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Chernobyl Days That Shocked the World S01E01
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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 left, he took a drink, drank a drink, drank a drink.
00:44We could hear, well, we thought, that it was a threat.
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 the police officers worked there.
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.
02:11Death Cloud Approaches
02:13is where I'm standing, and that is the shopping center.
02:16Pripyat was built in the 1970s, at the height of the Cold War.
02:22Oh, it's wonderful.
02:25It's being back in time, really.
02:28A time when Ukraine was cloaked by the Iron Curtain of Soviet secrecy.
02:34It's a tragedy that you can't actually revisit the place,
02:37because everybody is all over the world, if they're lucky, to be alive.
02:42That is.
02:45Ala Kravchuk attended the high school.
02:49We moved to Pripyat in 1982.
02:54The town is surrounded with forests.
02:57I learned to ride my bike for the first time in my life,
03:01because there was lots of open places and spaces,
03:05especially around my school.
03:08I think everybody in the world remembers their youth
03:12as the best time of their life.
03:15So do I.
03:20Helena Sulimova and her husband Valeri arrived soon after graduating from university.
03:26We met with Valeri in Leningrad, being students.
03:32We met together in the academic choir of students.
03:37And we met there.
03:40We met with Pripyat from the first sight.
03:47Because the architecture and the layout of this city was very,
03:52I would say, for that time very modern.
03:56Very nice squares and boulevard.
04:00This new Soviet city was an enticing utopia, created for just one purpose.
04:09Pripyat is the city of the nuclear workers for the Chernobyl power plant.
04:18We, as a young specialist, were given the квартиру.
04:22Our daughter was three years old.
04:27We gave her a child.
04:29And we worked as a chemical engineer.
04:45The Chernobyl power plant, known in Ukrainian as Chernobyl,
04:50was just two kilometers from Pripyat.
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.
05:07So 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 latest technology.
05:25It had a fantastic future.
05:28Of course, he would be proud of being involved.
05:34Much 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.
05:47We were very often at the station.
05:50We had an excursion for children.
05:53We were, at least in my class,
05:55the business,
05:58the Universities of the System to regulate the company.
06:01Well, this was the Secret of the Nautiln Kaisenr.
06:03We were able to deliver a communications team with the logo type of US and the NAF.
06:07It was a big issue.
06:07If I knew that I would have to keep it, then I would have to keep it.
06:12I remember what they told us about.
06:14The nuclear atom is the safest one,
06:17and the Soviet nuclear atom is the safest one.
06:37The nuclear power plant is water.
06:40Because water is cooler.
06:43Oleksii Brias was a reactor operator for Unit 4.
06:47Over the port, there are at least 4 people.
06:54This part of the reactor reactor block is one of the most responsible moments in the operation.
07:02And the security system was very responsible.
07:05It was all in my hands.
07:09That explained that there were going to be three levels of safety.
07:15If one of the safety systems did not work,
07:21it immediately sparks the next, and so on.
07:26And there was no concern.
07:29We trusted the safety.
07:31We did.
07:31We, frankly, never thought that something could happen at our station.
07:37We could not be able to get back to our station.
07:38This time, the nuclear atom is going to be able to be able to be able to take them to
07:44the other Ünit 4.
07:50Overnight on Friday the 25th of April, plant operators planned a safety test to coincide with routine maintenance on Reactor
07:59Unit 4.
