‘Lost video’ of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is broadcast

Official trailer for the movie “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes” – Photo: SWEDEN POSTS ENGLISH

Channels HBO of America finally brought to light a documentary titled Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (rough translation: Chernobyl: Lost tapes). The film tells the never-before-seen stories of the Chernobyl disaster, the most tragic nuclear disaster of all time.

According to the news site LiveScience, the trailer for the film, shared by HBO on YouTube, provides a glimpse into what happened in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) after the horrific disaster that took place on the 26th- April 1986 in the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, about 130km north of the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

In these tapes, eyewitness testimony shows a glimpse of life in Chernobyl before the disaster and how it was forever transformed after the accident.

“Everything was recorded,” one of the witnesses said in the trailer. However, many details of the explosion and its potential danger have been hidden for a long time, HBO said in a statement.

People living in and nearby Chernobyl, as well as workers tasked with cleaning up damage at the site, were not informed of the risks to their health from exposure to radioactive material. Deadly.

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the 1986 Chernobyl reactor explosion killed two plant workers, and 29 others, including many firefighters, into the battle. with the fire, then died of radiation poisoning. In the years that followed, the cancer rate among Ukrainian children skyrocketed, reaching about 90%.

In 2006, a report by the International Greenpeace Organization estimated that more than 93,000 people in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia had died from diseases related to radiation exposure from Chernobyl.

Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes premiered on June 22 on HBO at 11 a.m. (Vietnam time) and streamed on HBO Max.