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One customer, a Canadian TV crew reported, said that “she doesn’t know what she just ate. But she says it was unusual and delicious.”

But the people who worked and ate at the Moscow Pizza Huts still remember the pepperoni and the red-checkered tablecloths and what they represented: In Russia, change wasn’t always an empty promise.

Unless they could cool the mass of corium, the chain reaction would continue unchecked, growing hotter and hotter until the corium ate through the concrete of the secondary containment.

It was a major breach of safety protocol that risked the workers swallowing radioactive dust with their food or inhaling it while they ate.

The focal point of his soft, expressive, not unkind face was his mouth, mainly because it was usually at least half open, even while he ate.