08:00Helena 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
08:24shift as Friday ticked into Saturday Helina arrived at the plant 0-0 часов
08:32прибежала в лабораторию где мои коллеги когда сравнялась 0 часов меня
08:39поздравили с днем рождения по порадовались что они сделали это раньше
08:43чем мой муж и тогда еще начальник лаборатории химической он через
08:52некоторое время сказал что работы будет мало до утра и мы можем отпустить тебя домой
09:00I know never shut down reactor very quick because we need the water cool and chill a
09:08little bit and I have suspicious that my wife will come back
09:16вот выбежала на улицу а автобус последний уже поехал и кто-то в автобусе стоял
09:27задом смотрел заднее стекло и увидел что я выбежала со станции и попросил
09:34остановить автобус он остановился я добежала до него
09:37I heard steps and welcome back congratulations happy birthday ok we talk a little bit about
09:57party and ok go to bed
10:15мужем услышали ну так мы подумали что гроза почувствовали что у нас дом так как бы
10:24немножко тряхнула вот но мы решили что это гроза и мы уснули спокойно
10:37Pripyat surgeon доктор александр бугар was also fast asleep
10:41меня подняли десь без двадцати два по тревозе
10:48швидка допомога подъезжала забирала меня из дома и привезла в медсанчастину
10:53а сейчас просто сказали что нема машин добирайтеся пешки
10:58ни одна пташка не спивала абсолютно тихо было страшно и в напрямку атомной станции стояло таке
11:11что мы видим за арива такого малинового кольора я такого не бачу
11:16кольору я такого не бачу на чорном небе просто щось куполом горит
11:21очень красиво в лапках
11:25у нас в окно арзиоденаптическое выходило на четвертий блок
11:35его видно было так как на дуле
11:40ну и там уже я побачил что воно блоку немае что все горит
11:47я спустился и сразу мне привезли первого пострадалого
11:52шишинок
11:57это был самый первый пациент
11:59он был в тяжком состоянии
12:02он был весь обпечен абсолютно
12:05все кроме ног
12:07было обпечено
12:09но шкира была не червоного кольора
12:12а синего синюшного кольору
12:14так и все было похерято
12:16сразу что то было радиоактивные опеки
12:18я зрозумів естественно перелякался
12:21и
12:35и
12:35и
12:35и
12:36и
12:48и
12:49I had to go there for 5-7 hours to go to the first school, where I was teaching.
12:57The only thing that I found out there was, maybe, a little bit of a weird thing,
13:01is that this road on the other side of each other
13:07had a lot of polival cars, which made a lot of the road.
13:14Well, then, I went on to the other side and went on to the other side.
13:21Reactor operator Alexi Brias was due on shift at Unit 4.
13:27In the morning of the 26th, when I left, I had to drink coffee.
13:32From the morning of the 26th, I had to go to the change at 8 o'clock in the morning.
13:37It was a planned change.
13:39It was all planned.
13:41The only thing that I went on to the natural bus, like it was.
13:47It wasn't something else.
13:49Chernobyl chemist Valery Sulimov was preparing for his wife Helena's birthday.
13:54In the morning, when I woke up, I decided to go to the local market
13:59to 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 4.
14:32The northern and south walls are destroyed completely.
14:40It is a fire there.
14:41It is a fire there.
14:43It is a fire there.
14:43Oh, holy shit.
14:50When I saw the ruined buildings, the ruins of this,
14:56without the increase, I can say, that the hair was falling on the head.
15:00It was a fact that the night change was all over.
15:24The explosion had ripped Reactor 4 open, exposing its radioactive core.
15:29A lot of nuclear materials and fission isotopes went to atmosphere.
15:37Even parts of the nuclear rods were dispersed nearby the unit number 4.
15:52The laboratory, where I worked, was between 3 and 4 blocks.
15:57It's about 50 meters from the wall of 4 blocks.
16:04It's all very close to me.
16:08I went there together with my colleague.
16:12We went to the night shift.
16:15Valeriy Hadymchuk.
16:18I left home.
16:21He left.
16:23He was one of the first dead people.
16:29He went to check the equipment, went to the block.
16:33And he, unfortunately, stayed there.
16:35He died.
16:38He even couldn't get out of there.
16:44It was like a gift from heaven.
16:48I could stay there.
16:50I was like a second birthday.
16:54So, I could have had such a gift.
17:03My second colleague, to whom I was here, Владимир Shoshenok,
17:08he also went to check the equipment.
17:12He got a huge amount of radiation.
17:16At the hospital, dr. Oleksandr Bugar did all he could for Volodymyr Shashinok.
17:22He was very, very intensively treated, but, to be very sad, from radiation radiation.
17:27I understood immediately that it was radioactive protection.
17:31But from radiation radiation, he died in the blood.
17:39Firefighters who had been battling the blaze arrived at the hospital.
18:02While fire raged on the roof, reactor operator Alexi Brias was down below, trying to cool the overheating fuel.
18:10They had something to do, running, running, trying to bring water to reactor.
18:17There was a ready to do anything for anything, for any price.
18:31But the water just finished.
18:34I was about 10.04.
18:36The water was finished.
18:37I stopped the last one, because it was not needed.
18:40There was no water.
18:43The last button of the fourth block was pressed on 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 my mind, or deep in my engineering consciousness,
19:13understood that there is no reactor after what it 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.
19:38On the back of the reactor reactor, near the reactor reactor, there was a leak.
19:44And they told me that the leak of the leak is about 800 mcg per second.
19:510,8 mcg per second – it is a maximum amount of dose for operators.
