Les Pires Moments de l'Histoire - Tchernobyl

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

Dans son tout premier épisode tiré de l’histoire contemporaine, Charles se penche sur la plus grosse catastrophe nucléaire de l’humanité : Tchernobyl. Un désastre monumental, résultat direct de la négligence, de l’ignorance et de la corruption du régime communiste. Ouf. Est-il possible d’en faire un récit qui soit un tant soit peu… drôle ? Bonne question…Animateur : Charles BeauchesneAuteurs : Charles Beauchesne, François De Grandpré, Anne-Hélène PrévostRéalisatrice : Barbara-Judith CaronMonteuse : Lucie Fournaison Designer graphique : Kevin BouchardCoordonnateur : Clément TurpinProductrice : Rosalie GrangerProducteurs exécutifs : Raphaëlle Huysmans et Philippe Lamarre Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

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to all the appellado presented by Urbania. Bonn'Ecut. Welcome to Balado Urbana. Good to you, madame, messieurs, non-binar, and all these furies, soye the bienvenu a other episode of The Peer Moments of the History with Charles Beauchene.

The balladour historic, who presents in a fashion amusing, and ludic and legire, the moments the most tordu and sinister of the humanity, call me the grand de-dramatisator. It's, by today, that we'll test the limits of this concept that in Esty, because I'll tell you the catastrophe

nuclear of Chernobyl, which is probably in the top of the affairs zero-drull to which I've had the malchance to me attack in this very strange career. You remember you in season two when I tried to

make-couped to Congo? Well, I'd say that it's an humor corporative. The accident of Chernobyl is an event that the historians design like the fact that the planet

has taken a dose for the most King's Ice of radiation mortal, Evidence that had had been consequences quasi-apocalyptic on the environment and incident the people of this

world, after a accident of a generator nuclear in Union Sovietic, well, the friends, I'll say

if you know not my opinion on the Sovietics, you'll get in Motaddi. Spoiler alert, it's not

positive. I'm done it's quite at GoldenEye 64. Effectively, it no subsists that very few

of the light in the tenetre of the history of Chernobyl, considering that it's a disaster pretty assuredly inevitable caused by the mankement of a government ready to abandoning his population in the worst horror

that's the radioactivity. Possibly one of the things that makes the most fear of the most part of people who are a certain percentage of people who are because of that, but the reality is that it's

certainly like to donate the cancer. And now to me demand how I'm going to make a catastrophe nuclear ludic for the world who me listen in doing by doing a jogging or in repairing a

evier. Uh, maybe the solution is to give the voice of clune to characters? That, then, the

level of radiation in the village is dangerously too heavy for the population. Yes, we have not the choice to cut the

lines telephonic and to impish the evacuations to avoid the panic but certainly to avoid that circuls an opinion

negative of the government. Uh-huh. Yeah, Aides a little, but we'd say that it's PIR, in the same time. What is paradoxal, is that the reason for which we're also fear of nuclear

today, it's at cause of Chernobyl. So, that's the pliant that I've found in my boatholette a long time, it would be one of the energy the most proper and renewable that exists, if it's gerry like the world. I imagine that the word key,

it's gerry like the world, so what's we've got used the veils at Chernobyl? All along. So, all you search a doudoo, a tutu, installs you comfortably. It's going to partier the generic, then

all right, and all right? A little juice, someone? Oof, no, I just to see the date there on. I've been to watch the date thereof, forget that. Context Historic. Before to talk to the accident like this, we're going to

talk about, the Warreveld. Oh, ho! Oh, ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Oh, ha, ho! The whole-pourne de nage, a levy, a army of urges polar

in armure medieval! Or, well, they don't let's not the choice. Relash, Rudolp. But, in fact, Perlowe, it's still only only prototype, he has never been tested in these conditions real. Fet's what I say, merd! God, we'll guard. And lans, not this war-frored,

the other. That's what I call also the reason why during a couple of decades all the menaceans of Hollywood were the Russians Sovietic who'd speak the English

with an accent perhaps a little exaggerated at posteriori. Hey, what's up Hollywood? Coca-Cola on colesam on Russia

