TV series: Chernobyl (Chernobyl) (2019). Page 2

- There are not three x-rays and fifteen thousand.
- What does this figure mean?
This means that the reactor is opened. And the fire that we saw with our own eyes, emits radiation two times more than the Hiroshima bomb. It's for an hour. And so, hour after hour. Twenty hours after the explosion - at the moment, forty bombs. Tomorrow will be another forty eight. And it will never stop nor in a week nor in an hour. He will blaze and spread his poison, until the whole continent will not die out.

- Fly directly above the reactor.
- If we fly over the reactor, you will die in less than a week! Die!
- Comrade?
- Fly over the building! Or I'll shoot!
- If you fly over the reactor, tomorrow he'll be begging to get shot.

The RBMK reactor running on uranium-235. Each atom of uranium-235 as the bullet moves almost at the speed of light, penetrating through everything in its way: wood, metal, concrete, flesh. In one gram of uranium 235 contains more than a billion trillion of these bullets. Only one gram. In Chernobyl it of over three million grams and he is now on fire! The wind will carry radioactive particles across the continent, with rain they will rain down on us. This three million of billions of trillions of bullets in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the foods we eat. Most of these "bullets" will fly another hundred years, and some fifty thousand years.

When the truth offends, we lie, lie, can't remember what the truth is. But it's there all the same.

- You have made a brilliant impression at the conference. You have a knack for it, Legasov.
- What? To lie?
- To public administration, Legasov.

To be a scientist means to be naive. We got so caught up in seeking the truth, do not think how little people want us to find her. But it is always there, whether we see it or not. Selectable or not selectable. The truth doesn't care about our needs and desires. She doesn't care about our government, ideology, religion. She will be waiting. All the time.

Akimov presses the AZ-5. The extracted control rods back into the reactor. Rods made of boron steel that reduces the reactivity. But the tips... the Tips are made of graphite, and he speeds up.
Why?
Why? For the same reason why around our reactors no caps in the West. Why don't we use normal enrichment fuel. For the reason why we're the only nation that builds fotografirovat reactors with a positive void coefficient. It is cheaper.