the chernobyl sarcophagus is still a pretty hazardous environment, all these decades later, but i give the russians credit for giving the welder some lead-lined coveralls. i watched a documentary about the lives of the scientists and engineers living in the zone about a decade after the accident, and the shit they did was fucking nuts. they did an expedition into the remnants of the reactor hall to install radiation monitoring equipment and they were literally climbing on the top of the reactor lid wearing bunny suits and respirators. i'm sure they worked the whole thing out with a health physicist before hand, but even a limited exposure time is going to do some cellular damage. russians are fucking crazy.
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