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00:13End of April 1986 was very warm, it was very nice, forever long sunny and warm day.
00:30When he stopped, he took a drink, drank a drink.
00:44We were able to hear, well, we thought that it was a disaster.
00:50An accident has occurred at the Chernobyl atomic power plant.
01:02The nuclear fuel started to melt down.
01:10You have all this radioactivity up in the sky and a nuclear reaction that is out of control.
01:16No one didn't say anything, because there were police officers.
01:22Each telephone of the Pripyat citizens were cut to avoid spread of information.
01:30As much as you wanted this accident to be a secret, the world began to be suspicious.
01:39There was the banner headline, Death Cloud Approaches Britain.
01:51A
02:08oh this is the center so the concert hall is where i'm standing and that is the shopping center
02:16pripyat was built in the 1970s at the height of the cold war
02:21oh it's it's wonderful it's being back in time really a time when ukraine was cloaked by the
02:31iron curtain of soviet secrecy it's tragedy that you can't actually revisit the place because
02:37everybody is all over the world if they're lucky to be alive that is
02:45ala kravchuk attended the high school we moved to pripet in 1982
02:54the town is surrounded with forest i learned to ride my bike for the first time in my life
03:01because there was lots of open places and spaces especially around my school
03:08i think everybody in the world remembers their youth as the best time of their life so do i
03:20helena sulimova and her husband valeri arrived soon after graduating from university
03:25we immediately loved pripyat from the first sight because the architecture and the layout of the city was
03:52very i would say for that time very modern very nice squares and boulevard this new soviet city was an
04:03enticing utopia created for just one purpose pripet is the city of the nuclear workers for the
04:14ΡΠ΅ΡΠ½ΠΎΠ±Ρl power plant
04:18Π½Π°ΠΌ ΠΊΠ°ΠΊ ΠΌΠΎΠ»ΠΎΠ΄ΡΠΌ ΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΠΈΠ°Π»ΠΈΡΡΠΎΠΌ Π΄Π°Π»ΠΈ ΠΊΠ²Π°ΡΡΠΈΡΡ Ρ Π½Π°Ρ Π±ΡΠ»Π° ΠΌΠ°Π»Π΅Π½ΡΠΊΠ°Ρ Π΄ΠΎΡΡ 3 ΠΊΠΎΠ΄ΠΈΠΊΠ° Π½Π°ΠΌΰΈ§ila
04:27Π΅ΠΉ Π΄Π°Π»ΠΈ Π΄Π΅ΡΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ ΡΠ°Π΄ ΠΈ ΠΌΡ ΠΎΠ±Π° ΡΠ°Π±ΠΎΡΠ°Π»ΠΈ ΠΈΠ½ΠΆΠ΅Π½Π΅ΡΠ°ΠΌΠΈ Ρ
ΠΈΠΌΠΈΠΊΠ΅ΠΌ
04:45The Chernobyl power plant, known in Ukrainian as Chernobyl, was just two kilometers from
04:51Pripyat.
04:55Two reactors went online in 1977.
05:00Alakravchuk's father, Volodymyr, helped build two more in the early 80s.
05:05He was the building engineer, so he would calculate the structure.
05:11He would then observe it being built correctly.
05:15It was new.
05:18It was clean energy.
05:21It was built with the latest technology.
05:24It had a fantastic future.
05:28Of course, he would be proud of being involved.
05:35Much of this historic footage has been preserved by Oleksandr Sirota.
05:40Now a journalist.
05:42In 1986, he was a nine-year-old Pripyat schoolboy.
05:47Well, we were quite a few times on the station.
05:50For children, we had an excursion.
05:52And we were, at least in my class, were so-called chefs.
05:56It was a company that kind of owned this class.
06:01And it was an electric sector of the Chernobyl.
06:03They were invited to sell us with the CES.
06:07I had to say, I knew I needed to save that.
06:12I remember what the best we had told them.
06:14The nuclear atom is the safest way for the United States.
06:19The Soviet Union is the safest way for the Soviet Union.
