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[FOOTSTEPS]

2
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[LIQUID POURING]

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-[CLICK]
-[WHIRRING]

4
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-[CLICK]
-[WHIRRING STOPS]

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-[CLATTER]
-[STATIC]

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VALERY: [OVER TAPE]
<i>What is the cost of lies?</i>

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<i>It's not that we'll mistake them
for the truth.</i>

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<i>The real danger is that
if we hear enough lies,</i>

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<i>then we no longer recognize
the truth at all.</i>

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<i>What can we do then?</i>

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<i>What else is left but to abandon
even the hope of truth</i>

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<i>and content ourselves instead
with stories?</i>

13
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<i>In these stories,
it doesn't matter who the heroes are.</i>

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<i>All we want to know is,
who is to blame?</i>

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<i>In this story, it was Anatoly Dyatlov.
He was the best choice.</i>

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<i>An arrogant, unpleasant man,
he ran the room that night.</i>

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<i>He gave the orders.</i>

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<i>And no friends.</i>

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<i>Or, at least, not important ones.</i>

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<i>And now, Dyatlov will spend the next
10 years in a prison labor camp.</i>

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<i>Of course, that sentence
is doubly unfair.</i>

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<i>There were far greater criminals
than him at work.</i>

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[SIGHS]

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<i>And as for what Dyatlov did do...</i>

25
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<i>The man doesn't deserve prison.</i>

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<i>He deserves death.</i>

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[CLEARS THROAT]

28
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[INHALES]

29
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But instead, ten years
for "criminal mismanagement."

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What does that mean?

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No one knows.

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It doesn't matter.

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What does matter is that, to them,

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justice was done.

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Because, you see, to them,

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a just world is a sane world.

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[EXHALES]

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There was nothing sane
about Chernobyl.

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What happened there,
what happened after,

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even the good we did, all of it...

41
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All of it...

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Madness.

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[SIGHS] Well, I've given you
everything I know.

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They'll deny it, of course.

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They always do.

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I know you'll try your best.

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[CLICKS]

48
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[WHIRRING]

49
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-[CLICKS]
-[WHIRRING STOPS]

50
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[EXHALES]

51
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[DOOR OPENS]

52
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[DOOR CLOSES]

53
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[INHALES DEEPLY]

54
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[EXHALES DEEPLY]

55
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[CLATTERING]

56
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[LOUD CLATTERING]

57
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[VOMITING]

58
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[COUGHS]

59
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[GROANS]

60
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[TOILET FLUSHING]

61
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[SNORING]

62
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[CLATTERING]

63
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-[EXPLOSION]
-[GASPS]

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VASILY: Lyudmilla?

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[DOGS BARKING]

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MAN: Comrade Dyatlov!

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Comrade Dyatlov! Comrade Dyatlov!

68
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-Comrade Dyatlov! Comrade Dyatlov!
-[ALARM BLARING]

69
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What just happened?

70
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I don't know.

71
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There's a fire in the turbine hall.

72
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The turbine hall?

73
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The control system tank. Hydrogen.

74
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You and Toptunov,
you morons blew the tank.

75
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-No, that's not...
-This is an emergency.

76
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Everyone stay calm.
Our first priority is...

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-It's exploded!
-DYATLOV: We know.

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Akimov, are we cooling
the reactor core?

79
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We shut it down,
but the control rods are still active.

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They're not all the way in.
I disengaged...

81
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All right. Try and disconnect
the servos from the standby console.

82
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You two, get the backup pumps running.

83
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We need water moving through the core.

84
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-That is all that matters.
-There is no core.

85
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It exploded! The core exploded.

86
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He's in shock. Get him out of here.

87
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The lid is off.

88
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The stack is burning. I saw it.

89
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You're confused.
RBMK reactor cores don't explode.

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-Akimov...
-Sasha.

91
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Don't worry, we did everything right.
Something strange has happened.

92
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-Do you taste metal?
-Akimov!

93
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Comrade Perevozchenko, what you're
saying is physically impossible.

94
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The core can't explode.
It has to be the tank.

95
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We're wasting time. Let's go.

96
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Get the hydrogen out of the generators
and pump water into the core.

97
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What about the fire?

98
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Call the fire brigade.

99
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[ALARM CONTINUES BLARING]

100
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[ALARM CONTINUES BLARING]

101
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[GLASS CRUNCHING]

102
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[BEEPS]

103
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-Is this Military Fire Station 2?
-Yes.

104
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What's happening with the accident?

105
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Explosion in the main building
between the third and fourth blocks.

106
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-Are there people there?
-Yes.

107
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Wake up the bosses. Call them.

108
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I already called mine.

109
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Wake them up, wake them up.
Wake up the entire officers' block.

110
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[BEEPS]

111
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-Fire department.
-Hello, Ivankov?

112
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-Yes. Yes?
-You've been called to Pripyat.

113
00:11:05,624 --> 00:11:07,334
-Hello?
-Yes. Yes I can hear you.

114
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At the nuclear plant over there,
in the third and fourth blocks.

115
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The roof is on fire.

116
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[IN ENGLISH]
You're not on call tonight.

117
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VASILY: They're bringing everybody in,
military and civil.

118
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Pripyat, Polesskoe, Kiev.

119
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This is a big one.

120
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But it doesn't look right, the color.

121
00:11:26,812 --> 00:11:29,940
Pravik says he thinks they're shining
floodlights or something.

122
00:11:30,023 --> 00:11:31,400
And what if there are chemicals?

123
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[CHUCKLING] "Chemicals"?

124
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The problem's the roof.

125
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It's covered in tar,

126
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so it's gonna burn all night,
and it'll stink like hell.

127
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That's it. That's the worst of it.

128
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Go back to bed.

129
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[DOOR OPENS]

130
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[DOOR CLOSES]

131
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[ALARM BLARING]

132
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[CREAKING]

133
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-MAN: Is it war?
-Where's the dosimeter?

134
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MAN: Here. Here.

135
00:12:31,585 --> 00:12:32,669
[RUMBLING]

136
00:12:35,047 --> 00:12:36,465
Are they bombing?

137
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What the fuck is this?
It's 3.6 roentgen.