19:580,8 – it is 800, but it is 1000 times more than the dose.
20:04What about my injuries, that I was there for a week or two, I was able to hold a month.
20:10I went to the dispatcher, to take a shower, to take a shower, to take a shower, to take a
20:15shower.
20:15And here, for me, it was a surprise that my skin has a strong skin color, the skin of the
20:26skin of the skin of the skin of the skin of the skin of the skin of the skin.
20:38And yet, in nearby Pripyat, shops and schools were still open as usual.
20:44The first day, on Saturday, 26th, it was, I would say, silent from the local authority.
20:52Even from the top level of the government of the Soviet Union complete silence.
21:00It was a weird thing, when, after the phone call, our teacher didn't appear immediately.
21:09When we hear in the open window a large number of siren, it is very interesting.
21:15And we, with this friend, just go to the open window and go to this sound.
21:24And then, someone said, they said, what do you do, what do you do?
21:28What do you do? What do you do?
21:28What do you do in school or not at home or at the hospital?
21:33What do you do?
21:34What do you do?
21:35What do you do?
21:36And from this moment, it was interesting.
21:38That was really interesting.
21:40It was very interesting.
21:41And my husband got the first helicopter.
21:43Well, it was a powerhouse.
21:45It was, for us, a very overwhelming shock.
21:48And for us, it was very interesting.
21:49We saw only in the cinema.
21:51And the biggest shock was that he was clearly sitting in a place somewhere near the river.
21:57He went to the river.
21:58And we fell there.
22:02We are, although we are specialists in radiation,
22:06but the person does not believe in danger, even when it is already in front of our 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 to avoid spread of information out of Pripyat.
22:43I went to a conversation point to contact the parents.
22:48But, unfortunately, the connection was missing.
22:54I was asked to get something, but no one was concerned about it.
23:06At the Chernobyl power plant, more than 24 hours after the explosion,
23:11workers like Alexi 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, as I say.
23:26They talk about heroism, operators, other liquidators.
23:33They're not one of us.
23:36They've never thought about it.
23:37They had never thought about it.
23:38I was the only one of them.
23:39I absolutely never thought about it.
23:42They would never croise to do things.
23:42It was, of course, my work.
23:47heavily contaminated steam and debris were blowing from the burning reactor
23:53triggering desperate attempts to smother it air force tried to bomb the
24:01destroyed reactor number four reactor unit with sand lead with a clay from the
24:10helicopters to make a kind of cork over the molten fuel and concrete
24:20we warned us that on December 27th, the second day after the war, we started to
24:26send the tanks with sand on the reactor. We warned us that if something is dark,
24:31we were surprised. It was really dark, every fall, it was a lot of tons of these tanks,
24:38I don't know how many of them were there, but it was like a gun for me, like a smoke.
24:46As the helicopters circled, the Soviet government maintained its total information blackout.
24:53For Soviet countries, it's normal.
24:56We always have to stop what's happening.
25:01Unfortunately.
25:07Alla Kravchuk was in Kyiv with her father Volodymyr, who had helped to build the reactor.
25:14When the accident has happened, nobody was informed.
25:20We arrived to the bus station. It's a big, huge place, completely deserted.
25:25No people, no buses.
25:28And dad went to the information desk to find out what's happening.
25:34He was told that, oh, there would be no buses today because all the transport was sent to Pripyat.
25:40There was some kind of accident.
25:44And I remember my dad going white in color.
25:50He said, what kind of accident needs that many transportation forces?
25:56Oh, they have to evacuate the town.
26:00That's when he realized something serious has happened.
26:05Few knew just how serious.
26:07We went to the manager of our department.
26:10They asked him what to do.
26:14And what are our future actions?
26:17What are the stages of the accident?
26:20Yes.
26:21And he told us that there will be evacuation.
26:25That we have to get ready.
26:27That the accident is serious.
26:30And we should leave.
26:33Nearly 36 hours after the explosion.
26:37Local officials finally ordered the evacuation.
26:41I heard, according to the system of this
27:00then they were loud.
27:03They were warned.
27:05They were telling us that they needed to gather,
27:07to gather with them with the most necessary.
27:09Yes, the spare of the share for three days.
27:13And they were going to go out and go out in the bus.
27:17Yes, the documents were going to,
27:19some products for three days,
27:22and without any other things.