06:30and you will be right but I would say as a chemist the main element of the
06:37nuclear power plant it is a water because water is a cooler
06:43Oleksii Brias was a reactor operator for unit 4
07:09that explained that there are going to be three levels of safety if one of the
07:17safety system did not work it immediately sparks the next and so on and there was
07:27no concern we we trusted the safety we did
07:31just naikagadani dumalish to no nasa stansi moΕΎete stota prais
07:37it
07:50overnight on Friday the 25th of April plant operators planned a safety test to
07:56coincide with routine maintenance on reactor unit 4
08:00Halina was planned to be on the night shift then next day was her birthday she
08:08was 25 this day and we plan a small party to celebrate and she went to her shift
08:25as friday ticked into saturday halina arrived at the plant
08:29no i'm knolling ΡΠ°ΡΠΎΠ² ΠΏΡΠΈΠ±Π΅ΠΆΠ°Π»Π° Π² Π»Π°Π±ΠΎΡΠ°ΡΠΎΡΠΈΡ Π³Π΄Π΅ ΠΌΠΎΠΈ ΠΊΠΎΠ»Π»Π΅Π³ΠΈ ΠΊΠΎΠ³Π΄Π° ΡΡΠ°Π²Π½ΡΠ»Π°ΡΡ Π½ΠΎΠ»Ρ ΡΠ°ΡΠΎΠ²
08:39ΠΌΠ΅Π½Ρ ΠΏΠΎΠ·Π΄ΡΠ°Π²ΠΈΠ»ΠΈ Ρ Π΄Π½Π΅ΠΌ ΡΠΎΠΆΠ΄Π΅Π½ΠΈΡ ΠΏΠΎ ΠΏΠΎΡΠ°Π΄ΠΎΠ²Π°Π»ΠΈΡΡ ΡΡΠΎ ΠΎΠ½ΠΈ ΡΠ΄Π΅Π»Π°Π»ΠΈ ΡΡΠΎ ΡΠ°Π½ΡΡΠ΅
08:43ΡΠ΅ΠΌ ΠΌΠΎΠΉ ΠΌΡΠΆ ΠΈ ΡΠΎΠ³Π΄Π° Π΅ΡΠ΅ Π½Π°ΡΠ°Π»ΡΠ½ΠΈΠΊΠ° Π»Π°Π±ΠΎΡΠ°ΡΠΎΡΠΈΡ Ρ
ΠΈΠΌΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΠΊΠ°Ρ ΠΎΠ½ ΡΠ΅ΡΠ΅Π· Π½Π΅ΠΊΠΎΡΠΎΡΠΎΠ΅
08:53Π²ΡΠ΅ΠΌΡ ΡΠΊΠ°Π·Π°Π» ΡΡΠΎ ΡΠ°Π±ΠΎΡΡ Π±ΡΠ΄Π΅Ρ ΠΌΠ°Π»ΠΎ Π΄ΠΎ ΡΡΡΠ° ΠΈ ΠΌΡ ΠΌΠΎΠΆΠ΅ΠΌ ΠΎΡΠΏΡΡΡΠΈΡΡ ΡΠ΅Π±Ρ Π΄ΠΎΠΌΠΎΠΉ
08:59i know never shut down reactor very quickly because we need the water cool and chill a little bit and
09:09i have suspicious that my wife will come back
09:40i heard steps
09:44steps
09:45and
09:48welcome back
09:49congratulations
09:50happy birthday
09:51okay
09:53we
09:54talk a little bit
09:56about party
09:58and
10:00okay
10:14we
10:37pripyat surgeon doctor alexander bugar was also fast asleep
10:42I was raised about 22 people on the train.
10:48Quick help, she took me home and took me to the hospital.
10:53And now they just said, if there is no cars, go to the airport.
10:59No one song was singing, absolutely quiet, it was scary.
11:06And in the direction of the nuclear station there was such a small color.
11:15I do not see that.
11:17I do not see that color.
11:18On the black sky there was something with a cup of water.
11:21Very beautiful.
11:23It was like a cup of water.
11:28We had a 4th block of water.
11:35It was visible on the other side.
11:40Well, I saw that there is no block, that everything is burning.
11:48I went down to the hospital and brought me the first wounded man.
11:56It was the first patient.
11:59He was in a difficult position.
12:02He was completely burnt.
12:05Everything except the legs.
12:07It was burnt, but the skin was not red, but white.
12:13And everything was burnt.
