| > "I was left thinking that dozens of workers and firefighters were immediately killed" That's the main problem with this argument: they were "left with an impression" that just isn't supported by the actual episode. The episode actually undersells it: even though there were 2 (official) deaths, none are actually shown. > [..] appears to leave him for dead in a hall. Later we see the man slumped over and smoking what appears to be his last cigarette. So they notice they wrongly considered someone to be "left for dead", then immediately make the same mistake again? > we see a fireman who is carrying a body on a stretcher collapse and drop the body. Injured people just happen to be often carried on stretchers without being dead. Dropping off a stretcher is less common, but also not fatal. Everything that was shown quite plausibly happened. Here's a list that's more current than the 1988 UN report: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di... Dozens of people suffered severe radiation burns, which would appear exactly as gruesome as despicted: "from 115 patients treated in Moscow, 30% had burns covering 10–50% of body surface, 11% were affected on 50–100% of skin"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_burn#Nuclear_acciden...] |