Chernobyl Soundboard Edit

A bomb

A minimum of a ten-meter perimeter

A neutron is, uh--The bullet

A nuclear reactor makes electricity with steam

A yearly stipend of 400 rubles

Akimov initiated AZ-5

Akimov- I pressed it... before the explosion

Akimov- They're still up. -Dyatlov- What

Akimov, are we cooling the reactor core

Akimov... -(whispers)- Sasha

All of it... madness

All of you are awarded a bonus of 800 rubles

All we want to know is- who is to blame

An arrogant, unpleasant man,

An RBMK reactor

And

And approximately 750,000 men,

And as for the radiation--Yes, 3.6 roentgen,

And as for what Dyatlov did do,

And content ourselves instead with stories

And cut the phone lines

And do exactly as you have been told

And God knows how many more will die

And how long before this happens

And how many men do you require

And if we line them with lead, they can withstand the radiation

And it is beautiful

And it will not stop. Not in a week, not in a month

And it'll stink like hell. That's it

And no friends

And now Dyatlov will spend the next ten years

And proceed down the hallway for decontamination

And right now, it is on fire

And that's every single hour

And the graphite- -Ah, yes

And then the reactor exploded

And then we drink

And what if there are chemicals

Are the pumps on or not- -Stolyarchuk

Are they bombing

Are you suggesting the core... what

As I presumed, he has no answer

As much vodka as you want, plus a thousand rubles

At least evacuate Pripyat. It's three kilometers away

At least we can keep a man off a roof

Bacho- They eat the chickens

Because I may not know much about nuclear reactors,

Because the flaw will not lead to an explosion

Behind the entrance to the roof and catch your breath

Boris, if we fly... -Don't you use my name!

Boron and sand

Boron control rods

Bryukhanov, the air is glowing

Burning at over 2,000 degrees

But consistent enough to damage our DNA

But I can certainly make them worse

But I know a lot about concrete

But I've been assured there is no problem

But it doesn't look right, the color

But it's in the safe, and we can't find the key

But rather 400 chest X-rays

But the entire industry. -No, no, no, no, no

But understand that even with lead shielding,

By three minutes, you're dead within months

By tomorrow morning, you'll be begging for that bullet

Call in the day shift

Call in the day shift, Comrade Akimov

Can you confirm that the reactor exploded

Can you see inside

Chernobyl Reactor 4 has been held at half power

Climb the stairs but do not immediately proceed to the roof

Commit your task to memory, then do your job

Comrade Perevozschenko, what you're saying is physically impossible

Contain the spread of misinformation

Dead!

Diagnostics complete

Did you lose the signal

Did you lower the control rods or not

Do not look over the rail. Is that clear

Do we stock iodine

Do you have a cigarette

Do you taste metal- -Akimov!

Do you understand your mission as I have described it

Don't worry, we did everything right

Door-to-door

Drop your shovels in the bin,

Dump them in a pit, bury them in concrete

Eight milliroentgen. A leak

Even our lunar rovers won't work on Masha

Even the good we did, all of it..

Every atom of U-235 is like a bullet

Every gram of U-235 holds

Everyone stay calm. Our first priority is-

Exploded

For a minimum of 100 years

Forgive me. Maybe I've just spent too much time in my lab

Forty-eight more tomorrow

Forward one meter, reverse one meter

From absorbing radioactive iodine

From feedwater leaking from a blown tank

From the feedwater, I assume- -Mm-hmm

From there you can look right down into reactor Building 4

Get as far from Minsk as you can

Get down there and make sure those pumps are on

Get him to the medic or the hospital! Whatever he needs!

Get the hydrogen out of the generators and pump water into the core

Get us directly over the building!

Get us over that building, or I'll have you shot!

Give him every bit of protection you have

Good

Good

Good. Yes

Graphite is only found in the core,

Have one of your men get as close to the fire as he can

Have them use the good meter from the safe

He deserves death

He ran the room that night, he gave the orders..

He was the best choice

He'll be fine. I've seen worse

He's in shock. Get him out of here

Healthy, even. But they aren't

Hey! We need to get to the reactor hall

Hour after hour, 20 hours since the explosion,

How do we put it out- -(sighs)

How does a nuclear reactor work?

How many men do you have

How many times do I have to say it

Hundreds of thousands of people are going to get cancer,

I already sent the trainees down to the reactor hall to lower them by hand

I am focusing on the fire

I can't. I am sorry. I'm so sorry

I checked the meter against the control

I did. -You didn't

I don't give a shit about the panel!