12:16And immediately, when it was radioactive,
12:19I understood that, of course, I did not get hurt.
12:31Five hours after Chernobyl's reactor exploded.
12:35In nearby Pripyat no one yet knew there was a problem.
12:39It was a normal school day for Oleksandr Sirota.
12:44When I got out of the house,
12:46I went to school.
12:49I had to go for 5-7 minutes to the first school, where I was teaching.
12:57The only thing that I found out there was a little strange,
13:00the strange thing about the road.
13:05When I got along, I brought them up and went and did it again.
13:21Reactor operator Oleksij Brias was due on the shift at Unit 4.
13:27In the morning, when I left, I took care of coffee.
13:32I had to go to a change at 8 o'clock in the morning.
13:37It was a planned change.
13:40Everything was on the plan.
13:43I was not on the ordinary bus,
13:46but I didn't have anything.
13:49Chernobyl chemist Valery Sulimov was preparing for his wife Helena's birthday.
13:53In the morning, when I woke up,
13:56I decided to go to the local market to buy something for the party.
14:02But then I saw my friend and, oh, did you hear?
14:08The plant, it is exploding.
14:11No, you are joking.
14:13You are kidding me.
14:16It is impossible because it is impossible.
14:26And he told me there is no reactor unit number four.
14:32The northern and south walls are destroyed completely.
14:39It is a fire there.
14:43It is impossible for me.
14:49The
14:49When I saw the destruction of the ruin of the buildings,
14:53the ruins of this ruins,
14:54it is without more, you can say,
14:57that the voice came out of the head.
15:24The explosion had ripped reactor 4 open, exposing its radioactive core.
15:29A lot of nuclear materials and fission isotopes went to atmosphere, even the parts of the nuclear rods were dispersed
15:42nearby the unit number 4.
15:52The laboratory, where I worked, was between 3 and 4 blocks.
15:56It was about 50 meters from the ceiling of the 4 block.
16:04It's all very close, let's say.
16:07Because I went there together with my colleague.
16:12We went to the night shift.
16:15Valeriy Hadymchuk.
16:18I went home, but he stayed.
16:23And he became one of the first people who died.
16:29He went to check the equipment, went to the block, and, unfortunately, he stayed there.
16:35He died.
16:38He died.
16:39He even couldn't get out of there.
16:44Well, it was a gift from heaven.
16:47I could stay there.
16:49But, indeed, I was the second birthday of my birthday.
16:55I could have been the same gift from heaven.
16:59I could be the same.
17:02And my colleague, with whom I came to visit, Vladimir Shashenok, he also went to check the equipment.
17:16At the hospital, Dr. Alexander Bugar did all he could for Volodymyr Shashinok.
17:22He was very intensively treated, but, to be very sad, I understood immediately that it was radioactive.
17:31But from the big radiation, he died in pain.
17:38Firefighters who had been battling the blaze arrived at the hospital.
18:02While fire raged on the roof, reactor operator Alexey Brias was down below, trying to cool the overheating fuel.
18:10They did something, running, running, trying to bring water to reactor.
18:17There was a willingness to do anything for anything, for any price.
18:31But the water just finished.
18:34And about 10.04, the water finished.
18:36It ended.
18:37I stopped the last one, because it was not necessary.
18:40There was no water.
18:43The last button of the fourth block was pressed by me.
18:50All water was flooded away, and the reactor has no cooling, and the nuclear fuel started to melt down.
19:06Maybe everyone, somewhere deep in his mind or deep in his knowledge,
19:13he understood that there is no reactor after what he sees.
19:19This melted nuclear fuel has approximately 2,000 degrees Celsius, and easily can go through the concrete, steel, under the
19:31reactor.
19:31The molten core was now blasting radiation in all directions.
19:38In the back of the reactor reactor, near the reactor reactor, there was a failure.
19:44I said to them that the Caigui Calus rate is equal to 800 micro-RTG per second.
19:520.8 micro-RTG per second.
19:55That is the maximum maximum dose for operators.
19:590.8, which is all the way up in the reactor reactor reactor.
20:02I had a lot of additional doses.
20:04What about my injuries,
20:06is that for a week or two,
20:07I have a year for a week.
20:10I went to the dispatcher,
20:12dressed up to take a shower,
20:14to take a shower, to take a shower.
