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🗓️ 21 March 2022
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In April 1986 a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, in the USSR, causing the worst nuclear accident ever. Sergii Mirnyi was in charge of a monitoring unit which measured radiation levels in the 30 km exclusion zone around the plant.
(Photo: The Chernobyl plant shortly after the explosion in 1986. Credit: Getty Images)
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0:30.9 | Hello. Hello and thank you for downloading the podcast of Witness History from the BBC World Service. |
0:40.0 | All this week we're looking at the history of Ukraine in the light of the Russian invasion. |
0:46.0 | We're starting with the story of the worst nuclear accident ever. |
0:50.0 | On the 26th of April 1986 a reactor exploded at a nuclear power station in Chernobyl in Soviet Ukraine. |
1:00.0 | This report is from Dina Newman. |
1:03.0 | Scientists in Sweden are trying to locate the source of a sharp increase in the level of radioactivity in the atmosphere. |
1:10.0 | The first news of nuclear contamination in Northern Europe came from Sweden. |
1:14.3 | The Swedish nuclear power station was closed down earlier today, but the authorities in Stockholm |
1:19.0 | say they now believe the station was not the cause of any leak. |
1:22.0 | Three days later, the cause of any leak. Three days later the buildup of |
1:23.8 | evidence from neighboring countries forced Moscow to disclose the |
1:27.6 | accident. The Soviet government reports an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine. |
1:35.0 | Emitters are being taken to deal with the aftermath of the accidents and to help those |
1:39.8 | affected. |
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