27:34and at 2 pm sharp i don't know how many buses run to each building and so we collected what
27:49they
27:49suggested and my daughter and my wife went to evakuation leaving a handful of plant workers
27:57like valerie behind pripyat's citizens were forced to flee well we like all of our neighbors
28:04went to the bus and i went back to the back seat where my friends were and when the bus
28:13from our house he went to the central street on the проспект of Lenina and there was a column
28:26here came doctors from Moscow from the radiation center who
28:34looked at them and looked at them and they took the decision to move all of them to Moscow
28:46I went to work with medical facilities for evakuation and then formed one of the colon and I was in
28:57medical supervision of this colon I was together with this colon I went to this colon I went to the
29:03city of Pripyat
29:16In maybe two hours fifty thousand Pripyat citizens were evacuated
29:39The patri총ians had no idea where they were going or if they would ever be back
29:45Meanwhile the authorities continued to hide the disaster from the Soviet people
29:51And the world
30:03we were monitoring in Sweden at seven eight stations around and we had one
30:09monitor up close to our lab nuclear scientist Lars-Erik Daguer worked for
30:16Sweden's Ministry of Defense keeping watch for illegal nuclear weapons tests
30:21I was excited by working with disarmament on nuclear weapons I used to say that we
30:27could measure just one atom in a room two 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 and I heard on the radio
30:55that something had
30:56happened at Forsmark immediately I had to redefine myself as non-sick Lars-Erik's colleague Ingmar
31:06Wintersved was already checking one of their air filters on my way from the Stockholm central
31:12station to the laboratory I changed the filter and put it on a detector and wow we had a signal
31:21that was hundred thousand to one million higher than we ever had in the collective I called Ingmar
31:28and I said I come in to the lab immediately you could see the radionuclears appearing was something
31:38that could not have come from a nuclear explosion it must come from a nuclear reactor but Forsmark
31:49they do have portals where they look if people are radioactive leaves the reactors but after a while
31:57they found that people arriving were the most radioactive one higher radiation levels outside
32:05Forsmark meant contamination must have blown there from somewhere else we had always from the Swedish
32:14meteorological Institute information on every day from where the air had come so it took a quarter of an
32:24hour to determine something must have happened in the Soviet Union the Swedish government confronted
32:31officials in Moscow meanwhile Ingmar revealed the shocking news to the media I gave an interview at four
32:40o'clock in the afternoon apparently Reuters said that I had suggested that this is an accident in the former
32:49Soviet Union Moscow still denied everything but American funded radio was breaking through the iron curtain
33:19they reported that Swedish monitoring station reported about a
33:26about the rising of the radiation in the atmosphere nearly 72 hours after the accident the soviets
33:35responded with this deliberately vague announcement an accident has occurred that the Chernobyl atomic power plant
33:42as one of the atomic reactors was damaged measures are being undertaken to eliminate the consequences of the
33:50accident the truth was not containable because as much as you wanted this accident to be a secret the world
34:03began to realize that something is happening and the world began to be suspicious
34:14in the UK on the evening of Monday the 28th of April Dr. Alan Flowers had just finished a lecture
34:21in London on nuclear power plant safety
34:26Monday evening I would often at the end of my lecture classes go out to my car and listen to
34:31the six o'clock news
34:32put the car radio on they summed up by saying the Soviet Union had admitted there'd been an accident at
34:43the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
34:46the first reaction is this this this this has to be big an accident where radio activity is reaching Sweden
34:54that is a significant accident
34:56if this had reached Sweden the radiation has every possibility to reach the UK
35:04fear of radiation was spreading across the world but at the plant a new crisis was looming
35:12so you've got two big things going on radio activity dispersing through the atmosphere
35:19so it's going to be global because this is going to cross the borders of the Soviet Union
35:25at the same time you've got local issues of controlling a nuclear reaction that is out of control
35:33very high temperature molten material and the worry about well where is this going to go is it going to
35:38burn its way down
35:45into the ground
35:46four days after the explosion unit force molten core was burning down through concrete and steel towards a cooling pond
35:55and what the danger of this situation if their melted nuclear fuel comes to the water it will cause another
36:06another and more powerful explosion burning hot fuel would instantly vaporize the water blasting thousands
36:15of tons of radioactive steam and debris into the sky three people from Chernobyl power plant two engineers and
36:31the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to prevent the
36:40reaction of the melting fuel with water
36:56the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water
37:00to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the
37:01water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to
37:02the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water
37:02to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the
37:02water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to
37:02the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water
37:02to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the
37:02water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to
37:03the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water
37:05to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the water to the
37:13water
37:13but there was no stopping the radiation already high in the sky.