20:15And here, for me, it was a surprise,
20:18that the skin has a nice smell,
20:23the color of the body,
20:26the skin of the body,
20:27the skin of the body,
20:31the skin of the body,
20:32the skin of the body,
20:35the skin of the body.
20:38And yet,
20:39in nearby Pripyat,
20:40shops and schools were still open as usual.
20:44The first day,
20:46on Saturday,
20:4726,
20:48it was, I would say, silent from the
20:51local authority.
20:52Even from the top level of the
20:55government of the Soviet Union
20:57complete silence.
21:00It was strange,
21:01when, after the phone call,
21:03our teacher didn't appear immediately.
21:09When we hear a lot of the window
21:12of a large number of siren,
21:14it becomes very interesting,
21:15and we, with this friend,
21:17just go to the window
21:19and go to the sound.
21:24Then someone from the elderly
21:26told us,
21:27what are you doing here?
21:27We are not in school,
21:29or not at home,
21:30we are not going to be here.
21:35And from this moment,
21:37it was interesting.
21:38It was really interesting.
21:40It was really interesting.
21:42It was the first helicopter,
21:43it was the first helicopter.
21:45It had been very interesting,
21:49it was just a bit of a shock.
21:51And the biggest shock was in the fact that he was sitting in a place somewhere near the river.
21:57He went to the destruction.
21:58And we fell down there.
22:02We are, although we are specialists in radiation chemistry,
22:07but the person does not believe in danger, even when she is already standing before her eyes.
22:24And the Soviet authorities wanted to keep it that way.
22:29Each telephone of the Pripyat citizens were cut,
22:33disconnected from the network,
22:36to avoid spread of information out of Pripyat.
22:43I went to a conversation point,
22:47to be able to telephone with my parents.
22:49But, for a very bad reason,
22:50obviously, the connection was missing.
22:54I was asked to get something,
22:57but there was no connection with them.
23:07At the Chernobyl power plant,
23:09more than 24 hours after the explosion,
23:12workers like Alexey Brias were still struggling to cool the molten reactor core.
23:17We all knew and understood that we are not working at a macaroni factory.
23:25They were talking about their heroism,
23:29operators, other liquidators.
23:33But there was no one of them thought about it right now.
23:37Well, I did not think about it.
23:38I absolutely did not think about it.
23:40I never thought about it.
23:42It was just my work.
23:48Heavily contaminated steam and debris were blowing from the burning reactor,
23:53triggering desperate attempts to smother it.
23:58Air Force tried to bomb the destroyed reactor number 4 reactor unit
24:04with sand, lead, with clay from the helicopters
24:11to make a kind of cork
24:14over the molten fuel and concrete.
24:20We warned us,
24:22that on the 27th of December,
24:24the second day after the war,
24:25that from the plane,
24:26they will start to throw the pipes with the sand on the reactor.
24:29We warned us,
24:30that if something is dark,
24:31we would not be surprised.
24:33It was really dark.
24:35Every fall,
24:36it was a lot of tons of these pipes,
24:38I don't know how much it was there.
24:40But it was like a gun for me,
24:42I don't know how much it was there.
24:45It was like a gun for me,
24:46As the helicopters circled,
24:48the Soviet government maintained its total information blackout.
24:53For Soviet countries,
24:55it is normal to always stop what is happening.
25:01Unfortunately.
25:07Alla Kravchuk was in Kyiv with her father Volodymyr,
25:11who had helped to build the reactor.
25:14When the accident has happened,
25:16nobody was informed.
25:20We arrived to the bus station.
25:22It's a big, huge place,
25:24completely deserted.
25:25No people,
25:27no buses.
25:29And dad went to the information desk to find out what's happening.
25:34He was told that,
25:35oh,
25:35there would be no buses today,
25:37because all the transport was sent to Pripyat.
25:40There was some kind of accident.
25:44And I remember my dad going white in colour.
25:50He said,
25:51what kind of accident needs that many transportation forces?
25:55Oh, they have to evacuate the town.
26:00That's when he realized something serious has happened.
26:04Few knew just how serious.
26:07We went to the manager of our department.
26:10They asked him what to do
26:13and what are our future actions,
26:17what are the stages of the accident.
