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Sept. 7, 2022
Relevant readings (What you SHOULD be reading now-ish) from the syllabus:
Relevant readings (What you SHOULD be reading now-ish) from the syllabus:
Required Manga
Lepage, Emmanuel. Springtime in Chernobyl. IDW, 2019.
Required reading in the near future: make sure you have it (or digital access at least). We will discuss this manga specifically on October 12th.
Alexievich, Svetlana. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Disaster. Picador. 2006.
The basis of much of the show: The prologue is most relevant, but will be a spoiler. Feel free to read random snippets now.
Higginbotham, Adam, and Jacques Roy. Midnight in Chernobyl: the untold story
of the world's greatest nuclear disaster. 2019.
For the most context: While not required reading, this will answer almost all of your questions. It will be referenced frequently during the next few lectures
Post episode thoughts and discussion:
Post episode thoughts and discussion:
Two types of exposure:
Two types of exposure:
Debrief and send to section for episode 2:
Key Terms:
RBMK Reactor
ARS (acute radiation syndrome): Symptoms include weakness, disorientation, headaches, and vomiting.
Roentgen (defunct measurement of radiation exposure) >> Rem or Sieverts
From p. 100 of Life Exposed:
"The Ukrainian approach differed radically from the Soviet one in terms of politics, economics, and public health. Where the Soviets had made the fate of a select cohort of lethally exposed firemen the center of their concerns, the state focus was now on individuals and populations whose doses were unaccounted for in, and partly a result of, the Soviet approach. According to the State Declaration, obtaining 'positive identification of an exposed individual would be a difficult task because knowledge of doses received by the general Ukrainian population immediately after the blast was lacking. The reconstruction of this dose is critical.'"
"The Ukrainian approach differed radically from the Soviet one in terms of politics, economics, and public health. Where the Soviets had made the fate of a select cohort of lethally exposed firemen the center of their concerns, the state focus was now on individuals and populations whose doses were unaccounted for in, and partly a result of, the Soviet approach. According to the State Declaration, obtaining 'positive identification of an exposed individual would be a difficult task because knowledge of doses received by the general Ukrainian population immediately after the blast was lacking. The reconstruction of this dose is critical.'"
Episode 1 shows the exposure of both groups of people, but we learn that the dosimeters are either not available or limited to a lower range of sensitivity.
What are your emotional reactions to seeing these events dramatized?
What are the questions you want to see answered?
What would you do, both knowing what we know now, and what would you have done if you knew exactly as little as the characters do?
We can plug this into NukeMap:
We can plug this into NukeMap:
In anticipation of 風の谷のナウシカ 漫画 (マンガ)
In anticipation of 風の谷のナウシカ 漫画 (マンガ)
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