1 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:37,121 It's time to go. 2 00:00:39,540 --> 00:00:40,541 Did you hear me? 3 00:00:41,834 --> 00:00:43,628 This is an evacuation. You understand? 4 00:00:45,213 --> 00:00:46,339 You have to come with me. 5 00:00:47,131 --> 00:00:48,132 Why? 6 00:00:48,966 --> 00:00:50,760 Because they told me, so now I'm telling you. 7 00:00:52,095 --> 00:00:53,721 Everyone in this village, everyone. 8 00:00:54,722 --> 00:00:56,516 It's not safe here. There's radiation in the air. 9 00:00:56,599 --> 00:00:57,600 What's wrong with you? 10 00:00:58,684 --> 00:01:00,061 Do you know how old I am? 11 00:01:01,896 --> 00:01:03,940 I don't know. Old. 12 00:01:05,024 --> 00:01:06,025 I'm 82. 13 00:01:07,235 --> 00:01:08,861 I've lived here my whole life. 14 00:01:09,570 --> 00:01:12,448 Right here, that house, this place. 15 00:01:13,407 --> 00:01:15,326 What do I care about safe? 16 00:01:17,161 --> 00:01:18,204 I have a job. 17 00:01:18,996 --> 00:01:19,997 Don't cause trouble. 18 00:01:20,832 --> 00:01:21,833 Trouble? 19 00:01:23,167 --> 00:01:26,003 You're not the first soldier to stand here with a gun. 20 00:01:27,088 --> 00:01:29,465 When I was 12, the revolution came. 21 00:01:30,341 --> 00:01:32,969 Czar's men. Then Bolsheviks. 22 00:01:33,761 --> 00:01:35,930 Boys like you marching in lines. 23 00:01:36,639 --> 00:01:38,808 They told us to leave. No. 24 00:01:39,892 --> 00:01:41,978 Then there was Stalin and his famine, 25 00:01:42,645 --> 00:01:43,771 the Holodomor. 26 00:01:44,814 --> 00:01:48,025 My parents died. Two of my sisters died. 27 00:01:48,901 --> 00:01:50,820 They told the rest of us to leave. 28 00:01:51,654 --> 00:01:52,655 No. 29 00:01:53,281 --> 00:01:54,740 Then the Great War. 30 00:01:55,616 --> 00:01:57,743 German boys. Russian boys. 31 00:01:58,536 --> 00:02:01,747 More soldiers, more famine, more bodies. 32 00:02:03,207 --> 00:02:04,876 My brothers never came home. 33 00:02:06,085 --> 00:02:08,296 But I stayed, and I'm still here. 34 00:02:09,380 --> 00:02:11,299 After all that I have seen, 35 00:02:12,925 --> 00:02:14,468 so I should leave now, 36 00:02:14,886 --> 00:02:17,263 because of something I cannot see at all? 37 00:02:18,389 --> 00:02:19,390 No. 38 00:02:35,198 --> 00:02:36,199 Just one moment! 39 00:02:46,209 --> 00:02:47,210 It's time to go. 40 00:02:54,258 --> 00:02:56,010 Please stand up now. 41 00:03:07,188 --> 00:03:08,356 This is your last warning. 42 00:03:25,581 --> 00:03:26,624 It's time to go. 43 00:04:40,865 --> 00:04:41,866 Come on. 44 00:05:46,138 --> 00:05:47,139 Point four. 45 00:05:59,068 --> 00:06:00,069 Point six. 46 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:07,201 Fifteen. 47 00:07:05,050 --> 00:07:06,093 Legasov. 48 00:07:08,721 --> 00:07:09,722 I'll meet him there. 49 00:08:09,031 --> 00:08:10,783 The atom is a humbling thing. 50 00:08:13,285 --> 00:08:15,162 It's not humbling, it's humiliating. 51 00:08:17,373 --> 00:08:18,999 Why is the core still exposed to the air? 52 00:08:19,083 --> 00:08:20,668 Why have we not already covered it up? 53 00:08:21,252 --> 00:08:24,588 We want to, but we can't get close enough. 54 00:08:25,339 --> 00:08:28,551 The debris on the roof is graphite from the core itself. 55 00:08:29,301 --> 00:08:32,846 Until we can push it off the roof back into the reactor, 56 00:08:33,222 --> 00:08:35,182 it'll kill anyone who gets near it. 57 00:08:36,350 --> 00:08:39,645 You can see the roof is in three levels. 58 00:08:40,062 --> 00:08:42,606 We've named them. The small one here is Katya. 59 00:08:43,190 --> 00:08:45,150 1,000 roentgen per hour. 60 00:08:45,568 --> 00:08:48,237 Presume two hours of exposure is fatal. 61 00:08:48,445 --> 00:08:49,989 The one on the side, Nina. 62 00:08:50,239 --> 00:08:52,408 2,000 roentgen. One hour, fatal. 63 00:08:52,491 --> 00:08:55,536 We used remote-control bulldozers in Afghanistan. 64 00:08:55,619 --> 00:08:57,913 Too heavy. They'd fall right through. 65 00:08:58,914 --> 00:08:59,915 So then... 66 00:09:00,499 --> 00:09:01,667 Moon rovers. 67 00:09:02,543 --> 00:09:04,545 Lunokhod STR-1 's. They're light. 68 00:09:04,628 --> 00:09:07,298 And if we line them with lead, they can withstand the radiation. 