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> the radiation exposure was enough to kill several of those workers outright I gather no wildlife took part in putting the fires off. > the pregnant wife of
by maratc 6y ago
> the radiation exposure was enough to kill several of those workers outright
I gather no wildlife took part in putting the fires off.
> the pregnant wife of one worker spent too much time with him and the radiation emanating from his body was enough to give her a miscarriage.
Did you see that in the HBO Miniseries?
"Lastly, there is the dangerous representation that, because one of the victims was radioactive, his pregnant wife endangered her unborn child by entering his hospital room. First, as discussed, none of the victims were radioactive—their exposures were almost exclusively external, not internal. More importantly, risk to a fetus from an exposure like this is infinitesimally small." [1]
[1] https://cancerletter.com/filmtv/20190524_3/ https://cancerletter.com/filmtv/20190524_3/