“Обличчя Чорнобиля” – трьохсерійний документальний фільм британської IBTimes UK

Британське видання IBTimesUK випустило серію короткометражок за мотивами Чорнобильської трагедії під назвою “Обличчя Чорнобиля” (Faces of Chernobyl).

У першому відео Part 1: Remembering the tragedy IBTimes UK розмовляє з працівниками атомної електростанції, місцевими мешканцями та ліквідаторами про те, як усували наслідки аварії, та слухає їхні спогади про той жахливий день.

Друга частина Part 2: Surviving the fallout 30 years on from the disaster присвячена інтерв’ю з місцевими мешканцями, науковцями та ліквідаторами аварії. Усі вони розповідають, як 30 років поспіль все ще страждають від наслідків катастрофи.

IBTimesUK explores Chernobyl 30 years on from the disaster. On 26 April it will be 30 years since reactor No4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the then Soviet Union exploded, causing the worst nuclear disaster in history when vast amounts of radioactive material was leaked into the atmosphere.

Three decades later the effects of the catastrophe are still felt in the surrounding region. The once-thriving Soviet town of Pripyat, just 3km from the power station, remains abandoned, a ghost town filled with desolate streets, derelict homes and empty swimming pools. The town falls in a 30km exclusion zone surrounding the destroyed reactor, which still emits more than 25 times normal ambient radiation.

The World Health Organisation reports a large increase in the numbers suffering from thyroid cancer, leukemia and other forms of cancer for young children and adolescents at the time of the accident. It is expected that the increased incidence of cancer from Chernobyl will continue for many years, although the long-term magnitude of the risk is difficult to quantify.

Watch part 1: Remembering the tragedy

In the first part of a special three-part documentary on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, IBTimes UK spoke with Chernobyl plant workers, local residents and the Chernobyl liquidators (civil and military personnel who were called upon to deal with consequences of the disaster) about how the accident unfolded on that fateful day and how they remember the tragedy today.

Watch part 2: Surviving the fallout 30 years on from the disaster 

In the second part of a special three-part documentary on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, IBTimes UK spoke with local residents, nuclear scientists and Chernobyl liquidators about how 30 years on people are still suffering from the effects of the disaster.