04:33:18Devastator: reading a very good book on Chernobyl, but a good chunk of the later portions of it are nonsense thanks to the no threshold model.
04:51:09Devastator: The parts about what people actually did are very solid, including how the data was collected.
04:58:39Devastator: There were some incredible cock-ups. And some problems that were noticed before they made things far, far worse.
04:59:45Devastator: "At 3.00 a.m., two firemen returned breathlessly to the bunker to report that one of the tracked reconnaissance vehicles of the chemical troops had driven over the hoses, cutting them in twenty different places and smashing the sleeves that connected the sections. Nagaevsky ran out to see radioactive water pouring out from the broken hoses only thirty-five metres from the reactor. The...