"Lost" is freaking me out, in a good way

The best line from "Lost" last night was almost a throw-away, uttered rather quietly in the dank recesses below the Hatch where the characters were looking for a way through the thick cement walls. It was thrilling and sent chills up my spine when Sayid told Jack that "the last time I heard of concrete being poured over everything in this way was Chernobyl."

Which you may know refers to the hastily-built concrete sarcophagus that was poured over Chernobyl after the accident, to contain at least some of the radioactive debris. The sarcophagus was constructed by thousands of Soviet soldiers, miners, firefighters, etc. who were rather frighteningly called "liquidators." One filmmaker who captured this aftermath of the reactor disaster quickly died of radiation poisoning. (An incredible documentary -- by a different, still-living filmmaker -- aired on HBO not too long ago called "Chernobyl Heart," which focused on diseases that are impacting generations of children in the region.) Tell me this isn't a fascinating story.

So, what the hell is the Hatch? Maybe electromagnetics aren't so dry after all. "Lost" just keeps getting better and better.