What is the origin and meaning of “3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible”?
In: Physics
It comes from the TV series *Chernobyl* about the nuclear disaster.
A roentgen is a measurement of exposure to ionizing radiation.
3.6 roentgen was the maximum the standard issue meter would show. Good enough to tell you you should get out of the area, but not enough to tell you just how bad a radiation disaster was.
It was said by a character to show he was making everything worse.
Also note, we stopped using roentgen as a unit.
We now prefer grays (a measure of how much radiation is absorbed as opposed to how much radiation was just “there”), or sieverts(a measurement of radiation’s effect on a human body).
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