"You might even start feeling better and think you're going to be okay, but then your body liquefies."
Nah, the body's vulnerable targets for serious radiation like gamma rays and maybe neutrons in order of seriousness are:
* LD50 ~450 REMs: The cells that make blood cells in your bones; this can be treated,
* ~600 REMs (from memory): The fast replacing cells that line your small intestines (it's a brutal environment), no treatment, but no "body liquefies" as far as I know, except maybe inside your abdomen??? Not sure there's a period where you start feeling better....
* ~1000 or more REMs (not a lot of data): Central nervous system, and incapacitation is near immediate and death is pretty quick (principle of enhanced radiation warheads (which we never even built for land warfare).
Child of the Cold War here, although this data is mostly from nuclear weapons production accidents, see also Japan proving before the tsunami its culture is incompatible with doing this stuff safely....
"As far as I can tell, the way the last days of the firefighters were portrayed in the Chernobyl mini-series was pretty accurate."
From what little I've read about it, I _seriously_ doubt that.
Sinistra delenda est.
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