In episode three, Soviet politician Boris Scherbina and Legasov go to a mine in Tula, south of Moscow, to enlist the help of the miners there. In fact, people were sent to continue the clean-up for many years after the disaster. The World Health Organisation has estimated that more than half a million civilian and military personnel were enlisted from across the Soviet Union in the wake of the disaster to clean up and contain the fallout. Then, in episode four, men were drafted in to kill all of the remaining radioactive pets that Pripyat residents had been forced to leave behind. In that same episode, miners from Tula were brought in to dig underneath the plant to install machinery that would prevent lava melting through the concrete pad and contaminating the groundwater. In episode three, humans dubbed "biorobots" were called in to clean up the plant by removing the extremely radioactive chunks of graphite from the reactor building's roof. He's portrayed in the series by actor Adam Nagaitis.
Vasily Ignatenko was a real fireman in Pripyat.
Legasov wasn't the most qualified person to head the clean-up Mazin felt an American accent in a Soviet story would sound silly to a US audience, and would pull them out of the story.Ģ. So it was decided the characters would speak with their natural accent, so long as it was not American. In a podcast explaining each episode in the series, Mazin said he did not want to do "the Boris and Natasha" and "the Russian accent can turn comic with very little effort". In the early days of the series' production, actors auditioned with vaguely Eastern European accents. Mazin said he was careful not to over-dramatise the series, so most of what you see is true to the real-life accounts of those touched by the disaster. The series' creator and writer Craig Mazin (who also wrote The Hangover parts two and three) said because the cover-up of the disaster was so deep, there were several versions of the Chernobyl story. While the popularity of the five-part series has put the 1986 nuclear disaster in the forefront of people's minds, it has also left those unfamiliar with the historical events wondering just how closely the series mirrors reality. It's the show everyone seems to be talking about and a few weeks ago it even took top spot on IMDb's TV show list, bumping the BBC's wildly popular Planet Earth II down to second place. By now you've probably heard of HBO's haunting mini-series Chernobyl.
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