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Chernobyl The 90 Seconds That Changed Everything

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Chernobyl The 90 Seconds That Changed Everything

A safety test at Chernobyl Unit 4 became history’s most infamous nuclear accident. This film reconstructs the reactor, the decisions, the explosion, the response and the lessons that followed.

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Chapters

  1. A test postponed
  2. A powerful unstable machine
  3. Power collapses
  4. The test begins
  5. AZ-5
  6. Fire in the open core
  7. Pripyat is evacuated
  8. The liquidators
  9. Health, fear and evidence
  10. Safety after secrecy

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