Inside Chernobyl Sarcophagus
- Synopsis
- Chernobyl Unit Four exploded in April 1986. The ruins of the reactor, which will remaing radioactive for more than 100,000 years, lie buried in the ‘sarcophagus’. Shows the inside of the sarcophagus, where a team of Soviet scientists is working in areas of radiation that would be considered lethal by the West, trying to trace the 135 tonnes of uranium and plutonium which melted in the explosion, and to discover whether a second accident could happen at Chernobyl.
- Series
- Horizon, Series
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.
- Year of production
- 1991
- Availability
- Sale; 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)
- Notes
- Broadcast on BBC2 on 22 Apr 1991.
- Subjects
- Physics; Technology
- Keywords
- Chernobyl; nuclear hazards; nuclear power industries; nuclear radiation; nuclear reactors; radioactivity
Credits
- Producer
- Edward Briffa
- Contributor
- Jana Bennett
Production Company
- Name
BBC Television
Distributor
- Name
BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
- Contact
- Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
- BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
- Web
- https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
- Address
- BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK - Notes
- The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’
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