Big Mac prepared with gross tranche of betrave American Dream B'Ebe The War Fraud is an expression

for designy a very long conflict between the U.S.S. The Megazord of all countries communist of Europe of the East of the second

half of the 20th century. I've already heard of the more young to be gag of a TV that they've never knew. Detail interesting. The Megazord,

it's what happened when all the robots dinosaurs of each Power Rangers individual were to form a single mega-robot with a gross

CP, and you will have to make confidence that in the 90, it was all an event and now, the war

It's a conflict that will debut all just after the Second Worldial, when the United and the U.S.S.S. will realize that, apart, Array, they're not of time of common, and finally, they say it's the face.

Effectively, Hitler, has been, for the Allies of the World Liber, the experience to refair the Sal of Bain that will inevitably make to find to their couple a few time after. The War Fraud,

by count, it's not an unble conflict with the obfue and the gas mortals, but it's interdied by the Convention of Geneva, it's principally a war ideological in in which Americans and Soviets go tour-a-tour-assied to

to vend to the planet the superiority of their mode of life. So, the capitalism and the democracy for the United. I-hah! A society where the

individual and the money primes I'm pretty much I've got to I'm an idea my success. Lache me the cooos! Motherfuckers!

And the Leverment more sober communism for the USSRS. Voyeur production detenue by state and society without class, which evite the inequalities, do more,

on paper, liches collectively cooey of party, now, camarad. Choosies your poison, as he says. The two-puisances will so join

to goxlable like that during these decades and other to beattant for the first on the moon. It's a

little path for the man and a pat of a geant for uncule the U.S.S. Eh, U.S.S. to listen the radio also,

but in caches in in sub-soules, because of the right. And in seeing some vowsy, or even in doing some guys, by proxy,

it's a day, to be affronted by procuration on going to do the war in a country rather than to be front for

real. What will give to the war of Korea and eventually, the Vietnam. Uh,

in what to be back against the Vietkong will us can be able to be able to get to

this LSD we don't the response. No! So, the war Fraud, it's certainly a competition

of who has the first of the front possible. That's what she said. Heh. Evident

a depents the more critical in this course is freen between the two great

power of the world, it's sure this new technology that just to get used to start

the nuclear oh, the Soviets capote on the energy nuclear. An energy proper and

efficace that's creating modernity, what will push around the 60,

the USSR to to undertake the construction of good number of central nuclearer,

motivated by their abundance of space, of resources natural, and so an desire

to be independent energetically to rest of the rest of the world who they detest. Detail really important,

but complicated and not so real. Okay, now it's the boot where I try to how it

can't be a function a central nuclear but to do avertisante so, so I

will explain that in inalal the end of the principle of a Central Electric Nuclearer, is very similar to our Central

Hydro-Electric-Kewoes. In group, you can put to turn a big turbine that will convert the energy of movement in energy electric. Pose, no question. I don't know more. So, when in a central hydroelectric, we're turning the turbine, in making pass a lot in a ellis, in a reactor nuclear, we're doing that with the fission nuclear, which is the act of

splitter the neutrons of an atom, which is produce two atom, plus the energy. Evidabond, it's what I tried to resumed with my celibre

formula, E. E.E. L.bert Einstein, but what's you're doing in my podcast? Charles,

I'm revenue to do the world to transmit a message capital for the survival for the

survival for the survival for the community. The Consent of the Demos major,

it's reunies. Ah! Ah! Well, well, I guess we'll never. Why Einstein is in an affair? In a reactor nuclear, we split the nooyo of atoms of Uranium 235,

who have this particularity to not only split in two, but also to garrhochet of the neutrons loose a little that will be conned into them and rebondir to splitter more of atoms, which will garrochet more of neutrons,

which will provoke a reaction in chain that I would describe like a boulea like a boulea a bingo after a bonbubar.