26:20And he told us that there will be evacuation.
26:33Nearly 36 hours after the explosion,
26:37local officials finally ordered the evacuation.
26:41I heard from the system of this loud connection
26:45the announcement about evacuation.
26:47It sounded a few times,
26:49with an interval of 10-15 minutes.
26:52And you know,
26:53maybe once it took place in the first time
26:54it was where it was
26:55when it was at the beginning.
26:58It was a bit of a cold to the situation.
26:59It was already a cold to the city.
27:00And then they began to shout-out.
27:05They began to get a loud connection.
27:07they began to get a loud rivet.
27:07the situation was exactly where there is.
27:08the situation was the most important thing.
27:10They had to go to their people,
27:13that they had to roll in,
27:13they told themselves.
27:13And they had to return to the vehicle.
27:17They said,
27:18they had to return.
27:18They had to get an aerial and figure out
27:18that it was actually running back since.
27:19inside the vehicle,
27:21and, without any other things, go out.
27:51My daughter and my wife went to evacuation.
27:55Leaving a handful of plant workers like Valeri behind,
27:59Pripyat's citizens were forced to flee.
28:27Pripyat's citizens came from Moscow, from the radiation center,
28:33who observed the firemen and the army, who left alive.
28:41And they took the decision to move all of them into Moscow.
28:46I went to work with medical equipment for evacuation,
28:51and then they formed one of the colon,
28:55and I was in the medical department of this colon.
28:59I went with this colon from Pripyat.
29:16In maybe two hours, 50,000 Pripyat citizens were evacuated.
29:39The evacuees had no idea where they were going,
29:43or if they would ever be back.
29:45Meanwhile, the authorities continued to hide the disaster
29:49from the Soviet people and the world.
30:03We were monitoring Sweden at seven, eight stations around,
30:08and we had one monitor up close to our lab.
30:12Nuclear scientist Lars-Erik Daguer worked for Sweden's Ministry of Defense,
30:18keeping watch for illegal nuclear weapons tests.
30:21I was excited by working with disarmament on nuclear weapons.
30:26I used to say that we could measure just one atom in a room.
30:34Two days after the Chernobyl explosion,
30:37Sweden's Forsmark nuclear power plant reported unusually high radiation readings.
30:46Monday the 28th of April 1986, I was sick, so I was in bed,
30:53and I heard on the radio that something had happened at Forsmark.
30:58Immediately I had to redefine myself as non-sick.
31:03Lars-Erik's colleague Ingmar Wintersved was already checking one of their air filters.
31:10On my way from the Stockholm Central Station to the laboratory,
31:15I changed the filter and put it on a detector, and wow,
31:20we had a signal that was 100,000 to 1 million higher than we ever had in the collective.
31:26I called Ingmar, and I said I'll come in to the lab immediately.
31:33You could see the radionuclears appearing was something that could not have come from a nuclear explosion.
31:42It must come from a nuclear reactor.
31:47At Forsmark they do have portals where they look if people are radioactive,
31:53leave the reactors.
31:56But after a while they found that people arriving were the most radioactive ones.
32:02Higher radiation levels outside Forsmark meant contamination must have blown there,
32:09from somewhere else.
32:10We had always, from the Swedish Meteorological Institute,
32:16information on every day from where the air had come.
32:21So it took a quarter of an hour to determine something must have happened in the Soviet Union.
32:28The Swedish government confronted officials in Moscow.
32:32Meanwhile Ingmar revealed the shocking news to the media.
32:37I gave an interview at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
32:42Apparently Reuters said that I had suggested that this is an accident in the former Soviet Union.
32:50Moscow still denied everything.
32:52But American-funded radio was breaking through the iron curtain.
33:07The first news about the catastrophe, about the scale of the catastrophe,
33:14we listened to the radio of the freedom.
