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2/7 Lecture and Q&A for episodes 1 and 2
Suggested intensive readings from this lecture:
Suggested intensive readings from this lecture:
You may read these at home or focus on them in section. These are recommended, not required. For even more, see the sources in the footnotes of the summary and slides.
Voices From Chernobyl pp. 180-185 Valentine Aleksevich Borisevich on how they discovered the disaster had happened. I recommend you read the full story, perhaps in discussion section. Also see the prologue (pp. 5-23) For Lyudmila and Vasily's story (but reading the whole thing will give away the end of her story).
Midnight in Chernobyl:
Chapter 2 Alpha, Beta, and Gamma is a revelation of science writing and highly recommended for anyone wanting to know more about the science of nuclear reactors and radiation
For more on Bryukhanov and the way Chernobyl was built, see chapter 1.
For more on the firefighters see pp.58-59.
For more on RBMK design: See pp. 60-6.
Details of the safety test: p. 75.
For more on Dyatlov see pp. 76-78, and p. 80.
Introduction to Legasov: pp. 119-122
On the meeting of Scherbina and Legasov: p.126.
The miniseries' scripts can be found on the Chernobyl resources page, as can the podcasts. Episodes 1 and 2 are recommended.
Keeping up with the required reading
Keeping up with the required reading
These are suggestions for finishing the required reading in a timely manner, of course you can cram it all in at the last minute, or read reactively (after the lecture that is).
Springtime in Chernobyl is 161 pages. If you want to break it up evenly, read to page 48 by next week, which is a bit more than 40 pages in, but where there is a natural pause in the story. In general, if you read 40ish pages a week you will finish the Manga by Week 7, 3/5, when we will discuss the manga in class and section.
風の谷のナウシカ 漫画 (マンガ) For Nausicaä the manga, make sure you have access to a digital copy or a print copy. It is seven volumes and 1104 pages. Not only is this required, but you will be making a life-alteringly bad, regrettable mistake if you skip this manga. Binge, plan, or procrastinate, the choice is yours, but to read in evenly spaced amounts by volume, aim to read a volume a week starting next week. Note that volumes six and seven are longer than the rest, so you could start now and break the last volume into two. I will add a reading guide calendar to the class calendar, so those of you who choose to read evenly have a guide.
List of Links for this Lecture:
List of Links for this Lecture:
composite character Ulana Khomyuk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum
https://simonov.co.uk/smolenshchina
https://www.herder-institut.de/en/projects/atomgrad/
where the clothes remain to this day, still emitting harmful radiation
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/4-historical-maps-that-explain-the-ussr/
http://www.crawfordsworld.com/rob/apcg/Russia/Unit4RussiaGraphB.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Soviet_Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Soviet_of_the_Soviet_Union
nuclear decay
self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Chernobyl_and_other_radioactivity_releases
Radiation Dosage Chart:
Radiation Dosage Chart:
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