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Originally Posted by Undertoad

People older than me, who have been through civil defense instruction during the cold war, remember that iodine pills can be given to prevent this precise problem.

Did you remember to pick yours up when they were giving them out at the firehouse a year or two ago?

Only firefighters who were directly on the roof of the reactor building fighting the fire died ... the ones who were putting out fires on the rooves (coated in flammable material, for some reason only Soviet Planners understand) of the machine building and other reactor buildings spent time at the special radiological hospital, but survived.