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Chernobyl's Forgotten Heroes Finally Break Their Silence

26 April 2026

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster on 26th April 1986 was the biggest technological accident in human history. This film takes us back to ground zero to the ghost city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine with survivors of the disaster. A senior engineer who was one of the reactor’s construction team, a hospital maternity doctor, an 11 years old girl who was evacuated from Pripyat, a firefighter at nuclear power plant number 4, and an officer in charge of the radioactive waste removal from the reactor roof are some of the people we follow. We join people that retu… Video by YouTube channel.

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