The Chernobyl disaster - the severe days

possiate riposare in pace e che dio ci perdoni colpevoli o non colpevoli

God bless mr. Shevchenko, and his memory. While this was a disaster unequaled in so many ways, why is it that so few recognize the disaster of government tyranny which set it all in motion? Not to mention the disaster of poverty inflicted on the people robbed of a free market... I don't see a single private residence in any film of this region. We can't prevent human/political/economic disaster without recognizing liberty for each of us.

@sebastianjwalker looks more like a hole in the containment building, which is where the reactor vessel was housed.

So the miners had to work through all of the deadly toxins and radiated air and dirt? That is so inhumane! But I can see the positive side that they sacrificed themselves to save others...(spelling please?)

most of the miners were volunteers, attracted by the money they would get for being a liquidator. most of them didn't need the money anymore after their job...

your are wrong at 6:30 when you say that 40 minutes is all they could be there for ......I t was not 40 min...it was only 45 seconds...(on the roof) 45 seconds on the roof of the #3 reactor where the liquidators are shoveling up (the core) 500-10000 roentgens very very leathal maximum of 30 seconds but they were up there in 1 -2 mins at a time

i assume you mean at 4:34

I bet he got poisoning from where he was standing in the reactor, that's the wost place to be

why the "-.-" ?..its okay