Part 2 - 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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[1974Flyingsub]

THESE PEOPLE ARE "EXTREMLY BRAVE"!

[daDfarSpanTaistheKin]

in soviet russia,red army braves deadly radiation to save humanity

[fcgfgcfg]

so.................. spiderman was a myth

[Kirovets7011]

@1974Flyingsub: Oh yes. There are!!! I have very much respect for these people! And ofcourse also for the one's who build this huge sarcophagus.

[Kirovets7011]

@roana1bla: It is no mockup. You forget that not áll the places inside the sarcophagus are high radioactive. The amount of radiation varies from place tot place.

Most movies were made when the sarcophagus was either not build or not finished yet, so the amount of radiation was at it's highest. That was why the movies were more or less damaged.

[roana1bla]

either the raw footage is massively digital remastered or this whole "inside the sarcophagus"-thing is a mockup.

Because the high level of radiation would cause chemical film and digital sensors to fail as I saw in lots of movies and still photographs before. In this documentation there are no fails in the pictures...

[Icandrum2]

wow radioactive glass... niiiice!

[puncheex]

@Supenmanu: Small difference: 500 REM, or 5 Sv, is considered a 50% fatal dose. That's being exposed naked to 500 roentgens for an hour. 10,000 roentgens would give that dose in about 3 minutes. Their protection suits (such as they were) will extend that time.

[Supenmanu]

This is so insane... on top of the reactor there are radiation levels of thousands of Röntgens an hour. 200 Röntgens are allready lethal. So on top of the reactor they absorb deadly levels of radiation in a matter of minutes...

About 100,000 "Liquidators" are actually dead by now.

[futureboyzi]

that guy is a real joker