138
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That's as high as it goes.
The good one's locked in a safe.

139
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I don't have a key.

140
00:12:46,892 --> 00:12:50,187
Valera... Your face.

141
00:12:52,397 --> 00:12:53,398
Come on.

142
00:12:54,107 --> 00:12:56,360
I'm going to find Khodemchuk
in the pump room.

143
00:12:56,443 --> 00:12:57,945
You, here.

144
00:12:58,570 --> 00:13:01,949
Get Shashenok. He's in 604. Go.

145
00:13:02,366 --> 00:13:03,784
We need to get everyone out!

146
00:13:04,034 --> 00:13:05,535
[ALARM CONTINUES BLARING]

147
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[COUGHING]

148
00:13:15,587 --> 00:13:17,005
-[GASPING]
-[VOMITING]

149
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Shit.

150
00:13:18,757 --> 00:13:21,051
Hey! We need to get
to the reactor hall.

151
00:13:21,134 --> 00:13:24,054
-The lift's destroyed.
-Up two flights and across.

152
00:13:24,513 --> 00:13:26,974
-Right.
-Why are you going there?

153
00:13:41,947 --> 00:13:43,031
[THUDDING]

154
00:13:43,573 --> 00:13:44,700
[GRUNTING]

155
00:13:47,119 --> 00:13:48,328
Have you seen Khodemchuk?

156
00:13:48,954 --> 00:13:51,248
-No. Where's Viktor?
-Still in the pump room.

157
00:13:52,958 --> 00:13:53,959
-[VOMITS]
-[GASPS]

158
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Stay here. I'll come back.

159
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Viktor!

160
00:14:17,983 --> 00:14:19,526
-[VIKTOR COUGHING]
-Viktor.

161
00:14:21,111 --> 00:14:22,112
Viktor.

162
00:14:22,904 --> 00:14:23,905
Oh!

163
00:14:24,156 --> 00:14:26,491
Viktor, I'm gonna get you out of here.

164
00:14:27,159 --> 00:14:28,910
-Can you stand?
-[COUGHING]

165
00:14:29,870 --> 00:14:31,038
[GASPS] Khodemchuk...

166
00:14:31,121 --> 00:14:32,205
Where?

167
00:14:35,250 --> 00:14:36,626
Get Khodemchuk.

168
00:15:00,233 --> 00:15:01,234
[GASPING]

169
00:15:05,530 --> 00:15:07,532
[ALARM BLARING IN DISTANCE]

170
00:15:19,211 --> 00:15:20,212
[ALARM BLARING]

171
00:15:20,670 --> 00:15:22,589
I dropped the control rods
from the other panel.

172
00:15:22,672 --> 00:15:24,466
-AKIMOV: They're still up.
-What?

173
00:15:24,549 --> 00:15:26,869
They're still only a third
of the way in. I don't know why.

174
00:15:27,135 --> 00:15:28,237
I already sent the trainees down

175
00:15:28,261 --> 00:15:29,655
to the reactor hall
to lower them by hand.

176
00:15:29,679 --> 00:15:31,657
-What about the pumps?
-I can't get through to Khodemchuk.

177
00:15:31,681 --> 00:15:34,226
-The lines are down.
-Fuck the phones and fuck Khodemchuk.

178
00:15:34,392 --> 00:15:35,912
-Are the pumps on or not?
-Stolyarchuk?

179
00:15:35,977 --> 00:15:38,772
My control panel's not working.
I tried calling for the electricians.

180
00:15:38,855 --> 00:15:42,567
I don't give a shit about the panel!
I need water in my reactor core!

181
00:15:43,610 --> 00:15:45,490
Get down there
and make sure those pumps are on.

182
00:15:46,822 --> 00:15:47,823
Now!

183
00:15:55,330 --> 00:15:57,082
-[DOOR OPENS]
-What does the dosimeter say?

184
00:15:57,290 --> 00:15:59,543
Uh, 3.6 roentgen, but that's as high
as the meter...

185
00:15:59,626 --> 00:16:01,878
Three point six.
Not great, not terrible.

186
00:16:10,470 --> 00:16:11,680
We did everything right.

187
00:16:16,184 --> 00:16:18,186
[SIRENS WAILING]

188
00:16:38,415 --> 00:16:40,458
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

189
00:16:48,758 --> 00:16:50,260
[MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

190
00:16:56,850 --> 00:16:58,435
FIREMAN 1: You, connect those hooks!

191
00:17:04,566 --> 00:17:05,626
FIREMAN 2: Get the pumps going!

192
00:17:05,650 --> 00:17:07,777
FIREMAN 3: Yeah, over here!
I'm right with you!

193
00:17:11,823 --> 00:17:14,534
FIREMAN 1: We're working
bottom to top. Go in fast.

194
00:17:15,744 --> 00:17:17,495
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

195
00:17:35,513 --> 00:17:36,514
MISHA: Vasily...

196
00:17:38,683 --> 00:17:41,311
-Hey, Vasily, what's this?
-I don't know, Misha.

197
00:17:41,394 --> 00:17:43,521
Don't fuck around with it.
Hook these up. Come on.

198
00:17:49,736 --> 00:17:50,737
Do you taste metal?

199
00:17:51,238 --> 00:17:53,949
-Yeah, what is that?
-I don't know.

200
00:17:55,992 --> 00:17:57,552
The valves, Misha.
The valves! Let's go.

201
00:17:57,619 --> 00:17:58,954
The valves! Come on!

202
00:18:07,462 --> 00:18:08,838
[SIREN WAILING]

203
00:18:14,261 --> 00:18:16,263
[ALARM BLARING]

204
00:18:31,444 --> 00:18:32,445
What do you need?

205
00:18:33,488 --> 00:18:35,156
We need to get into the reactor hall

206
00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,160
to lower the control rods,
but the door's jammed.

207
00:18:39,202 --> 00:18:40,787
I don't think there are control rods.

208
00:18:41,079 --> 00:18:42,247
I don't think there's a core.

209
00:18:44,541 --> 00:18:46,167
No, you're... You're mistaken.

210
00:18:47,377 --> 00:18:48,378
Akimov said.

