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The Battle of Chernobyl (2007)

"On April 26, 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian city of Pripyat exploded and began spewing radioactive smoke and gas. Firemen discovered that no amount of water could extinguish the blaze. More than 40,000 residents in the immediate area were exposed to fallout 100 times greater than that from the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan. But the most serious nuclear accident in history had only begun. film still Based on top-secret government documents that came to light only in the Nineties, during the collapse of the Soviet Union, THE BATTLE OF CHERNOBYL reveals a systematic cover-up of the true scope of the disaster, including the possibility of a secondary explosion of the still-smoldering magma, whose radioactive clouds would have rendered Europe uninhabitable. The government effort to prevent such a catastrophe lasted for more than seven months and sacrificed the lives of thousands of soldiers, miners and other workers."
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#6 - Jon - 05/18/2011 - 05:56
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#5 - dead video - 05/17/2011 - 17:17
Had this happened in any other place on earth then or now than the USSR we would all be doomed. No other nation had then or now the resources to mount such a massive operation.

In todays world where would one find 500.000 people let alone the money needed for such a cleanup?

We really should stop tempting fate and abolish the idea of nuclear power once and for all.
#4 - Tor A Hansen - 04/02/2011 - 14:29
One of the lines towards the end of the film will haunt me. "Enough radioactive material to kill 100MILLION people... and its half-life is THOUSANDS of years...". With the amount of money and energy invested in merely COVERING IT UP with concrete... why has nobody recommended launching it into space... Just a thought.
#3 - Andrew M. - 03/24/2011 - 04:32
I've been a James Lovelock (The Ages Of Gaia, et. al.) for decades. I've read his soothing words about atomic power, and was lulled into thinking that it's ok, safer than coal, all that. He's written especially calmly about Chernobyl, and this movie shows that it was not a minor blip in the history of a safe power source. It's more indicative of the problems we may have with many reactors. A large number of reactors were built 30 or 40 or more years ago. Like the Fukushima reactors, there's not only the current fuel but large stores of spent fuel. And the smallest things can put one of these into fail mode; a jiggle in the earth, some water, a fat finger or two on a control panel. Humans messing around with these things is like the American Tourister gorilla playing with that suitcase - only the suicase is rigged to explode.
#2 - Alex - 03/23/2011 - 01:03
EVERYONE should watch this film - utterly brilliant....and utterly disturbing.
#1 - Gridbald - 03/21/2011 - 13:07
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