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I would not consider myself a cinephile, but I’d like to. I’ve been compiling a list of movies to watch from other lists I’ve found online. IMDB has the top 100 or something similar. But I wanted to pose the question to real people: what movies are an absolute MUST see? From silent films to movies that are still in theaters, all genres (though comedy is my least favorite), even foreign films. Other than a lot of relatively popular movies, (think LOTR, Star Wars, Harry Potter, most Marvel movies), westerns that I grew up watching, and some mainstream horror films, I probably have not seen it. To give you an idea: my list currently has Blade Runner, The Matrix Movies, the Godfather movies, and Paris, Texas on it.

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You can answer this question with the assumption that I know absolutely nothing about nuclear energy (because I don’t). But I guess I’m curious—and Google isn’t helpful when you don’t know what to search for or what you’re reading when you find something—about whether or not there still plants like Chernobyl operating today, for one. And for the plants that are not like it (using a different type of reactor or something—again, sorry, I don’t know much about this stuff), what would a similar chain of events look like? Would it be more or less dangerous and deadly?

I know we learned a lot from the incident at Chernobyl, but how much of that was scientific (the stuff that’s way over my head), and how much of it was regular safety protocols, etc.

If I sound uneducated… I am on this topic. Chernobyl has just always been so upsetting to me and I’ve been more curious about it lately.