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The Chernobyl Podcast

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The Firefighter Sprayed an Open Nuclear Reactor With Water

Ri: The fire fighter walked right up to the burning pile and sprayed an open nuclear reactor with water. Some of them didn't have their jackets, and so they were just there in a tea shirt. A number of them reported tasting metal, which is,. i'm assuming, a real thing that happens around intense radiation. Ri: Most of the deaths that occurred directly because of the radiation of that night were experienced by those men.

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