"I saw the damage at reactor No. "I've never heard there was a crowd of people who went to watch the fire at night," he says. In the hours after the explosion, he spoke to Oleksandr Akimov, the shift leader at the No. Ultimately, though, he is happy the show has refocused attention on the disaster and the scale of damage caused. Akimov had 100% of his skin burnt by radiation. He and his crew then stayed and manually pumped the emergency feedwater into the reactor. "A big cup, vodka, KGB everywhere.". "I saw the damage at reactor No. In an attempt to contain the disaster, helicopters dumped lead slabs weighing 40 kilograms (88 lb) each on the reactor, followed by several tons of radiation absorbing-sand. On the night of April 26, 1986, Alexander Akimov was at work as the shift supervisor of the night crew of Chernobyl Plant Unit Four. Not really regarding to Akimov specifically, but in my book Im reading the wife of the firefighter who stayed by his side all the way described lots of horrific side affects from the radiation, and he wasnt even in the same situation as Akimov. Later this perception changed.". 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Firefighters were also asked to help clear radioactive debris from the roof after the fire was extinguished. [1], Leonid Toptunov was born on 16 August 1960 in Mykolaivka, Buryn Raion, Sumy Oblast. Is it Kovalenko? The buses which escorted the residents out of Pripyat spread the radiation to wider areas. There have been reports that the skin on his legs fell off like a sock when trying to stand. The dogs have been driven out of the woods by the wild wolves that habitat the area. I will start a new life. Their faces were only partially covered by respirators, so they could speak to each other, they were not offered a reward, and they were not clapped on their successful return. 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. The reactor power level had been reduced, preparing for a planned safety test. Chernobyl engineer Oleksiy Breus, then and now, beside the backdrop of the TV portrayal of the disaster, By Viacheslav Shramovych and Hanna Chornous, Mr Breus revisited the reactor's control room 20 years after the disaster struck, Viktor Bryukhanov (left) sits alongside deputy chief engineer Anatoly Dyatlov (orange shirt) and chief engineer Nikolai Fomin during a trial over the accident, British actor Adam Nagaitis played Vasily Ignatenko, one of the first firefighters on the scene of the disaster, The view of the damaged building from the roof of reactor No. Don't have high hopes going into this one guys. 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. He's growing weaker, wheezes, can hardly talk anymore. Two more workers died because of injuries. Mazin also says he visited Chernobyl as a tourist, to prepare for the miniseries. In the series, Pripyat residents rush to a railway bridge for a better view of the fire, unaware of the exposure. Russians and Ukrainians have watched it via the internet, and it has had a favourable rating on Russian film site Kinopoisk. Vasily Ivanovich Ignatenko was born on 13 March 1961, in the Brahin District of the Gomel Region of the Byelorussian SSR. "It was clear they felt sick. A few hours later Akimov is dead. Even after more than three decades, the death toll of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is still wildly disputed. At conservative gathering, Trump is still the favourite. During his first years at Chernobyl, he held positions of senior turbine management engineer and shift supervisor of the turbine hall. We dont think of our own death. The ears look different to me, but I may be wrong. Nekhaev even had to have his leg amputated. You could see the equipment and pumps exposed. Before coming to Soviet Ukraine, he installed reactors into submarines at a shipbuilding plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where he was once exposed to a nearly fatal dose of radiation. Raising power after this point put the reactor into a potentially dangerous state, unbeknownst to the operators. People that are usually blamed for the explosion are the plant employees who worked at the night of the explosion: Aleksandr Akimov, the supervisor of the shift; Leonid Toptunov, the senior reactor control chief engineer; and Anatoly Dyatlov, deputy chief engineer of the power plant. He died of radiation sickness two weeks after the accident at the age of 33. It was just awful, and right in the middle of a city.. 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. They were nothing like that. Thanks for the tip off. Toptunov only had two months' experience in operating the reactor and this was his first shutdown as operator. "Radiation exposure, red skin, radiation burns and steam burns were what many people talked about but it was never shown like this. "A thin stream the firemen poured probably evaporated before it even reached reactor.". Frantic. If you can find a source, Id be interested to know. Movies. "However, the technological aspects have some discrepancies which may not exactly [be] lies, but merely fiction," he adds. 