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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.
02:09Oh, this is the center.
02:10So the concert hall is where I'm standing, and that is the shopping centre.
02:17Pripyat 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.
02:33It'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, that is.
02:45Ala Kravchuk attended the high school.
02:48We 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, 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 Pripyat from the first sight.
03:47Because the architecture and the layout of the city was very, I would say, for that time, very modern.
03:56Very 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.
04:18Privyat� tells me the time.
04:21We are trees at home.
04:46The Chernobyl power plant, known in Ukrainian as Chernobyl, was 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, so he would calculate the structure.
05:11He would then observe it being built correctly.
05:14It was new, it was clean energy, it was built with the latest technology, it had a fantastic future.
05:28Of course you 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.
05:46Well, on the other hand, we were quite often at the station.
05:50For children, we had an excursion.
05:52We had, at least in my class, had the so-called chefs.
05:56It was a company that kind of owned this class.
06:01And it was an electric sector of Chernobyl.
06:03And they gave us an industrial darauf to be done,
06:05and they gave us the Stitcher.
06:06They gave us the navy letters and the supercomputs of Chernobyl for the state,
06:07So I decided to know, what I would want to keep the country safe.
06:12I remember what they said about it that the nuclear atom is the most safe.
06:17The Soviet Marshall is the most safe.
06:20The Soviet Union is the most safe that the Soviet Union is the Soviet Union.
06:30and you will be right but I would say as a chemist the main element of the
06:38nuclear power plant it is a water because water is a cooler
06:43Alexi 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 any kind that you do malish to no nasa stanzi mozat 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 chesop прибежала в лабораторию где мои коллеги когда сравнялась ноль часов меня
08:39поздравили с днем рождения по порадовались что они сделали это раньше чем мой муж и
08:45и тогда еще начальник лаборатории химическая он через некоторое время сказал что работы будет мало до утра и мы можем
08:57отпустить тебя домой
09:00i 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
09:16вот выбежала на улицу а автобус последний уже поехал и кто-то в автобусе стоял задом он смотрел заднее
09:29стекло и увидел что я выбежала со станции и попросил остановить автобус он остановился я добежала до него
09:41i heard steps and welcome back congratulations happy birthday okay we'll talk a little bit about party and
09:59uh okay go to bed
10:15мужем услышали ну мы подумали что гроза почувствовали что у нас дом так как бы немножко тряхнула вот но мы
10:26решили что это гроза и мы уснули спокойно
10:37припиэт-серджен доктор александр бугар was also fast asleep
10:42мы не пидняли десь без 22 по тревозе швидка допомога підъезжала забирала мене з дома и повезла в медсанчастину
10:53а зараз просто сказали что нема машин добирайтеся пішки
10:59ни одна пташка не співала абсолютно тихо было страшно и в напрямку атомной станции стояло таке
11:11вот такого малинового околи я такого не бачу кольору я такого не бачу на чорном небе просто щось куполом горит
11:21очень красиво лапка
11:25у нас в окно ордзеодонаптическое выходило на четвертий блок
11:34его видно было так как на дуле
11:40ну и там уже я побачил что воно блоку не маю что все горит
11:48я спустился и сразу мне привезли першого пострадалого шишинок
11:56это был самый первый пациент
11:59он был в тяжелом состоянии
12:02он был весь обпечен абсолютно
12:04все кроме них
12:07было обпечено
12:09но шкира была не червоного кольора а синего
12:12синюшного кольора и все было похерято
12:15и сразу что то было радиоактивные опеки я зрозумево естественно перелякался
12:315 hours after chernobyl reactor exploded
12:35in nearby pripyat no one yet knew there was a problem
12:39it was a normal school day for olexander sirota
12:44когда я вышел из дома
12:46не поспешаючи пішов до школы
12:49мне там было уйти буквально
12:51ну может 5-7 хвилин
12:52до першой школы где я навчался
12:57един что мне тогда
12:58сталося может трохи дивным
13:01это то что
13:02дорогой
13:05на зустріч одна одни
13:07ехали машины
13:08поливальники
13:10как они называются
13:11какие мили дорогу
13:15ну и я там
13:16поплюхався по колюжах цих
13:18и пішов соби далее
13:19реактор оператор алексей бриас
13:23был дуан шефт
13:25от юнит 4
13:27в ранку 26-го
13:29когда прокинався
13:30зібрался
13:31выпив кави
13:32с ранку 26-го я мав вити на змину
13:35на 8-м годину ранку
13:38планова
13:39чешкова зміна
13:40все было за планом
13:41един что
13:42я поехал на
13:44обычным автобусом
13:48ченобиль chemist
13:50валерий сулемов
13:51украфт
13:51делай
13:54я
13:54я
13:57и
14:16вы
14:17вы
14:17вы
14:17вы
14:17вы
14:18because it is impossible.
