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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know too much about the disaster, so I was really surprised about how it all played out in the first episode (assuming it's a relatively accurate representation of events). I guess I imagined people in a panic, running around in protective suits, immediate evacuation, etc. Was not expecting people just looking at each other, clueless or in denial, and slowly walking around in flimsy white clothes while it gets worse and worse. That moment when the guy was ordered to go look down into the reactor from the roof was chilling.[/quote]

I was living in the former USSR at the time, a couple hours' drive from Chernobyl (I was a school-aged child). They didn't evacuate the town for over a day, and didn't tell people in nearby cities for days - we were all out and about in the nice spring weather. [/quote]

Second that.  They also proceeded with all the May 1st celebrations and festivities - lots of people, including many children, spent lots of time outdoors; that wouldn’t happen on most other weeks.   In the 1990s, there was a documented increase in thyroid cancer among children in the areas affected by the disaster.[/quote]

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