Passé sous silence (TV Series)
La bataille de Tchernobyl (2006)
Tim Birkett: Narrator
Quotes
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Narrator : A huge explosion throws the 1200 ton reactor-lid into the air. A cloud of radioactive gas spreads hundreds of meters from the power plant. From the huge hole flames with radioactive particles of uranium and graphite shoot almost 1000 meters up into the night sky.
Youri Korneev (machinist, reactor block 4) : You could see bright, luminous colors: orange, red, sky-blue. Actually it was beautiful to behold... like a rainbow.
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Vassili Nesterenko : [speaks Russian; subtitles read] If the heat managed to crack the cement slab, only 1400 kg of the uranium and graphite mixture would have had to hit the water to set off a new explosion.
Narrator : The ensuing chain reaction could set off an explosion comparable to a gigantic atomic bomb.
Vassili Nesterenko : Our experts studied the possibility and concluded that the explosion would have had a force of 3 to 5 megatons.
