Me, too. Chernobyl has always fascinated me and I always watched the special news stories on it. I think it was 60 Minutes that did an interview with some of the heroes, doing what had to be done. Not sure about that, but the visuals of what the survivors looked like at that point are indelible.

If you listen to the podcast, you learn that

 

I would take 90 seconds on that roof instead.

 

Yes, it is so eerie. But some of the wildlife rebounded! They said their natural lives are so short anyway, the radiation doesn't have enough time to mess up their genomes.

I saw a show once about how hard it would be to surround this or a similar area in visual warnings that would still be able to warn people millennia later to stay out. Long enough away that there would be no reason to assume people spoke the same languages we have now or have any trace memory of Chernobyl. They used viscerally terrifying symbolism in the mock ups to show how you might be able to keep curious humans away by visual conveying This is a Deadly Place of Great Evil Where Nothing Can Survive. You Must Not Enter. It really was a fascinating problem to mull over. No spectacular fence of any height or depth would work by itself, as people are explorers by nature.

 

Maybe they are still rotating the people out when they have reached their maximum lifetime dosage. Everyone wears a badge that tracks the cumulative radiation they have been exposed to, even a one-time visitor.

On Top Gear, they set a challenge for the guys to get somewhere first on a limited amount of fuel. Do you go fast to be first, or do you drive more cautiously to ensure you will have enough fuel to make it to the goal? They started talking strategy and then the kicker: Chernobyl is on the path, right where you might run out of fuel, just before you get to the goal, and you drive through the eerily preserved zone. You should have seen the stunned looks on their faces. New strategizing. They started tearing out the extra seats and absolutely anything not critical to driving that would make the cars lighter. Rear view mirrors? fenders? windshield wipers? who needs them. At least one of the guys duct taped up the doors and things like that to make his car more streamlined and to simultaneously keep "fresh" air out. Do you tape the doors or unhinge them and throw that weight out? That was the sort of decision making they went through.

I think Richard Hammond figured out how to coast a good part so he could save fuel to blast through the zone.

 

https://www.inverse.com/article/55763-snag-these-pure-cbd-gummies-at-25-off

 

The last podcast

 

Yes, I never heard that, either. The podcast says the sheer cost and resources they had to throw into the recovery was a massive strain. And that's even though the Russians or Soviets didn't pay for the cement dome.

 

Probably no one cares about Top Gear except me, but I want to correct what I said. I was surprised to see a clip from that show turn up on my youtube options today, but it makes sense since I have been watching the podcasts and I watch Top Gear. Actually what the guys weighed was whether they could run out of gas before they even got to Chernobyl or be able to drive through. That duct taping must have been from another episode.

What Richard Hammond figured out was that if he swerved back and forth all over the road he would be accruing more mileage and have a greater chance of running out of fuel before Chernobyl. This clip does show the two of them who still had petrol driving through the exclusion zone with Geiger counters on the passenger seats getting noisier. They can actually see the reactor from the road and the progress of the dome being built, as well as the playground we all remember.

 

Every episode they would be given some automotive challenge and they competed against each other for fun. The first episode I watched, they were tasked with building better ambulances. Their ideas were hilarious, their mock up patients went flying when they were delivered to the "hospital," and I was hooked. A couple of times they tried to build amphibious contraptions to get across the Channel before sinking in ignominy. Sometimes they race a super car against a bullet train to some destination. It's always hilarious, and they are not above sabotaging each other. This episode was a big switch up.

 

No worries. We have already gone completely off the rails. LOL We wouldn't spoil anything for you even if we were still on topic.