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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Automatic for the People (2008)
Nuclear station life
While I really enjoy the show in general, even this episodes role in the story arc, I was very disappointed in the depiction of nuclear station operations and work methods. 1/ you'd never walk up to a nuclear station and start work that afternoon as a cleaner or anything else, but I could overlook that, as a shortcut to moving the story forward, 2/ the "training film" was insulting, 3/ cancer survivors are not "bad luck" in the industry, 4/ nobody says "crapped up", they seemed to use it as a technical term here, 5/ when monitored by the plant manager person, Sarah was very contaminated, monitors don't "act up from time to time" and you can't fake it, unless the probe itself is contaminated, and that is what is causing the response, 6/ we don't "silkwood" a contamination victim with fire hoses and bristle brushes, 7/ you'd never be allowed into the hot zone of the station as a new employee, there would be weeks of training, and then you'd go in with an escort who'd be responsible for your safety, 8/ any safety concerns voiced by the person responsible for safety are treated with extreme attention, no station would restart where valid issues were expressed, especially from that quarter.
They could have taken 5 minutes to ask for technical advice and still had the story proceed with a realistic depiction. My concern is that this perpetuates myths about the industry that are patently untrue. My enjoyment of the episode was constantly interrupted by anger. Next time, ask an expert.