I don't have to. Look

I don't know. -(alarms blaring, buzzing)

I don't see how it could explode

I don't think there are control rods

I don't think there's a core

I don't think you should go. It could be dangerous

I dropped the control rods from the other panel

I know about Chernobyl. -Oh

I know how a nuclear reactor works

I know that the core is either partially or completely exposed

I looked into the core

I looked right into it

I need water in my reactor core!

I say we evacuate the town

I sent my dosimetrists into the reactor building

I shut it down. I pressed AZ-5

I still didn't think it could be this flaw in AZ-5

I take it the safety test was a failure

I think it's time we faced--No, we have to get water into the core

I think there's graphite on the ground in the rubble

I tried calling for the electricians

I want you to go to Chernobyl

I want you to think of Yuri Gagarin

I went willingly to an open reactor

I wish you good health and long life

I won't do it. It isn't safe

I'll see it with my own... my own eyes

I'm a nuclear physicist

I'm going to find Khodemchuk in the pump room

I'm going to the Administration Building now

I'm not prepared to explain it at this time

I've been saying that for 25 years

I've been told not to. -Is it or is not-

If I'm right, this fireman was holding the equivalent

If it's more complicated than a light switch,

If there's graphite on the ground outside,

If these worked, you'd be wearing them

If we can't cover it, that's 12,000 roentgen

If you fly directly over that core, I promise you,

Impact means completely uninhabitable

In 1975, in an RBMK reactor in Leningrad,

In a prison labor camp

In an RBMK reactor of the type used at Chernobyl,

In RBMK reactors, we surround the fuel rods with graphite

In terms of radiation,

In the control room of Reactor 4

In the... in the air we breathe,

In these stories, it doesn't matter who the heroes are

In this story, it was Anatoly Dyatlov

Including a number of doctors and structural engineers

Inside a nuclear reactor

Iodine 131

Iodine pills- Why would we have iodine pills

Ionizing radiation tears the cellular structure apart

Is giving off nearly twice the radiation

Is it war- -Where's the dosimeter

Isn't that enough

Issue iodine tablets and then evacuate this city,

It burns the xenon away before it can cause a problem

It can happen with minimal radiation

It cannot go over the core

It created two problems

It doesn't look like it's under control. -Shut up, Fomin

It exploded, the core exploded

It maxed out

It may not be enough

It means it wasn't a control system tank that exploded

It means the core is open

It means the fire we're watching with our own eyes

It never stops rising. So..

It only goes to 200 roentgen, but it's better than the small ones

It was the reactor core. It's open! (inhales)

It will burn and spread its poison

It will burn and spread its poison

It's 15,000

It's a German police robot

It's about the operation of RBMK reactors under extreme conditions

It's also the maximum reading on low-limit dosimeters

It's another faulty meter. You're wasting our time

It's covered in tar, so it's gonna burn all night,

It's disgraceful, really

It's exploded! -We know

It's mostly put out. The system control tank exploded

It's not alarmist if it's a fact!

It's not military. It's uranium decay, U-235

It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth

It's not the signal. It's the vehicle

It's not three roentgen

It's the feedwater. Been around it all night

It's time to go. After 90 seconds, I will ring a bell

Kill as many as you can, whoever's left,

Let's go get you a gun

Listen carefully to each of my instructions,

Look at that glow!

Lunokhod STR-1's. They're light

Man (recorded voice)- What is the cost of lies

Man- They're bringing everybody in, military and civil

Masha will destroy it

Men

Most of these bullets will not stop firing for 100 years

Mount the dosimeter on the front

My control panel's not working

Never mind that. Focus on the fire

No gas, no fire. Just atoms

No one leaves

No one's answering the phone

No, I'm sorry, but it is not

No, no, no! They're too close!

No, that's not--This is an emergency

No, you're-you're mistaken

No. -We could be in a xenon pit

No. We're doing the test tonight. Raise power to 700

Not a meltdown, an explosion

Not at all

Not great, not terrible #chernobyl #average

Not just to the RBMK,

Not strong enough to kill the cells,

Now I don't need you

Now there you made a mistake,

Now, Chernobyl holds over three million grams,

Now, I don't know if I can make things better for you,

Now!

