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HBO’s “Chernobyl” series tells the story of the world’s worst nuclear-power-plant accident.
The show is nominated for 19 Emmy awards, including in the Outstanding Limited Series category, in which it’s considered a frontrunner.
Most of the characters who appear in the show existed in real life — and a few have been willing to share their stories.
We rounded up actual accounts of the moment when disaster struck on April 26, 1986.
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HBO’s “Chernobyl” series paints a fairly accurate portrait of the 1986 nuclear disaster, which sent plumes of radioactive material coursing through Pripyat, a city that was once part of the Soviet Union.

The miniseries earned 19 Emmy nominations, including in the Outstanding Limited Series category, in which it’s considered a frontrunner. The award show will be held Sunday, September 22.

As the series shows, the disaster was the result of a flawed design and human error, which caused the core of a nuclear reactor to open into the atmosphere.

Read more: 16 people who helped with the Chernobyl cleanup share their devastating first-hand accounts

With a few exceptions, most of the characters in the series were based on people in the real-life accident. Some lived to tell their tales, and others did not.

A few of those who survived were willing to recall the moment when they either found out about the explosion or witnessed it with their own eyes. Here are their firsthand accounts, told in the years since.

SEE ALSO: 12 ways HBO changed the Chernobyl story

Chernobyl’s chief scientific investigator said the disaster took place on a “beautiful” Saturday.

Valery Legasov, Chernobyl’s chief scientific investigator, recorded his personal account of the disaster on cassette tapes before hanging himself on April 26, 1988 — the second …read more

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Flight attendant Jamila Hardwick dished to Inside Edition about what flight attendants want to tell you about flying.
One of the more shocking revelations: Don’t order tea or coffee. The pipes for hot water on planes aren’t regularly cleaned.
Flight attendants get annoyed when you order Diet Coke, too.
It’s just too fizzy.
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Flight attendants know a lot about flying — and some of that inside knowledge is kind of gross.

Flight attendant Jamila Hardwick told Inside Edition one particularly alarming fact about what you should and shouldn’t order when the drinks cart comes down the aisle.

“The thing about the coffee and tea, the pipes are rarely cleaned,” Hardwick said.

Flight attendants have said the same to Business Insider. “Flight attendants will not drink hot water on the plane. They will not drink plain coffee, and they will not drink plain tea,” one said in 2017.

Read more: 6 things flight attendants want to tell you but can’t

Airlines are only required to disinfect their water tanks four times a year, Inside Edition reported. A new study from Hunter College even says most major airlines don’t have water that passes federal regulations for “relatively safe, clean water.” Another Environmental Protection Agency study says one in eight planes fails the agency’s standards for water safety.

Scores of three or higher for the EPA’s Aircraft Drinking Water Rule indicates the water is clean to drink. But the water on Spirit, JetBlue, United, American and Delta scored under a two in the Hunter College study.

Diet Coke isn’t gross, but it will annoy the flight attendant

Hardwick also told Inside Edition that flight attendants just get annoyed when you order Diet Coke. For flight attendants who are hustling to serve passengers, pouring that drink just …read more

Source:: Business Insider