Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/28/watch-a-contaminated-radioactive-video-from-chernobyl.html
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Provided you sit at least six feet away from your CRT.
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repost myself here:
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The footage in question start at around 3:47 on the video
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Given what we know about the radical chemistry and anarchic temporality of nuclear materials
Uhm…yes of course…I do…know…about those…things.
If you watch footage from the International Space Station, you’ll notice that some of the digital cameras they use have a lot of ‘dead’, or ‘stuck’ pixels. That’s for exactly the same reason as this film footage has marks, although fortunately it’s due to to spending years in a medium-radiation environment, rather than a short time in a high-radiation environment at Chernobyl.
It’s easier to spot them in video:
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