These include the behaviour of the Italian government in the aftermath of Chernobyl, the basis of decision - making in civil
nuclear power in Switzerland and France, and the controversy over the supposed effects of radiation
doses to fathers on their offspring
at Sellafield (a large case control study, which has recently been published, contradicts the views in the book), and the Black enquiry into childhood leukaemias in the vicinity of the
plant.
[font = Century Gothic] «PU - 239» is the radioactive isotope of plutonium that Timofey (Paddy Considine) is trying to sell in the black market of Moscow, two days after being exposed to a lethal
dose of radiation
at the
nuclear plant where he works and stole the plutonium.