What he experienced wasn’t heat—it was intense ionizing radiation from exposed reactor core graphite. The redness on his face is called radiation erythema, an early sign of acute radiation exposure. At those levels, cells begin breaking down almost instantly, even though the victim doesn’t feel the full damage yet. By the time symptoms become severe… it’s already too late.
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Soldier was probs there to kill him if he refused. Either way, both of them died
You can tell he knew he was already dead. He knew everyone within a quarter mile was dead
A wise man once said: "Not great Not terrible"
They call that radiation blush. One of the first sign of Acute Radiation Syndrome.
Honestly, I would have just jump, cause what follows is crazy
Thanks to all the heroes who stopped this with their last breath
The scene with the reactor burning was probably the scariest thing I've ever seen on TV.
Funfact: in every country where suicide is forbidden/illegal, it will be allowed in case of radiation sickness. Even psychlogists who say, wanting to commit suicide is the most unnatural thing in existance, say you should rather off yourself then experience what follows after the Ghost period od radiation sickness
I don’t think the soldier lived further than the chief man…. Bless them the best.
We are gonna tell em we looked and saw only smoke, we are losing a year every ten seconds just in this stairwell
Being in few kilometres of radius to that building is death sentence
Over confidence from A.Dyatlov caused the deaths of so many...
I don't remember the show but he wasn't a worker but a scientist and he knew the consequences that why those expressions, they're damn good. great acting 🎉
Look at you.... Look at you....
He knew EVERYONE within miles was dead if not within hours, within days
That moment is a total lie! 1) No soldier was there 2) Sitnikov never was there P.S. Sitnikov still got lethal dose, but not on the roof!
looking at us like it’s our fault 🥀
Its honestly shocking that he was still standing after having that much radiation pumped into him i feel like that much radiation that fast would completely cripple him
People from miles away: why I taste metal??
that's something i'm very terrified of... the fact that you can't see it or smell it and that it can take years upon years for your body to suddenly show symptoms of radiation poisoning and make you lethally ill.