70. Chernobyl: The Battle Against Nuclear Fallout (Ep 3)
Journey Through Time
Goalhanger
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:31.6 | Welcome to Journey Through Time. I'm Sarah Churchwell. |
| 0:37.8 | And I'm David Ullushogger. And welcome back to our series on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. |
| 0:44.3 | As we all know, the worst nuclear disaster in all of history. And we're going to start this episode in the minutes just after the explosion. |
| 0:52.3 | Chernobyl's already claimed its first victim, Valeri |
| 0:55.9 | Hodomchuk, who's been killed when the steam separators exploded inside the reactor building. |
| 1:02.9 | Many others have been badly injured. The operators of reactor four in the control room, |
| 1:08.0 | and those within various parts of the reactor building are already |
| 1:11.5 | receiving huge doses of radiation. But they also critically don't know what has happened. |
| 1:18.2 | They know there's been an explosion, but what they don't understand, what in some ways they |
| 1:21.9 | can't allow themselves to understand, is that the core of the reactor itself, containing the nuclear fuel |
| 1:28.8 | and tons of heavily contaminated graphite has exploded, that nuclear fuel and graphite has been |
| 1:35.9 | expelled from the reactor in an explosion. And desperate efforts within Chernobyl to prevent the fire |
| 1:42.8 | in what is left of reactor for, spreading |
| 1:45.0 | to the other three nuclear reactors housed within the power plant are just beginning. |
| 1:51.3 | They are all within the same vast building. Reactors one and two are housed together, |
| 1:55.4 | reactors three and four housed together. The building is almost one kilometer in length. |
| 2:03.3 | A fire in one part is a danger to all of it. It's going to be a night of incredible bravery, but also of denial, of a really quite shocking |
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