69 00:09:07,590 --> 00:09:09,049 We couldn't put a man on the moon. 70 00:09:09,758 --> 00:09:11,844 At least we can keep a man off a roof. 71 00:09:12,177 --> 00:09:14,346 That is the most important thing, General. 72 00:09:14,430 --> 00:09:17,266 Under no circumstances can men go up there. 73 00:09:17,891 --> 00:09:19,184 Robots only. 74 00:09:20,227 --> 00:09:21,979 What about this large section here? 75 00:09:23,606 --> 00:09:24,607 Masha. 76 00:09:26,108 --> 00:09:27,610 12,000 roentgen. 77 00:09:29,695 --> 00:09:31,697 If you were to stand there in full protective gear 78 00:09:31,780 --> 00:09:33,532 head-to-toe for two minutes, 79 00:09:33,616 --> 00:09:35,409 your life expectancy would be cut in half. 80 00:09:35,492 --> 00:09:37,620 By three minutes, you're dead within months. 81 00:09:38,078 --> 00:09:40,789 Even our lunar rovers won't work on Masha. 82 00:09:41,123 --> 00:09:44,084 That amount of gamma radiation penetrates everything. 83 00:09:44,501 --> 00:09:48,005 The particles literally shred the circuits in microchips apart. 84 00:09:48,255 --> 00:09:50,382 If it's more complicated than a light switch, 85 00:09:50,799 --> 00:09:52,176 Masha will destroy it. 86 00:09:52,468 --> 00:09:53,844 It would be fair to say that 87 00:09:53,927 --> 00:09:56,639 that piece of roof is the most dangerous place on Earth. 88 00:10:03,228 --> 00:10:05,773 So, what do we do? 89 00:10:09,026 --> 00:10:10,736 That's what we wanted to ask you. 90 00:12:28,457 --> 00:12:30,042 Tent 181? 91 00:12:44,973 --> 00:12:46,391 It's all right. It's free. 92 00:12:47,684 --> 00:12:48,811 It's a little early. 93 00:13:02,449 --> 00:13:03,450 Bacho. 94 00:13:05,828 --> 00:13:06,829 Pavel. 95 00:13:08,413 --> 00:13:09,414 - Yeah? - Mmm. 96 00:13:14,378 --> 00:13:15,587 What unit were you in? 97 00:13:16,713 --> 00:13:19,466 They had me in motor pool in Kiev, but then they... 98 00:13:19,550 --> 00:13:22,678 Not this bullshit. In Afghanistan. 99 00:13:22,761 --> 00:13:24,137 Oh. Oh, I am... 100 00:13:24,221 --> 00:13:25,889 I wasn't in Afghanistan. 101 00:13:28,851 --> 00:13:29,852 I'm not in the military. 102 00:13:34,022 --> 00:13:35,023 They're running out of men. 103 00:13:47,119 --> 00:13:48,453 Showers. Food. 104 00:13:49,037 --> 00:13:51,206 Those guys, they dig up the ground. 105 00:13:51,790 --> 00:13:53,208 Those guys, they cut down trees. 106 00:13:54,376 --> 00:13:58,797 Those guys, they evacuate people, I think, like villagers. 107 00:14:00,716 --> 00:14:01,717 What about them? 108 00:14:02,968 --> 00:14:04,428 I don't know them. Fuck them. 109 00:14:06,930 --> 00:14:07,931 Janek! 110 00:14:09,850 --> 00:14:12,311 - What do you want? - Give me an egg basket. 111 00:14:12,519 --> 00:14:14,771 - No. I've only got the one... - Give me the fucking basket! 112 00:14:18,942 --> 00:14:22,529 He's with me. You understand? Nobody fucks with him. 113 00:14:25,490 --> 00:14:27,117 We make these from lead scrap. 114 00:14:27,576 --> 00:14:29,828 - Put it on under your balls. - Now? 115 00:14:30,245 --> 00:14:32,664 No, no. You can wait until the radiation gives you a cunt. 116 00:14:33,290 --> 00:14:34,416 Yes, now. 117 00:14:36,585 --> 00:14:39,129 Over your clothes. Fucking shit. 118 00:14:47,763 --> 00:14:49,598 - You ever go hunting? - No. 119 00:14:50,933 --> 00:14:53,769 Well, today's your lucky day. 120 00:14:54,811 --> 00:14:59,066 You, me, that ugly Armenian in the tent, Garo, 121 00:14:59,232 --> 00:15:00,442 we do animal control. 122 00:15:01,818 --> 00:15:02,945 Animal control? 123 00:15:03,403 --> 00:15:06,323 Yeah, they're radioactive, so they have to go. 124 00:15:07,866 --> 00:15:09,368 But it's not hard. They're mostly pets. 125 00:15:10,243 --> 00:15:12,955 They're happy to see you. They run right up to you. 126 00:15:13,455 --> 00:15:14,456 Bang! 127 00:15:14,539 --> 00:15:16,041 You load the bodies on a truck, 128 00:15:16,375 --> 00:15:18,543 dump them in a pit, bury them in concrete, 129 00:15:18,627 --> 00:15:19,711 and then we drink. 130 00:15:20,587 --> 00:15:22,047 As much vodka as you want, 131 00:15:23,173 --> 00:15:24,257 plus 1,000 rubles. 