What Happened at Chernobyl: 40 years on - BBC World Service Documentaries

Forty years on from the world’s worst nuclear explosion at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, #BBCWorldService examines what led to one of the most catastrophic man-made environmental disasters in history.

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The events of April 26th, 1986 had far reaching effects - leading to the contamination of large parts of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, and ultimately hastening the collapse of the USSR.

Jordan Dunbar travels to Chernobyl forty years later, speaking with people who were there on that fateful day and have never spoken to international media before - including two ‘liquidators’ tasked with the perilous job of cleaning up the aftermath of the nuclear disaster, as they meet and relive the extraordinary events they experienced.

In this documentary, Jordan asks what we can learn from the events of that day, and examines why so much of what happened was hidden from the world.

00:00 The world’s worst nuclear accident
01:50 Entering Chernobyl’s toxic landscape
02:25 “An optimistic place”: Life before the disaster
04:27 The last couple to marry in Pripyat
05:48 Safety test on the night of the accident
07:20 “It was like an earthquake”
08:44 “The soldiers had gas masks”: The morning after
10:34 Newlyweds' first dance as Chernobyl becomes radioactive
12:00 "Attention, attention!" Pripyat is evacuated
13:22 Soviet authorities reveal there has been an accident
14:07 First responders are underprepared for scale of the accident
15:46 Hundreds of thousands of ‘liquidators’ brought in to clear radioactive material
20:27 The human cost
21:20 An attempted Soviet cover-up?
22:50 Inside 'haunting' unit four control room as it is today
24:15 Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine: Chernobyl is a battleground again
26:55 “We care about freedom”: An existential battle for Chernobyl workers

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