Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster - Surviving Disaster (BBC Documentary series) - Part 1

The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster from the BBC documentary series, Surviving Disaster. This episode follows the accident as told by Valeri Legasov (played by Adrian Edmondson, in one of his more serious roles), the Russian scientist who was a key member of the Soviet government commission formed to investigate the causes of the catastrophe and to plan the mitigation of its consequences. This is quite a chilling tale of events. Some of the documentary was filmed on location in the abandoned town of Pripyat and inside one of the remaining 3 (now closed) nuclear reactors located at Chernobyl.

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Education

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• Chernobyl
• nuclear
• disaster
• accident
• radiation
• radioactive
• valeri
• legasov
• ussr
• russia
• soviet
• kgb

[ThatAdelaideGuy]

These Russians speak flawless English, and their British accent's are incredible

[pilotbutterfly]

@ThatAdelaideGuy These "Russians" are Ukrainian... you could be the next Einstein, really.

[andrion95]

just saw it on mys school.really amazing documentary

[07sandrewsworth]

is there still loads of radiation in chernobyl

[07sandrewsworth]

why has it got a purple glow??

[07sandrewsworth]

@wertos22 i think it was because like..of depression or something

[JoeEsBoogieSack]

@Jumpzeh i'm pretty sure he realised that...

[Jumpzeh]

@ThatAdelaideGuy And i withdraw that (Some are re-inactments some arent.)

[Jumpzeh]

@ThatAdelaideGuy They were re-inactments.

[wqqqqaa]

WTF is wrong with the commercial at the beginning with three disabled man????????its not fucking funny especially at the beginning of this.

[seth5220]

@Voxstep I have part of a packet of Marlboro cigarettes that contain polonium 210 so radioactive cigarettes from Chernobyl may end up being sold

[seth5220]

@40Deeful I was going to say for pity's sake it's a dramatization