211
00:19:03,685 --> 00:19:04,686
[PANTING]

212
00:19:05,937 --> 00:19:06,938
Let's go.

213
00:19:20,660 --> 00:19:22,203
FIREMAN 1: [SHOUTING] No!

214
00:19:22,579 --> 00:19:23,899
[FIREMAN 1 SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

215
00:19:23,955 --> 00:19:25,915
Ignatenko, get on his hose!

216
00:19:26,624 --> 00:19:28,024
FIREMAN 2: It's all right. Breathe.

217
00:19:28,209 --> 00:19:29,210
-Misha.
-[MISHA GROANING]

218
00:19:29,878 --> 00:19:31,638
FIREMAN 2: All right, all right.
Easy, Misha.

219
00:19:32,672 --> 00:19:34,232
[MISHA CONTINUES GROANING
AND SCREAMING]

220
00:20:08,708 --> 00:20:09,709
Are you sure?

221
00:20:11,878 --> 00:20:12,879
Akimov...

222
00:20:17,509 --> 00:20:18,510
[BOTH GRUNTING]

223
00:20:26,851 --> 00:20:27,852
Move.

224
00:20:35,276 --> 00:20:36,694
[GRUNTING]

225
00:20:38,363 --> 00:20:39,739
Come on! Go! Go!

226
00:20:42,325 --> 00:20:43,326
[PEREVOZSCHENKO GRUNTS]

227
00:20:43,576 --> 00:20:44,869
Go! Go fast, go!

228
00:20:51,126 --> 00:20:52,377
[DOOR CREAKING]

229
00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:18,361
[GRUNTS]

230
00:21:18,653 --> 00:21:19,654
Let's go!

231
00:21:20,864 --> 00:21:21,865
Let's go!

232
00:21:23,616 --> 00:21:25,326
Hey! [GROANS]

233
00:21:29,497 --> 00:21:30,498
[GROANING]

234
00:21:31,958 --> 00:21:32,959
Hey!

235
00:21:46,723 --> 00:21:48,349
-[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
-[SIRENS WAILING]

236
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,607
OKSANA: Lyudmilla! Do you want
to come with us?

237
00:21:56,149 --> 00:21:57,150
Come where?

238
00:21:57,275 --> 00:21:59,475
We're going to the railroad bridge
to get a better look.

239
00:21:59,527 --> 00:22:01,863
It's not like anyone
can sleep with all the sirens.

240
00:22:02,113 --> 00:22:04,157
I don't think you should go.
It could be dangerous.

241
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:05,676
MIKHAIL: What do you mean,
"dangerous"?

242
00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:07,261
It's a fire.
It's over there, we're over here.

243
00:22:07,285 --> 00:22:08,870
-Mikhail.
-What?

244
00:22:10,413 --> 00:22:12,457
Oh. Sorry.

245
00:22:17,462 --> 00:22:18,922
-Is Vasily...
-Yeah.

246
00:22:19,756 --> 00:22:21,132
Did he say it was bad?

247
00:22:21,216 --> 00:22:23,092
No. No, he said it was just the roof.

248
00:22:23,176 --> 00:22:25,553
Well, he's never gotten hurt before.
None of the boys have.

249
00:22:27,222 --> 00:22:28,223
He'll be fine.

250
00:22:29,974 --> 00:22:30,975
Get some rest.

251
00:22:43,947 --> 00:22:45,299
DYATLOV: The tank, it's big enough.

252
00:22:45,323 --> 00:22:48,117
This kind of explosion,
the control tank on 71,

253
00:22:48,201 --> 00:22:49,452
it's 100 cubic meters.

254
00:22:49,536 --> 00:22:50,954
One hundred and ten.

255
00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:54,541
Hundred and ten.
It could do this, definitely.

256
00:22:55,083 --> 00:22:56,125
[PANTING] It's gone.

257
00:22:57,252 --> 00:22:58,503
I looked right into it.

258
00:22:59,379 --> 00:23:00,922
I looked into the core.

259
00:23:02,215 --> 00:23:04,050
Did you lower the control rods or not?

260
00:23:05,301 --> 00:23:06,511
[RETCHING]

261
00:23:07,512 --> 00:23:08,846
Take him to the infirmary.

262
00:23:11,432 --> 00:23:13,017
Toptunov, take him!

263
00:23:16,563 --> 00:23:17,981
Where's Kudryavstev?

264
00:23:18,898 --> 00:23:20,024
He fell.

265
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,986
-TOPTUNOV: I need a medic! Anyone!
-He's delusional.

266
00:23:24,153 --> 00:23:25,905
-His face...
-Ruptured condenser lines.

267
00:23:25,989 --> 00:23:29,117
The feedwater is mildly contaminated.
He'll be fine. I've seen worse.

268
00:23:29,784 --> 00:23:31,995
Do we still have
a phone line to the outside?

269
00:23:33,913 --> 00:23:35,582
-Akimov?
-[GASPS]

270
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,334
DYATLOV: Call in the day shift.

271
00:23:39,752 --> 00:23:40,795
But if the...

272
00:23:40,878 --> 00:23:42,630
We have to keep water flowing
into the core.

273
00:23:42,714 --> 00:23:45,550
We need electricians,
mechanics, we need bodies.

274
00:23:46,509 --> 00:23:48,386
How many times do I have to say it?

275
00:23:57,145 --> 00:23:59,272
I'm going to
the Administration Building now

276
00:23:59,355 --> 00:24:01,232
to call Bryukhanov and Fomin.

277
00:24:01,983 --> 00:24:03,303
They're gonna want a full report.

278
00:24:05,445 --> 00:24:07,989
Now, I don't know if I can
make things better for you...

279
00:24:09,282 --> 00:24:10,908
But I can certainly make them worse.

280
00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:16,372
Call in the day shift, Comrade Akimov.

281
00:24:20,168 --> 00:24:21,502
Yes, Comrade Dyatlov.

282
00:24:31,012 --> 00:24:32,172
[INHALES AND EXHALES SHARPLY]

283
00:24:35,266 --> 00:24:36,267
[DOOR CLOSES]

284
00:24:55,161 --> 00:24:56,201
DOCTOR: You're doing fine.

