Propaganda number

The Soviet heads of state import a West German robot to help clean the radioactive rubble off the reactor's roof, only for it to get fried in moments. It turns out that they gave the Germans the propaganda number of 2000 roentgen instead of the more accurate 15,000, sending Shcherbina into a blind rage for thinking that covering their asses was more important than preventing said asses from melting off from radiation poisoning.

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Enraged by Idiocy