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🗓️ 19 March 2018
⏱️ 91 minutes
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0:00.0 | Prepyet is a Ukrainian ghost town near the northern border with Belarus. |
0:04.9 | Not a single resident lives there today. |
0:07.1 | However, in 1985, roughly 50,000 people inhabited the then Soviet city originally built to |
0:13.5 | accommodate the employees of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. |
0:17.5 | In 1985, the city had 13,414 apartments, large hospital, over 25 cafes, a movie theater |
0:25.0 | in art school, a museum, gyms, indoor swimming pools, two sports stadiums, central park |
0:30.7 | with a giant ferris wheel, much more. |
0:33.1 | And then at 1.23 a.m. on Saturday, April 26, 1986, the number 4 reactor heated up to more |
0:39.4 | than 100 times its usual operating power, which is very, very bad. |
0:45.1 | Ractor number 4 exploded and then several hundred staff and firefighters tackled a blaze |
0:49.0 | that burned for 10 days and sent a plume of radiation around the globe. |
0:53.4 | And it is a globe, flat earthers. |
0:55.7 | In the worst ever civil nuclear disaster the world has ever seen. |
0:59.8 | More than 50 reactor and emergency workers died, and in the years since, many more have |
1:04.4 | died. |
1:05.4 | How many deaths can be attributed to Chernobyl? |
1:07.2 | How disastrous is a nuclear disaster? |
1:10.2 | Will no one be safe to live in the former town of Prepyet? |
1:14.2 | Are you safe from a nuclear disaster? |
1:16.3 | What led to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster? |
1:18.0 | Am I saying nuclear correctly? |
1:19.5 | I'm saying it so many times. |
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