132 00:15:26,969 --> 00:15:28,136 Let's go get you a gun. 133 00:16:37,748 --> 00:16:38,749 Yes? 134 00:16:39,207 --> 00:16:42,377 I need to see the following documents. They're listed as "permission only." 135 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:50,010 I'm working for the Central Committee. 136 00:17:03,106 --> 00:17:04,107 Comrade? 137 00:17:42,813 --> 00:17:43,939 She can have that one. 138 00:17:52,906 --> 00:17:53,949 Thank you, Comrade. 139 00:19:33,131 --> 00:19:35,258 - All clear. - Bring up the cameras. 140 00:19:41,348 --> 00:19:42,849 - Signal? - Acceptable. 141 00:19:42,933 --> 00:19:44,559 Running on board diagnostics. 142 00:19:45,101 --> 00:19:46,686 Tell me when we're ready to move it. 143 00:19:47,812 --> 00:19:50,148 To think that's what we put on the moon. 144 00:19:52,442 --> 00:19:53,902 Well, not that one. 145 00:19:55,946 --> 00:19:57,405 I know not that one. 146 00:19:58,573 --> 00:20:00,533 This rover was in storage. They can build two more. 147 00:20:01,284 --> 00:20:03,036 That should cover Nina and Katya. 148 00:20:04,621 --> 00:20:05,747 And Masha? 149 00:20:06,248 --> 00:20:07,958 The Central Committee have informed me 150 00:20:08,166 --> 00:20:10,961 that they may have found something that could work up there. 151 00:20:11,127 --> 00:20:12,963 - From the outside. - American? 152 00:20:13,964 --> 00:20:15,173 Of course not. 153 00:20:15,966 --> 00:20:17,509 It's a German police robot. 154 00:20:18,301 --> 00:20:20,262 But West German, so, as you can imagine, 155 00:20:20,345 --> 00:20:22,389 that wasn't an easy conversation to have. 156 00:20:22,931 --> 00:20:26,101 Diagnostics complete. Ready to engage main power and motor. 157 00:20:27,352 --> 00:20:28,353 Begin. 158 00:20:34,526 --> 00:20:35,527 Can we move it? 159 00:20:48,832 --> 00:20:51,543 Valery, what's that? A smile? 160 00:21:10,854 --> 00:21:13,356 I see your condition has improved, Comrade Dyatlov. 161 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:14,649 No. Leave. 162 00:21:22,866 --> 00:21:23,950 I need your help. 163 00:21:32,584 --> 00:21:35,045 Akimov initiated AZ-5. 164 00:21:36,212 --> 00:21:38,548 - When you gave the order... - Order? What order? 165 00:21:40,467 --> 00:21:43,386 Toptunov called it out, Akimov pressed it. 166 00:21:44,637 --> 00:21:46,222 It was the only good decision they made. 167 00:21:46,306 --> 00:21:47,307 Incompetent morons. 168 00:21:49,184 --> 00:21:51,728 Can you confirm that the reactor exploded 169 00:21:51,811 --> 00:21:53,563 after they attempted to shut it down? 170 00:21:54,689 --> 00:21:56,608 How do I even know it exploded, huh? 171 00:22:18,088 --> 00:22:19,255 I found this in the state archive. 172 00:22:21,466 --> 00:22:23,093 Written in 1976. 173 00:22:23,843 --> 00:22:25,011 It's about the operation 174 00:22:25,095 --> 00:22:27,722 of RBMK reactors under extreme conditions. 175 00:22:27,806 --> 00:22:28,807 So? 176 00:22:29,265 --> 00:22:31,309 The names of the authors have been redacted, 177 00:22:31,768 --> 00:22:33,436 and two pages have been removed. 178 00:22:34,646 --> 00:22:37,482 Well, the State must protect its secrets, Comrade. 179 00:22:38,108 --> 00:22:39,651 Do you dare suggest otherwise? 180 00:22:41,277 --> 00:22:42,612 They made a mistake. 181 00:22:44,989 --> 00:22:47,325 They didn't redact the table of contents. 182 00:22:58,420 --> 00:23:00,046 The missing pages apparently refer 183 00:23:00,130 --> 00:23:03,675 to a positive void coefficient and AZ-5. 184 00:23:04,926 --> 00:23:06,177 Does that mean anything to you? 185 00:23:06,261 --> 00:23:08,888 What are you after here? Why are you asking me this? 186 00:23:08,972 --> 00:23:11,182 You worked with this reactor. You know it better than I do. 187 00:23:11,266 --> 00:23:13,226 So everything's my fault, then? 188 00:23:14,394 --> 00:23:15,478 Is that what this is? 189 00:23:15,562 --> 00:23:18,565 I'm not here to blame you. I'm here to find out what happened. 190 00:23:19,732 --> 00:23:21,025 And whether you realize it or not, 191 00:23:21,109 --> 00:23:23,194 I'm your best chance to avoid a bullet. 192 00:23:25,989 --> 00:23:27,365 Can you help me or not? 193 00:23:36,833 --> 00:23:38,626 I have no idea what would have gone here. 194 00:23:38,710 --> 00:23:41,629 Void coefficients have nothing to do with AZ-5. 