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"1:23:45" is the series premiere of the historical drama television miniseries Chernobyl, which details the nuclear disaster that occurred on April 26, 1986, and the consequences that everyone involved faced. The episode was directed by Johan Renck and written by the series creator Craig Mazin, and aired on HBO in the United States on May 6, 2019 and on Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom and Ireland on May 7, 2019. The episode details the explosion of the reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the reactions of the citizens of Pripyat, particularly the plant workers and firefighters. Deputy Chief Engineer Anatoly Dyatlov (Paul Ritter) and the Pripyat Executive Committee dismiss the severity of the explosion, despite the core's exposure endangering the lives of its citizens.
Mazin started to research for the project in 2014, reading several books and government reports that detail the events that happened during the explosion and its aftermath. He also interviewed nuclear scientists and former Soviet citizens to understand how a nuclear reactor works and get a better idea of the culture in 1986. A companion podcast for the miniseries for each episode was released alongside the release of each episode, starting with "1:23:45" being released on May 6, 2019.
The episode received widespread acclaim from critics with praise towards the realistic depiction of the Chernobyl disaster, atmosphere, cinematography, and Ritter's performance. The initial broadcast of the episode through HBO drew over 756,000 viewers in the United States, while in the United Kingdom though Sky UK it managed to attract over 861,000 viewers. The episode won three Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
On April 26, 1988, Valery Legasov records tapes revealing the truth of what really happened on the night of the Chernobyl disaster. Legasov manages to hide the tapes while avoiding being seen by the KGB (sitting in a car), then returns to his apartment and hangs himself (his death occurred one day after the second anniversary in real-life).
Two years prior, on April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explodes near Pripyat, Ukraine. Firefighter Vasily Ignatenko and his pregnant wife Lyudmilla Ignatenko see the explosion (which casts an electric blue Ionized-air glow from the Power Plant) from their apartment. Inside the Power Plant's control room, Deputy Chief Engineer Anatoly Dyatlov refuses to believe that the Nuclear Core exploded despite both hearing the claims of some of the workers and seeing the scattered nuclear graphite on the roof of one of the buildings. While some of the badly injured engineers scramble to locate their missing colleagues, Dyatlov leaves the Plant to meet with the Pripyat Executive Committee, alongside Chernobyl manager Viktor Bryukhanov and chief engineer Nikolai Fomin. Before he leaves, Dyatlov forces Aleksandr Akimov and Leonid Toptunov to manually open the water valves to flood the damaged reactor and restore the cooling. They oblige, but by doing so, they are exposed to lethal radiation doses.
Vasily is called to the scene. He, and other firefighters and first responders, arrive and scramble to put out the fire. Due to the explosion, several blocks of nuclear graphite are spread around the rubble. After one of firefighters picks up one of these blocks, his hand becomes severely burned within seconds. Vasily, who is red from radiation burns, begins to suffer from acute radiation syndrome (ARS). Lyudmilla, fearing for the risks of the explosion, refuses to watch the fire from the road bridge alongside her neighbors, who inadvertently become exposed to high radiation doses.
Meanwhile, Dyatlov, Bryukhanov, and Fomin meet and conclude that while the reactor was badly damaged and a hydrogen explosion caused a leakage of contaminated water, the damage is under control. They, along with the committee, disregard the dangers of the explosion and the radiation, forbid the Pripyat residents to evacuate, and proceed to block all communication to the outside world. Chernobyl's deputy chief operational engineer Anatoly Sitnikov arrives and reports that the Nuclear Core is exposed after witnessing the damage. His claims are dismissed, and Bryukhanov and Fomin force Sitnikov to go to the roof to make a visual inspection after Dyatlov collapses from ARS. Sitnikov objects, but at gun point, does so and receives a fatal dose of radiation. He reports back to Bryukhanov and Fomin, but they still refuse to believe that the reactor exploded.
Legasov receives a call from the Council of Ministers' deputy chairman Boris Shcherbina, who orders him to provide technical advice to the committee managing the response. Meanwhile, wind carries radioactive smoke slowly towards Pripyat, creating the Red Forest and killing wildlife. Pripyat children walk to school, and when a bird falls from the sky and dies due to the radiation, the children are unaware of it.