14:26And he told me, there is no reactor unit number four.
14:33The northern and south walls are destroyed completely.
14:40It is a fire there.
14:43Ooh, what is shit?
14:50When I saw the ruins of the building, the ruins of the building,
14:56without more, I can tell you, that the voice became a little bit of a head.
15:00It was a shock.
15:01It was a fact that the night change was all over.
15:07It was a fire there, it was a fire there.
15:12And when I was going to go to a small work place, I thought it was already there.
15:23The explosion had ripped reactor 4 open, exposing its radioactive core.
15:30A lot of nuclear materials and fission isotopes went to the atmosphere.
15:36Even parts of the nuclear rods were dispersed nearby the unit number 4.
15:52The laboratory, where I worked, was between 3 and 4 blocks.
15:57This is about 50 meters from the wall of the 4 block.
16:04It's all very close, I'll tell you so.
16:07Because I went there together with my colleague.
16:12We went to the night shift.
16:15Valery Khadymchuk.
16:18I went home, but he stayed.
16:22And he became one of the first dead people.
16:29He went to the hospital and went to the block.
16:33And unfortunately, he stayed there.
16:35He died.
16:38He didn't even get out of there.
16:44It was like a gift from the sky.
16:48I could stay there.
16:51Yes, this is my second day of birth.
17:02My second colleague, with whom I came here, Vladimir Shashinok,
17:08he also went to check the equipment.
17:11And he received a huge amount of radiation.
17:15At the hospital, dr. Oleksandr Bugar did all he could for Volodymyr Shashinok.
17:23He was very, very intensively treated.
17:25But, to be very sad, from the radiation radiation.
17:27I understood immediately, that it was radioactive.
17:31But from the radiation 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 Alexey Brias was down below, trying to cool the overheating fuel.
18:10They had something to do, running, running, running, trying to put water in the reactor.
18:17There was a ready to do anything for anything for any price.
18:31But the water just finished.
18:33It was about 10.04.
18:36It was about 10.04.
18:36The water was finished.
18:37I stopped the last one.
18:39The last one was not needed.
18:40There was no water.
18:43The last one was pressed on the 4th block.
18:47It was pressed on the 0.
18:50All water was flooded away, and the reactor has no cooling, and the nuclear fuel started to melt down.
19:05Maybe everyone, in the deep heart, or deep in its engineering consciousness, understood that there is no reactor after that
19:16he saw.
19:19this melted nuclear fuel has approximately two thousand degrees Celsius and easily can
19:27go through the concrete steel under the reactor the molten core was now blasting radiation in
19:35all directions on the back of the reactor reactor near the reactor reactor. They told me that it was 800
19:49microrengents per second. 0,8 microrengents per second is the maximum dose for operators.
19:580,8 microrengents per second, but there are thousands of more available doses.
20:04As for my injuries, I have one hour or two to one hour.
20:10I went to the dispatcher to take a shower, to take a shower, to take a shower, to take a
20:15shower.
20:15For me it was a doubt that my skin has a nice smell, a color color,
20:24the body, the head and the head were red,
20:29the parts of the body were opened and red,
20:33and under the dress, it was a beautiful smell.
20:38And yet, in nearby Pripyat,
20:41shops and schools were still open as usual.
20:44The 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,
20:56of the Soviet Union complete silence.
21:00It was strange when, after the phone call,
21:04our teacher did not appear immediately.
21:09When we hear a lot of a large number of siren,
21:14it makes us very interesting,
21:15and we, with these friends, just go to the window
21:19and we're going to get this sound.
21:24Then, someone from the old age said,
21:26what did you do here?
21:27What did you do here?
21:28What did you do here at school?
21:29Or not at home?
21:30Or at the fire?
21:32Or at the fire?
21:32Or at the city of ЧП?
