The Modern Adventures of Tom Sawyer | show | 1998 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:02 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:05 I'm in Chernobyl's highly restricted exclusion zone

00:08 at the abandoned and crumbling Pripyat Hospital.

00:11 I'm hoping to find some lingering evidence

00:13 of a Soviet cover-up that might reveal

00:15 more than just the nuclear reactor's known design flaw.

00:19 Oh, my god.

00:21 Among these radioactive ruins, I found highly contaminated

00:24 boots and now clothes with the same intense levels.

00:27 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:31 Firefighter uniforms.

00:33 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:37 The readings are over 2,000 microceivers on this clothing.

00:41 So that's 8,000 times higher than standard background

00:45 radiation.

00:47 The first responders who ran in to fight the Chernobyl fire

00:49 likely had no idea the dangers they were facing,

00:52 and many died from radiation poisoning

00:54 within the first few weeks.

00:56 After the disaster, the Soviets chose not to alert

00:59 international authorities.

01:01 The radioactive cloud traveled as far as northern Europe,

01:04 and it wasn't until a power plant nearly 800 miles away

01:07 in Sweden detected dangerously elevated levels of radiation

01:10 that the USSR finally owned up to what happened.

01:14 The final death toll due to Chernobyl was incalculable.

01:18 The firefighters who must have worn these uniforms

01:20 were only the first.

01:22 This room is still extremely radioactive after 30 years.

01:26 OK, I think that's about as much time

01:27 as I want to spend in here.

01:30 So from what I read, the firefighters

01:33 were so radioactive that they brought them to the hospital,

01:36 and they tried to scrub off the radiation and couldn't.

01:39 And it's obvious that that's their clothing.

01:41 And so we know now that the amount of radiation released

01:44 is far higher than we thought.

01:46 So they're putting all this stuff down here.

01:48 They've covered up the doorway so nobody can get in here.

01:51 It's a cover up.

01:54 The question is, why?

01:58 It appears that the Soviets wanted

01:59 to conceal not only that they knew

02:01 about the faulty nuclear reactor,

02:03 but also the extent of the human toll

02:05 and of the radiation fallout.

02:08 Though I don't find any further clues as to what

02:10 caused the nuclear meltdown, the uniforms, still highly

02:13 radioactive, represent strong evidence

02:16 that everything about the Soviet response

02:18 to the Chernobyl explosion was an elaborate smoke screen.

The Modern Adventures of Tom Sawyer | show | 1998 | Official Clip

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