Where To Stream NOVA Season 44 Episode 15
Building Chernobyl's MegaTomb
- Aired April 26, 2017
- 60 Min
- Rated 6.0
- Number 279 Of 294 Rated Episodes
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...