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Building Chernobyl's megatomb [videorecording (DVD)].

PBS Distribution, 2017.

DVD 621.48323 B923 Doc

Nuclear reactors -- Shielding (Radiation).

Radioactive waste repositories -- Ukraine.

Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl�£, Ukraine, 1986.

Alternate title:

Nova. Building Chernobyl's megatomb [videorecording (DVD)].

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (54 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally broadcast as an episode of Nova by PBS on Apr. 26, 2017.

A UK/France/Japan/Germany co-production.

Running time give on container as approximately 60 min. Actual running time is less than 54 min.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Produced and directed by Martin Gorst ; executive producer Carlo Massarella ; a Nova production by Windfall Films Ltd. (part of the Argonon Group) for WGBH Boston produced in association with the BBC, and France Television, NHK, and N24.

Narrator, Eric Meyers.

"In 1986, in the heart of Ukraine, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded, releasing 400 times more radiation than the Hiroshima Bomb. It was the world’s worst nuclear disaster. Thirty workers died, 50,000 people fled the nearest city, and radioactive fallout made an area larger than Long Island a no-go zone. Hastily, a so-called “sarcophagus” was built to contain the radioactive materials that lingered at the site after the explosion. But 30 years later, the sarcophagus is crumbling, and another disaster at Chernobyl looms. Now, an international team of engineers is racing the clock to assemble one of the most ambitious superstructures ever built -- an extraordinary 40,000 ton, $1.5 billion dome to encase the crumbling remains of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Battling arctic winter weather -- and lethal radiation -- this is the inside story of the epic race to build Chernobyl’s MegaTomb."--Container.

Documentary television programs.

Science television programs.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Meyers, Eric, 1959-

PBS Distribution (Firm)

Windfall Films (Firm)

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

British Broadcasting Corporation.

France télévision.

Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai.

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