Inside Chernobyl's Mega Tomb
Documentary which follows the construction of a trailblazing 36,000-tonne steel structure to entomb the ruins of the nuclear power plant destroyed in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Documentary which follows the construction of a trailblazing 36,000-tonne steel structure to entomb the ruins of the nuclear power plant destroyed in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. It films close up with the team of international engineers as they race to build the new structure before Chernobyl's original concrete sarcophagus - the hastily built structure that covers the reactor - collapses.
Built to last just 30 years, the temporary sarcophagus is now crumbling, putting the world at risk of another release of radioactive dust. Radiation levels make it impossible for workers to build the new shelter directly over the old reactor, so engineers are erecting the new megastructure - taller than the tower of Big Ben and three times heavier than the Eiffel Tower - to one side and will then face the challenge of sliding the largest object ever moved on land into place over the old reactor.
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Music Played
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Sarah Class
Shores of Respite
Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra.
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Production Company | Windfall Films Ltd |
Director | Martin Gorst |
Producer | Martin Gorst |
Executive Producer | Carlo Massarella |
Broadcasts
- Wed 21 Dec 2016 21:00
- Thu 22 Dec 2016 02:35
- Sat 14 Jan 2017 20:00
- Mon 17 Apr 2017 20:00
- Thu 7 Dec 2017 21:00
- Fri 8 Dec 2017 02:00
- Wed 19 Dec 2018 20:00
- Thu 20 Dec 2018 01:00
- Sun 16 Jun 2019 20:00
- Thu 20 Feb 2020 21:00
- Fri 21 Feb 2020 03:00
- Tue 27 Apr 2021 22:40
- Wed 28 Apr 2021 02:40
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