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

Name: BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
Contact: Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
Email: BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
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Phone: +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
Address: BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
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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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