Of course, that sentence is doubly unfair

Of four million chest X-rays in his hand

Oh, for God's sakes

Or, at least, not important ones

Otherwise, there'll be a meltdown

Our high-range dosimeter just arrived

Over a billion trillion of these bullets

Penetrating everything in its path

Perhaps you saw burnt concrete

Pilot (over radio)- We're in position. Approaching drop

Pilot- We're approaching the power plant

Please tell me how an RBMK reactor core explodes

Please, please. My wife is here

Please, tell me how an RBMK reactor core explodes

Pravik says he thinks they're shining floodlights or something

Rain will bring them down on us

Raise the power. -No

Reactor fuel

Ready to engage main power and motor

Released by the bomb in Hiroshima

Right. I'll call Maryin

Robots only

Safety first. Always

Sends us shit equipment, then wonders why things go wrong

Shcherbina- I'm going to get you 5,000 tons of sand and boron

Shcherbina- We couldn't put a man on the moon

Sitnikov

Sitnikov! Bryukhanov wants us to use the good dosimeter,

Smooth, black mineral-graphite

So 40 bombs worth by now

So everything's my fault, then

So I'll restate- Tell me how a nuclear reactor works,

So I've already given my life

So the power level jumped from 200 to 400 megawatts

So then...- -Moon rovers

So we'll need three men

So we're digging the old way. This is how our fathers mined

So, bullets are flying off of the uranium

Some of it is in blocks, weighing approximately 40 to 50 kilograms

Some of them, not for 50,000 years

Something with the space program like a satellite or...

Something... something strange has happened

Stable iodine will keep your thyroid

Stems entirely from the description of a rock

Take care not to stumble

Take him to the infirmary

Take one a day for as long as they last

Tarakanov- Congratulations, comrades

Tarakanov- These are the most important 90 of your lives

Tell me how to put it out. -We'll use helicopters

Thank you for your service. -Comrade-

That amount of gamma radiation penetrates everything

That Chernobyl was solely the result of operator error,

That has never occurred on this planet before

That is all that matters. -There is no core

That is the most important thing, General

That number's been bothering me for a different reason, though

That piece of roof is the most dangerous place on Earth

That we have successfully protected our security interests

That's as high as it goes. The good one's locked in a safe

That's classified

That's graphite on the roof

That's how long I've done this job, 25 years

That's in one gram

That's my decision to make. -Then make it

That's nearly twice the radiation from the Hiroshima bomb

That's radiation ionizing the air!

That's three million billion trillion bullets

The Cherenkov effect. Completely normal phenomenon

The circuits in microchips apart

The control system tank. Hydrogen

The core can't explode. It has to be the tank

The core- -I didn't go in there, and I won't

The core's exposed!

The design flaws of the RBMK nuclear reactor

The dosimetrists should be checking regularly

The feedwater is mildly contaminated

The fire is giving off nearly twice the radiation

The half-life of plutonium-239 is 24,000 years

The heat will instantly vaporize the water-

The immediate effects subside

The large dosimeter from the safe,

The lid is off!

The man doesn't deserve prison

The meltdown has begun

The meter burned out the second it was turned on

The miners are making incredible progress

The neutrons are actually traveling so fast-we call this flux-

The one with the 1,000-roentgen capacity-

The operators pressed AZ-5,

The particles literally shred

The patient appears to be recovering

The power is rising

The problem's the roof

The reactor fuel is going to sink into the ground

The real danger is that if we hear enough lies,

The release of radiation will be severe

The skin blisters, turns red, then black

The Soviet people have had enough of this accident

The stack is burning. I saw it

The turbine hall

The water we drink, the food we eat

The West is now satisfied

The whole building's been blown open

The wind, it's carrying all that smoke,

Then I'll do it myself

Then they eat each other

Then we no longer recognize the truth at all

There are 16 RBMK reactors

There are more than 50 million people

There are no robots

There has been an accident at Chernobyl,

There is an enormous amount of radioactive debris

There was none

There was nothing sane about Chernobyl

There were far greater criminals than him at work

There will be deaths

There's a fire in the turbine hall

There's a hole in the roof. Take care not to fall

There's a spike in zirconium-95

There's been an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

There's mild radiation, but it's limited to the plant itself

There's more radiation than they're saying

There's nothing left to stop it

There's something called a positive void coefficient

There's-There's graphite on the ground

They all must be thrown over the edge here

They always do

They cannot fly directly over the fire

They say Akimov pressed AZ-5,

They say the whole job will be finished in four weeks

They told the Germans that the highest detected level of radiation

They'll beat the living piss out of each of you

They'll deny it, of course

They're gonna want a full report

They're not all the way in, I disengaged the clutch

They're still only a third of the way in, I don't know why

Thirty minutes

This is a big one

This is a fissioning reactor core

This is followed by a latency period

This is the working area. We must clear the graphite

This isn't a fire

This little problem we have with the safety test..

This usually only lasts for a day or two

Throw your debris over the rail

To 1600 megawatts and is stable

To call Bryukhanov and Fomin

To lower the control rods, but the door is jammed

To six hours at a time, but otherwise..

