La bataille de Tchernobyl
- Episode aired 2006
- 1h 34m
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Documentary about the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl.Documentary about the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl.Documentary about the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl.
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- GoofsThere was at no stage the risk of any thermonuclear explosion or any explosion even approaching the megaton range during or after the Chernobyl disaster. There was no risk of a nuclear explosion of any kind, at any stage, not even in the low kiloton range. And every actual expert involved in the recovery at the time of the accident had to be fully aware of this because it is physically impossible for a nuclear explosion to occur by accident within the molten remains of a former reactor core. You need highly enriched fission fuel to achieve that, which was not present in the core even before the accident. If anything, the fuel was being diluted by molten concrete and non-fissionable reactor metals in the accident. But even if it had all been 100% weapons-grade material, you would also need a complex mechanism functioning with extreme precision to not only create a supercritical mass but keep it assembled and highly compressed for long enough to release the explosion energy before it blows itself apart. This simply cannot occur by accident and every person with a modicum of scientific literacy knew that even at the time.
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Narrator: A huge explosion throws the 1200 ton reactor-lid into the air. A cloud of radioactive gas spreads hundreds of meters from the power plant. From the huge hole flames with radioactive particles of uranium and graphite shoot almost 1000 meters up into the night sky.
Youri Korneev (machinist, reactor block 4): You could see bright, luminous colors: orange, red, sky-blue. Actually it was beautiful to behold... like a rainbow.
Featured review
Surreal.
The suffering in this documentary makes you shutter. The people sacrificed their very lives to stop a horrible disaster. I wish I could get this on DVD.
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- The Battle of Chernobyl
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- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
- 16 : 9
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