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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.
02:09This is a very funny show.
02:10So the concert hall is where I'm standing, and that is the shopping centre.
02:17Kripyat was built in the 1970s, at the height of the Cold War.
02:22Oh, it's wonderful. It'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 because everybody is all over the world.
02:39If they're lucky to be alive, that is.
02:45Ala Kravchuk attended the high school.
02:48We moved to Kripyat in 1982.
02:54The town is surrounded with forests.
02:57I learned to ride my bike for the first time in my life because there was lots of open places
03:04and spaces, especially around my school.
03:08I think everybody in the world remembers their youth as the best time of their life.
03:15So do I.
03:20Halina Sulimova and her husband Valery arrived soon after graduating from university.
03:40We immediately loved Kripyat from the first sight, because the architecture and the layout of the city was very, I
03:53would say, for that time very modern.
03:55Very nice squares and boulevard.
04:01This 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.
04:18Pripyat is a very natural system for us.
04:21A young cyber dungeon staff delivering inferences for the fiλ, for childbirth.
04:24We as a young guy were a small owner of the house.
04:25Our young girl liked her daughter, she gave the southeast family an compartments.
04:33Her daughter ke고at showed us a little at home
04:42She gave the Royal butter, she gave the shower house in the house for a child of the children of
04:43the station.
04:46The Chernobyl power plant, known in Ukrainian as Chernobyl, was just two kilometers from
04:51Pripyat. Two reactors went online in 1977. Alokravchuk's father, Volodymyr, helped build
05:03two more in the early 80s.
05:05He was the building engineer, so he would calculate the structure. He would then observe
05:12it being built correctly. It was new. It was clean energy. It was built with latest technology.
05:25It had a fantastic future. Of course you would be proud of being involved.
05:35Much of this historic footage has been preserved by Oleksandr Sirota. Now a journalist, in 1980,
05:42in 1986, he was a nine-year-old Pripyat schoolboy.
05:46Well, in fact, we were quite often at the station. We had an excursion for children.
05:53We were, at least in my class, so-called chefs.
05:56The companies were kind of trained by this class. It was an electric sector of the Chernobyl.
06:03They gave us olive oil with the logo of the CHS and the letters.
06:17And I would say the main part of the nuclear fuel. And you will be right. But I would say
06:34as a chemist, the main,
06:36The main element of the nuclear power plant is water, because water is cooler.
06:43Oleksii Brias was a reactor operator for Unit 4.
06:48Under the door, 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.
07:06It was all in my hands.
07:09That explained that there are 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. We trusted the safety. We did.
07:32Honestly, we never thought that something could happen at our station.
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.
08:05Then, next day was her birthday. She was 25 this day.
08:12And we planned a small party to celebrate.
08:20And she went to her shift.
08:25As Friday ticked into Saturday, Helena arrived at the plant.
08:31I went to the laboratory, where my colleagues, when it was compared to zero,
08:39they celebrated me with her birthday.
08:41They were happy that they did it earlier than my husband.
08:46And then, she was the director of the chemical laboratory.
08:52After a while, he said,
08:54that the work will be little until the morning,
08:57and we can leave you home.
09:00I know, never shut down the reactor very quickly,
09:04because we need the water to cool and chill a little bit.
09:09And I have suspicious that my wife will come back.
09:17I ran away from the street,
09:20and the last bus was already left.
09:24And someone in the bus stood behind,
09:28looked at the back of the window,
09:30and saw that I ran away from the station,
09:33and asked me to stop the bus.
09:35He stopped, and I ran away from him.
09:42I heard steps.
09:45And, ah, welcome back.
09:49Congratulations.
09:51Happy birthday.
09:52Okay.
09:54We'll talk a little bit about party,
09:58and, okay, oh, too bad.
10:14To be careful,
10:15My wife has heard...
10:18We thought it was a storm.
10:20We felt like that a storm was mine.
10:21We felt like the house had a little on the air.
10:26But we decided, that it was a storm.
10:28And we could sleep quietly.
10:31It was very calm.
10:37Pripyat surgeon Dr. Alexander Bugar was also fast asleep.
10:42I was raised about 22 hours on the train.
10:48A quick help came, took me home and took me to the hospital.
10:53And now they just said, if there is no car, go to the hospital.
10:59No one song was singing. It was quiet.
11:03It was scary.
11:06And in the direction of the station there was such a green light color.
11:15I did not see that.
11:17I did not see that color.
11:18On the black sky there was something with a cup of water.
11:22Very beautiful.
11:23It was a black light.
11:28It appeared in the 4th block window.
11:35It was visible on the other side.
11:40And there I saw that there is no block, that everything is burning.
11:48It was a large part of the hospital.
11:48So I was standing there.
11:49I went to the hospital and came to the hospital and brought me back to the hospital.