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Nevertheless, Mazin says the creators wanted to avoid abusive filmmaking and decided not to show the absolute extremes of radiation sickness. Toptunov had literally turned white.". In this article, we will tell you about the supervisor of the shift, Aleksandr Akimov, and his role in the accident. See a comparison with a very old photo of Stolyarchuk: https://bit.ly/3wBuX2S Pay attention to the "indentation" of the line of his moustache on the right side of the face. [4] By 28 April, the symptoms of radiation sickness had mostly subsided. "Another friend treated at the same time said he had a date with his girlfriend close to the bridge that night. "The reactor looked so damaged, it seemed there was nothing else to do there.". He said, A physician deals with life and death every day. Elk were contaminated, and the moment their bodies were thrown in a quarry after being stripped of their heads and fur was captured on camera. The original footage was probably taken at reactor 4 control room during the time our guys were on crew, that's why many of them can be seen. Aleksandr Fyodorovich Akimov and Leonid Fedorovych Toptunov "In my opinion, [Aleksandr Akimov and Leonid Toptunov] are the most tragic figures from the Chernobyl personnel. When we talk about the events that have changed the world, we always remember the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion. He wanted to live. But no matter how strict he was, he was still a high-level professional.". Witnesses reported he dried, or his body was mummified alive. Sputnik/RIA Vasily Ignatenko was 25 years old when he died of radiation. Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. He would try and stand up and walk around, but this resulted in the "skin on his legs falling off like socks". HBO. Some of the events he witnessed that morning were realistically depicted in the show, he says, but others he describes as fiction. Lyuba tries to cheer her husband up, she brings him pictures that their children drew. The third episode of Chernobyl is a conversation about causes and consequences. Read about our approach to external linking. At 04:00, Moscow ordered feeding of water to the reactor. But Mr Breus believes most Pripyat residents would have slept through the explosion, and he only learned of the accident when he arrived at work the following morning. "It was our job," says Oleksiy Ananenko, who was on shift at the time, while the others had been ordered in by their manager. 04:00 - Further fire fighting units arrive from Chernobyl, Polesskoe and Kiev. (k[YUWvP Despite the change in tone, Chernobyl still knows how to terrify its audience, and Emily Watsons performance as Ulana Khomyuk, the nuclear scientist who visits men dying of radiation poisoning, gets under your skin even more than scenes of engineer Leonid Toptunovs bloody hospital bed sheets. I wasn't aware of this new documentary. When I finished my shift, my skin was brown, as if I had a proper suntan all over my body. it's not bad, it was probably made in the past few months before February 24th. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The reactor was already in a run-away state. "I was surprised they even brought us there," Mr Breus says of arriving at work the morning after the explosion. 0000000016 00000 n The Chernobyl disaster is one of the most famous nuclear catastrophes in the world, but not many people know that if it hadn't been for one man, the damage would have been much worse. "If I didn't do it, they could just fire me. His wife Lyuba is at his side.'. Aleksandr Akimov was born on 6 May 1953 in Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR (Republic of the Soviet Union . They pumped water into the reactor core, which was the right thing to do at the moment but the wrong thing to do in a long run. When the reactor has been put into a poisoned condition, they tried to raise the power at whatever the cost. In the shows podcast, writer and executive producer Craig Mazin shared some details about filming the third episode of Chernobyl, revealing that two scenes were cut from the start that would have introduced supervisor Anatoly Dyatlovs son, who died of leukemia at the age of 10, years before the Chernobyl disaster. 0000010565 00000 n That is how you advance your career and win awards. %PDF-1.6 % In preparation, Anatoly Dyatlov ordered the power to be reduced to 700 MW, as the test plan stipulated. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Vasily Ignatenko, depicted in the series, was among the first firefighters sent to tackle the blaze. To capture the gruesome deaths that befell plant engineers and first responders, makeup and prosthetics designer Daniel Parker studied the stages of radiation sickness, identifying seven kinds of wounds that depend on a victims proximity to the radiation source. .] 0000007280 00000 n His burnt lungs hardly let him breathe, his intestines have decomposed, excrements mixed with blood are oozing from his body. It's now a museum. HWKF=1Zz& TfOku]T#t4d-Ti,J$bTM7d)clC2 VFO&3 zE_6tVQjA[ri&xHG|/4^})-}IrT8bv_d O7fj8jGX a?2`/gn)/nXo]}JR'.H}k%L,CXBk>:+l(]9[F|/#O5X# Y0Gl8f,1 qCy*$ Ao6!