Isabelle Boemeke

Let's just be clear, right?

This sucks.

Yeah.

From my understanding and the several people that I talked to about this who are nuclear engineers and understand the dangers.

The biggest danger with somebody who, let's say somebody who was at the Chernobyl reactor when it exploded, is something called alpha emitters, which is the specific type of radiation.

And the biggest danger there is actually touching them.

So if this woman was to come into the room and the person who was contaminated hadn't showered, hadn't taken their clothes off, and she touched them, then yes, she could get the radiation.

I see.

But, you know, had this person showered and the woman doesn't touch them specifically, she can sit right next to them and totally fine.

Now, here's the other thing in the Chernobyl show.

You know, this woman is pregnant and she's like the fetus absorbs the radiation somehow.

Fiction.

But, you know, this is another really crazy thing about Chernobyl is it's very sad, actually, that a lot of women ended up ending wanted pregnancies.

You know, the women would say they were forced.

Some women would say they were forced to abort babies that they really wanted because of exposure to radiation from Chernobyl.

And when the accident happened, there were a bunch of scientists that were sent there, including some really, you know, top American scientists.

And they saw the babies that were born to mothers that were exposed to radiation from Chernobyl.

And at the time, they were already able to tell that none of them were born with any issues.

And then now we have, you know, over 30 years of data on people who either were, you know, fetus when Chernobyl happened or people who were exposed to the radiation.

And it's clear that there were no genetic changes from people who were exposed to it.