The Chernobyl disaster - the severe days

This film shows the terrifying images captured by the Russian filmmaker Vladimir Shevchenko on scene at Chernobyl those dreadful days in April 1986. Shevchenko later died suffering from the radiation he exposed himself to. Although his name is not among the official casualties of the accident, this last tragic film of him keeps his name alive forever.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• chernobyl
• disaster
• nuclear
• radioactive
• russia
• ukraine

[Xeramach]

I was just a kid in Yugoslavia (now Serbia) when this happened and everybody were saying that kids should not play outside. We (kids) couldn't understand the concern of the parents. Everybody were saying 'Chernobyl' and for me that was just some word. Today I just feel extreme sadness, sorrow and emotional pain for those people. How helpless we are. They gave their lives to help others by stopping the spread of disaster and nobody could help them. A horror. ;,,,(

[forat2]

@philipsthebest Maybe you are dumb for not understanding the situation. Those helicopter crews were following orders by their higher ups and were not aware of the extent of exposure they faced. Those helicopters were pouring thousands of tons of much needed neutron absorbers. Most of those ppl died so that the radiation could be contained, saving the lives of millions of others in surrounding areas for generations to come. Those men are heroes to humanity.

[Switcharoo12]

@ 6:08 he does appear to be filming into the reactor hall though as the area looks pretty much ruined. I would guess this was after the attempt to smother the core since there in no smoke.

[Switcharoo12]

@daikarasuro close enough but I think he is in the turbine hall next to the reactor hall. That couldn't be the reactor hall since the entire roof was destroyed but the reactor lid, this looks to be a small hole.

[Exitios]

@SoniaIsAwesome It was not snowing the day that the explosion occurred in reactor 4, but although there certainly was dust and ash rising from the core, that does not seem to be what is captured at 1:50 - the flickering in the sky seems to be a combination of film grain (likely due to radiation damage) and compression artifacts.

[SBUALFASNIPER]

Uncle served there during evacuation

[yellowfellow5678]

What happened? :o

[SoniaIsAwesome]

At 1:50, is this snow, or ash from the fires in the reactor?  (I am clueless on Chernobyl, I am just researching it..)

[daikarasuro]

at 2:48 is the camera man is really in the destroyed reactor?:O I am shocked.

[lilfluffybuny]

@aardon22 There has been more good out of all those things then bad... This is one of few times something like this has happened. Do you not remember the coal mining accident in chile? All forms of power have risks....