^TqRVPyQG. Most of the liquidators were military reserves, and the army did not have enough uniforms suitable for working in radioactive conditions. The miniseries has shed the suspense of its first two installments, when the story unfolded like a disaster movie, and it now wants to know the reason for this tragedy. I don't understand why it happened. Akimov eventually succumbed to acute radiation syndrome two weeks after the disaster at the age of 33. Of course, you can criticize the episode for excessive melodrama: Legasov is suddenly partial to Khomyuk, and the miners who stand up to a coal minister recruiting them for the Chernobyl liquidation effort are too theatrical. "A big cup, vodka, KGB everywhere.". Who is the man on the time stamp on 9:20? Role of Akimov in Chernobyl As we know from the official data, Akimov is wrongfully accused of being responsible for the accident. Unknown to Akimov, during his work he was exposed to a lethal dose of radiation that was later determined to be 15 Gy. ", By now Akimov's wife Lyuba was allowed to come to Moscow. [3] Due to a design flaw, the descending control rods momentarily accelerated the nuclear reaction and caused the reactor to explode. Later this perception changed.". Firefighters were also asked to help clear radioactive debris from the roof after the fire was extinguished. Some dogs have been fitted with radiation sensors and GPS receivers, which help to map the radiation levels across the exclusion zone.[8]. But while many have complimented the show's attention to detail, he believes it is also one of the downsides of the TV series. . As the fire department arrives on-site and begins dealing with the titanic blaze, Vasily's colleague, Misha notices a lump of the same black mineral that Dyatlov noticed earlier. This is some other smaller problem.. 0000003954 00000 n "The miners are shown as tough guys who are not afraid of anything, but not the power plant workers.". I'd love to see the original footage they used from CNPP reactor #4, there are shots of Kovalenko, Akimov, Davletbayev and even Khodemchuk. Once more his temperature increases and then he falls into coma. Thank you! At first, our commanders didnt know what to do. Toptunov, along with non-essential personnel, was dismissed. Biography Akimov was born in 1953 in the Soviet Union. 0000011604 00000 n The scene where Dr. Khomyuk is jailed by the KGB was filmed in Vilnius at a real former KGB prison. Finally, 11 days after the disaster, officials warned the residents of Kiev that they should avoid eating leafy vegetables and to stay indoors. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Chernobyl guide Yuri Tatarchuk explained, Kopachi was very badly contaminated and so it was decided to bury it, house by house. The test was completed and the AZ-5 button was pressed to shut the reactor down. The Chernobyl nuclear accident is one of the most shocking and devastating catastrophes of modern times. And Oleksiy Breus sees their portrayal as "not a fiction, but a blatant lie". Aleksandr Akimov was born on 6 May 1953 in . On the night of 26 April 1986, Leonid Toptunov was working in the control room at the reactor control panel, with Aleksandr Akimov. 0000001208 00000 n "When he was present at the block, it created tension for everyone. The one thing, though, that I did feel, walking through the power plant was a little bit of a better sense of how easy it would be to deny. Tel: +38 063 58 16 661E-mail: [emailprotected], Exciting private tours to Chernobyl and Pripyat. Some of the stories, however, only seem like they were cooked up in a Hollywood screenwriters room. They were very pale. He got a mild type of acute radiation syndrome, a doctor said. What interviewer? A subreddit to discuss the Chernobyl Disaster that happened on the night of April 26, 1986, and the Exclusion Zone that isolates the city of Pripyat from the rest of the world. On April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the northern part of Soviet Ukraine, an event which today is widely known as the Chernobyl disaster. "In hospital, I was treated with a guy who biked to that bridge in the morning on 26 April to watch it. Are Sky and HBO's miniseries "Chernobyl" historically accurate? It's not just a local interest, for a small group of people, but it is still worldwide. A member of. 1156/2008 of 12 December 2008", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leonid_Toptunov&oldid=1139033343, This page was last edited on 13 February 2023, at 00:49. 4s emergency safety systems and its power-regulating system. Sam Troughton, an English actor, performed the role of Chernobyl supervisor of the shift in the Chernobyl series by HBO in 2019. For Russian football coach and player, see, This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is. Literally says the graphite displacers were the for "lubrication. He was portrayed by Michael Colgan in the 2006 BBC production Surviving Disaster: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster[7] and by Robert Emms in the 2019 HBO miniseries Chernobyl. Mr. Alexander was the one who managed the block control panel of the reactor in Chernobyl. There was a comment on a post about him. This is an eerie and deserted location, as the homes of Kopachi were completely bulldozed and buried by the Soviet Army. At least 5,000 people were badly affected at the time, while women who were pregnant were simply told to have abortions. I always wonder why toptinov called him sasha? 