Adam Nagaitis

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Chernobyl engineer Oleksiy Breus, entered then and now, in addition to the backdrop of the TV-presentation of the disaster

hours after The World 's worst nuclear accident, engineers Oleksiy Breus the Control Room of reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant in the Ukraine.

A member of staff at the plant from 1982, he was A Witness to the immediate aftermath on The Morning of the 26. April 1986.

the history of The reactor catastrophic explosion, as told in an HBO/Sky mini-series, received the highest score for a TV show on the film website IMDB. Russians and Ukrainians have watched it over The Internet , and it has a favorable rating of the Russian movie site Kinopoisk.

Mr. Breus has worked with many of the people portrayed, and has given its judgment on the part of the series.

warning: This story contains plot details from the mini-series.

How much was fact and fiction? "I was surprised that they even brought us there," Mr Breus, says the arrival at work The Morning after The Explosion . "The reactor was so damaged, it seemed there was Nothing Else to do there. "

Some of the events he experienced that morning were realistically depicted in The Show , he says, but the other he describes as a work of fiction.

"The Chernobyl Disaster is depicted in a very strong way, like a global disaster, which absorbed a large number of people. Also, the emotions and the mood, all of which are very precise, both in personnel and The Authorities .

Mr Breus revisited the reactor Control Room , 20 years after the disaster ", However, the technological aspects have some differences. may not be exactly [be], but only fiction," he adds.

What characters is the main? The roles of the three main personalities are the focus of the story: Plant director Viktor ) Bryukhanov, and the chief engineer, Nikolai Fomin, and Deputy chief engineer Anatoly Dyatlov . And Oleksiy Breus sees their representation as "not a fiction but a blatant lie".

"your characters are distorted and misrepresented, As If they were villains. They were nothing of the sort. "

"Probably, Anatoly Dyatlov , one of the main anti-hero in the Film was because that was how he was perceived by The Power plant workers, his subordinates, and top management, in the beginning. Later, this perception changed. "

All three men were sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp for her role in the disaster, and the Creator of the series, the later statements not Credible .

Viktor Bryukhanov (left) sits next to the Deputy chief engineer Anatoly Dyatlov (orange Jersey) and chief engineer Nikolai Fomin during a trial about The Accident , "The operators were afraid of him," said Mr. Breus's true. "If he was present, on The Block , it creates tension for everyone. But no matter how strict he was, he was still a high-level professional. "

How accurate is the representation of the radiation was? Mr Breus, says the series Creator revealed the effect of radiation on the human body as well.

In The Hours after The Explosion , he spoke with Oleksandr Akimov, The Shift supervisor at the No. 4 reactor operator, Leonid Toptunov , both of which play a prominent role in the series.

"you were not so good, to put it mildly," he says. "It was clear, she felt sick. They were very pale. Toptunov had literally turned white. "

Within Two Weeks , Mr. Akimov and Mr. Toptunov had died in a Moscow hospital from the acute radiation syndrome (ARS).

"I've seen other colleagues working in the night. Her skin had a light red color. She died later in the hospital in Moscow . "

the British actor Adam Nagaitis Vasily Ignatenko , one of The First firefighters on The Scene of the disaster, "radiation exposure, red skin, radiation burns and steam burns were what a lot of people talked about it played, but it was never shown like this. When I finished my shift, my skin is brown, As If I am The Right tan on the whole body. My Body Parts covered by clothes - such as, for example, the hands, the face and Neck were red".

In The Weeks immediately after The Explosion , 29 power plant workers and firefighters died of ARS, the by the exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation, according to Soviet officials.

Two other workers died due to injuries. The Body of one of them, Valery Khodemchuk , was never out of the reactor debris.

How big was The Fire ? Vasily Ignatenko , shown in the series, was among The First firefighters sent to fight the flames.