195 00:23:42,672 --> 00:23:44,007 There. Now you can go. 196 00:23:44,841 --> 00:23:47,010 - You're not even curious? - What for? 197 00:23:48,970 --> 00:23:51,389 You think the right question will get you the truth? 198 00:23:53,183 --> 00:23:54,559 There's no truth. 199 00:23:55,602 --> 00:23:58,396 Ask the bosses whatever you want and you'll get the lie. 200 00:23:59,898 --> 00:24:01,608 And I will get the bullet. 201 00:25:34,784 --> 00:25:36,202 I only have two rules. 202 00:25:36,786 --> 00:25:37,787 One. 203 00:25:38,746 --> 00:25:41,207 Don't point this gun at me. That's easy, right? 204 00:25:41,916 --> 00:25:43,543 You can point it at this piece of shit. 205 00:25:43,626 --> 00:25:45,295 I don't give a fuck. Never me. 206 00:25:46,754 --> 00:25:47,755 Two. 207 00:25:48,131 --> 00:25:51,009 If you hit an animal and it doesn't die, 208 00:25:51,092 --> 00:25:52,802 keep shooting until it does. 209 00:25:54,137 --> 00:25:55,471 Don't let them suffer, 210 00:25:56,889 --> 00:25:58,891 or I'll kill you. Understand? 211 00:26:00,268 --> 00:26:01,269 I mean it. 212 00:26:02,812 --> 00:26:04,022 I've killed a lot of people. 213 00:26:09,777 --> 00:26:12,030 Good. Then we're ready. 214 00:26:51,819 --> 00:26:54,822 Once we start, they'll run inside where they feel safe. 215 00:26:55,948 --> 00:26:57,325 So we go door to door. 216 00:26:58,493 --> 00:26:59,494 Okay? 217 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:01,120 Good. 218 00:27:51,629 --> 00:27:52,630 Hey! 219 00:27:53,297 --> 00:27:55,591 Do your job. Door to door. 220 00:28:49,687 --> 00:28:51,647 Go. Go. 221 00:28:51,773 --> 00:28:53,733 Go away. Go! 222 00:29:50,164 --> 00:29:51,624 Don't let them suffer. 223 00:29:52,250 --> 00:29:53,417 Sorry. Sorry. 224 00:29:56,546 --> 00:29:58,005 You're dragging that to the truck. 225 00:30:35,668 --> 00:30:36,752 You gonna eat? 226 00:30:47,722 --> 00:30:48,723 Drink. 227 00:30:52,768 --> 00:30:53,769 Again. 228 00:31:06,198 --> 00:31:07,199 Look... 229 00:31:09,994 --> 00:31:12,163 This happens to everyone their first time. 230 00:31:13,289 --> 00:31:14,999 Normally when you kill a man. 231 00:31:17,084 --> 00:31:18,544 But for you, a dog. 232 00:31:19,003 --> 00:31:21,088 So what? There's no shame in it. 233 00:31:23,299 --> 00:31:25,217 You remember your first time, Garo? 234 00:31:26,218 --> 00:31:29,180 My first time, Afghanistan. 235 00:31:31,682 --> 00:31:33,434 We were moving through a house, 236 00:31:34,393 --> 00:31:37,563 and suddenly a man was there and I shot him in the stomach. 237 00:31:39,857 --> 00:31:41,734 Yeah, that's a real war story. 238 00:31:43,235 --> 00:31:46,030 There are never any good stories like in the movies. They're shit. 239 00:31:47,782 --> 00:31:51,077 A man was there, boom, stomach. 240 00:31:53,704 --> 00:31:55,748 I was so scared, I didn't pull the trigger again 241 00:31:55,831 --> 00:31:57,249 for the rest of the day. 242 00:31:59,543 --> 00:32:02,129 I thought, "Well, that's it, Bacho. 243 00:32:03,839 --> 00:32:05,424 "You put a bullet in someone. 244 00:32:06,175 --> 00:32:07,885 "You're not you anymore. 245 00:32:08,552 --> 00:32:09,971 "You'll never be you again." 246 00:32:12,974 --> 00:32:16,310 But then you wake up the next morning, and you're still you. 247 00:32:17,812 --> 00:32:18,980 And you realize 248 00:32:20,606 --> 00:32:22,066 that was you all along. 249 00:32:23,275 --> 00:32:24,735 You just didn't know. 250 00:32:35,454 --> 00:32:37,873 "The happiness of all mankind." 251 00:32:41,627 --> 00:32:42,628 What? 252 00:32:44,463 --> 00:32:47,174 "Our goal is the happiness of all mankind." 253 00:32:55,016 --> 00:32:56,017 Yeah. 254 00:33:01,063 --> 00:33:02,106 I'm happy. 255 00:33:02,815 --> 00:33:04,066 I'm happy every day. 256 00:33:06,485 --> 00:33:07,486 All right. 257 00:33:08,863 --> 00:33:09,947 Back to work. 258 00:33:11,198 --> 00:33:12,199 Come on. 259 00:34:31,028 --> 00:34:32,113 It's here. 260 00:35:01,475 --> 00:35:02,476 All right. 261 00:35:04,687 --> 00:35:06,564 Get over. Right, hang on. 262 00:35:09,191 --> 00:35:10,734 Easy now. Careful. 263 00:35:11,735 --> 00:35:12,736 Hold it! 264 00:35:21,287 --> 00:35:22,288 Joker. 