Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus - BBC Horizon

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear reactor accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union). It is considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history and the only level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale. It resulted in a severe release of radioactivity following a massive power excursion that destroyed the reactor. Most deaths from the accident were caused by radiation poisoning. (Extract from wikipedia)

On 26 April 1986 at 01:23 a.m. (UTC+3) reactor number four at the Chernobyl plant, near Prypiat in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area. Four hundred times more fallout was released than had been by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. (Extract from wikipedia)

Q&A: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4946456.stm

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[cicicok]

I dont understand question in 28:55 Can somebody write, what he asking?

[CooDocu]

@cicicok He says:

"If you need to get important work done, how do you avoid your decimeter providing too large of a reading?"

By the way, a decimeter is just a Geiger counter if you weren't sure.

[gildlily78]

@breesco.....and where I live, there is PLENTY of sun, wind, tides etc. Hell, I live in the second windiest city in the world. It barely ever stops, you can set your watch to the winds. I live a the country with one of the highest skin cancer rates in the world. I live a country where we can actually produce tidal power. And geothermal power..................

[breesco]

@gildlily78 because renewable resources are inefficient and are not constant. Further, wind/solar/water power is not free, and just because nobody wants to study the possible effects of pulling that much energy out of the environment doesn't mean there won't be really bad ones, you just can't get a grant for it...

[pengald]

Dat buzzing, @Mutleytech good, it bugs the hell out of me.

[Mutleytech]

A great documentary. The audio gets better after 5 minutes so don't let that deter you from watching. Give it a chance. Well worth it.

[silver760]

@cicicok see "Dosimeter" on wikipedia that will tell you all you need to know.

[silver760]

The radioactivity from Chernobyl,apart from being spread around half the world in the explosion,has been spread even further.From the day Pripyat was evacuated gypsies have been swarming all over the heavily contaminated exclusion area stripping out and stealing all the copper,aluminium and steel they could find,this includes vehicles that were heavily contaminated during construction of the sarcophagus.All this scrap has been shipped all over the world spreading the radioactivity even more.

[jontibloom]

These brave men abandoned by their government and stupid bureaucracy. Disgusting !

[gildlily78]

I think the question to ask is why are we opting to use another NON RENEWABLE resource for energy production. Sooner or later we as a species will face another energy crisis. Why not opt for something that is renewable? I personally think it's about time we thought past our own lifetimes and planned for the actual future. Then we never, ever have to worry that something could go wrong. I also think if you want nuclear energy you have to be willing to have the waste buried where the plant is.