The Fire brigade is not sent from the neighboring Pripyat knew of any radiation exposure and Ignatenko disease syndrome died of acute radiation on 13 may 1986.

arriving at work that morning, Mr. Breus, says he did not see any Fire .

The View of the damaged buildings from the roof of reactor No. 3, "I saw the damage at reactor No. 4. You could see how the devices and pumps exposed to. There was no smoke or Fire , only smoke comes from the damaged part. "

Most of the firefighters were pouring water on the damaged reactors, he says. "A thin stream, The Firemen poured, probably evaporated before it reached the reactor. "

firefighters were asked to help clear radioactive debris from the roof after The Fire was extinguished.

the firefighters in the picture in 1986, before the debris from the roof of the No. 4 reactor clean, How accurate is the representation of the workers was? One of The Most dramatic scenes in the mini series shows three power plant workers, the open voluntarily, in a subway-tunnel under the damaged reactor, an important drainage valve.

There were fears that the lava from the molten reactor could reach the water, because they have a further, potentially far more powerful explosion.

in contrast to reports that three divers died of radiation sickness as a result of their actions, which survived all three.

The Shift supervisor and Borys Baranov died in the year 2005, while Valery Bespalov and Oleksiy Ananenko, the two senior engineers of one of the reactor sections, are still alive and lives in the capital city of Kiev.

Oleksiy Ananenko (then and now) with a scene from the TV series the three workers wearing respiratory protection masks "It was our job," says Oleksiy Ananenko, who was on shift at the time, while The Others have been ordered by their manager. She knew where The Valves were, as you were The Right man for The Task .

"If I don't do it, only The Fire Department could get to me. How would I find another job after that?"

He points to a couple of inaccuracies in the TV depiction.

their faces were only partially covered by breathing masks, so they could talk to each other, they were not offered a reward, and they were not splashed on your successful return.

"It was just our work. Who would applaud that?"

describes The TV series, as 400 workers were involved in digging The Tunnel under the damaged reactor, miners were brought in to stop them digging a tunnel under the reactor to create a space for a heat exchanger, which melts the molten core through the concrete slab and the contamination of ground water, threatening millions of lives.

temperatures below the reactor were high, and the series shows, Stripping naked.

"they took off their clothes, but not, as it is shown in the film, not right down to nothing," Mr Breus back also insists that their role was ultimately not of importance for the history.

The miners stopped their work prematurely, but then, the molten core was cooled down itself.

"The mountain people than Tough Guys , not afraid of anything, but not The Power plant workers. "

How lethal is the "bridge of death"? In the series, Pripyat residents rush to a railway bridge for a better view of The Fire , the nothing of the exposure. Children are shown playing in the radioactive dust that falls from the sky like snow.

This later became known as the "bridge of death" according to reports, that those who stood there said to have died of radiation sickness.

But Mr Breus believes that The Most Pripyat residents would have slept through The Explosion , and he only learned of The Accident when he arrived at work the next morning.

The TV series shows Pripyat residents to watch the events unfold, what I heard later nicknamed the "bridge of death" "never, there was a lot of people who went to The Fire in the night," he says.

"In the hospital, I was treated with a man who biked to The Bridge in The Morning on the 26. To watch April. He got a mild type of the acute radiation syndrome, said a doctor.

"treats Another friend, at the same time, said he had a date with his girlfriend near The Bridge That Night . He had health problems afterwards. "

As was shown in the Soviet Union ? Oleksiy Breus, says The Accident helped reveal the significant shortcomings of the Soviet system.

", For example, that useless secrecy, which is one of the reasons for the Chernobyl Disaster . If the operator pressed the Red Button to stop the reactor, but exploded. "

But while many have complemented The Show , the attention to detail, he believes, it is also one of the disadvantages of the TV series.

", There are shown many of the clichés typical of Western portrayals of the Soviet Union ," argues Oleksiy Breus. "A large Cup of vodka, KGB everywhere. "

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Source of news: bbc.com