --> 00:44:01,802 - My name is Ulana... - We know who you are. 434 00:44:05,347 --> 00:44:06,932 What is everyone gonna hear? 435 00:44:28,328 --> 00:44:29,454 You have your notes? 436 00:44:30,205 --> 00:44:31,289 Yes. 437 00:44:34,251 --> 00:44:35,961 Khomyuk was arrested last night. 438 00:44:36,044 --> 00:44:38,296 What? Why? 439 00:44:38,380 --> 00:44:39,548 I don't know. 440 00:44:41,299 --> 00:44:42,384 Was it... 441 00:44:43,468 --> 00:44:44,469 Of course it was. 442 00:44:46,346 --> 00:44:47,430 I'm working on it. 443 00:44:48,056 --> 00:44:50,141 - Boris... - I'm working on it. 444 00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:52,727 What more do you want from me? 445 00:44:53,728 --> 00:44:54,771 Fix your tie. 446 00:45:01,820 --> 00:45:02,863 They'll see you now. 447 00:45:13,498 --> 00:45:16,710 After thousands of sorties, our brave helicopter crews 448 00:45:16,793 --> 00:45:19,004 successfully extinguished the fire. 449 00:45:19,087 --> 00:45:20,922 The miners are working heroically to ensure 450 00:45:21,006 --> 00:45:23,466 that the fuel does not reach the groundwater. 451 00:45:23,550 --> 00:45:27,262 And furthermore, there's no longer a threat of additional explosion. 452 00:45:27,971 --> 00:45:31,766 The Soviet people have faced the challenge and risen to the task, 453 00:45:32,142 --> 00:45:34,686 and they and everyone in this room are to be commended. 454 00:45:39,983 --> 00:45:42,444 Lastly, Professor Legasov and I have been vigilant 455 00:45:42,527 --> 00:45:44,863 to protect the security interests of the State. 456 00:45:45,196 --> 00:45:47,616 And since the unfortunate release of information 457 00:45:47,699 --> 00:45:49,451 directly following the accident, 458 00:45:49,534 --> 00:45:51,578 we believe that there has been no further lapse. 459 00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:53,371 Comrade Charkov, 460 00:45:54,873 --> 00:45:58,168 we hope we have lived up to the highest standards of the KGB. 461 00:45:58,585 --> 00:45:59,669 You have. 462 00:46:00,462 --> 00:46:01,504 Thank you. 463 00:46:02,881 --> 00:46:07,427 Professor Legasov will now speak about the work that remains. 464 00:46:09,429 --> 00:46:10,555 Thank you. 465 00:46:14,851 --> 00:46:17,646 Deputy Chairman Shcherbina has given you the good news, 466 00:46:17,729 --> 00:46:19,022 and it is good. 467 00:46:19,814 --> 00:46:21,942 The immediate danger is over. 468 00:46:22,525 --> 00:46:24,819 Now, I'm afraid, a long war must begin. 469 00:46:27,030 --> 00:46:29,991 There is an enormous amount of radioactive debris 470 00:46:30,075 --> 00:46:31,785 and contamination spread out across a zone 471 00:46:31,868 --> 00:46:34,204 of approximately 2,600-square kilometers. 472 00:46:34,621 --> 00:46:38,625 This entire region must be completely evacuated. 473 00:46:40,085 --> 00:46:43,296 We must go to every town, every village to ensure this. 474 00:46:44,589 --> 00:46:49,552 And all animals still surviving within the zone, 475 00:46:49,636 --> 00:46:52,389 whether domesticated or wild, 476 00:46:52,472 --> 00:46:56,893 must be presumed contaminated and will have to be destroyed 477 00:46:56,977 --> 00:46:59,646 to prevent the spread of radiation and disease. 478 00:47:01,022 --> 00:47:03,650 In the immediate area surrounding Chernobyl, 479 00:47:03,733 --> 00:47:09,197 uh, every rock, every tree, the very ground itself, 480 00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:12,909 has absorbed a dangerous amount of radionuclides, 481 00:47:12,993 --> 00:47:16,371 which will be carried by the wind and the rain if left exposed. 482 00:47:16,454 --> 00:47:18,623 So we will have to raze entire forests. 