265 00:35:23,998 --> 00:35:26,375 It's what the Germans named it. "Joker." 266 00:35:26,625 --> 00:35:27,793 Is it ready? 267 00:35:28,460 --> 00:35:29,461 It's ready. 268 00:36:17,009 --> 00:36:18,010 Good signal. 269 00:36:19,470 --> 00:36:20,471 Cameras. 270 00:36:21,972 --> 00:36:22,973 Motors. 271 00:36:25,351 --> 00:36:27,478 Motors, good. Signals, good. 272 00:36:28,604 --> 00:36:30,606 All right, let's take this easy. 273 00:36:31,190 --> 00:36:33,400 Forward one meter, reverse one meter. 274 00:36:35,694 --> 00:36:36,695 Forward one. 275 00:36:40,991 --> 00:36:42,284 Germans. 276 00:36:43,869 --> 00:36:44,995 Reverse one. 277 00:36:58,217 --> 00:36:59,218 Did you lose the signal? 278 00:37:05,266 --> 00:37:06,725 It's not the signal. It's the vehicle. 279 00:37:08,644 --> 00:37:09,728 It's dead. 280 00:37:16,235 --> 00:37:17,236 Shit. 281 00:37:22,241 --> 00:37:24,034 Of course, I know they're listening! 282 00:37:24,118 --> 00:37:26,245 I want them to hear! I want them to hear it all! 283 00:37:26,704 --> 00:37:27,997 Do you know what we're doing here? 284 00:37:28,789 --> 00:37:30,833 Tell those idiots what they have done! 285 00:37:32,918 --> 00:37:34,586 I don't give a fuck! 286 00:37:36,422 --> 00:37:38,716 Tell them! Go tell them! Ryzhkov! 287 00:37:38,799 --> 00:37:40,009 Go tell them he's a joke! 288 00:37:40,092 --> 00:37:42,052 Tell fucking Gorbachev! 289 00:37:42,136 --> 00:37:43,137 Tell them! 290 00:38:06,618 --> 00:38:08,287 The official position of the State 291 00:38:09,288 --> 00:38:13,459 is that a global nuclear catastrophe is not possible in the Soviet Union. 292 00:38:14,460 --> 00:38:15,461 They told the Germans 293 00:38:15,544 --> 00:38:20,174 that the highest detected level of radiation was 2,000 roentgen. 294 00:38:22,134 --> 00:38:23,719 They gave them the propaganda number. 295 00:38:26,305 --> 00:38:28,265 That robot was never going to work. 296 00:38:32,936 --> 00:38:34,229 We need a new phone. 297 00:39:16,105 --> 00:39:17,648 What if we don't clear it? 298 00:39:18,232 --> 00:39:19,483 We have to clear it. 299 00:39:21,443 --> 00:39:24,196 If we don't clear the roof, we can't build a cover over it. 300 00:39:26,532 --> 00:39:29,159 If we can't cover it, that's 12,000 roentgen. 301 00:39:30,077 --> 00:39:33,497 Nearly twice the radiation from the Hiroshima bomb. 302 00:39:34,498 --> 00:39:37,292 - Every hour, hour after hour... - I know, I know, I know. 303 00:39:38,127 --> 00:39:39,420 What about lead? 304 00:39:41,213 --> 00:39:42,548 We could... I don't know. 305 00:39:42,631 --> 00:39:45,884 We could melt it and pour it from above, like a coating. 306 00:39:45,968 --> 00:39:47,428 First of all, we've already used 307 00:39:47,511 --> 00:39:48,971 most of the lead we had... 308 00:39:49,054 --> 00:39:51,140 There's lead sheeting around the instruments 309 00:39:51,223 --> 00:39:53,016 in the other reactor buildings. 310 00:39:53,225 --> 00:39:55,769 The soldiers are stripping it for their armor. 311 00:39:55,853 --> 00:39:57,020 Are you serious? 312 00:40:00,149 --> 00:40:04,445 Even if, we're still talking about boiling metal in a helicopter. 313 00:40:04,736 --> 00:40:06,905 And it's lead, Boris. It'll weigh a ton. 314 00:40:09,658 --> 00:40:12,870 What if we shoot the graphite into the hole? 315 00:40:13,454 --> 00:40:15,831 We've got high-caliber bullets, exploding bullets. 316 00:40:15,914 --> 00:40:18,000 They wouldn't just ricochet, they'd push... 317 00:40:18,083 --> 00:40:22,212 You wanna shoot exploding bullets at an exposed nuclear reactor? 318 00:40:22,296 --> 00:40:23,881 - Well... - No, no. 319 00:40:24,673 --> 00:40:26,341 Let's go light that roof back on fire. 320 00:40:26,633 --> 00:40:28,927 It was so easy to put out the first time. 321 00:40:31,180 --> 00:40:32,723 What are we talking about here? 322 00:40:34,808 --> 00:40:36,351 We need another robot. 323 00:40:37,853 --> 00:40:40,147 One that can withstand the radiation. 324 00:40:40,814 --> 00:40:42,774 I've asked. There is nothing. 325 00:40:44,276 --> 00:40:45,486 The Americans? 