Look up medical photos of radiation burns, or don't, it is not pretty.
*Several minutes in*
yes.
Being close to the core was unnecessary here; being close to the heavily irradiated graphite was enough along with the caesium-137, iodine-131, strontium-90 and other scary-as-fuck radioactive isotopes in the air.
I actually didn't recognize him at first! Well, I did, but didn't know what from. My fiancé called him out. Yeah, I was almost yelling DUDE JUST GO BACK HOME--he's as good as dead :(Nagaitis is so damn good but it's looking like he'll die from radiation within a couple of episodes. I hope we get him and Harris onscreen together somehow for a Terror callback.
That scene was wild. First I think Maester Luwin is going to lay down some wisdom, instead he gets buttery patriotic and then drops "cut the telephone lines".
Nagaitis is so damn good but it's looking like he'll die from radiation within a couple of episodes. I hope we get him and Harris onscreen together somehow for a Terror callback.
You mean the official one right? It's available on YT.
A guy I know working in nuclear safety said that he had no prblem with the series as long as they made it clear that it was fiction. I might have to tell him a word about it :p
It's not a problem with lack of accountability. It's the opposite. It's too much accountability. People were too afraid to admit a problem because the consequences of that were dire, as they would be blamed and face severe consequences, even if they didn't actually cause it. It's what led to the test even being done on the reactor in the first place as there were workers that didn't want to do it. It's what caused problems with the response to the reactor as admitting a problem was basically damning yourself. One of the biggest problems with Safety is having workers feel like they can say no and stop something if they feel it's unsafe. The conditions in the USSR led to the exact opposite of that, which pretty much led to Chernobyl.
Probably toned down. I imagine it's even more sickening and horrifying in real life.
Certain aspects we know are baseless falsehoods that I am curious if they will get into. Western papers reporting thousands of deaths shortly after were fabricated bullshit, as an example. At the time of publishing the number of deaths were relatively low. Talking single to double digits.
