[Dmitri wakes Ulana up at her lab, 7 hours after the explosion]
You work too hard.
Where is everyone?
Oh, they refused to come in.
Why?
It's Saturday.
Why did you come in?
I work too hard. It's boiling in here. [opens a window. A radiation alarm goes off. Dmitri immediately closes the window and then checks the alarm's reading.] Eight millirontgen. Leak?
No, it would've gone off before. It's coming from outside.
The Americans?
[Ulana grabs a swab, opens a window, gathers a sample of dust from the window's outside, then closes the window and takes the swab sample to a machine to get a reading. Returns with the reading]
Iodine-131. It's not military, it's uranium decay: U-235.
Reactor fuel? [Ulana goes to a phone] Ignalina, maybe? 240 km away?
[calls the Ignalina power station] Yes, this is Ulana Khomyuk, with the Institute of Nuclear En...looking for...[listens to the person on the phone] Alright, stay calm- [gets interrupted by the other person on the line before getting hung up on] They're at 4. It's not them. Who's the next closest?
Chernobyl, but that's not possible. They're 400 km away.
Well, then that's too far for 8 millirontgen. They'd have to be split open. Maybe they know something. [Calls Chernobyl, and takes a pill, passing the bottle to Dmitri] Iodine.
Could it be a waste dump?
We'd be seeing other isotopes.
Nuclear test? Uh, a new kind of bomb?
We'd have heard. That's what half of our people work on here.
Something with the space program, like a satellite, or...
[looks up] No one's answering the phone.
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