but as the memes prove, people are certainly talking about it — and perhaps learning something in the process. You can check out some of our, well, favorite Chernobyl memes below.

Anatoliy Koliadyn, 66, a former Chernobyl "liquidator," stands next ... Pavel Lukashov kept as a memento shows a reading of 30 roentgen. Lukashov says the 30 roentgen is what he received in ...

That’s a good thing for HBO, obviously, but we’re living in a post-Game Of Thrones era, one where much of that chatter manifests not in words, but memes. Considering Chernobyl delves into a ...

Wearing a lead protective suit and placing his cameras in lead boxes, photographer Igor Kostin made a terrifying and unauthorized trip to the Chernobyl ... 250 Roentgen'. I opened the window ...

(We later learn the real level is 15,000 roentgen, or twice the radiation of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, released every hour - the instruments at Chernobyl could only measure as high as 3.6.) This ...

The first episode of HBO’s five-part miniseries “Chernobyl” led me to commit ... which measures radiation, reads 3.6 roentgen—“not great, not terrible,” according to Dyatlov.