Inside Chernobyl ЧАЭС Sarcophagus | Short Documentary
4Inside Chernobyl ЧАЭС Sarcophagus | Short Documentary
The bright future of Chernobyl
Friday 25 April 1986 was a nice hot day. The sun was shining and it was nice and warm. In addition, a long weekend was on the doorstep, culminating in the feast of 1 May: stews, flowers and parades. And an extra day off. It was a beautiful spring that year in the Ukraine. It was good living in a region where plants and animals thrive naturally, where the forests are full of berries, fruits and mushrooms. It was even proud to live in Ukraine, where by the end of the 1990s it should have been the largest atomic complex of all time. Four reactors, one under construction, one on the drawing boards: sign of the new age, proud monuments of modern socialism. But what should have been the pride of the Soviet country became a disaster: Chernobyl.
However, it was all well planned: on Friday 25 April 1986, the technicians of reactor number 4 wanted to carry out a test. The automatic control and emergency cooling systems were switched off. The reactor, which then contained 180,000 kilograms of highly radioactive material (a payload equivalent to 1000 Hiroshima bombs), was hand-steered.
The technicians drank, according to the official report. The experiment went wrong and at 1 hour 23 minutes and 44 seconds local time - early in the morning of April 26 - the whole stuff exploded. A historical date: the Greatest Accident Imaginable that could never happen because it was never allowed to happen, occurred anyway. The disaster, which was deemed impossible by all the experts, was a fact. Reactor number 4 burned, the heat was enormous and at least 200 radioactive compounds and elements were sucked up by the "chimney effect" By morning the wind was on and the disaster was complete. That disaster couldn't happen, so there was no plan........
For more information about The Chernobyl Nuclear Incident you can read the following information.
https://www.oecd-nea.org/rp/chernobyl/c01.html
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/chernobyl
http://www.chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/radiation-levels/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/chernobyl-nuclear-disaster