Burying Chernobyl - Part Two

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BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Alla Kravchuk, the daughter of two former employees at the power station, returns to the nearby town of Pripyat. Now a world famous ghost town with trees growing through the once neat concrete squares and streets, it used to be her hometown. As well as an emotional journey back, Alla also talks to other people dealing with the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.

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0:00.0	This is a BBC podcast. You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use at BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts. I'm not sure I'm going to be here. I always had an ache in a
0:25.0	a vurnosa, two or one,
0:26.0	your own, it's,
0:27.0	I always had an ache in my soul.
0:31.0	I always had an ache, a desire to go back to my youth, my childhood. It was a
0:38.5	constant ache in the heart. It was hard. It was really hard.
0:43.0	Because of the memories, they never disappear.
0:48.0	I hadn't seen Luda Pyremo for over 30 years. Back then we lived in Pripet, the new town built
1:00.4	to accommodate the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
1:05.5	My name is Allealban and unlike Luda and her family, we'd moved away by the time of the disaster
1:12.3	in 1986. Since then, my training as a
1:17.4	singer and my marriage and career have taken me a long way from those golden
1:21.6	teenage years and now I was going back to Pripet, back towards
1:27.0	become a world famous ghost town.
1:30.0	I wondered if Luda would have found this journey easy or difficult.
1:38.0	Probably difficult because it's different.
1:42.0	I suspect it will be very different, I think.
1:45.0	In the last program I was given a tour of the Safe Confinement Project that will cover the damaged Chernobyl reactor number four and allow
1:56.2	its hoped for the final clearing of the nuclear material still held inside. You can see the tiring arch from the road as we drive the short
2:06.3	distance to prep it. But there is more to the Chernobyl disaster than one
2:11.6	crippled reactor.
2:14.8	We're just coming to the top of the hill and as we drive down,
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