";s:4:"text";s:5012:" 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.The roles of three key personalities lie at the heart of the story: Plant director Viktor) Bryukhanov, chief engineer Nikolai Fomin and deputy chief engineer Anatoly Dyatlov. "It was clear they felt sick. A CHERNOBYL engineer has recalled how he went into the nuclear reactor as part of a “suicide squad” to prevent a catastrophic second explosion. Chernobyl is still considered the worst nuclear accident in history — but it could have been much, much worse, if not for a so-called "suicide squad" of three brave volunteers. The real story of the Chernobyl divers. He got a mild type of acute radiation syndrome, a doctor said. And Oleksiy Breus sees their portrayal as "not a fiction, but a blatant lie".One of the most dramatic scenes in the miniseries shows three power plant workers volunteering to go into an underground tunnel beneath the damaged reactor to open a vital drainage valve. "There are many stereotypes shown, typical of Western portrayal of the Soviet Union," argues Oleksiy Breus.
Their bravery and sacrifice should also be remembered alongside the heroism of the Chernobyl divers.The men exited the basement as heroes and rejoiced with their colleagues over a ‘job well done’. The Chernobyl disaster was caused by a nuclear accident that occurred on Saturday 26 April 1986, at the No. "They took off their clothes, but not like it was shown in the film, not right down to nothing," Mr Breus insists, also pointing out that their role was ultimately not significant to the story.Oleksiy Breus says the accident helped reveal the substantial flaws of the Soviet system.In the hours after the explosion, he spoke to Oleksandr Akimov, the shift leader at the No. He had health problems afterwards. "Firefighters sent from neighbouring Pripyat did not know of any radiation exposure and Ignatenko died of acute radiation syndrome on 13 May 1986.Contrary to reports that the three divers died of radiation sickness as a result of their action, all three survived.The miners finished their work ahead of schedule, but by then the molten core had cooled itself. "I saw other colleagues who worked that night. When it comes to evoking feelings of dread, there is one that fills the mind with a myriad of destructive imagery … "For example, that useless secrecy, which became one of the reasons behind the Chernobyl disaster. They were advised that if they did not survive their families would be taken care of. My body parts not covered by clothes - such as hands, face and neck - were red".Shift leader Borys Baranov died in 2005, while Valery Bespalov and Oleksiy Ananenko, both chief engineers of one of the reactor sections, are still alive and live in the capital, Kiev. For decades after the event it was widely reported that the three men swam through radioactive water in near darkness, miraculously located the valves even after their flashlight had died, escaped but were already showing signs of acute radiation syndrome (ARS) and sadly succumbed to radiation poisoning a short while later.
But no matter how strict he was, he was still a high-level professional. "I've never heard there was a crowd of people who went to watch the fire at night," he says.The story of the reactor's catastrophic explosion, as told in an HBO/Sky miniseries, has received the highest ever score for a TV show on the film website IMDB. So what exactly was their mission?Andrew Leatherbarrow, the author of the 2016 book Chernobyl 01:23:40, spent five years researching the disaster and discovered a slightly different yet no less heroic turn of events. They knew where the valves were, so they were the right men for the task.
They were nothing like that. "When he was present at the block, it created tension for everyone. ""Possibly, Anatoly Dyatlov became the main anti-hero in the show because that was how he was perceived by the power plant's workers, his subordinates and top-management, in the beginning.