326 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,155 If the Americans had that kind of technology, 327 00:40:48,238 --> 00:40:49,823 do you really think they'd give it to us? 328 00:40:49,907 --> 00:40:50,908 And even if they would, 329 00:40:50,991 --> 00:40:52,451 the Central Committee would never stoop to ask. 330 00:40:52,826 --> 00:40:54,161 You know it, I know it. 331 00:40:55,787 --> 00:40:56,997 There are no robots. 332 00:41:04,129 --> 00:41:05,214 Biorobots. 333 00:41:06,548 --> 00:41:07,549 What was that? 334 00:41:12,721 --> 00:41:15,891 We use biorobots. 335 00:41:19,061 --> 00:41:20,062 Men. 336 00:42:48,942 --> 00:42:50,193 A lot today. 337 00:42:55,490 --> 00:42:56,867 Where do they get their food? 338 00:42:59,911 --> 00:43:01,079 They eat the chickens. 339 00:43:02,748 --> 00:43:04,082 Then they eat each other. 340 00:43:14,968 --> 00:43:16,136 Door to door. 341 00:44:28,583 --> 00:44:29,584 Pavel? 342 00:44:35,006 --> 00:44:36,007 Pavel! 343 00:44:45,142 --> 00:44:47,602 You don't hear me? I'm talking to you. 344 00:44:50,188 --> 00:44:51,189 Fuck. 345 00:44:56,695 --> 00:44:57,696 Just go outside. 346 00:45:04,786 --> 00:45:05,787 Go. 347 00:47:59,753 --> 00:48:00,962 Comrade soldiers, 348 00:48:01,504 --> 00:48:03,965 the Soviet people have had enough of this accident. 349 00:48:04,507 --> 00:48:05,926 They want us to clean it up, 350 00:48:06,009 --> 00:48:08,428 and we have entrusted you with this serious task. 351 00:48:09,095 --> 00:48:10,555 Because of the nature of the working area, 352 00:48:11,097 --> 00:48:14,476 you will each have no more than 90 seconds to solve this problem. 353 00:48:15,143 --> 00:48:17,896 Listen carefully to each of my instructions, 354 00:48:17,979 --> 00:48:20,565 and do exactly as you have been told. 355 00:48:20,649 --> 00:48:24,611 This is for your own safety and the safety of your comrades. 356 00:48:25,362 --> 00:48:27,238 You will enter Reactor Building Three. 357 00:48:27,739 --> 00:48:31,368 Climb the stairs, but do not immediately proceed to the roof. 358 00:48:31,451 --> 00:48:33,703 When you get to the top, wait inside, 359 00:48:33,787 --> 00:48:36,122 behind the entrance to the roof and catch your breath. 360 00:48:36,665 --> 00:48:38,917 You will need it for what comes next. 361 00:48:39,334 --> 00:48:42,504 This is the working area. We must clear the graphite. 362 00:48:42,587 --> 00:48:43,797 Some of it is in blocks, 363 00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,007 weighing approximately 40 to 50 kilograms. 364 00:48:46,091 --> 00:48:48,259 They all must be thrown over the edge here. 365 00:48:48,677 --> 00:48:52,013 Watch your comrades moving fast from this opening, 366 00:48:52,097 --> 00:48:55,684 then turning to the left, and entering the workspace here. 367 00:48:56,059 --> 00:48:57,644 Take care not to stumble. 368 00:48:58,311 --> 00:49:00,313 There's a hole in the roof. Take care not to fall. 369 00:49:01,731 --> 00:49:05,068 You will need to move quickly, and you will need to move carefully. 370 00:49:06,319 --> 00:49:08,697 Do you understand your mission as I have described it? 371 00:49:08,780 --> 00:49:10,448 Yes, Comrade General. 372 00:49:10,865 --> 00:49:13,910 These are the most important 90 seconds of your lives. 373 00:49:14,369 --> 00:49:17,580 Commit your task to memory, then do your job. 374 00:50:00,749 --> 00:50:03,626 It's time to go. After 90 seconds, I will ring a bell. 375 00:50:03,793 --> 00:50:06,504 When you hear it, return immediately, drop your shovels in the bin, 376 00:50:07,005 --> 00:50:09,382 and proceed down the hallway for decontamination. 377 00:50:09,966 --> 00:50:13,136 Above all, while on the roof, throw your debris over the rail. 378 00:50:13,219 --> 00:50:14,846 Do not look over the rail. Is that clear? 379 00:50:16,222 --> 00:50:20,185 Very well. On my mark. Ready. Go. 380 00:51:59,701 --> 00:52:01,536 Whoa! 381 00:52:33,193 --> 00:52:34,194 Comrade soldier. 382 00:52:36,070 --> 00:52:37,071 You're done. 383 00:52:49,542 --> 00:52:50,627 Time to go. 384 00:53:03,765 --> 00:53:05,350 Oi! Your glove! 385 00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:27,288 Mommy! Mommy! 386 00:54:32,145 --> 00:54:33,313 Sorry for all this. 387 00:54:34,564 --> 00:54:36,941 But we needed to speak to you somewhere without... 388 00:54:38,693 --> 00:54:40,653 They're going to put Dyatlov on trial, 389 00:54:41,571 --> 00:54:43,364 and Bryukhanov and Fomin. 