NOVA - Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus part 3

This episode won an Emmy. It covers the sarcophagus built to contain the remains of the
destroyed reactor and the work of the Russian scientists, staff and soldiers who risked
and continue to risk their lives in the clean-up operation.

"This file was digitised from a VHS recording of the program. The picture quality is
fair, however, the sound track has some occasional static, especially towards the
beginning.

I think this is the 1996 updated version of the original 1991 program and includes an
extra 10 minutes of interviews with several of the original scientists. It is shorter
than the 60 minutes described on the BBC website and may have been edited."

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• Nuclear
• Disaster
• Accident
• Fallout
• Radiation
• Death
• Atomic
• Belarus
• Pripyat

[Sulcuscentralis]

Respect to these scientists.

[pgamings]

thank you dearly for uploading this episode.

very interesting

[DreamyHanabi]

I have no doubt that after this was made the scientists in Russia and Belarus got the help and money they needed from the countries that watched this to get the job that was needing to be done. Just because United Nations doesn't always get along they sometimes will help one another out when it is needed, and to prevent this from happening again selfishness should be put aside and help put forward. God bless these men.

[TheBoomViper]

@moonwalker5800

They did actually pour some concrete inside, but this is later revealed as a mistake; pouring concrete over the molten core would only act as a furnace and heat it up even more, which will lead to a bigger explosion.

[fl0r1svdk]

@TheBoomViper there are masive holes in the sarcofagus, trugh some you can fit a car

[rappy90]

Scary

[metalgearrexlover]

@tigermunky ah forget about he's probably a black "gangsta" bitch

[TheBoomViper]

I don't get it. At 05:38 one of the scientists says that the sarcophagus was never meant to be hermetically sealed, yet in the documentary "Battle of Chernobyl" (2006), it is stated that when the first snowfall started to stick on Chernobyl it proved the sarcophagus was airtight. So which one is it? Did they patch up the holes later, or was it airtight from the beginning? I guess we'll never know...

[tigermunky]

@davidgamesalot Wow. just wow.

Have you ever managed to write a coherent sentence?

Also Chernobyl is in Ukraine, not Russia. They are different countries, you can see if you have ever looked at a map. Indeed it was once the Soviet Union, but now it's Ukraine so I'm not entirely sure what 'Russians eating baby food and smoking cigarettes' have to do with anything.

[xander7b]

8:14 shows the calendar of 1991

[compdude47]

Wow, this gave me bad dreams after watching this.