The scene where the firefighter picked up the piece of graphite and asked "what is this?" then within minutes his hand is just melting under his glove, so haunting. And how they made the graphite pieces glow blue! I can't even imagine being within 100 miles of the site let alone a few feet.
My wife got mad because I was literally yelling at the tv "don't fuck with that" and "no seriously don't fucking touch it moron" followed by "What did I just tell you not do? And now your hands fucked"
10 minutes next to that reactor the way firefighters were fighting the fires exposed them to 50Sv of radiation, and they were there for MUCH longer than 10 minutes. Lethal dose of radiation, even with immediate treatment is 8Sv.
The hospital room with the firefighters' discarded clothes remains one of the most radioactive spots in Pripyat to this day. All of them were doomed the moment they stepped out of their fire engines that night.
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u/beermeupscotty May 08 '19
The scene where the firefighter picked up the piece of graphite and asked "what is this?" then within minutes his hand is just melting under his glove, so haunting. And how they made the graphite pieces glow blue! I can't even imagine being within 100 miles of the site let alone a few feet.