285
00:24:57,580 --> 00:24:58,581
Raise her up.

286
00:25:02,835 --> 00:25:05,797
That one, maybe an hour.
This one, not until morning.

287
00:25:08,758 --> 00:25:10,301
How's it downstairs, Doctor?

288
00:25:10,968 --> 00:25:11,969
DR. ZINCHENKO: Quiet.

289
00:25:12,762 --> 00:25:13,888
Always is.

290
00:25:14,597 --> 00:25:16,599
Nothing at this hour but babies.

291
00:25:18,226 --> 00:25:20,603
Do you know I once went
two days without sleep?

292
00:25:21,229 --> 00:25:23,564
Ten women went into labor
at the same time.

293
00:25:23,898 --> 00:25:26,067
-Did I ever tell you that story?
-Yes.

294
00:25:28,361 --> 00:25:30,279
Well, I won't need you
in here for a while.

295
00:25:30,363 --> 00:25:32,782
If you want,
get some rest in the break room.

296
00:25:33,866 --> 00:25:35,702
They haven't brought
anyone in from the fire.

297
00:25:36,202 --> 00:25:37,245
What fire?

298
00:25:37,578 --> 00:25:38,830
The power plant.

299
00:25:40,248 --> 00:25:42,750
DOCTOR: Oh.
Well, then it mustn't be too bad.

300
00:25:44,001 --> 00:25:45,361
DR. ZINCHENKO: Do we stock iodine?

301
00:25:45,837 --> 00:25:47,755
-Hmm?
-Iodine.

302
00:25:49,215 --> 00:25:50,633
You mean disinfectant?

303
00:25:50,717 --> 00:25:53,302
No, pills. Does the hospital
stock iodine pills?

304
00:25:53,386 --> 00:25:56,055
Iodine pills?
Why would we have iodine pills?

305
00:25:56,806 --> 00:25:58,015
[PHONE RINGING]

306
00:26:01,853 --> 00:26:03,062
[CONTINUES RINGING]

307
00:26:08,776 --> 00:26:10,153
Hello? [COUGHING]

308
00:26:11,696 --> 00:26:12,697
Hello?

309
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:15,825
-[INDISTINCT TALKING ON PHONE]
-[GRUNTS]

310
00:26:20,246 --> 00:26:21,664
Who else knows this?

311
00:26:24,167 --> 00:26:25,168
Have you called Fomin?

312
00:26:26,961 --> 00:26:31,132
Of course, I want you to call him.
If I'm up, he's up.

313
00:26:52,195 --> 00:26:54,155
[SIREN WAILING]

314
00:27:09,670 --> 00:27:12,924
Whatever the cause, the important
thing is that neither you nor I...

315
00:27:26,437 --> 00:27:27,438
[DOOR CLOSES]

316
00:27:49,043 --> 00:27:50,294
[DOOR LOCKING]

317
00:27:54,549 --> 00:27:56,551
I take it the safety test
was a failure.

318
00:27:56,968 --> 00:27:59,595
-We have the situation under control.
-FOMIN: "Under control"?

319
00:28:00,096 --> 00:28:01,490
It doesn't look
like it's under control.

320
00:28:01,514 --> 00:28:02,515
Shut up, Fomin.

321
00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:06,820
I have to tell the Central Committee
about this. Do you realize that?

322
00:28:07,228 --> 00:28:08,948
I have to get on the phone
and tell Mar yin,

323
00:28:08,980 --> 00:28:12,441
or, God forbid, Frolyshev,
that my power plant is on fire.

324
00:28:12,525 --> 00:28:14,944
No one can blame you for this,
Director Bryukhanov.

325
00:28:15,027 --> 00:28:16,505
Of course no one can
blame me for this.

326
00:28:16,529 --> 00:28:19,657
How can I be responsible?
I was sleeping.

327
00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:22,618
Tell me what happened, quickly.

328
00:28:24,579 --> 00:28:27,748
We ran the test exactly as
Chief Engineer Fomin approved.

329
00:28:28,291 --> 00:28:31,002
Unit Shift Chief Akimov
and Engineer Toptunov

330
00:28:31,294 --> 00:28:32,920
encountered technical difficulties,

331
00:28:33,004 --> 00:28:36,257
leading to an accumulation of hydrogen
in the control system tank.

332
00:28:37,174 --> 00:28:38,634
It regrettably ignited,

333
00:28:38,718 --> 00:28:40,845
damaging the plant,
setting the roof on fire.

334
00:28:43,389 --> 00:28:44,765
The tank is quite large.

335
00:28:45,516 --> 00:28:47,143
It's the only logical explanation.

336
00:28:47,727 --> 00:28:51,022
Of course,
Deputy Chief Engineer Dyatlov

337
00:28:51,105 --> 00:28:55,026
was directly supervising the test,
so he would know best.

338
00:28:55,109 --> 00:28:56,986
BRYUKHANOV: A hydrogen tank, fire...

339
00:28:59,864 --> 00:29:01,657
-Reactor?
-We're taking measures to ensure

340
00:29:01,949 --> 00:29:03,701
a steady flow of water
through the core.

341
00:29:04,619 --> 00:29:07,413
-What about radiation?
-Obviously, down here it's nothing,

342
00:29:07,496 --> 00:29:11,584
but in the reactor building,
I'm being told, 3.6 roentgen per hour.

343
00:29:12,501 --> 00:29:14,271
Well, that's not great,
but it's not horrifying.

344
00:29:14,295 --> 00:29:15,296
FOMIN: Not at all.

345
00:29:16,047 --> 00:29:17,757
From the feedwater, I assume.

346
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:18,841
Mmm-hmm.

347
00:29:20,593 --> 00:29:23,596
We'll have to limit shifts to
six hours at a time, but otherwise...

348
00:29:23,930 --> 00:29:26,265
The dosimetrists
should be checking regularly.

349
00:29:27,391 --> 00:29:30,436
Have them use
the good meter from the safe.

350
00:29:31,771 --> 00:29:32,772
[GROANS] Right.

351
00:29:33,814 --> 00:29:35,232
I'll call Mar yin.