390 00:54:43,698 --> 00:54:47,285 We're going to be asked to give expert testimony, 391 00:54:47,493 --> 00:54:48,578 all three of us. 392 00:54:49,162 --> 00:54:50,163 But that's... 393 00:54:50,496 --> 00:54:51,539 Before that happens... 394 00:54:51,914 --> 00:54:55,251 The Central Committee is sending Legasov to Vienna. 395 00:54:55,335 --> 00:54:57,337 It's the headquarters of the International Atomic... 396 00:54:57,420 --> 00:55:00,423 Atomic Energy Agency. Yeah, I know what's in Vienna. 397 00:55:02,550 --> 00:55:04,218 What are they asking you to do? 398 00:55:05,011 --> 00:55:06,471 Tell the world what happened. 399 00:55:12,018 --> 00:55:13,478 Well, then you'd better know what happened. 400 00:55:14,354 --> 00:55:17,440 I've constructed a timeline, minute by minute. 401 00:55:18,441 --> 00:55:20,276 Second by second in some places. 402 00:55:21,361 --> 00:55:24,530 Every decision, every button push, every turn of a switch. 403 00:55:25,281 --> 00:55:27,283 And? Are they guilty? 404 00:55:28,159 --> 00:55:29,160 Yes. 405 00:55:30,119 --> 00:55:33,664 Of gross incompetence, violation of safety regulations, 406 00:55:33,748 --> 00:55:35,375 recklessness beyond belief. 407 00:55:36,042 --> 00:55:38,628 But the explosion? I'm not sure. 408 00:55:38,836 --> 00:55:40,296 What do you mean, you're not sure? 409 00:55:41,756 --> 00:55:43,383 I've analyzed the data. 410 00:55:44,050 --> 00:55:45,802 Toptunov was telling the truth. 411 00:55:46,469 --> 00:55:49,305 They shut the reactor down, and then it exploded. 412 00:55:51,057 --> 00:55:53,518 I think this article may have the answer, 413 00:55:54,519 --> 00:55:56,938 but two pages have been removed. 414 00:56:03,444 --> 00:56:04,862 You've seen this before. 415 00:56:05,530 --> 00:56:08,116 Please, believe me when I tell you 416 00:56:08,324 --> 00:56:10,701 that I had no idea it could cause an explosion. 417 00:56:10,785 --> 00:56:13,788 - None of us knew. - None of you knew what? 418 00:56:15,164 --> 00:56:18,042 In 1975, at an RBMK reactor in Leningrad, 419 00:56:18,584 --> 00:56:22,380 a fuel channel ruptured. The operators pressed AZ-5, 420 00:56:22,463 --> 00:56:24,966 but instead of the power going down immediately, 421 00:56:25,341 --> 00:56:28,010 for a brief moment, it went up. 422 00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:30,012 How is that possible? 423 00:56:30,096 --> 00:56:33,558 Well, this was the very question posed by a colleague of mine named Volkov. 424 00:56:33,641 --> 00:56:35,143 He's the one who wrote this article. 425 00:56:35,810 --> 00:56:37,728 When an RBMK reactor runs at low power, 426 00:56:37,812 --> 00:56:39,439 it's notoriously unstable. 427 00:56:39,605 --> 00:56:41,607 Prone to swings in reactivity. 428 00:56:42,817 --> 00:56:44,986 Under normal circumstances, the control rods 429 00:56:45,069 --> 00:56:47,572 - can compensate for that. - Under normal circumstances. 430 00:56:47,655 --> 00:56:51,075 The Chernobyl staff stalled the reactor during the test. 431 00:56:51,492 --> 00:56:53,161 They pulled almost all the control rods out 432 00:56:53,244 --> 00:56:54,287 to bring the power back up. 433 00:56:54,370 --> 00:56:56,789 This is what Volkov learned from Leningrad. 434 00:56:57,165 --> 00:57:00,001 If the boron control rods are completely withdrawn 435 00:57:00,084 --> 00:57:02,503 from the reactor, when they're put back in, 436 00:57:02,587 --> 00:57:05,882 the first thing that enters the core isn't boron. 437 00:57:06,674 --> 00:57:07,925 It's graphite. 438 00:57:11,387 --> 00:57:15,558 The control rods have graphite tips that displace water and steam. 439 00:57:16,184 --> 00:57:20,229 So the reactivity doesn't go down. It goes up dramatically. 440 00:57:21,731 --> 00:57:24,066 Why on earth would they press that button? 441 00:57:24,609 --> 00:57:25,776 They didn't know. 442 00:57:28,112 --> 00:57:29,739 Volkov warned the Kremlin, 443 00:57:30,740 --> 00:57:31,824 10 years ago. 444 00:57:34,076 --> 00:57:37,622 But there could be no doubt about the supremacy 445 00:57:37,705 --> 00:57:39,790 of the Soviet nuclear industry. 446 00:57:40,500 --> 00:57:41,501 Oh. 447 00:57:41,834 --> 00:57:45,046 The KGB classified it as a state secret. 