Chernobyl
2005 · Film · documentary
Directed by Ellen Windemuth, Marion Pöllmann
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Directed by Ellen Windemuth, Marion Pöllmann
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People are free to draw their own conclusions from the movie. The conclusions I drew are: 1. Blame game started right away ("Of course you are responsible. I was not even in the building" Bryukhanov to Dyatlov in the night of the explosion) 2. During the test some actions were taken with a complete disregard towards safety and consequences. Some people would call this reckless. 3. If this accident did not happen at Chernobyl it would have happened somewhere else.
This outstanding film documents nearly every aspect of life in and around Chernobyl both before, during, and after the disaster. It contains many facts and viewpoints I had never seen elsewhere, both negative and positive. The story of the "replacement town" is particularly interesting and probably not widely known outside Ukraine.
Worth a view!
My understanding is that wildlife has been returning in some form or another, since shortly after the accident.
Someone, I could have sworn BBC but all that's coming up in searches now is PBS, did a documentary about wildlife in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. I could have sworn it was about the wolves in the exclusion zone but touched on many topics.
If I recall correctly, the iron curtain itself actually helped wildlife somewhat by creating a strip of land across many European countries (where the fence itself was constructed) that wildlife was documented using as a highway for travel now that the fence has been torn down and that strip is largely left alone.
Fascinating stuff, both for the nuclear explosion, and the subsequent impact on surrounding wildlife.
Edit: I think this is the one that I saw. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iap7wXlMFIQ
I watched a documentary about Chernobyl yesterday (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiCXb1Nhd1o) an although it's obviously a little sensationalist/emotional I have a really hard time having any respect for people claiming it didn't have that much impact.
Fukushima is very different but I agree with others that we should wait at least a couple of weeks till we make any conclusions
Speaking of jumping to conclusions: Germany just started to shut down 7 nuclear power plants because of Fukushima...