11:57It was the first patient.
11:58He was in a difficult state, he was all set up. Everything except the legs.
12:07It was set up, but the skin was not red, but white, white.
12:14And everything was fine.
12:16And immediately, when it was radioactive, I understood, naturally, I was upset.
12:31Five hours after Chernobyl's reactor exploded, in 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 home, I went to school.
12:49I had to go for about 5-7 minutes to the first school where I was teaching.
12:57The only thing that I thought was a little strange,
13:01was that on the other side of the road,
13:05there were washing machines,
13:10which cleaned the road.
13:14And 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 26th, when I left, I went out and drank coffee.
13:32From the morning of 26th, I had to go to the change at 8-hour.
13:37It was a planned change.
13:40It was all planned.
13:41It was all planned.
13:43It was all planned.
13:45It was all planned.
13:46It was all planned.
13:46It was all planned.
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 to buy something for the
14:01party.
14:01But 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.
14:33The northern and south walls are destroyed completely.
14:40It is a fire there.
14:43Ooh.
14:44What is shit?
14:50When I saw the ruined building, the ruined buildings, the ruined buildings,
14:58I could say that the voice was falling on my head.
15:00It was an impression.
15:01It was a fact that the night change was all gone.
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 the 3rd and the 4th blocks.
15:57It was about 50 meters from the 4th block.
16:03It is all very close to me.
16:08I went to the hospital.
16:08Because when I went to the hospital, I went to the hospital.
16:12With my colleague, my colleague, my colleague, on the night shift.
16:15It was Aleriy Hadimchuk.
16:18I went to the hospital.
16:21He left home.
16:22And he remained.
16:23He was one of the first killings.
16:29He was entered for the hospital.
16:32He went to the block and, unfortunately, he stayed there. He died.
16:38He couldn't even get out of there.
16:44It was like a gift from heaven.
16:48I could stay there.
16:51Yes, this is my second day of birth.
16:55I could have been such a same.
17:03My second colleague, with whom I arrived, Vladimir Shashinok, he also went and checked the equipment.
17:12He received a very large amount of radiation.
17:16At the hospital, Dr. Alexander Bugar did all he could for Vladimir Shashinok.
17:22He was very, very intensively treated, but, unfortunately, from the radiation radiation, I already understood that it was radioactive.
17:31But from the radiation radiation, he died.
17:39Firefighters, who'd 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, running, trying to put water in the reactor.
18:17There was a willingness to do anything for anything, for any price.
18:31But the water just finished.
18:34I was about 10.04.
18:36The water finished.
18:37I stopped the last engine, 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.
18:54And the reactor has no cooling.
18:57And the nuclear fuel started to melt.
19:04Meltdown.
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.
19:44I told them that the leak is about 800 mcg per second.
19:520,8 mcg per second.
19:55This is the maximum dose for operators.
19:580,8 mcg per second.
20:00This is about 800 mcg per second.
20:01This is about 1000 times more.
20:02I have an increase.
20:03I have an increase in the amount of doses.
20:04What cost me to use, I've been eating more hours a week.
20:10I went into an electric fuel cell which was a day before me.
20:15I was in this case.
20:17I feel that my skin has a strong skin color,
20:24the skin of my skin was red,
20:29the parts of my skin were red,
20:33and under her wearing a beautiful skin.
20:38And yet, in nearby Pripyat,
20:40shops and schools were still open as usual.
20:43The first day on Saturday, 26,
20:48it was, I would say, silent from the local authority,
20:52even from the top level of the government of the Soviet Union complete silence.
21:00Дивно почалося, коли після дзвінка на урок
21:03наш вчитель не з'явився одразу.
21:09Коли ми чуємо у відкрите вікно дуже велику кількість сирен,
21:14нам стає дуже цікаво,
21:15і ми з цим моїм приятелем просто вилазимо у вікно
21:18і біжемо на цей звук.
21:24Потім хтось із дорослих сказав,
21:26«Діти, а що ви тут робите?
21:28Чому ви в школі чи не вдома на станції пожежа у місті ЧП?
21:33Ви не маєте тут бути?»
21:36І от з цього моменту стало цікаво.
21:40Над нашими головами прилетів перший гелікоптер.
21:43Ну, це був військовий гелікоптер.
21:45Це для нас був просто неймовірний шок.
21:47І нам було дуже цікаво, ми таки бачили лише у кіно.
21:51А найбільший шок був в тому, що він явно сідав у місці десь біля річкового порту.
21:57Він пішов на зниження.
21:58І ми дриманули туди.
22:02Ми хоча і спеціалісти в радіаційної хімії,
22:07але людина вже до останнього не вірить в опасність,
22:11навіть коли вона вже стоїть перед очимами.