33:20they reported that Swedish monitoring station reported about the rising of the radiation in
33:29the atmosphere nearly 72 hours after the accident the Soviets responded with this
33:36deliberately vague announcement the next event has occurred that the Chernobyl atomic power plant
33:42as one of the atomic reactors was damaged measures are being undertaken to eliminate
33:49the consequences of the accident aid is being given to those affected the truth was not
33:56containable because as much as you wanted this accident to be a secret the world began to realize
34:04that something is happening and the world began to be suspicious in the UK on the evening of Monday
34:17the 28th of April dr. Alan Flowers had just finished a lecture in London on nuclear power plant safety
34:26Monday evening I would often at the end of my lecture classes go to my car and listen to the
34:31six o'clock news put the car radio on they summed up by saying the Soviet Union had admitted there'd
34:41been an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant first reaction is this this this has to
34:49be big an accident where radioactivity is reaching Sweden that is a significant accident if this had
34:57reached Sweden the radiation has every possibility to reach the UK fear of radiation was spreading across
35:07the world but at the plant a new crisis was looming so you've got two big things going on radioactivity
35:17dispersing through the atmosphere so it's going to be global because this is going to cross the borders
35:23of the Soviet Union at the same time you've got local issues of controlling a nuclear reaction that is out
35:31of
35:31control very high temperature molten material and the worry about where is this going to go is it is
35:38going to burn its way down into the ground four days after the explosion unit force molten core was burning
35:51down through concrete and steel towards a cooling pond and what the danger of this situation if there
36:01melted nuclear fuel comes to the water it will cause another and more powerful explosion burning
36:11hot fuel would instantly vaporize the water blasting thousands of tons of radioactive steam and debris into
36:19the sky three people from Chernobyl power plant two engineers and that is what I know he was shift
36:28supervisor I knew him very well they said okay we will try to open wells to drain water to prevent
36:39the
36:40reaction of the melting fuel with water in the full darkness they succeeded to find the wells and open
36:53in several of them and in maybe ours the water drained completely after this I would say heroic action they
37:04ruined their more powerful explosion a far greater catastrophe had been prevented but there was no stopping the
37:15radiation already high in the sky the radioactivity that has gone into the atmosphere that is at
37:22extremely high levels you can't see it there's glory to think it's traveling in the atmosphere it's dropping down on
37:31the ground
37:33and there was some diffusion to the south and to the great city of kiev with a population around 3
37:40million
37:45kiev was only 167 kilometers away so it was exposed to danger any time i remember washing the floor every
37:58day keeping the windows closed the streets in kiev were washed every morning before people enter there would be a
38:09big machine
38:10driving driving and spraying the water it was difficult to grasp the size of the disaster it was something which
38:23was not visible but everybody felt it
38:27the invisible cloud of radioactive debris continued to spread across europe the friday after the accident the second of may
38:37i have a lasting memory of the morning papers there was the banner headline death cloud approaches britain it took
38:46around about six days before the radioactivity reached the uk
38:57the sky
38:58more than two thousand kilometers west of kiev glenn roberts had only recently settled his family
39:04on their sheep farm we had the tenancy on this farm in 1984
39:09yeah i heard about the next year on the news but at that time we were i hadn't got any
39:17idea of the implications that
39:19that we would have on agriculture and the earth in wales because it was a long way from here
39:26but in early may heavy rain brought the radioactive fallout crashing to earth
39:33in the night that the chenople fallout came over it was a very misty warm drizzly night i remember
39:44about four or five hours standing in that drizzly rain
39:50that contaminated drizzle was soaking glenn and the fields on which his sheep were grazing
39:55the concern was that the cesium and iodine and things like that would be taken up in the food stuff
40:03the responsibility was to protect the whole population
40:07and the risk that a few people in the population should die
40:12if they did eat everything of that was real
40:20i was i remember in the march selling some lambs when the announcement came over from the government