21:33Or you don't have to be here?
21:35And from this moment, it was interesting.
21:38It was so cool.
21:40It was loud.
21:42It was loud.
21:43It was a helicopter.
21:44It was a military helicopter.
21:45It was just a shock.
21:47It was very interesting.
21:49We were only watching it in the movie.
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.
23:33I did not think so.
23:34The people who are not working at all, but there is no one of them.
23:36But there is no one of them thought about it.
23:37I did not think about it.
23:38I do not think about it.
23:40I do not think about it.
23:40I do not think about it.
23:42It was my work.
23:43It was just a bit of, of course, my job.
23:48heavily 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 wondering. 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, it was like
24:43a
24:46As the helicopters circled, the Soviet government maintained its total
24:51information blackout.
24:53For the Soviet Union, it's normal to always stop what is 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 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.
26:07Nearly 36 hours after the explosion,
26:08he went to the manager of our department and asked him what to do
26:14and what are our future actions,
26:17and what are the stages of the crash.
26:20And he told us that there will be evacuation.
26:25That we have to get ready, that the crash is serious.
26:30And we should leave.
26:33Nearly 36 hours after the explosion,
26:37local officials finally ordered the evacuation.
26:41I heard from the system of this
26:44of the rocket's response,
26:46the announcement about evacuation.
26:47It sounded a few times,
26:49with an interval of 10-15 minutes.
26:52And you know, maybe in that moment,
26:54at first, it was something that was scary.
26:58And then, by the city,
27:01we started to speak loud,
27:04that we need to gather together,
27:07only the most necessary,
27:10the supply for three days,
27:13and go out and sit in the bus.
27:18Yes, to take documents,
27:19some products for three days,
27:22and without any other things,
27:24go out.
27:34And at 2 p.m. sharp,
27:39I don't know how many buses
27:41run to each building,
27:44and so we collected what they suggested,
27:50and my 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.
28:02Well, we, as all our neighbors,
28:04went to the bus,
28:05and I went back to the back seat,
28:09where my friends were already
28:10and when the bus was coming out of our house,
28:15the bus was coming out of the central street,
28:17on the проспект of Lenina,
28:18and there was a column.
28:26We arrived from Moscow,
28:31from the radiation center,
28:33who looked at the firemen and the brigade,
28:40which left alive.
28:41And they took the decision to move all over to Moscow.
28:46I went to work with medical facilities for evacuation,
28:51and then they formed one of the columns,
28:55and I was in the medical field of this column.
28:59And I went to this column with this column
29:02from the city of Pripyat.
29:15In maybe two hours,
29:1950,000 Pripyat citizens were evacuated.
29:39The evacuees had no idea where they were going,
29:43or if they would ever be back.
29:46Meanwhile, the authorities continued to hide the disaster
29:49from 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 Dagier
30:15worked 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
30:39reported unusually high radiation readings.
30:46Monday, the 28th of April, 1986,
30:50I 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.
31:04Lars-Erik's colleague, Ingmar Wintersved,
31:06was 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,
31:19and wow, we had a signal that was 100,000 to one million
31:23higher than we ever had in the collective.
31:27I called Ingmar, and I said,
31:30I come in to the lab immediately.
31:33You could see the radionucleides appearing
31:37was 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
31:50where they look if people are radioactive,
31:53leave the reactors.
31:56But after a while, they found that people arriving
31:59were the most radioactive one.
32:02Higher radiation levels outside Forsmark
32:06meant contamination must have blown there,
32:09from somewhere else.
32:11We 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
32:24to 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
32:46that 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 insisted on filming his radio,
32:59shooting some waves with the antennae.
33:04It was illegally .
33:08We, for the first news about the catastrophe and the scale of the catastrophe,
33:14we listened literally from the Radio The Free.
