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    Quote Originally Posted by neckdeep View Post
    They had protective gear. Most of the radiation deaths occurred to people exposed without any gear. Pretty much everyone who looked into the core died. That engineer, Sitnikov, who was sent onto the roof to inspect the damage died from just the few seconds he peered over the edge. For me, that was the most chilling scene. That was the real dragonfire shooting up.
    The IMGUR link shows that the miners they had dig the tunnel underneath mostly died from exposure.

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    What are we looking at there ^?

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    The Elephant Foot.

    And a guy being microwaved.

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    also to mention

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    lets go walk around 30yrs on

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    Last episode was brutal.

    Their bodies just slowly melting.

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    Just started this last night.

    Eating dinner while watching was a poor decision.
    I've concluded that DJSapp was never DJSapp, and Not DJSapp is also not DJSapp, so that means he's telling the truth now and he was lying before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AK47bp View Post
    Last episode was brutal.

    Their bodies just slowly melting.
    I had to rewatch it this morning. Truly horrific stuff.
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    Yea. The part about not even being able to get morphine because your veins melt was a doozy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AK47bp View Post
    Yea. The part about not even being able to get morphine because your veins melt was a doozy.
    Liquid morphine in a dropper? Any help would be appreciated at that point I would think.

    And the balls of a miner are much bigger than their nuts. And bigger than anyone in this joint I would guess. Damn.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SB View Post
    There used to be one of those on the University of Washington campus. It was a small circular building with windows around it. You could look down into the reactor pool from outside and watch the water glow blue.

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    Little known fun fact, only a couple miles from the city center of Gaithersburg MD there is a fully functional reactor used by NIST to irradiate experiments. I forget the rating but its there, ironically its about .5 miles from an Issack Walton league headquarters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SB View Post
    Little known fun fact, only a couple miles from the city center of Gaithersburg MD there is a fully functional reactor used by NIST to irradiate experiments. I forget the rating but its there, ironically its about .5 miles from an Issack Walton league headquarters.
    There's a little 100 kW reactor on the University of Utah campus. It's housed in the engineering building. When I was in grad school my project had to do with neutron capture therapy (one of the many radiation therapies used in cancer treatment) and some of our compounds were tested there. Didn't get to see the reactor though...

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    Kodak used to have a reactor in Rochester that not many people knew about until they decided to decommission it.
    https://www.democratandchronicle.com...ctor/88944080/

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    Jeez, what a well done mini series.

    Awesome soundtrack.

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    Chernobyl

    Whoa, that was a heavy episode last night.
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    Quote Originally Posted by buttahflake View Post
    Whoa, that was a heavy episode last night.
    Agreed, it was very good. I'm glad they didn't spend too much time showing the cat/dog carnage and stuck with shots that suggested a lot more than they showed. I'm even more glad that they didn't make the grizzled Afghanistan veteran into a sadist and repeatedly hinted that he profoundly hates his "job" even though he's pretty callous about the whole thing. The look on the new kid's face in the last shot says it all. And the babushka with her milk? Damn... The podcast expands a bit on what she represents, it's pretty sobering.

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    The cat/dog/puppy killing was hard to watch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boissal View Post
    Agreed, it was very good. I'm glad they didn't spend too much time showing the cat/dog carnage and stuck with shots that suggested a lot more than they showed. I'm even more glad that they didn't make the grizzled Afghanistan veteran into a sadist and repeatedly hinted that he profoundly hates his "job" even though he's pretty callous about the whole thing.
    I think they did an excellent job portraying what had to have been a really really shitty job. The part with the litter of puppies was heartbreaking but I think they really showed the gravity of it and how hard it was to do and how much it took out of the soldiers doing it

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    Some of the best TV (movie making?) I've ever seen. Incredible.

    Who needs Game of Thrones endless white walkers and useless dragons.
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    And there will come a day when our ancestors look back...........

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