Part 1 - Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus - BBC Horizon

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

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)

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[mpwelk]

i like the vhs sounds... fits the time period of the story

[pumpplow2]

thx

[teddythebenny]

@ninjaswordtothehead thanks for the advice, here in Japan, in 20 years we`ll know what you mean. Not to mention the use of depleted Uranium and natural uranium weapons in the gulf wars, Balkans and so forth.. poor kids.

[ninjaswordtothehead]

Apparently; in Soviet Russia, You get cancer on purpose.

[pranker121]

fuck me i would have gone in there with a Bio hazard suit!

[DeviousToster]

@xhemexx Please google "Fukushima - Earthquake-damaged nuclear power plant" in Japan. Its nor nearly as bad, but that's only because they learned from this. The only reason today is safer then yesterday is because we've already tripped over it, so we can now step over. It's not really because people in the 80's where stupid or unsafe, they just didn't have the hind-sight we have.

[xhemexx]

Not to sound disrespectful about people who grew up or love the 80's, but it just makes sense that an accident of this magnitude could ONLY have occured in the 80's

[ProjectRealityBf2]

@Metallica4LifeDude obviously I do, hence the comment I posted to which you in turn responded to, does that answer your question?

[Metallica4LifeDude]

@ProjectRealityBf2 Do you think this is a good place for jokes? And especially on this matter?

[jdlg1983]

This is horrifying

[etbadaboum]

Some Russians are made of steel. We a proof now.

[jmr1068204]

Why were the expedition people wearing COTTON masks, while the filming crew was wearing "western respirators"? Who gives a crap whether the respirators are northern, southern, eastern or western. The fact is, all of these people should have had respirators...wow, that country and government has made some major mistakes.