4 reactor, Oleksiy Ananenko (then and now) with a scene from the TV series showing the three workers wearing respirators, The TV series portrays how 400 miners were involved in digging the tunnel under the damaged reactor, The TV series shows Pripyat residents watching events unfold on what was later nicknamed the "Bridge of Death", The damage caused to the facility by the biggest nuclear disaster in history, Russian minister laughed at for Ukraine war claims. They showed Mr. Schadov as an incompetent official who is not respected by the miners. . 4 to evaluate radiation levels. Dyatlov ordered Toptunov and Akimov to raise the power to the requisite 700 MW. In 1976, Akimov graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, with the degree of specialist in engineering and automation of heat and power processes. Someone posted here and I have seen another parts of this footage where Akimov uses something like a microphone [the white microphone like thing they use in the control room, forgive me but i have no clue what it's called]. [4] He left the control room but decided to return out of a sense of responsibility. Some of the events he witnessed that morning were realistically depicted in the show, he says, but others he describes as fiction. The level of radiation in the Chernobyl zone is still the same today as it was in 1986.[9]. This is not a polemic about nuclear power. However, this plan only did more harm than good. The Accident at Chernobyl: What Caused the Explosion? 2023 BBC. This actor is also famous for his acts in the BBC Robin Hood series. Hours after the world's worst nuclear accident, engineer Oleksiy Breus entered the control room of the No. Dyatlov could be Tolya, Scherbina could be Borya, Legasov could be Valera, etc. The reason was the reactor's unstable condition due to low electrical network power. "As we moved through it, we were aware that there were the ghosts of history around us," Mazin said. 03:30 - Telyatnikov contacted Akimov, asking what was happening to his firemen; Akimov sent him a dosimetrist. In 1986, Dr. Gale and the director of the Soviet Unions Central Institute for Advanced Medical Studies signed an agreement to monitor the 100,000 people who were residents in the danger zonea 30-kilometer (18.7 mi) radius surrounding the site which ultimately became the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. I think you mean Aleksandr Akimov at Chernobyl, who was the shift supervisor on the night of the disaster. [4], While the initial Soviet investigation put almost all the blame on the operators and management, later findings by the IAEA found that the reactor design and how the operators were informed of safety information was more significant. Remember this scene? 0000018917 00000 n Akimov-- are we cooling the reactor core? Alexander Akimov worked with other employers in the reactor after the explosion. What's the least amount of exercise we can get away with? Later in May, the Russian first deputy health minister also issued a warning that vodka and red wine were not a cure for radiation exposuredespite popular belief. There were little slots for food and such, but then there were some grimmer rooms. It was close to midnight at the end of April 26 when an evacuation was ordered; 1,200 buses and 200 trucks relocated 47,000 residents of Pripyat. 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. Theres something wrong with you.. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnFeTe0nDw8. In the hours after the explosion, he spoke to Oleksandr Akimov, the shift leader at the No. In that moment, standing where Dyatlov, and [Nikolai] Fomin, and [Viktor] Bryukhanov stood it was very chilling. HWr6'/u;6;vL&uJIZ$U|}b5bFB(D9/Wa"wFdezT$~0An0:1z34Pd6:8xk67muc4AUW['n|1yb-,{R;&]<47LVSIqNpsiw8$<7[sA{M`D)Q|i>v`H;h\ul) #@rGF0#?uUs$ [2_\qM/0[KW.jPqA^|)>FCNM]-` e?5"`JjHLkl}o! This further increase in power caused the reactor to explode. In ablaze, he does indeed talk to Akimov and how much he wanted to live.. but Read wasn't talking about Akimov when he said about skin falling off his legs. Also, emotions and mood at that time are shown quite precisely, both among the personnel and the authorities. "Another friend treated at the same time said he had a date with his girlfriend close to the bridge that night. Found an error? It was way worse for him because he received almost 100% burns from radiation both from the inside and the outside, This article in the German Magazine "Stern" describes Akimov's condition : https://www.stern.de/panorama/weltgeschehen/tschernobyl-anatomie-einer-katastrophe-3597302.html, 'Though Akimov has already recovered from the first symptoms of radiation sickness, his skin is brown and his bone marrow is irreparably