TV documentaries are hit or miss but damn this one was bad
nuclear power, radiation, accidents and catastrophies are SO FASCINATING. I get it‘s insanely complicated (which is why I love it so much) but man, if the first couple of minutes promise a „thorough look at why Chernobyl went so wrong“ and then all the information you get is „during fission, special processes create heat and radiation. radiation is extremely dangerous“, but they don‘t even say one word why radiation is dangerous, let alone explain the (failed) safety measures, that‘s just too dumbed down even for a complete layperson. my physics teacher in secondary school went into greater detail than that and he managed to explain it in a way even those classmates with the least affinity for physics and thelikes understood what control rods are for, how radiation damages your dna and the (very, very) basic differences between alpha, beta and gamma radiation in terms of shielding and damage to a living organism. I‘m so angry about this documentary.
BUT Smarter Every Day is doing a deep dive on nuclear energy and I‘m HYPED!
nuclear power, radiation, accidents and catastrophies are SO FASCINATING. I get it‘s insanely complicated (which is why I love it so much) but man, if the first couple of minutes promise a „thorough look at why Chernobyl went so wrong“ and then all the information you get is „during fission, special processes create heat and radiation. radiation is extremely dangerous“, but they don‘t even say one word why radiation is dangerous, let alone explain the (failed) safety measures, that‘s just too dumbed down even for a complete layperson. my physics teacher in secondary school went into greater detail than that and he managed to explain it in a way even those classmates with the least affinity for physics and thelikes understood what control rods are for, how radiation damages your dna and the (very, very) basic differences between alpha, beta and gamma radiation in terms of shielding and damage to a living organism. I‘m so angry about this documentary.
BUT Smarter Every Day is doing a deep dive on nuclear energy and I‘m HYPED!