352
00:29:36,442 --> 00:29:38,861
Have them wake up the local
Executive Committee.

353
00:29:38,945 --> 00:29:40,321
There'll be orders coming down.

354
00:29:40,947 --> 00:29:42,198
[PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY]

355
00:29:46,535 --> 00:29:47,536
OKSANA: Here.

356
00:29:48,079 --> 00:29:50,623
Sure? Okay.

357
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:55,419
What do you think makes the colors?

358
00:29:55,503 --> 00:29:56,504
Oh.

359
00:29:57,171 --> 00:30:00,341
-It's the fuel, for sure.
- "It's the fuel, for sure."

360
00:30:00,716 --> 00:30:03,761
What do you know about it?
You clean floors at a train station.

361
00:30:04,136 --> 00:30:05,846
My friend, Yuri,
works at the power plant.

362
00:30:05,930 --> 00:30:07,056
He says it runs cold.

363
00:30:07,598 --> 00:30:09,308
No gas, no fire. Just atoms.

364
00:30:10,351 --> 00:30:12,911
Yuri says the only thing is,
you can't walk right up to the fuel.

365
00:30:12,979 --> 00:30:15,690
If you do, a glass of vodka
an hour for four hours.

366
00:30:16,482 --> 00:30:18,109
Isn't Yuri a plumber?

367
00:30:18,776 --> 00:30:20,903
At the nuclear power plant, yeah.

368
00:30:21,278 --> 00:30:22,363
[CHUCKLES]

369
00:30:27,451 --> 00:30:28,869
Well, it is beautiful.

370
00:30:30,246 --> 00:30:31,247
Yeah.

371
00:31:23,299 --> 00:31:24,884
[INAUDIBLE]

372
00:31:42,777 --> 00:31:44,779
[ALARM BLARING]

373
00:31:47,948 --> 00:31:49,450
[COUGHING]

374
00:32:23,192 --> 00:32:24,610
Do you have a cigarette?

375
00:32:50,594 --> 00:32:51,804
Do you need help?

376
00:32:58,769 --> 00:32:59,770
It's over.

377
00:33:16,787 --> 00:33:18,122
[SHUDDERING]

378
00:33:53,115 --> 00:33:54,450
[MAN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

379
00:34:05,127 --> 00:34:06,795
We've done all we can
from the perimeter.

380
00:34:06,879 --> 00:34:08,599
We need to start making
our way to the roof.

381
00:34:15,721 --> 00:34:16,722
FIREMAN 1: Vasily!

382
00:34:17,389 --> 00:34:18,432
You've gotta put it out.

383
00:34:22,478 --> 00:34:25,272
FIREMAN 2: That's enough, comrades.
We're pushing ahead.

384
00:34:31,153 --> 00:34:32,154
Come on, boys.

385
00:34:38,744 --> 00:34:40,504
FIREMAN: Vasily,
it's just past, straight up.

386
00:34:40,788 --> 00:34:42,373
All the way up, all the way in.

387
00:34:44,458 --> 00:34:45,459
Come on!

388
00:34:58,222 --> 00:34:59,890
Yeah. Going in now.

389
00:35:05,396 --> 00:35:06,563
[VASILY BREATHING HEAVILY]

390
00:35:47,896 --> 00:35:49,064
What about the auxiliary?

391
00:35:50,065 --> 00:35:52,860
The pumps are gone, electrical's gone.

392
00:35:53,902 --> 00:35:54,903
The core?

393
00:35:55,362 --> 00:35:57,323
I didn't go in there, and I won't.

394
00:35:59,491 --> 00:36:00,635
I think it's time we faced...

395
00:36:00,659 --> 00:36:01,970
No, we have to get water into
the core.

396
00:36:01,994 --> 00:36:03,354
Otherwise, there'll be a meltdown.

397
00:36:04,163 --> 00:36:05,581
We have to open the valves.

398
00:36:05,664 --> 00:36:07,666
-Sasha...
-What do you want, Boris?

399
00:36:07,750 --> 00:36:09,978
If it's true, then we're dead.
A million people are dead.

400
00:36:10,002 --> 00:36:11,202
Is that what you need to hear?

401
00:36:13,589 --> 00:36:15,174
We have to open the valves.

402
00:36:15,466 --> 00:36:16,759
-By hand.
-STOLYARCHUK: By hand?

403
00:36:18,552 --> 00:36:20,322
The number of valves,
the amount of time to turn them,

404
00:36:20,346 --> 00:36:21,972
you're talking about hours in there!

405
00:36:22,056 --> 00:36:23,640
-Then help us.
-Help you do what?

406
00:36:24,099 --> 00:36:26,477
Pump water into a ditch?
There's nothing there!

407
00:36:36,362 --> 00:36:37,571
Leonid, I'm begging you.

408
00:36:51,418 --> 00:36:52,738
Watch the panel while we're gone.

409
00:36:53,212 --> 00:36:54,338
It's not working.

410
00:36:55,631 --> 00:36:56,632
Just watch it.

411
00:37:02,262 --> 00:37:03,263
[DOOR CLOSES]

412
00:37:14,858 --> 00:37:15,859
[SOBS]

413
00:37:19,405 --> 00:37:21,325
MAN: I guess we know why
they called us in early.

414
00:37:21,573 --> 00:37:23,173
SITNIKOV: Is anyone
saying what happened?

415
00:37:23,784 --> 00:37:25,944
MAN: They were running
the safety test on the turbines,

416
00:37:26,245 --> 00:37:27,996
blew the control system tank.

417
00:37:29,373 --> 00:37:30,773
It doesn't make sense to me either.

418
00:37:32,543 --> 00:37:33,743
SITNIKOV: What about sabotage?

419
00:37:34,753 --> 00:37:35,754
A bomb?

420
00:37:37,005 --> 00:37:38,048
Sitnikov!

421
00:37:38,590 --> 00:37:40,843
Bryukhanov wants us to use
the good dosimeter,

422
00:37:40,926 --> 00:37:43,637
but it's in the safe,
and we can't find the key.

423
00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:45,681
It's in Building Two. Hasn't...

424
00:37:47,057 --> 00:37:48,100
Follow me.