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"1:23:45" is the series premiere of the historical drama television miniseries Chernobyl, which details the nuclear disaster that occurred on April 26, 1986, and the consequences that everyone involved faced. The episode was directed by Johan Renck and written by the series creator Craig Mazin, and aired on HBO in the United States on May 6, 2019 and on Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom and Ireland on May 7, 2019. The episode details the explosion of the reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the reactions of the citizens of Pripyat, particularly the plant workers and firefighters. Deputy Chief Engineer Anatoly Dyatlov (Paul Ritter) and the Pripyat Executive Committee dismiss the severity of the explosion, despite the core's exposure endangering the lives of its citizens.
Mazin started to research for the project in 2014, reading several books and government reports that detail the events that happened during the explosion and its aftermath. He also interviewed nuclear scientists and former Soviet citizens to understand how a nuclear reactor works and get a better idea of the culture in 1986. A companion podcast for the miniseries for each episode was released alongside the release of each episode, starting with "1:23:45" being released on May 6, 2019.
The episode received widespread acclaim from critics with praise towards the realistic depiction of the Chernobyl disaster, atmosphere, cinematography, and Ritter's performance. The initial broadcast of the episode through HBO drew over 756,000 viewers in the United States, while in the United Kingdom though Sky UK it managed to attract over 861,000 viewers. The episode won three Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
On April 26, 1988, Valery Legasov records tapes revealing the truth of what really happened on the night of the Chernobyl disaster. Legasov manages to hide the tapes while avoiding being seen by the KGB (sitting in a car), then returns to his apartment and hangs himself (his death occurred one day after the second anniversary in real-life).
Two years prior, on April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explodes near Pripyat, Ukraine. Firefighter Vasily Ignatenko and his pregnant wife Lyudmilla Ignatenko see the explosion (which casts an electric blue Ionized-air glow from the Power Plant) from their apartment. Inside the Power Plant's control room, Deputy Chief Engineer Anatoly Dyatlov refuses to believe that the Nuclear Core exploded despite both hearing the claims of some of the workers and seeing the scattered nuclear graphite on the roof of one of the buildings. While some of the badly injured engineers scramble to locate their missing colleagues, Dyatlov leaves the Plant to meet with the Pripyat Executive Committee, alongside Chernobyl manager Viktor Bryukhanov and chief engineer Nikolai Fomin. Before he leaves, Dyatlov forces Aleksandr Akimov and Leonid Toptunov to manually open the water valves to flood the damaged reactor and restore the cooling. They oblige, but by doing so, they are exposed to lethal radiation doses.
Vasily is called to the scene. He, and other firefighters and first responders, arrive and scramble to put out the fire. Due to the explosion, several blocks of nuclear graphite are spread around the rubble. After one of firefighters picks up one of these blocks, his hand becomes severely burned within seconds. Vasily, who is red from radiation burns, begins to suffer from acute radiation syndrome (ARS). Lyudmilla, fearing for the risks of the explosion, refuses to watch the fire from the road bridge alongside her neighbors, who inadvertently become exposed to high radiation doses.
Meanwhile, Dyatlov, Bryukhanov, and Fomin meet and conclude that while the reactor was badly damaged and a hydrogen explosion caused a leakage of contaminated water, the damage is under control. They, along with the committee, disregard the dangers of the explosion and the radiation, forbid the Pripyat residents to evacuate, and proceed to block all communication to the outside world. Chernobyl's deputy chief operational engineer Anatoly Sitnikov arrives and reports that the Nuclear Core is exposed after witnessing the damage. His claims are dismissed, and Bryukhanov and Fomin force Sitnikov to go to the roof to make a visual inspection after Dyatlov collapses from ARS. Sitnikov objects, but at gun point, does so and receives a fatal dose of radiation. He reports back to Bryukhanov and Fomin, but they still refuse to believe that the reactor exploded.
Legasov receives a call from the Council of Ministers' deputy chairman Boris Shcherbina, who orders him to provide technical advice to the committee managing the response. Meanwhile, wind carries radioactive smoke slowly towards Pripyat, creating the Red Forest and killing wildlife. Pripyat children walk to school, and when a bird falls from the sky and dies due to the radiation, the children are unaware of it.