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 I have in mind that it's true the "cancer rates were way above.." (although from covid I am very sceptical as to what any such data means or if it can be collected honestly etc) but that the cancer was all thyroid cancer, and very very treatable - so it didn't translate to mortality.

Dunno, obviously, what you're into and not into, but 100% recommend the chernobyl tv series - not really for the historical / technical stuff (though there's a brilliant exposition of what went wrong and the stages of meltdown) but it was beautifully made, and has really stayed with me. 
 regarding the cancer, all kinds of things have led to the increased frequency of the disease... chemicals in the food supply and building materials and plastics, halides, plastic hardeners that disrupt the endocrine system, all the stuff in the bodies and interiors of cars, computers, phones, circuitry, genetically modified foods, nanomaterials in all kinds of things, these vaccines, the high carb diets of the upside down food pyramid, it's just a factor

as you know, the mistakes that happened at chernobyl would be far less likely to occur with modern reactor technology, we are nearing the point where they can make them small enough to carry on the back of a truck and power a whole large town, and almost zero risk of a meltdown

as for tv, i just generally don't enjoy watching theatre of any kind most of the time, the poisoning of it all with cultural marxism has just given me an allergy to the entire class of artform, haven't read very much fiction in a long time either, last few things i read were the william gibson sprawl trilogy (only the first two tho) and before that, years before, was Crime and Punishment

mostly i get my fix of drama from computer games, metro and tomb raider mostly