425
00:37:50,686 --> 00:37:51,687
[DOOR OPENS]

426
00:37:59,987 --> 00:38:01,280
Gentlemen, welcome.

427
00:38:01,655 --> 00:38:04,908
Please, uh, find a seat.
Plenty of room.

428
00:38:05,784 --> 00:38:07,744
I apologize for the lateness
of the hour.

429
00:38:08,579 --> 00:38:12,207
Rest assured,
we are all very safe down here.

430
00:38:12,666 --> 00:38:15,502
We built this shelter
to withstand a nuclear attack

431
00:38:15,586 --> 00:38:18,464
by the Americans,
so, I think we'll be fine.

432
00:38:20,424 --> 00:38:22,885
Um, as you can see,
we have experienced an accident.

433
00:38:22,968 --> 00:38:25,596
A large control tank malfunctioned,

434
00:38:25,679 --> 00:38:29,600
damaging reactor Building Four
and starting a fire.

435
00:38:29,683 --> 00:38:33,228
Now, I have spoken directly
to Deputy Secretary Mar yin.

436
00:38:33,312 --> 00:38:35,439
Mar yin spoke
to Deputy Chief Frolyshev,

437
00:38:35,731 --> 00:38:38,567
Frolyshev to Central Committee
member Dolgikh,

438
00:38:38,984 --> 00:38:42,154
and Dolgikh to
General Secretary Gorbachev.

439
00:38:42,738 --> 00:38:43,739
Now...

440
00:38:45,407 --> 00:38:49,661
Because the Central Committee
has the greatest respect

441
00:38:49,745 --> 00:38:53,290
for the work of the Pripyat
Executive Committee,

442
00:38:53,665 --> 00:38:57,169
they have asked me to brief you
on matters as they stand, so...

443
00:38:59,171 --> 00:39:00,714
First, the accident...

444
00:39:00,797 --> 00:39:02,758
[STUTTERING] It's well under control.

445
00:39:03,467 --> 00:39:08,347
And second, because the efforts
of the Soviet nuclear industry

446
00:39:08,430 --> 00:39:11,808
are considered key State secrets,
it is important

447
00:39:12,142 --> 00:39:17,439
that we ensure that this incident
has no adverse consequences.

448
00:39:17,898 --> 00:39:19,441
Now, to prevent a panic,

449
00:39:20,192 --> 00:39:21,860
the Central Committee have ordered

450
00:39:21,944 --> 00:39:24,530
a detachment of military police
to Pripyat.

451
00:39:24,821 --> 00:39:26,198
How large of a detachment?

452
00:39:27,991 --> 00:39:29,785
Between 2,000 and 4,000 men.

453
00:39:32,371 --> 00:39:33,891
PETROVICH:
What's really going on here?

454
00:39:34,665 --> 00:39:36,083
How dangerous is this?

455
00:39:36,792 --> 00:39:40,128
There's mild radiation,
but it's limited to the plant itself.

456
00:39:40,379 --> 00:39:42,297
-PETROVICH: No, it isn't.
-Excuse me?

457
00:39:43,549 --> 00:39:46,093
PETROVICH:
You saw men outside vomiting.

458
00:39:47,511 --> 00:39:48,762
You saw men with burns.

459
00:39:50,347 --> 00:39:52,027
There's more radiation
than they're saying.

460
00:39:52,849 --> 00:39:54,851
We have wives here, we have children.

461
00:39:55,185 --> 00:39:57,563
I say we evacuate the town.

462
00:39:58,522 --> 00:39:59,523
BRYUKHANOV: Gentlemen...

463
00:39:59,856 --> 00:40:03,235
Please... Please! My wife is here.

464
00:40:04,069 --> 00:40:07,281
Do you think I would keep her
in Pripyat if it wasn't safe?

465
00:40:07,656 --> 00:40:11,118
Bryukhanov, the air is glowing.

466
00:40:11,285 --> 00:40:12,485
DYATLOV: The Cherenkov effect.

467
00:40:13,412 --> 00:40:16,290
Completely normal phenomenon.
It can happen with minimal radiation.

468
00:40:17,416 --> 00:40:18,458
[TAPPING]

469
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:30,137
I wonder how many of you
know the name of this place.

470
00:40:33,098 --> 00:40:35,434
We all call it "Chernobyl," of course.

471
00:40:37,227 --> 00:40:38,854
What is its real name?

472
00:40:40,272 --> 00:40:43,692
The Vladimir I. Lenin
Nuclear Power Station.

473
00:40:44,776 --> 00:40:45,944
Exactly.

474
00:40:48,238 --> 00:40:51,283
Vladimir I. Lenin.

475
00:40:59,041 --> 00:41:02,127
And how proud he would be
of you all tonight.

476
00:41:03,754 --> 00:41:05,756
Especially you, young man,

477
00:41:07,174 --> 00:41:09,426
and the passion you have
for the people.

478
00:41:10,886 --> 00:41:14,431
For is that not the sole purpose
of the apparatus of the State?

479
00:41:16,683 --> 00:41:18,226
Sometimes, we forget.

480
00:41:19,936 --> 00:41:21,897
Sometimes, we fall prey to fear.

481
00:41:24,524 --> 00:41:27,611
But our faith in Soviet socialism

482
00:41:28,612 --> 00:41:30,781
will always be rewarded.

483
00:41:33,742 --> 00:41:37,579
Now, the State tells us
the situation here is not dangerous.

484
00:41:38,455 --> 00:41:40,290
Have faith, comrades.

485
00:41:42,501 --> 00:41:45,462
The State tells us
it wants to prevent a panic.

486
00:41:45,545 --> 00:41:46,922
Listen well.

487
00:41:50,175 --> 00:41:54,137
It's true, when the people see
the police, they will be afraid.

488
00:41:55,681 --> 00:41:57,641
But it is my experience

489
00:41:58,975 --> 00:42:01,144
that when the people ask questions

490
00:42:01,228 --> 00:42:03,397
that are not
in their own best interest...

491
00:42:04,523 --> 00:42:08,652
They should simply be told
to keep their minds on their labor,

492
00:42:09,736 --> 00:42:11,905
and leave matters of the State

493
00:42:13,031 --> 00:42:14,199
to the State.