33:20they reported that Swedish monitoring station reported about the rising of
33:28the radiation in the atmosphere nearly 72 hours after the accident the Soviets
33:35responded with this deliberately vague announcement an accident has occurred
33:40that the Chernobyl atomic power plant as one of the atomic reactors was damaged
33:45measures are being undertaken to eliminate the consequences of the accident aid is being given
33:53to those affected the truth was not containable because as much as you wanted this accident to
34:01be a secret the world began to realize that something is happening and the world began to
34:14be suspicious in the UK on the evening of Monday the 28th of April dr. Alan flowers had just
34:20finished a lecture in London on nuclear power plant safety Monday evening I would often at the end of
34:28my lecture classes go out to my car and listen to the six o'clock news put the car radio
34:34on they summed
34:35up by saying the Soviet Union had admitted there'd been an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
34:46first reaction is this this this has to be big an accident where radio activity is reaching Sweden
34:54that is a significant accident the radiation has every possibility to reach the UK fear of radiation was
35:06spreading across the world but at the plant a new crisis was looming so you've got two big things going
35:15on radioactivity dispersing through the atmosphere so it's going to be global because this is going to cross
35:22the borders of the Soviet Union at the same time you've got local issues of controlling a nuclear
35:29reaction that is out of control very high temperature molten material and the worry about well where is
35:37this going to go is it going to burn its way down into the ground four days after the explosion
35:48unit
35:49it falls molten core was burning down through concrete and steel towards a cooling pond
35:55and what the danger of this situation if the melted nuclear fuel comes to the water it will cause another
36:07and more powerful explosion burning hot fuel would instantly vaporize the water blasting thousands of tons of
36:16radioactive steam and debris into the sky three people from Chernobyl power plant two engineers and
36:26that is but I know he was shift supervisor I knew him very well they said okay we will try
36:35to open wells to drain water
36:38the water to prevent the reaction of the melting fuel with water in the full darkness they succeeded to find
36:50the wells and open several of them
36:54and in maybe hours the water drained completely after this I would say heroic action they ruined their more powerful
37:08energy of the water
37:08control of the water the petrol explosion a far greater catastrophe had beenme prevented but there was no stopping
37:15the radiation already high in the sky the radioactivity that has got into the atmosphere that is at extremely high
37:24levels you can't see it
37:26There's glory to think. It's traveling 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, with a population around 3
37:40million.
37:43Alakravchuk was living in Kiev with her parents.
37:46Kiev 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 Kiev were washed every morning before people entered.
38:08There would be a big machine driving and spraying the water.
38:14It was difficult to grasp the size of the disaster.
38:21It 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 Kiev, 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, unfortunately, the next year down 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 four or five hours standing in that drizzly rain.
39:49That 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 it 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 to the public.
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.
41:25This 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 alright, carry on as
42:07normal, and 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 are going wrong.
42:23At very 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.
42:42Dr. Bugar's parents had no idea if he was dead or alive.
42:47All the time my brother traveled around Chernobyl, he looked, and found him.
42:56There was no partner.
42:59I went to my mother, and I do not remember who I came at the place.
43:05Could I call my door open? My mother saw me and was crying.
43:10There was no emotions at the time. I was practically relaxed.
43:15Alexander Sirota had fled to Kyiv with his mother.
43:33The evacuees had packed for three days, but there seemed little chance of returning.
43:39An army of decontamination workers known as liquidators was moving into the exclusion zone.
43:46There was a monumental effort from the liquidators.
43:50So you're talking over 100,000 workers that were putting on protective clothing
43:55and they were tasked with cleaning up as much of the fallout, the debris that they could find.
44:03They were washing the radioactivity off the roofs of houses and then turning over the soil.
44:10If you got about 10, 15 centimetres of soil over the top of the radioactivity,
44:15that would at least contribute a degree of shielding.
44:20Back at Ground Zero, the wreckage of Unit 4 wouldn't be buried so easily.
44:27Even just looking at the ruined building, it was obvious that the level of radiation was very high.
44:36Or catastrophic high.
44:38It was not even needed to be used to.
44:39It was obvious.
44:44It was obvious that the level of radiation was increased in a million times.
44:48A million times the natural level of radiation.
45:03The nuclear material from the core is very, very dangerous to approach or even to spend any time looking at.
45:09It is an incredibly radioactive structure.
45:12It was like a ghost town.
45:15The group was told not to step on the grass, not to touch the trees.
45:22It was very, very dangerous to be used to.
45:23It was a very dangerous to talk about the real cause of the quarantine on the Chernobyl.
45:31It was the first time that there was a negative disease.
45:34It was a negative disease.
45:35It was the negative disease by the communist party.
45:40My 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,
46:03you would attack the jewel in the crown of the Chernobyl site, 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.
46:40Who is waiting for two hours of info now?
46:41What pitests see a man!
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