483 00:47:18,707 --> 00:47:20,917 We will have to rip up the top layer of earth 484 00:47:21,001 --> 00:47:22,377 and bury it under itself, 485 00:47:22,460 --> 00:47:25,463 approximately, 100 square kilometers. 486 00:47:27,757 --> 00:47:31,344 Um, and finally, we will need to construct 487 00:47:31,428 --> 00:47:35,765 a containment structure around the power plant itself, 488 00:47:35,849 --> 00:47:38,768 which will, of course, still be extremely... 489 00:47:42,188 --> 00:47:43,940 There will be deaths. 490 00:47:47,610 --> 00:47:49,362 What amount of time, 491 00:47:49,446 --> 00:47:51,072 and how many men do you require? 492 00:47:51,322 --> 00:47:54,659 We expect this liquidation effort to take three years 493 00:47:54,743 --> 00:47:57,328 and approximately 750,000 men, 494 00:47:57,412 --> 00:48:01,249 including a number of doctors and structural engineers. 495 00:48:03,001 --> 00:48:04,294 How many deaths? 496 00:48:05,462 --> 00:48:06,713 Thousands. 497 00:48:07,505 --> 00:48:08,923 Perhaps tens of thousands. 498 00:48:17,307 --> 00:48:18,308 Begin at once. 499 00:48:24,689 --> 00:48:26,649 - Comrade Charkov. - Valery! 500 00:48:28,777 --> 00:48:29,861 Yes, Professor? 501 00:48:31,112 --> 00:48:33,990 My associate was arrested last night. 502 00:48:34,532 --> 00:48:35,533 Oh? 503 00:48:36,409 --> 00:48:37,660 I mean no disrespect, 504 00:48:37,744 --> 00:48:39,704 but I was wondering if you could tell me why. 505 00:48:39,788 --> 00:48:41,831 I assure you, I don't know who you're talking about. 506 00:48:41,915 --> 00:48:43,833 She was arrested by the KGB. 507 00:48:45,001 --> 00:48:47,879 You are the first deputy chairman of the KGB. 508 00:48:48,338 --> 00:48:49,339 I am. 509 00:48:49,714 --> 00:48:52,300 That's why I don't have to bother with arresting people anymore. 510 00:48:52,383 --> 00:48:54,761 But you are bothering with having us followed. 511 00:48:56,304 --> 00:48:59,015 I think the deputy chairman is busy. 512 00:48:59,099 --> 00:49:01,059 No, no. It's perfectly understandable. 513 00:49:01,392 --> 00:49:04,062 Comrade, I know you've heard the stories about us. 514 00:49:05,146 --> 00:49:07,440 When I hear them, even I am shocked. 515 00:49:07,524 --> 00:49:09,484 But we are not what people say. 516 00:49:09,692 --> 00:49:11,778 Yes, people are following you. 517 00:49:12,445 --> 00:49:14,072 People are following those people. 518 00:49:14,989 --> 00:49:16,032 You see them? 519 00:49:18,576 --> 00:49:19,828 They follow me. 520 00:49:20,578 --> 00:49:23,998 The KGB is a circle of accountability. 521 00:49:24,332 --> 00:49:25,834 Nothing more. 522 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:27,502 You know the work we're doing here. 523 00:49:29,629 --> 00:49:30,964 You really don't trust us? 524 00:49:31,047 --> 00:49:32,423 Of course, I do. 525 00:49:32,924 --> 00:49:34,801 But you know the old Russian proverb. 526 00:49:35,635 --> 00:49:37,095 "Trust but verify." 527 00:49:39,722 --> 00:49:43,268 And the Americans think that Ronald Reagan thought that up. 528 00:49:43,351 --> 00:49:44,394 Can you imagine? 529 00:49:45,603 --> 00:49:47,230 It was very nice speaking with you. 530 00:49:48,523 --> 00:49:49,732 I need her. 531 00:49:52,443 --> 00:49:54,904 So you will be accountable for her? 532 00:49:59,534 --> 00:50:00,618 Then it's done. 533 00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:04,038 - Her name is... - I know who she is. 534 00:50:05,123 --> 00:50:06,457 Good day, Professor. 535 00:50:16,759 --> 00:50:19,804 Well, that went surprisingly well. 536 00:50:20,638 --> 00:50:22,307 You came off like a naive idiot. 537 00:50:24,017 --> 00:50:26,269 And naive idiots are not a threat. 538 00:50:42,285 --> 00:50:44,245 I'll come back when the paperwork's complete. 539 00:50:52,629 --> 00:50:53,755 Are you all right? 