Khomyuk looks through the window, we cut to a shot (from Prof. Khomyuk's POV) showing that Lyudmilla has placed Vasily's hand on her womb. Prof. Khomyuk, seeing a young couple in such a pose, correctly interprets this gesture to mean that Lyudmilla is pregnant.
One of the real-life people who inspired HBO's Chernobyl is speaking out about the tragic events depicted in the limited series. Lyudmila Ignatenko was pregnant in 1986 when her firefighter husband was among the first-responders to the infamous Ukraine nuclear disaster.
Lyudmila was seven months pregnant when her husband died. Two months later, she went into labour but the baby survived only a few hours. Revealing how she had been criticised for 'killing her baby' by staying with her poisoned husband while pregnant, she said: 'How could I leave him?
In one scene in "Chernobyl," Lyudmilla holds her late husband's shoes as he's buried, since the shoes couldn't fit around his swollen feet. But the real-life Lyudmilla told the BBC that the shoes were actually beside Vasily when he was buried.
But the woman at the centre of it, Lyudmila Ignatenko, the wife of one of the first firefighters to die, says she never gave HBO permission to tell her story and claims she's had to go into hiding due to media harassment. She spoke to BBC Russian's Olga Malchevska in her first interview since the series aired.
Valery Khodemchuk was killed instantly when the Chernobyl reactor exploded. His body was never recovered.
Pravyk and the firefighters who were just meters from ground zero of the worst man-made disaster in human history were so irradiated, they had to be buried in coffins made of lead and welded shut to prevent their corpses from contaminating the area for the next 26,000 years.
Answer and Explanation: Yes, Chernobyl victims were buried in concrete. This was done because of the extremely high levels of radiation in the bodies in an attempt to limit the pollution into the ground.
The decommissioned Ignalina power plant doubles for Chernobyl in this series. The firefighters' clothing and shoes discarded in the basement of the Pripyat Hospital are still there, exactly where they were abandoned more than 30 years ago. They are still dangerously radioactive.
Shift leader Borys Baranov died in 2005, while Valery Bespalov and Oleksiy Ananenko, both chief engineers of one of the reactor sections, are still alive and live in the capital, Kiev. "It was our job," says Oleksiy Ananenko, who was on shift at the time, while the others had been ordered in by their manager.
There is no evidence of decreased fertility in men or women in the affected regions. Because doses to the general population were low, it is unlikely that there would be any increase in stillbirths, adverse pregnancy outcomes, delivery complications, or negative impacts on children's overall health.
During the disaster, local hospitals saw a huge increase in birth abnormalities, with newborns suffering adrenal cancer and thyroid cancer, the birth of so-called 'sirens' - babies with the whole lower part of their body fused like a fish tail - and even a two-headed baby.
After the Chernobyl accident, there was a reported increase in spontaneous abortions not only in countries directly adjacent to the Ukraine, but also in Finland and Norway. It was also found that Perinatal mortality and trisomy 21 increased in Germany.
In 1990, around 400 deformed animals were born. Most deformities were so severe the animals only lived a few hours. Examples of defects included facial malformations, extra appendages, abnormal coloring, and reduced size. Domestic animal mutations were most common in cattle and pigs.
Contrary to how it might seem, the haunting dolls scattered throughout the Chernobyl exclusion zone weren't left there by residents. Most were likely arranged by "disaster tourists," who have taken to placing the dolls on windowsills and the beds of an abandoned kindergarten for dramatic effect.
Answer and Explanation: While at least 27 firefighters died in the weeks following the disaster, many others survived, at least initially (and many were hospitalized for radiation poisoning even if they did later recover).
There are types of radiation where human bodies could retain radioactive particles and remain radioactive over time, but this is not the type that was seen at Chernobyl. After gamma radiation has passed through the body, the person is no longer radioactive and can't expose other people.
For 36 hours after the explosion, people were given no reliable information about it and left virtually on their own.
The firefighters who had responded to the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, upon their deaths, were buried in lead coffins encased in concrete to prevent and inhibit radioactive contamination of the surrounding environment.
The New Safe Confinement is 108 metres high and 162 metres long, and has a span of 257 metres and a lifetime of a minimum of 100 years. The arch-shaped structure weighs some 36,000 tonnes. Its frame is a huge lattice construction of tubular steel members, supported by two longitudinal concrete beams.
The authorities agree that 28 workers lost their lives to acute radiation sickness, while another 106 of the liquidators were treated and survived. But the health toll for the survivors continues to be a matter of debate.
The accident destroyed the Chernobyl 4 reactor, killing 30 operators and firemen within three months and several further deaths later.
The sarcophagus locked in 200 tons of radioactive lava-like corium, 30 tons of highly contaminated dust and 16 tons of uranium and plutonium. By 1996 the structure had deteriorated to the point where numerous stabilization measures were required.
The Elephant's Foot is the nickname given to a large mass of corium and other materials formed underneath the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukraine, during the Chernobyl disaster of April 1986, notable for its extreme radioactivity.
Yes, many of the miners who worked to repair the Chernobyl reactor perished from radiation poisoning or cancer, while many more suffered (and likely still suffer) from maladies ranging from internal bleeding to hair loss.