448 00:57:47,757 --> 00:57:49,133 When I saw the reactor blown open, 449 00:57:49,217 --> 00:57:52,053 I still didn't think it could be this flaw in AZ-5. 450 00:57:52,887 --> 00:57:56,057 Because the flaw will not lead to an explosion 451 00:57:56,307 --> 00:58:00,937 unless the operators have pushed the reactor to the edge of disaster. 452 00:58:01,270 --> 00:58:03,356 - So it is their fault? - Yes. 453 00:58:04,106 --> 00:58:05,525 But not only their fault. 454 00:58:07,485 --> 00:58:08,486 No. 455 00:58:10,238 --> 00:58:12,240 Is that what you're going to say in Vienna? 456 00:58:16,244 --> 00:58:18,496 You can't possibly be that naive. 457 00:58:19,330 --> 00:58:25,044 There are 16 RBMK reactors running in the Soviet Union right now. 458 00:58:25,127 --> 00:58:26,712 We have to fix them. 459 00:58:27,213 --> 00:58:30,007 The only way to do that is to go public, 460 00:58:30,174 --> 00:58:32,134 force the Central Committee to take action. 461 00:58:32,218 --> 00:58:35,137 What you're proposing is that Legasov humiliate a nation 462 00:58:35,221 --> 00:58:38,140 that is obsessed with not being humiliated. 463 00:58:38,266 --> 00:58:39,976 We can make a deal with the KGB. 464 00:58:40,851 --> 00:58:43,020 You'll leave this information out in Vienna, 465 00:58:43,187 --> 00:58:45,982 and they quietly let us fix the remaining reactors. 466 00:58:46,065 --> 00:58:49,652 A deal with the KGB? And I'm naive. 467 00:58:51,696 --> 00:58:55,116 They'll go after your family, they'll go after your friends. 468 00:58:55,199 --> 00:58:57,743 You have a chance to talk to the world, Valery. 469 00:58:58,035 --> 00:58:59,912 If that chance was mine... 470 00:58:59,996 --> 00:59:01,247 But it isn't, is it? 471 00:59:02,957 --> 00:59:05,334 I've known braver souls than you, Khomyuk. 472 00:59:06,127 --> 00:59:08,129 Men who had their moment and did nothing. 473 00:59:08,379 --> 00:59:11,465 Because when it's your life and the lives of everyone you love, 474 00:59:12,633 --> 00:59:14,677 your moral conviction doesn't mean anything. 475 00:59:15,136 --> 00:59:16,262 It leaves you. 476 00:59:17,638 --> 00:59:21,350 And all you want at that moment is not to be shot. 477 00:59:26,105 --> 00:59:28,399 Do you know the name Vasily Ignatenko? 478 00:59:29,317 --> 00:59:30,318 No. 479 00:59:31,235 --> 00:59:32,486 He was a fireman. 480 00:59:34,238 --> 00:59:36,407 He died two weeks after the accident. 481 00:59:37,491 --> 00:59:39,076 I've been looking in on his widow. 482 00:59:40,328 --> 00:59:42,663 She gave birth. A girl. 483 00:59:43,706 --> 00:59:45,458 The baby lived for four hours. 484 00:59:47,251 --> 00:59:48,919 They said the radiation would have killed the mother, 485 00:59:49,003 --> 00:59:50,838 but the baby absorbed it instead. 486 00:59:51,756 --> 00:59:52,757 Her baby. 487 00:59:55,009 --> 00:59:56,135 We live in a country 488 00:59:56,469 --> 00:59:58,888 where children have to die to save their mothers. 489 01:00:00,348 --> 01:00:01,390 To hell with your deal. 490 01:00:04,518 --> 01:00:05,895 And to hell with our lives. 491 01:00:08,564 --> 01:00:10,232 Someone has to start telling the truth. 492 01:00:25,039 --> 01:00:26,791 Congratulations, comrades. 493 01:00:27,458 --> 01:00:30,878 You are the last of 3,828 men. 494 01:00:31,379 --> 01:00:33,714 You have performed your duties perfectly. 495 01:00:33,798 --> 01:00:36,050 I wish you good health and long life. 496 01:00:36,300 --> 01:00:39,178 All of you are awarded a bonus of 800 rubles. 497 01:00:39,345 --> 01:00:40,930 - Thank you. - I serve the Soviet Union. 498 01:00:41,013 --> 01:00:42,848 - Thank you. - I serve the Soviet Union. 499 01:00:42,932 --> 01:00:44,684 - Thank you. - I serve the Soviet Union. 500 01:00:44,767 --> 01:00:46,394 - Thank you. - I serve the Soviet Union. 501 01:00:46,477 --> 01:00:48,437 - Thank you. - I serve the Soviet Union. 502 01:00:48,521 --> 01:00:50,189 - Thank you. - I serve the Soviet Union. 503 01:00:50,272 --> 01:00:51,816 - Thank you. - I serve the Soviet Union. 504 01:00:51,899 --> 01:00:53,234 - Thank you. - I serve the Soviet Union. 505 01:00:53,317 --> 01:00:55,277 - Thank you. - I serve the Soviet Union.