This is a good doc about it
Chenobyl is interesting, I also enjoyed (if you can use that word) learning about the Tokaimura accident....the death of one of the workers was absolutely brutal.
Thank you. The film: 'Dark Waters' 2019- about Dupont is also very good.
Radiation sickness is really brutal. I guess it's a necessary fuel with energy demands so high but, when it goes wrong, it's terrifying/ horrific.
I initially thought you were meaning the SL-1 accident- the first fatal nuclear accident in America. That was also extremely disturbing. Be warned- it really is.
I think the science behind it is very interesting. It's kind of unbelievable that something so potentially catastrophically dangerous doesn't always seem to have more safeguards.
Hopefully it does more now but even with Fukushima, I vaguelly remember them desperately scavenging car batteries to try and keep components working. When you've got a machine that requires power- otherwise it explodes and causes devastation for miles- why on earth aren't there backups upon backups? It does truly feel like playing with fire- trying to manage nuclear energy.
The horror with Chernobyl of course is that the AZ-5 button- which they believed would shut the reaction down- actually caused the explosion- because the rods had graphite tips and also displaced water- which caused the radiation to surge.
Another really tragic and strange case was Diane Shuler. She was determined to be intoxicated with alcohol and weed when she drove the wrong way on a highway, killing 8- including her own and other family member's children. Her family have always refuted the claims. It also seemed so out of character to what appeared to be a very attentive mother.
It does feel distasteful to be interested in other people's misery but- in the cases of industrial disaster- it's important to understand why things went so wrong, to try and stop it happening in future.
I watched an interesting interview with a psychologist about why we are fascinated with true crime. The man said it was predominantly more women who were- in his experience. Which would seem surprising, seeing as the details can be horrible. But, his theory was that we were trying to learn from it- how to not become the next victim.
