Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "CHERNOBYL (HBO) - A Typical Day at Work for Comrade Dyatlov" video.

  1.  @alvawijaya6922  In Soviet Russia AZ-5 button SCRAMs you.
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  2. Dyatlov and his two bosses (Bryukhanov and Fomin) were sent to prison. The government placed most of the blame on the deceased operators, Akimov and Toptunov.
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  3.  @mrbuck5059  It was Gorbachev's kinder, gentler communist Russia. They'd have gotten off with 25 years in the Gulag.
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  4. At that point, the shorter you live the better.
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  5. They were all sent to prison.
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  6. What's true is that they broke numerous safety regulations that were intended to make sure the reactor never got into such a precarious state. Under anything remotely approaching safe and proper conditions the AZ-5 would have caused a minor power spike, not a 10000x spike and resulting explosion. As soon as the power dropped so low they were supposed to, and should have, shut it down for 24 hours to let the xenon decay. But there was political pressure to get the test done. And yes, insane boss Dyatlov is highly entertaining even if historically inaccurate.
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  7. We've all had that boss. Just not, for most of us, in a nuclear reactor.
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  8. He was responsible for breaking numerous safety regulations and getting the reactor into such a precarious condition that what would normally have been a manageable power surge instead became a surge of at least 10 times the rated power resulting in an explosion. The reactor should have been shut down the moment the power got so low.
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  9. Connections. It's not about what you know, it's about who you know.
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  10. It's 3.6 roentgen, and there are five lights. It's not stupidity, it's totalitarianism.
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