40:27said that we as farmers would not sell the product if there were any cesium in the meat
40:34but i didn't realize the implications of that had on the family himself because they couldn't sell their animals
40:41the restrictions remained in place for more than two decades
40:45and signaled that the chernobyl disaster had become a global crisis
40:50even hijacking president reagan's state visit with president suharto of indonesia
40:59this president what do you know new about the soviet nuclear accident
41:04i don't think we have any information that is available in the public
41:07on the soviets telling us all we need to know about it sir
41:13well they're usually a little close now
41:15but they used to exception
41:18would you rather hear more from mr gorbachev
41:21yes it would be helpful
41:24this was the first time where the russians lies didn't function
41:30because they couldn't deny that something had happened when we could read it in the atmosphere
41:36cover up or not the race was now on to understand just how dangerous this disaster was
41:43people in the path of the radioactivity outside the soviet union
41:47through the media and the free information that was available
41:51very quickly got to know what the situation was
41:55but the soviet state continued to conceal the truth from its own citizens
42:01the soviets of course knew that you could say nothing to the people
42:05say it's all all right carry on as normal
42:07and the people weren't going to see anything out of the ordinary
42:14so you could get away with this fooling the public except in the very close high activity area around the
42:21plant
42:22people realize things going wrong very high levels you get a reddening on the skin
42:25you also get sick very rapidly
42:28the danger could no longer be denied
42:30the authorities set an exclusion zone 30 kilometers around the plant
42:36more than 100 000 people had now been forced to leave
42:41dr bugar's parents had no idea if he was dead or alive
42:46all the time my father went to the circle of Chernobyl
42:55and searched and searched and searched and searched
42:57because there was no connection there
42:59I went to my parents
43:00I don't remember which one I came to the number
43:04I called the door and opened my mom
43:07my mom saw me and cried
43:09I cried
43:10I cried
43:11I cried
43:12I cried
43:12I cried
43:15Alexander Sirota had fled to Kyiv with his mother
43:19when we saw the association where we were brought to the society
43:22we were other people and still active
43:26when I went to school
43:27we didn't want to sit with us
43:33the evacuees had packed for three days
43:36but there seemed little chance of returning
43:39an army of decontamination workers known as liquidators
43:43was moving into the exclusion zone
43:45there was a monumental effort from the liquidators
43:49so you're talking over a hundred thousand workers
43:53that were putting on protective clothing
43:55and they were tasked with cleaning up
43:58as much of the fallout the debris that they could find
44:03they were washing the radioactivity off the roofs of houses
44:08and then turning over the soil
44:10if you got about ten fifteen centimeters of soil
44:13over the top of the radioactivity
44:14that would at least contribute a degree of shielding
44:20Back at ground zero
44:21the wreckage of unit four wouldn't be buried so easily
44:27Even though just looking at the ruin of the building
44:31it was clear that the road of radiance was very high
44:36or catastrophic high
44:37or even low
44:38not needed to even the researchers
44:39it was clear
44:44it was clear
45:03The nuclear material from the core is very, very dangerous to approach or even to spending
45:08any time looking at, which is incredibly radioactive structure.
45:11It was like a ghost town. The group was told not to step on the grass, not to touch the
45:20trees.
45:21ΠΠ°ΠΌ Π·Π°Π±ΠΎΡΠΎΠ½ΡΠ»ΠΎΡΡ ΡΠΎΠ·ΠΏΠΎΠ²ΡΠ΄Π°ΡΠΈ ΠΏΡΠΎ ΡΡΡΠΈΠ½Π½Ρ ΠΏΡΠΈΡΠΈΠ½ΠΈ Π°Π²Π°ΡΡΡ Π½Π° Π§ΠΎΡΠ½ΠΎΠ±ΠΈΠ»ΡΡΡΠΊΡΠΉ ΠΠΠ‘.
45:31Π’ΠΎΠ΄Ρ Π½Π΅ Π±ΡΠ»ΠΎ Π± ΠΏΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½Π΅Π²ΠΎΡ Ρ
Π²ΠΎΡΠΎΠ±ΠΈ, ΡΠΎΠ΄Ρ Π± ΠΏΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½Π΅Π²Π° Ρ
Π²ΠΎΡΠΎΠ±Π° Π±ΡΠ»Π° Π·Π°Π±ΠΎΡΠΎΠ½Π΅Π½Π° ΠΊΠΎΠΌΡΠ½ΡΡΡΠΈΡΠ½ΠΎΡ ΠΏΠ°ΡΡΡΡΡ.
45:39My insider at Chernobyl plant showed me the picture and I saw the Russian tanks on the square.
46:00If you were going to attack the Chernobyl site, you would attack the jewel in the crown of the Chernobyl
46:06site, which is the new safe confinement.
46:15We'll stay with Channel 4 because that's here next.
46:17Well, dirty politics and international humiliations tomorrow.
46:22It damaged a global standing and destroyed a prime minister.
46:26Suez, 24 hours that broke the British Empire.
46:28Concludes at 9.
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