22:14На справді це був такий шок,
22:17що, в общем-то, ніхто не знав, що робити,
22:20і ніхто не представляв масштабів трагедії.
22:24And the Soviet authorities wanted to keep it that way.
22:29Each telephone of the Pripyat citizens were cuted,
22:34disconnected from the network to avoid spread of information out of Pripyat.
22:43I went to a conversation point to be telephonic to be telephonic.
22:48Але, на великій жаль, звісно, зв'язок був відсутній.
22:54Я щось питався щось набрати, але ніхто не...
22:58Ну, в зв'язку ніякого нема.
23:07Треба не вирішила, ніхто не вирішила,
23:11ніхто не вирішила, ніхто не вирішила.
23:25Ну, говорять про героїзм, операторів, скажімо, там, інших ліквідаторів,
23:32пожежних.
23:34Але навряд чи хто з них про це думав саме в той момент.
23:37Ну, я точно не думав, я абсолютно не вважаю,
23:40ніколи вважаю свої дії героїчними.
23:42Це було просто звичайно, скажімо так, моя робота.
23:48Heavily contaminated steam and debris
23:51were blowing from the burning reactor,
23:54triggering 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 over the molten fuel and concrete.
24:20Нас попередили, що 27 квітня,
24:29якщо буде щось шумно, щоб ми мерякалися.
24:33Було справді дуже шумно.
24:35Кожне падіння.
24:36Це багато тонн цей мішок,
24:38я не знаю, скільки він там важив.
24:40Це був як поштовх з амитрусу, як все змігка.
24:45Аз the helicopters circled,
24:48the Soviet government maintained
24:50its total information blackout.
25:07Ала Кравчук
25:09was in Kyiv
25:09with her father, Володимир,
25:11who had helped to build the reactor.
25:13When the accident has happened, nobody was informed.
25:20We arrived to the bus station.
25:22It's a big, huge place, completely deserted.
25:26No people, no buses.
25:28And dad went to the information desk to find out what's happening.
25:33He was told that there would be no buses today,
25:37because all the transport was sent to Pripyat.
25:40There was some kind of accident.
25:43And I remember my dad going white in colour.
25:50He said, what 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.
26:07And he went to his manager at our department.
26:10They asked him what to do,
26:14and what are our future actions,
26:17and what scale of an accident.
26:21And 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, according to this loud connection,
26:45the announcement about evacuation.
26:47It sounded several times,
26:49with an interval of 10-15 minutes.
26:52And, you know, maybe in that moment,
26:54first of all, it was kind of scary.
26:58And then, in the city,
27:01they started loud speaking.
27:04They said,
27:05they said,
27:05they need to gather together,
27:07only the most important thing.
27:10There,
27:10there,
27:11there,
27:11there,
27:11there,
27:13there,
27:13there,
27:13there,
27:13and
27:13there,
27:15there,
27:17There,
27:18there,
27:18there,
27:19there.
27:20some products for 3 days and without any other things.
27:55Leaving a handful of plant workers like Valeri behind, Pripyat's citizens were forced to flee.
28:27Pripyat's citizens came from Moscow, from the radiation center,
28:34who monitored the firemen and the brigade, which left alive.
28:41And they took the decision to move all of them into Moscow.
28:46I went to take care of medical equipment for evacuation,
28:51and then they formed one of the colon,
28:55and I was in the hospital of this colon.
28:59I went to this colon 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 or if they would ever be back.
29:45Meanwhile, the authorities continued to hide the disaster from the Soviet people and the world.
30:03We were monitoring in Sweden at seven, eight stations around,
30:08and we had one monitor up close to our lab.
30:13Nuclear scientist Lars-Erik Daguer worked for Sweden's Ministry of Defense,
30:17keeping watch for illegal nuclear weapons tests.
30:21I was excited by working with disarmament of 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.
31:09On 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 one million higher than we ever had in the collective.
31:27I called Ingmar, and I said I'll come in to the lab immediately.
31:33I could see the radionuclears appearing was something that could not have come from a nuclear explosion.
31:42It must come from a nuclear reactor.
31:48At Forsmark, they do have portals where they look if people are radioactive,
31:53leave the reactors, but after a while they found that people arriving were the most radioactive ones.
32:03Higher radiation levels outside Forsmark meant contamination must have blown there, from somewhere else.
32:10We had always, from the Swedish Meteorological Institute, information 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.
32:29The 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.
32:56They were setting up their radio, they were shooting some waves and they was shooting with an antenna.
33:04It was illegally.
33:08We were the first news about the catastrophe, the scale of the catastrophe,
33:14that they were listening from the Radio-Svoboda.
33:21They reported that the Swedish monitoring station reported about the rising of the radiation in the atmosphere.
33:31Nearly 72 hours after the accident, the Soviets responded with this deliberately vague announcement.
