After the accident the USN had a problem. all of the ships on the eastern seaboard were showing radioactive contamination on the outside. For a nuke sub this is a serious OH sH!t ! moment. every smear was contaminated with reactor fiszion man made products. Is out reactor leaking??? Procedure had to be re written to allow operation of the nuclear fleet And the conventional fleet!! . We were deconning our ships daily. I worked in Michigan in the late 80’s and the roof of the buildings and grounds were still showing new radioactive fallout for YEARS After. Chernobyl screwed up a lot of the earth. why aren’t the leftys, AOC etc suing russia for this?
If you were born before the seventies, then you have a souvenir from China’s open air nuclear testing in your bones.
Eastman Kodak had to cancel production of some emulsion coatings because the radiation from China affected them.