540 00:50:53,838 --> 00:50:55,048 They didn't hurt me. 541 00:50:57,300 --> 00:50:59,719 They let a pregnant woman into a room with a... 542 00:50:59,886 --> 00:51:01,846 It doesn't matter. 543 00:51:03,139 --> 00:51:04,891 They were stupid. I was stupid. 544 00:51:07,227 --> 00:51:08,561 Dyatlov won't talk to me. 545 00:51:10,355 --> 00:51:12,690 Akimov, yes, Toptunov, yes, but... 546 00:51:14,901 --> 00:51:16,069 Valery, 547 00:51:16,653 --> 00:51:17,779 Akimov... 548 00:51:19,197 --> 00:51:20,490 His face was gone. 549 00:51:23,868 --> 00:51:25,078 You want to stop? 550 00:51:27,372 --> 00:51:29,123 Is that a choice I even have? 551 00:51:37,966 --> 00:51:41,135 Do you think the fuel will actually melt through the concrete pad? 552 00:51:41,219 --> 00:51:44,430 I don't know. A 40% chance, maybe. 553 00:51:47,642 --> 00:51:49,519 I said 50. 554 00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:52,647 Either way, the numbers mean the same thing. 555 00:51:52,730 --> 00:51:53,815 "Maybe." 556 00:51:57,110 --> 00:51:59,612 Maybe the core will melt through to the groundwater. 557 00:52:00,571 --> 00:52:02,824 Maybe the miners who I've told to dig under the reactor 558 00:52:02,907 --> 00:52:04,575 will save millions of lives. 559 00:52:06,536 --> 00:52:08,162 Maybe I'm killing them for nothing. 560 00:52:12,417 --> 00:52:14,085 I don't want to do this anymore. 561 00:52:16,045 --> 00:52:17,213 I want to stop. 562 00:52:19,257 --> 00:52:20,341 But I can't. 563 00:52:22,176 --> 00:52:24,637 I don't think you have a choice any more than I do. 564 00:52:26,639 --> 00:52:29,434 I think, despite the stupidity, 565 00:52:30,059 --> 00:52:31,894 the lies, even this, 566 00:52:32,854 --> 00:52:34,147 you are compelled. 567 00:52:35,148 --> 00:52:37,525 The problem has been assigned, and you will stop at nothing 568 00:52:37,608 --> 00:52:38,901 until you find an answer. 569 00:52:38,985 --> 00:52:41,612 Because that is who you are. 570 00:52:43,865 --> 00:52:45,158 A lunatic, then. 571 00:52:47,744 --> 00:52:48,745 A scientist. 572 00:53:11,017 --> 00:53:13,269 Did you know that they were running a safety test? 573 00:53:15,146 --> 00:53:16,147 Yeah. 574 00:53:16,230 --> 00:53:17,357 There's something else. 575 00:53:19,233 --> 00:53:22,403 Akimov says they shut the reactor down, 576 00:53:22,487 --> 00:53:24,405 and Toptunov confirms it. 577 00:53:25,073 --> 00:53:26,240 They pressed AZ-5. 578 00:53:26,532 --> 00:53:28,242 Apparently not soon enough. 579 00:53:28,743 --> 00:53:29,827 No. 580 00:53:30,453 --> 00:53:34,248 They say Akimov pressed AZ-5, 581 00:53:35,124 --> 00:53:37,085 and then the reactor exploded. 582 00:53:39,420 --> 00:53:42,173 If it had been just one of them, I would have put it under 583 00:53:42,256 --> 00:53:45,134 faulty memory or delusion even, 584 00:53:45,218 --> 00:53:47,929 but they both agreed. They were adamant. 585 00:53:52,558 --> 00:53:53,643 Comrade? 586 00:53:56,687 --> 00:53:57,772 Do you think it's possible? 587 00:53:57,855 --> 00:53:59,440 I think it makes no sense. I... 588 00:54:00,191 --> 00:54:03,403 I think it's what I would say if I was trying to cover my own mistakes. 589 00:54:04,028 --> 00:54:05,029 But? 590 00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:07,448 I believe them. 591 00:54:10,284 --> 00:54:11,702 Then you should pursue it. 592 00:54:12,328 --> 00:54:14,956 We have to pursue every possibility, 593 00:54:15,832 --> 00:54:17,667 no matter how unlikely, 594 00:54:18,501 --> 00:54:20,837 no matter what or who's to blame. 595 00:54:23,131 --> 00:54:26,384 I'll go back to the hospital and re-interview Akimov and Toptunov. 596 00:54:29,887 --> 00:54:30,972 If they're still awake. 597 00:54:32,765 --> 00:54:33,808 They're not. 598 00:54:36,144 --> 00:54:37,145 Khomyuk.