33:38An accident has occurred at the Chernobyl atomic power plant, as one of the atomic reactors was damaged.
33:46Measures are being undertaken to eliminate the consequences of the accident.
33:51Aid is being given to those affected.
33:54The truth was not containable, because as much as you wanted this accident to be a secret, the world began
34:04to realise that something is happening.
34:06And the world began to be suspicious.
34:14In the UK, on the evening of Monday 28th April, Dr Alan Flowers had just finished a lecture in London
34:22on 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 6 o'clock news.
34:32They put the car radio on. They summed it up by saying, the Soviet Union had admitted there had been
34:41an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
34:47The first reaction is, this has to be big.
34:51An accident where radio activity is reaching Sweden, that 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.
35:08But at the plant, a new crisis was looming.
35:12So you've got two big things going on.
35:16Radioactivity 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 they worry about, well, where is this going to go?
35:38Is it going to burn its way down into the ground?
35:46Four days after the explosion, Unit 4's molten core was burning down through concrete and steel.
35:52Towards a cooling pond.
35:55And what the danger of this situation?
36:00If the melted nuclear fuel comes to the water, it will cause another and more powerful explosion.
36:10Burning hot fuel would instantly vaporize the water, blasting thousands of tons of radioactive steam and debris into the sky.
36:19Three people from Chernobyl power plant, two engineers, and Boris Baranov, he was shift supervisor.
36:29I knew him very well.
36:31They said, OK, we will try to open wells to drain water, to prevent the reaction of the melting fuel
36:43with water.
36:43In the full darkness, they succeeded to find the wells and open several of them.
36:55And in maybe hours, the water drained completely.
37:00After this, I would say, heroic action, they ruined their more powerful explosion.
37:10A far greater catastrophe had been prevented, but there was no stopping the radiation already high in the sky.
37:18The radioactivity that has gone into the atmosphere, that is at extremely high levels.
37:25You can't see it.
37:26There's glow or anything.
37:28It's traveling in the atmosphere.
37:30It's dropping down on the ground.
37:33And there was some diffusion to the south and to the great city of Kyiv, with a population around 3
37:40million.
37:42Alla Kravchuk was living in Kyiv with her parents.
37:47Kyiv was only 167 kilometers away, so it was exposed to danger any time.
37:56I remember washing the floor every day, keeping the windows closed.
38:01The streets in Kyiv were washed every morning before people entered.
38:08There would be a big machine driving and spraying the water.
38:13It 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, I 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 Kyiv, Glyn 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 about the next year on the news, but at that time we hadn't got any idea of the
39:18implications that we'd 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 Chernobyl fallout came over, it was a very misty, warm, drizzly night.
39:43I remember about four or five hours standing in that drizzly rain.
39:50That contaminated drizzle was soaking Glyn and the fields on which his sheep were grazing.
39:56The concern was that cesium and iodine and things like that would be taken up in the foodstuff.
40:03The responsibility was to protect the whole population and the risk that few people in the population should die if
40:13they 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 saying that
40:28we as farmers would not sell the product if there were any cesium in the meat.
40:35But I didn't realise the implications of that had on the farmer himself because they couldn't sell their animals.
40:41The restrictions remained in place for more than two decades and signalled that the Chernobyl disaster had become a global
40:50crisis.
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.
41:07On 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.
41:25This was the first time where the Russians' lies didn't function because they couldn't deny that something had happened when
41:33we 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, through the media and the free information that was
41:50available, very 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, say, it's all all right, carry on
42:07as normal.
42:08And 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 realise things going wrong.
42:23Very high levels, you get a reddening on the skin. You also get sick very rapidly.
42:27The danger could no longer be denied. The 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.
42:46The entire time my father was going to the circle of Chernobyl.
42:55He looked for that. There's no connection.
42:59So I went to my parents. I don't remember which I came.
43:04I called the door, opened my mother.
43:07My mother saw me, and cried.
43:10Your emotions? There were no emotions. I was almost relieved.
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 the 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,
44:14that 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 buildings,
44:32it was obvious that the level of radiation was very high.
44:36It was very high.
44:37It was very high.
44:38It was very high.
44:38It didn't need to be any of those.
44:39It was obvious.
44:44It was obvious.
45:03The nuclear material from the core is very, very dangerous
45:06due to approach or even to spending time looking at.
45:09It was 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.
45:22We are forced to be falando about the real cause of an avarge in the Chernobyl.
45:30When there was no disease, then the disease was prevented by the Communist Party.
45:40My insider at Chernobyl plant showed me the picture and I saw the Russian tanks on the square.
45:55They continued to shout out to me.
46:01If 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.
46:22It damaged a global standing and destroyed a Prime Minister.
46:26Suez, 24 hours that broke the British Empire.
46:29Concludes at 9.
46:39Have a great day.
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