Questions tagged [chernobyl]

For questions about 2019 HBO miniseries Chernobyl.

Chernobyl is 2019 HBO miniseries created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck. It stars Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson. The series is focused on events surrounding the Chernobyl disaster.

Chernobyl quickly gained popularity among viewers and critical acclaim, including several Emmy Awards nominations.

Why was there a "point of no return" in the Chernobyl series that ended in the meltdown?

In the Chernobyl series it is said that the two nuclear engineers had no alternative except for pressing the "AZ-5" button, couldn't they just insert the Boron rods back in one by one as they renewed the water supply to the core?

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asked Jan 06 '21 at 14:11

Max0999

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How does he know that it was graphite?

In Chernobyl season one episode two, we saw that when Valery Legasov and Boris Shcherbina were flying to the disaster zone by helicopter, Legasov was saying that there is graphite, but he saw only fume. How could he know that there was graphite on…

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asked Jul 11 '19 at 15:36

Mithun Sarker Shuvro

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