Ep 200: Disaster on the Graveyard Shift - Chernobyl
Let's talk about the most expensive disaster of all time! The meltdown at Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. A safety test that was anything but 'routine' ended in an explosion of radioactive material, and everything became poison. We'll talk about the USSR, Nuclear Power, the disaster itself, and the aftermath. This is episode 200!! We are so excited to have gotten this far, thank you so much for listening!!
Doomed to Fail · Taylor Pineiro, Farz Sokhansanj
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Show Notes
Let's talk about the most expensive disaster of all time! The meltdown at Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. A safety test that was anything but 'routine' ended in an explosion of radioactive material, and everything became poison. We'll talk about the USSR, Nuclear Power, the disaster itself, and the aftermath.
This is episode 200!! We are so excited to have gotten this far, thank you so much for listening!!
Sources:
The Chernobyl Disaster [Ben Fogle] - Parts 1-3 (Documentary 2022) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsr3vxsgjnA
'This is my home': Life inside Chernobyl’s exclusion zone | VOANews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MokT_Y0YDhw
Chernobyl: Flourishing lives in the dead zone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYxO7iGO6b0
Chernobyl mini series - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7366338/?ref_=ttch_ov_i
Midnight in Chernobyl / Adam Higgenbotham - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_in_Chernobyl
Chernobyl: Minute by Minute | Full Film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGw3kRGX35s
Inside Chernobyl's Abandoned Ghost Town | Pripyat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_3DFTm8ioA
Frequently Asked Chernobyl Questions - https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/chernobyl/faqs
Exploring Chernobyl: A Stalker's Unseen Journey Inside The Exclusion Zone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-ef7wi_TQ
The Elephant's Foot - Corpse of Chernobyl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIWu8rbWLGo
Cary Elwes's memoir,
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
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