On 26 April 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant (Ukraine) accidentally explodes during a technical test and causes one of the largest nuclear disasters in history. Review of the circumstances and consequences of this tragedy.
A few days after the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Jacques LAFUMA, head of the health protection department at the CEA, talks about the risks of death and cancer due to radioactivity, in the short and long term.
Report in the Pripyat region of Ukraine in the area affected by high radioactivity three years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. In a canteen, workers who work a maximum of two weeks because of the risk incurred, eat. Interview with Ludmila, chef des cuisines, who recites the official speech on the safety of food served in this canteen.
In 2006, a team of journalists received exceptional permission to report in Pripryat, a ghost town since the Chernobyl reactor exploded. 80,000 people lived in that city and worked for the nuclear power plant. Three days after the disaster, the city, contaminated by radioactive dust, was completely evacuated and the inhabitants never returned. After a walk in the city with buildings and attractions invaded by vegetation, Youri TATARTCHUCK, acting head of "Chernobylinform" makes visit an abandoned housing while telling the circumstances of the evacuation, then leads the journalists into the empty school where everything remained as it was, in the precipation of departure.
New forest fires are emerging every day in Russia and they are dangerously close to a region whose soils and plants were irradiated during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. If a fire were to occur, radioactive substances could indeed fly and contaminate the atmosphere of the region, but not that... Commentary on factual images and interviews Marc SAINT-AROMAN (association "Sortir du Nucléaire")