[LMB] OT: Sad link of the day

[Marilyn Traber]

It is a silent film, in black and white with a small amount of color film.

It begins with him driving into the area through a checkpoint.

He was documenting the work being done - it showed miners digging 
material out from underneath the containment building so it could be 
shored up. It showed the men up top of the containment building moving 
debris [mainly  graphite control rod fragments.  They did it by hand 
because the robots sent over from the US had a service lifespan of about 
45 seconds Radiation and electronics is not a good combination.] It 
showed assorted people doing different tasks, and one memorable partial 
scene of a helicopter accidently hitting a crane and doing a dirt dart.

It is not graphic in showing the results of the radiation on humans 
however. I just happen to know what they are. When training for 
radiation safety we got very grapic reminders of why radiation is so 
dangerous to the human body, In 1 hour of the type of exposure the 
people moving the debris by hand in the hottest area [roof and interior 
of the containment building and turbine building] there are changes in 
the blood. In 4 hours of exposure you die a very horrible death as your 
insides essentially slough and you lose matter from both ends of the 
alimentary canal. As a comparison, a there is a very famous image of a 
japanese soldier that was inside a building about half a mile from 
Hiroshimas center, he is covered in pettechial spots [thing the worse 
case of chickenpox you have ever seen in a comic, but this is because 
the blood vessel walls have weakened and the blood is seeping out under 
the skin] and his eyes are solidly cateracts. he was one of the lucky 
ones, he was able to die in a hospital. Morphine is your friend. 
Radiation is not your friend.

I can really recommend if you are interested in documentary movies, you 
find someone with a decent speed download and watch it. It is sad, and 
depressing, but not horror show graphic.