The doctor in charge of the plant sick bay provided details of casualties so far. There was one dead and dozens of injured; it was clear that they had been exposed to enormous levels of radioactivity and undeniably exhibited the symptoms of radiation sickness. Yet the chief of the station’s external dosimetry, tasked with measuring radiation beyond the plant’s limits, insisted there was no need to evacuate Pripyat. Vorobyev, the head of civil defense for the plant, tried to interrupt to say—once again—that they had a duty to inform the city’s population of the accident, but this time Malomuzh
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