A Walk Around Chernobyl
This is what a nuclear disaster area looks like. Check out Audible: http://bit.ly/AudibleVe Broadcast locations and times: North America: PBS, July 28 & 29 @ 10pm ET / 9pm Central Europe:...
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That is Chernobyl nuclear reactor number four. It melted down on April 26, 1986. So whathappened was so much heat was generated inside that reactor that it basically blew the topoff spreading radioactive isotopes throughout this whole surrounding area and over intoEurope. And that is why we can still detect the contamination here today.And they covered it in that sarcophagus which is kind of crumbling as it ages. And so theyare actually building a brand new containment facility over here which, when it is finished,will be slid over on top of the old containment, on top of the old sarcophagus.The town of Pripyat was built just a few kilometers away from the reactor, mostly to house thefamilies of the people who worked there. And now it is completely abandoned. So now youca...
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That is Chernobyl nuclear reactor number four. It melted down on April 26, 1986. So whathappened was so much heat was generated inside that reactor that it basically blew the topoff spreading radioactive isotopes throughout this whole surrounding area and over intoEurope. And that is why we can still detect the contamination here today.And they covered it in that sarcophagus which is kind of crumbling as it ages. And so theyare actually building a brand new containment facility over here which, when it is finished,will be slid over on top of the old containment, on top of the old sarcophagus.The town of Pripyat was built just a few kilometers away from the reactor, mostly to house thefamilies of the people who worked there. And now it is completely abandoned. So now youca...
