Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster - Surviving Disaster (BBC Documentary series) - Part 5

The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster from the BBC documentary series, Surviving Disaster. This episode follows the accident as told by Valeri Legasov (played by Adrian Edmondson, in one of his more serious roles), the Russian scientist who was a key member of the Soviet government commission formed to investigate the causes of the catastrophe and to plan the mitigation of its consequences. This is quite a chilling tale of events. Some of the documentary was filmed on location in the abandoned town of Pripyat and inside one of the remaining 3 (now closed) nuclear reactors located at Chernobyl.


The music piece used during the moving "divers' scene is called Утес (The Cliff), and was performed by Leonid Kharitonov & the Red Army Choir. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q2ijYcbuxc

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[GREENVK]

@th4Guy77 I'm a Nuclear Medicine Technologist and currently doing my PhD in Nuclear Science.

[bigpoop305]

may god put those two soldiers that jumped into the radioactive water a special respected place in heaven

[JoanJettforever]

@GREENVK well if america downeast gets radioactivity(pray to god not for it to happen), i wish for you to help me in my revival! Great idea on what PhD to earn!

[starryeyedfangirl]

i love alex akimov <3

[UnbreakableKGB]

@crownvictoria71 If the lava-like Radioactive graphite had burned its way through below the Reactor before they drained the container then an absolutely horrific thermonuclear explosion would of been triggered wiping out vast areas of land around it and would of basically turned Europe into a wasteland. It just had to be done, no questions. And yes many people still don't know what happened there or understand what the liquidators and soldiers did to stop it from escalating into total oblivion.

[crownvictoria71]

@UnbreakableKGB Thank you for your comment. I could not agree with you more. I have spent many an hour studying the Chernobyl NPP accident. Extreme acts of bravery by many thousands of men whom unfortunately, largely go un-noticed. Nations across the globe owe them a great deal. I singled out these two particular men for many reasons. They effectively averted 'a greater disaster' and sacrificed their lives to save millions. How many people could truthfully say they would rise up and do it!

[UnbreakableKGB]

@crownvictoria71 They knew what they'd be giving up, but so did their fellow Comrades which made them feel at ease. Truly brave and selfless people who deserve our remembrance, model Soviets.

[UnbreakableKGB]

@crownvictoria71 They died for their Motherland (Soviet or not) and maybe just the whole world.

[asillynoob]

At 8:22 I almost cried. Really hit home.