RBMK

Three Mile Island, in case you haven't made the connection.

So the Chernobyl reactors were what were called RBMK, and specifically they were Rektor, Boisho.

It was the name of the guys that actually did the – like designed the reactor.

But what happened in that reactor is the water was allowed to be boiled within that reactor.

So having all that knowledge when I was reading the beginning, it turned me off.

Probably not going to happen to most people because I'm guessing most people haven't read Serhii Plosky's Chernobyl History of a Tragedy or five other Chernobyl books that I have read on the RBMK reactor.

That being said, once they got over that, I quite enjoyed the story.

I think it was a mechanism to develop the villain and they ran with it.

General

Meltdown.

The RBMK reactor was unstable, but Meltdown, equally unstable person.

I did love the interaction between Scarlet and Havoc.

I, I think I reviewed it when it came out, and, well, truly, truly it was accurate to the best degree that the movie makers could make it.

See, the RMBK, uh, the, the RBMK reactor didn't blow up because the atoms behaved unpredictably.

It became-- it blew up because the Soviet state was physically incapable of processing negative feedback.

Years before the explosion of Reactor Number Four, Soviet nuclear physicists knew that the RBMK design had a fatal flaw.

Sure.

There's an RMBK type nuclear power reactor on the Chukchi Peninsula in Russia, which is the same type as Chernobyl, sitting on a hunk of permafrost.

I really wanted to kind of write about that and how it was working and its future.

And I couldn't even get permission to go to that town.