damaged. "It was just our work. Judge Raimond Brize declared in the courtroom, There was an atmosphere of lack of control and lack of responsibility at the plant. The plant officials were also heavily criticized for not evacuating the town of Pripyat sooner. All three men were sentenced to 10 years in a labour camp for their role in the disaster and series creator Craig Mazin maintains that Dyatlov in particular was a "real bully", who later made statements that were not credible. Here's an interview with Kovalenko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnFeTe0nDw8. Miners were brought in to dig a tunnel under the reactor to create a space for a heat exchanger, to stop the molten core melting through the concrete pad and contaminating the groundwater, threatening millions of lives. The Chernobyl disaster, considered the worst nuclear disaster in history, occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, then part of the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine. The information is all on the level of 'he said, she said'. A subreddit to discuss the Chernobyl Disaster that happened on the night of April 26, 1986, and the Exclusion Zone that isolates the city of Pripyat from the rest of the world. [] And the last thing that I want this show to do is to scare people about nuclear power. A subreddit to discuss the Chernobyl Disaster that happened on the night of April 26, 1986, and the Exclusion Zone that isolates the city of Pripyat from the rest of the world. There is a myth that no life can survive in Chernobyl, which is simply not true. "Radiation exposure, red skin, radiation burns and steam burns were what many people talked about but it was never shown like this. 0000012642 00000 n The nurses let me in. 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. They didnt have a clue. It was a cruel time.[7]. "I saw other colleagues who worked that night. 1953. It was supposed to shut down the reactor, but the result turned out to be the exact opposite. 6 in Moscow, where Alexander Akomv is suffering towards death. In 2014, Michael Donnelly, chairman of Chernobyl Childrens Appeal, said, These children are forced to suffer through no fault of their own. This may be, in part, why the hype around the HBO and Sky series about the disaster has been so substantial. [4] His parents once asked about the cause but he only could say they had followed regulations. "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. But I have to ask about his legs. The actor playing Alexander Akimov, for instance, was never even put in makeup to depict the loss of his face. Akimov eventually succumbed to acute radiation syndrome two weeks after the disaster at the age of 33. And also being under that same piece of sky, you start to feel a little closer, in a sense, to who they were. [5] However, the operators were found to have deviated from operational procedures, changing test protocols on the fly, as well as having made "ill judged" actions, making human factors a major contributing factor. In 1983, he graduated from the Obninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering, with a specialist degree in nuclear power plant engineering. Cheish Merryweather is a true crime fan and an oddities fanatic. "The Chernobyl catastrophe is depicted in a very powerful way, as a global catastrophe that absorbed huge numbers of people. ", "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. These were not random people suffering these were heroes. Many of the liquidators have since suffered from severe health problemssome of which were fatal. After two episodes, with the initial fire extinguished and early panic beginning to subside, the focus shifts to questions about why the reactor exploded and who was responsible for the disaster. At 9:25 time mark, do you think it might be Khodemchuk? So from that Im assuming those could be pretty true about him, especially skin being so delicate because of the radiation. The Chernobyl cases have taught us that much needed (and still needs) to be improved in the clinical management of ARS in accident sit-uations generally complicated by radiation injury to the skin and injuries that are not radia-tion related. But Mr Breus believes most Pripyat residents would have slept through the explosion, and he only learned of the accident when he arrived at work the following morning. Cheish Merryweather is a true crime fan and an oddities fanatic. Aleksandr Fyodorovich Akimov ( Russian: ; 6 May 1953 - 11 May 1986) was a Soviet engineer who was the supervisor of the shift that worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the Chernobyl disaster, 26 April 1986. He was talking about another operator Brazhik. "When he was present at the block, it created tension for everyone. The communications networks were suddenly flooded with calls and information. As the rods were being inserted, the graphite tips of the control rods accelerated the reaction, creating neutron flux in the bottom of the core. Arriving at work that morning, Mr Breus says he did not see any fire.
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