37:18The radioactivity that has gone into the atmosphere,
37:21that is at extremely high levels.
37:25You can't see it. There's glow or anything.
37:28It's travelling in the atmosphere. It's dropping down on the ground.
37:33And there was some diffusion to the south and to the great city of Kiev
37:38with a population around 3 million.
37:43Ala Kravchuk was living in Kiev with her parents.
37:46Kiev was only 167 kilometers away,
37:50so it was exposed to danger any time.
37:55I remember washing the floor every day, keeping the windows closed.
38:01The streets in Kiev were washed every morning before people entered.
38:07There would be a big machine driving and spraying the water.
38:14It was difficult to grasp the size of the disaster.
38:22It was something which was not visible, but everybody felt it.
38:27The invisible cloud of radioactive debris continued to spread across Europe.
38:33The Friday after the accident, the 2nd of May,
38:38I have a lasting memory of the morning papers.
38:41There was the banner headline, Death Cloud Approaches Britain.
38:45It took around about six days before the radioactivity reached the UK.
38:57More than 2,000 kilometers west of Kiev,
39:01Glyn Roberts had only recently settled his family on their sheep farm.
39:05We had a tendency on this farm in 1984 year.
39:11I heard, unfortunately, the next year down the news,
39:15but at that time, we hadn't got any idea of the implications
39:19that we'd have on agriculture and the earth in Wales
39:23because 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 Chernobyl fallout came over,
39:38it was a very misty, warm, drizzly night.
39:43I remember about four or five hours standing in that drizzly rain.
39:49That contaminated drizzle was soaking Glyn
39:52and the fields on which his sheep were grazing.
39:55The concern was that cesium and iodine and things like that
40:00would be taken up in the foodstuff.
40:03The responsibility was to protect the whole population
40:07and the risk that 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
40:24when the announcement came over from the government saying
40:27that we as farmers would not sell the product
40:31if there were any cesium in the meat.
40:35But I didn't realise the implications of that had on the farmer himself
40:39because they couldn't sell any animals.
40:41The restrictions remained in place for more than two decades
40:45and signalled that the Chernobyl disaster had become a global crisis,
40:51even hijacking President Reagan's state visit with President Suharto of Indonesia.
40:59Mr. President, what do you know new about the Soviet nuclear accident?
41:04I don't think we have any information that isn't available in the public to it.
41:08Are the Soviets telling us all we need to know about it, sir?
41:13Well, they're usually a little close now.
41:17Would 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
41:33when we could read it in the atmosphere.
41:36Cover up or not, the race was now on to understand
41:40just 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,
42:17except in the very close high-activity area around the plant.
42:22People realise things are going wrong.
42:23At very high levels, you get a reddening on the skin.
42:26You also get sick very rapidly.
42:28The danger could no longer be denied.
42:31The authorities set an exclusion zone 30 kilometres 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 areas of Chernobyl,
42:55search for it, search for it.
42:57There wasn't a difference between the relationships.
42:59But I went to my father.
43:01I don't remember who I was coming to,
43:04I called my mom, my mom saw me, and cried.
43:10My emotions were even bigger.
43:15Alexander Sirota had fled to Kyiv with his mother.
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.
43:46There was a monumental effort from the liquidators,
43:50so you're talking over 100,000 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 radioactivity off the roofs of houses.
44:08And then turning over the soil,
44:10if you've got about 10-15 centimetres of soil
44:13over the top of the radioactivity,
44:15that would at least contribute a degree of shielding.
44:20Back at ground zero,
44:22the wreckage of Unit 4 wouldn't be buried so easily.
44:27Even just looking at the ruined building,
44:32it was obvious that the level of radiance was very high.
44:36Or catastrophic high.
44:38It was not even needed to do so.
44:39It was obvious.
45:03The nuclear material from the core is very, very dangerous to approach,
45:07or even to spend any time looking at.
45:09It is incredibly radioactive structure.
45:12It was like a ghost town.
45:15The group was told not to step on the grass,
45:19not to touch the trees.
45:21It was very, very dangerous to tell us about the real reasons of an avarion in the Chernobyl.
45:31Then it wasn't an unknown disease.
45:34Then the unknown disease was an unknown.
45:36It was an unknown part of the Communist Party.
45:41My 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.
46:18Well, dirty politics and international humiliations tomorrow. It damaged a global standing and destroyed a Prime Minister.
46:26Suez, 24 hours that broke the British Empire. Concludes at 9.
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