To spread disinformation at a time like this

Too heavy. They'd fall right through

Toptunov- I need a medic! Anyone! -He's delusional

Traveling at nearly the speed of light,

Try and disconnect the servos from the standby console

Two hundred roentgen

Two thousand roentgen. One hour, fatal

Under no circumstances can men go up there

Unless the operators have pushed the reactor to the edge of disaster

Until the entire continent is dead

Until the entire continent is dead

Uses uranium 235 as fuel

Vasily! You've gotta put it out

Void coefficients have nothing to do with AZ-5

Vrag Monolith 1

Vrag Monolith 2

Was 2,000 roentgen

We could cover one of our trucks with lead shielding,

We expect this liquidation effort to take three years

We found another dosimeter

We have a power surge! Sasha!

We have the situation under control. -Fomin- Under control

We have to fix them

We have to shut down and wait for 24 hours

We have visual confirmation that the fire is nearly extinguished

We have wives here, we have children

We need electricians, mechanics, we need bodies

We need fans. -For what purpose

We need to get everyone out!

We need to get into the reactor hall

We need to start making our way to the roof

We need water moving through the core

We should stop

We shut it down, but the control rods are still active

We use biorobots

We used remote-controlled bulldozers in Afghanistan

We'll drop water on it like a forest fire. -No, no. You don't understand

We'll have to limit shifts

We're wasting time. Let's go

Well, I've given you everything I know

Well, that'll create problems of its own,

Well, that's not great, but it's not horrifying

Well, there was a... a tank explosion. There's debris

What about sabotage

What about the fire- -Call the fire brigade

What about the pumps- -Toptunov- I can't get through to Khodemchuk

What can we do then

What did you do-!

What do you mean dangerous- It's a fire. It's over there, we're over here

What does the dosimeter say- -3.6 roentgen, but that's as high as the meter-

What does the radiation do to them precisely

What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth

What happened there, what happened after,

What the fuck is this- It's 3.6 roentgen

What was the number

What's wrong with you- How'd you get that number

Whatever that means. -And that if you don't immediately

When an RBMK reactor runs at low power, it's notoriously unstable

When you get to the top, wait inside,

Where you will find graphite- inside the core

Which, by the way, is not the equivalent of one chest X-ray,

Who's the next closest- -It's Chernobyl, but that's not possible

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow. -I-I didn't move any rods there

Why did I see graphite on the roof

Why didn't you initiate an emergency shutdown

Why didn't you press the AZ-5 button

Why should we do this- For what, 400 rubles

Why was this delay so dangerous

Winds will carry radioactive particles across the entire continent,

WOMAN- Why didn't you press the AZ-5 button

Woods, metal, concrete, flesh

Yes, and, uh, this concern

Yes, I worked in a shoe factory

Yes, the bullet

Yes, very good

You and Toptunov, you morons blew the tank!

You are dealing with something

You are the last of 3,828 men

You can't be in here!

You didn't see graphite

You didn't! Because it's not there!

You have 15 minutes

You have performed your duties perfectly

You haven't got enough bullets for all of us

You load the bodies on the truck,

You mean disinfectant- -No, pills. Does the hospital stock iodine pills

You saw men outside vomiting

You saw men with burns

You two, get the backup pumps running

You will each have no more than 90 seconds to solve this problem

You will enter Reactor Building Three,

You will need it for what comes next

You will need to move quickly, and you will need to move carefully

You worked in a shoe factory

You worked with the reactor. You know it better than I do

You wouldn't give us fans, it's too hot for clothes

You're a nuclear engineer, so am I

You're an expert on RBMK reactors, correct

You're confused. RBMK reactor cores don't explode

You're excused

You're not on call tonight

Yuri says the only thing is, you can't walk right up to the fuel

3.6 roentgen per hour

3.6-not great, not terrible

...directly over an open reactor, we'll be dead within a week!

(alarms blaring, buzzing)

(alarms blaring, buzzing)

(alarms blaring, buzzing)

(alarms blaring) -What just happened

(chuckles)- Chemicals

(chuckling)- Of course not

(distant alarm blaring)

(distant explosion) -(gasps)

(dosimeter alarm buzzing)

(dosimeter beeps)

(dosimeter clicking faintly)

(dosimeter clicking rapidly)

(dosimeter clicking)

(dosimeter crackling loudly)

(dosimeter's clicking grows louder)

(dosimeters clicking loudly, rapidly)

(dosimeters crackling loudly)

(helicopter whomping)

(indistinct radio transmission)

(indistinct radio transmissions)

(indistinct radio transmissions)

(line ringing)

(line rings)

(loud tone drones)

(loud tone drones)

(loud tone drones)

(retching)

(ringing continues)

(rotary phone dialing)

(shouting)- Comrade Dyatlov! Comrade Dyatlov!

(voices over phone speaking Russian)

(vomiting)

(woman moans softly) -You're doing fine