494
00:42:16,368 --> 00:42:17,953
We seal off the city.

495
00:42:19,454 --> 00:42:20,706
No one leaves.

496
00:42:21,873 --> 00:42:23,458
And cut the phone lines.

497
00:42:24,292 --> 00:42:26,503
Contain the spread of misinformation.

498
00:42:29,715 --> 00:42:32,592
That is how we keep the people

499
00:42:32,676 --> 00:42:35,303
from undermining the fruits
of their own labor.

500
00:42:38,724 --> 00:42:39,975
Yes, comrades.

501
00:42:41,643 --> 00:42:45,188
We will all be rewarded
for what we do here tonight.

502
00:42:48,066 --> 00:42:51,445
This is our moment to shine.

503
00:43:04,541 --> 00:43:05,542
Thank you.

504
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,932
Comrade Sitnikov to see
the Chief Engineer.

505
00:43:34,196 --> 00:43:35,197
Well?

506
00:43:37,324 --> 00:43:38,366
[CLEARS THROAT]

507
00:43:42,078 --> 00:43:45,123
I sent my dosimetrists
into the reactor building.

508
00:43:47,042 --> 00:43:48,352
The large dosimeter from the safe,

509
00:43:48,376 --> 00:43:50,128
the one with
the 1,000-roentgen capacity...

510
00:43:50,212 --> 00:43:51,213
What was the number?

511
00:43:54,758 --> 00:43:56,009
There was none.

512
00:43:56,384 --> 00:43:58,512
The meter burned out
the second it was turned on.

513
00:43:59,721 --> 00:44:00,722
It's typical.

514
00:44:00,806 --> 00:44:01,949
BRYUKHANOV:
See, this is what Moscow does.

515
00:44:01,973 --> 00:44:04,893
Sends us shit equipment,
then wonders why things go wrong.

516
00:44:04,976 --> 00:44:08,522
We found another dosimeter,
from the military fire department.

517
00:44:09,481 --> 00:44:12,001
It only goes to 200 roentgen,
but it's better than the small ones.

518
00:44:12,025 --> 00:44:13,026
And?

519
00:44:14,361 --> 00:44:15,695
It maxed out.

520
00:44:16,613 --> 00:44:17,781
Two-hundred roentgen.

521
00:44:20,742 --> 00:44:22,160
What game are you playing?

522
00:44:22,661 --> 00:44:23,829
[STUTTERING] No, I...

523
00:44:24,454 --> 00:44:26,540
I asked him.
He took multiple measurements.

524
00:44:26,873 --> 00:44:27,916
He's my best man.

525
00:44:28,250 --> 00:44:30,627
It's another faulty meter.
You're wasting our time.

526
00:44:30,961 --> 00:44:32,754
I checked the meter
against the control.

527
00:44:32,838 --> 00:44:35,048
What's wrong with you?
How'd you get that number

528
00:44:35,131 --> 00:44:37,050
from feedwater leaking
from a blown tank?

529
00:44:40,345 --> 00:44:41,346
You don't.

530
00:44:41,972 --> 00:44:43,765
Then what the fuck
are you talking about?

531
00:44:48,270 --> 00:44:49,271
I... [CLEARS THROAT]

532
00:44:52,148 --> 00:44:54,901
I walked around the exterior
of Building Four.

533
00:44:56,736 --> 00:44:59,489
I think there's graphite
on the ground in the rubble.

534
00:45:00,907 --> 00:45:02,284
You didn't see graphite.

535
00:45:03,618 --> 00:45:04,828
-I did.
-You didn't.

536
00:45:06,538 --> 00:45:09,791
You didn't! Because it's not there!

537
00:45:11,418 --> 00:45:12,419
What?

538
00:45:13,044 --> 00:45:15,171
Are you suggesting the core...

539
00:45:15,422 --> 00:45:17,632
What, exploded?

540
00:45:20,427 --> 00:45:21,428
Yes.

541
00:45:24,431 --> 00:45:25,432
[DYATLOV SIGHS]

542
00:45:30,437 --> 00:45:31,438
Sitnikov.

543
00:45:32,606 --> 00:45:34,441
You're a nuclear engineer. So am I.

544
00:45:35,358 --> 00:45:40,572
So please tell me how
an RBMK reactor core explodes.

545
00:45:41,698 --> 00:45:44,826
Not a meltdown, an explosion.

546
00:45:45,827 --> 00:45:47,037
I'd love to know.

547
00:45:48,079 --> 00:45:49,080
I can't.

548
00:45:50,332 --> 00:45:51,333
Are you stupid?

549
00:45:53,084 --> 00:45:54,085
No.

550
00:45:54,419 --> 00:45:55,545
Then why can't you?

551
00:45:57,380 --> 00:45:58,381
I...

552
00:46:00,926 --> 00:46:03,094
I don't see how it could explode...

553
00:46:05,347 --> 00:46:06,348
But it did.

554
00:46:06,431 --> 00:46:07,791
-[BANGS ON TABLE]
-DYATLOV: Enough!

555
00:46:08,016 --> 00:46:09,684
I'll go up to the vent block roof.

556
00:46:09,768 --> 00:46:12,437
From there, you can look right
down into reactor Building Four.

557
00:46:12,646 --> 00:46:13,772
I'll see it with my own...

558
00:46:15,774 --> 00:46:16,900
My own eyes.

559
00:46:20,779 --> 00:46:21,780
[GROANS]

560
00:46:22,656 --> 00:46:23,865
I apologize.

561
00:46:25,867 --> 00:46:27,243
Guards! Guards!

562
00:46:28,662 --> 00:46:31,623
Get him to a medic, or the hospital!
Whatever he needs!

563
00:46:39,673 --> 00:46:40,966
[DYATLOV GROANING]

564
00:46:48,264 --> 00:46:51,017
The feedwater.
Been around it all night.

565
00:46:53,728 --> 00:46:54,729
You go, then.

566
00:46:58,483 --> 00:46:59,484
What?

567
00:46:59,776 --> 00:47:02,487
Go to the vent block roof
and report back what you see.

568
00:47:02,570 --> 00:47:03,571
No.

