I had the exact same question when I saw the episode. Building on user1476176's answer, I have thoughts as to how someone might have derived a much higher upper bound, though until someone pulls the actual source they used we won't know. They did explicitly say in the episode that other reactors would be engulfed, presumably with their water.The episode was exacerbated by a second design flaw: The Chernobyl reactors lacked fully enclosed containment buildings, a basic safety installation for commercial reactors in the U.S. The Outcome
It was at 1:23:45 in the morning of April 26, 1986. Chernobyl episode 2, "Please Remain Calm" - The phrase "please remain calm" is quite common, but with regards to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, it was used at the end of the evacuation announcement which was playing from loudspeakers on top of military vehicles in Pripyat.
A radiation spike has been recorded near Chernobyl's nuclear power plant which has been seized by Russian forces, monitoring data shows. Invading Russian troops took control of the plant - the According to what we're told prior to the credits at the end of the last episode, Chernobyl's chief engineer, Nikolai Fomin, returned to work at a nuclear power plant in Kalinin, Russia sometime after his release. Deputy Chief Engineer Anatoly Dyatlov passed away from a radiation-related illness in 1995. 2 October 2009. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a first-person-shooter survival horror video game franchise developed by Ukrainian game developer GSC Game World. The series is set in an alternate version of the present-day Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, where, according to the series' backstory, a mysterious second Chernobyl disaster took place in 2006. Radiation drops in minutes. Conspiracies that something alien was going on at the nuclear site are aided by the sudden drop in radiation. βAt the height of the fire in Chernobyl, the reading was 3UBU.