569
00:47:07,534 --> 00:47:08,994
No, I won't do that.

570
00:47:09,995 --> 00:47:11,246
Of course you will.

571
00:47:16,418 --> 00:47:17,460
You'll be fine.

572
00:47:18,378 --> 00:47:19,379
You'll see.

573
00:47:20,588 --> 00:47:21,589
Come on.

574
00:47:41,609 --> 00:47:42,819
[AKIMOV PANTING]

575
00:48:03,965 --> 00:48:04,966
Okay.

576
00:48:06,926 --> 00:48:07,969
Let's begin.

577
00:48:12,390 --> 00:48:13,391
[CREAKING]

578
00:48:16,478 --> 00:48:17,479
Leonid.

579
00:48:21,816 --> 00:48:22,817
Leonid.

580
00:48:29,449 --> 00:48:30,450
[TOPTUNOV GROANS]

581
00:48:31,534 --> 00:48:32,774
AKIMOV: It's all the way, okay?

582
00:48:33,661 --> 00:48:35,080
-All the way open.
-[SOBS]

583
00:48:44,672 --> 00:48:45,673
I'm sorry.

584
00:48:47,008 --> 00:48:48,051
[SOBBING]

585
00:48:49,761 --> 00:48:51,304
There's nothing to be sorry for.

586
00:48:52,013 --> 00:48:54,766
I told you. We did nothing wrong.

587
00:48:57,685 --> 00:48:58,812
But we did.

588
00:49:09,572 --> 00:49:10,824
[CONTINUES SOBBING]

589
00:49:16,037 --> 00:49:17,038
[DOOR OPENS]

590
00:49:38,268 --> 00:49:39,269
[EXHALES DEEPLY]

591
00:50:52,133 --> 00:50:53,176
[INAUDIBLE]

592
00:50:58,556 --> 00:50:59,557
[GASPS]

593
00:51:32,090 --> 00:51:33,216
[INAUDIBLE]

594
00:51:41,432 --> 00:51:42,809
[FOOTSTEPS]

595
00:51:53,444 --> 00:51:54,445
[MAN SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY]

596
00:52:00,952 --> 00:52:02,787
MAN: Get everyone
in the infirmary up there.

597
00:52:06,749 --> 00:52:08,126
[SIRENS WAILING]

598
00:52:24,892 --> 00:52:26,894
[PHONE RINGING]

599
00:52:32,442 --> 00:52:33,443
[GRUNTS]

600
00:52:43,161 --> 00:52:44,579
[PHONE CONTINUES RINGING]

601
00:52:47,373 --> 00:52:48,374
Hello?

602
00:52:48,458 --> 00:52:50,585
-MAN: [OVER PHONE] <i>Valery Legasov?</i>
-Yes.

603
00:52:50,668 --> 00:52:53,171
<i>You are the Legasov who is
the First Deputy Director</i>

604
00:52:53,254 --> 00:52:55,757
<i>of the Kurchatov Institute
of Atomic Energy?</i>

605
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,009
-I am. Who am I speaking...
<i>-This is Boris Shcherbina,</i>

606
00:52:58,426 --> 00:53:00,428
<i>Deputy Chairman of
the Council of Ministers</i>

607
00:53:00,511 --> 00:53:02,597
<i>and head of the Bureau
for Fuel and Energy.</i>

608
00:53:03,514 --> 00:53:06,809
<i>There's been an accident
at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.</i>

609
00:53:07,810 --> 00:53:08,811
How bad is it?

610
00:53:09,479 --> 00:53:11,522
<i>No, no need to panic.
There was a fire.</i>

611
00:53:11,606 --> 00:53:14,400
<i>It's mostly put out.
The system control tank exploded.</i>

612
00:53:14,692 --> 00:53:16,361
"Control system tank."

613
00:53:16,694 --> 00:53:17,779
And the core?

614
00:53:18,196 --> 00:53:20,531
<i>We've ordered them
to continuously pump water.</i>

615
00:53:21,240 --> 00:53:23,618
Yes, I see. Any contamination?

616
00:53:24,118 --> 00:53:26,788
<i>It's mild. The plant manager,
Bryukhanov, is reporting</i>

617
00:53:26,871 --> 00:53:28,539
<i>3.6 roentgen per hour.</i>

618
00:53:28,623 --> 00:53:30,768
That's actually significant.
You should evacuate the...

619
00:53:30,792 --> 00:53:34,212
<i>You're an expert on
RBMK reactors, correct?</i>

620
00:53:35,588 --> 00:53:38,216
-Yes. I've studied...
<i>-General Secretary Gorbachev</i>

621
00:53:38,299 --> 00:53:40,968
<i>has appointed a committee
to manage the accident.</i>

622
00:53:41,469 --> 00:53:42,470
<i>You're on it.</i>

623
00:53:43,429 --> 00:53:45,181
<i>We'll convene at 2:00 this afternoon.</i>

624
00:53:45,681 --> 00:53:48,810
That late? Forgive me,
but don't you think,

625
00:53:48,893 --> 00:53:50,746
given the amount of radiation,
that it would be...

626
00:53:50,770 --> 00:53:53,898
<i>Legasov, you're on this committee
to answer direct questions</i>

627
00:53:53,981 --> 00:53:56,192
<i>about the function of an RBMK reactor,</i>

628
00:53:56,359 --> 00:53:59,445
<i>if they should happen to arise.
Nothing else,</i>

629
00:53:59,654 --> 00:54:01,739
<i>certainly not policy.
Do you understand?</i>

630
00:54:02,323 --> 00:54:04,468
-Yes, of course. I didn't mean to...
-[LINE DISCONNECTS]

631
00:54:04,492 --> 00:54:06,244
[INHALES AND EXHALES DEEPLY]

632
00:54:11,958 --> 00:54:13,042
[SIGHS]

633
00:54:28,057 --> 00:54:29,267
[VALVE CREAKING]

634
00:54:30,685 --> 00:54:31,894
[AKIMOV PANTING]

635
00:54:36,691 --> 00:54:37,775
[VALVES CREAKING]

636
00:55:37,001 --> 00:55:38,281
[CHILDREN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]