I've not said that two times, let's all this reaction it, it's done a bomb

atomic, what we not in all the context. In the reactor nuclear,

what we is, we, is controlled the reaction, and it is just

enough energy to make bollier of the water, so that create

the vapor and make turn the turbine, so to resume this is

simply to control a explosion nuclear for gerry a buyroar. All for that.

In the reactor, we can control the velocity of the species of gross suppositoa that we're called these bars of control.

Suppositoir, who have two sections, one that can absorb the neutrons and so can't be the neutrons,

which, to be a way completely counterintuitive, accelerate the reaction, because normally the neutrons

are too rapid for frapping the atom to make sure, so if if we're They're allanties, they're more of chance

to en-ponging one and to create a reaction in chain. So... Look, me. I'm a neutron, and I feel at a speed inimaginable. Ha! ha! And I'm, I'm a atom, but you're ratted!

Oh, but... Oh, but what's what it's going to be we're allantissom. Good chance for you to save at this hour, my estie. It was the fission nuclear.

Of return to the history principal. Oh, yes, it's right. The most gross and the most grandiose of these central nuclear new genre at the time, and so, obviously, Chernobyl, the title of the episode. A mega-projecture of six reactors

in the core of the forest swash-upage Ukrainian. Detail interesting. And a little dark in its phone. The central nuclear of Chernobyl is named in the honor of the Ukraine

of Chernobyl, is, but not the city the most prox. This honor is a Pripyate, a village specially conced

for abrited the young of the central with their young family and their very young children.

Oh, no. Pripiat is one of nine of cities Atomique. Construed in bordure

descentral is supposed to be different of the city model of the ideal

communist, super-proper and modern with the magazines and boutiques to the etalage well garnished,

which was chrism not the norm in the rest of the U.S.S., which did the file for the old pain. There was even

an orchestra that used on the place central of the city to the night, which would be cool for the first

year the first time. Good apiece, chere! What? I said, bonapitie, cherries!

An orchestra, it's a mal-viyeye rapidly, rapidly. Hey, the bass once, I've got the

glassed in the coffre. The project is officially in bruntle in 1970, with the selection of the director of the museum Victor Brighu Kanoff,

a young engineer electric of 34-year-of with no experience in nuclear, a ryan. An espouse a homer Simpson Russ.

DRO! It's the 26thumbr of 77, seven after the debut of the first reactor of Chernobyl is inaugurated. The full is inlius.

Suivis and of a 3rd in 1989. The enthusiasm is at his comble. Yeah. Do you know, just as the reactor number one suffer of a little meltdown of nothing in 1982.

Detail who is so far to rest positive, but... A meltdown, it's the word cool in English to say effundreement or fusion nuclear. In gross, it's a shortchove

of the core of the reactor that entrains a sympathetic fonte of the material nuclear, which emmaid a quantity rigolote of radiation. But there's certainly no reason to s inquieter.

It's not often these affairs that, not's not? Detail, malbeza. Between 178 and 1982,

the central of Chernobyl had been of 27 accident and 87 pan of equipment, the

poor foe being this famous meltdown of 1982, during the direction of the

will be super proactive and s-engaged to to regulate the problem in re-voyant all the workers and person never re-entened to talk of this incident

that. Never. Sure, because it's regled? Detail, interesting. You're who you're going to?

Hey, oh, oh, do you know, don't know, relax, relax, relax, relax! Detail interesting, what detail

interesting? No, any detail interesting here. Continue, podcast. At this time, in U.R.S.S., all it was a bit aggressively supervised by the KGB,

the police secret Soviet-sovietic, which includes, obviously, the nuclear. In a way practical-practic, it means that the agents of the KGB is installed in permanence with as a commandant of enquainter on the accidents. But their mandate is,

principally, to contain the rumors and prevent the panic, Lair, here, bullied, emprisoned or eliminate the world who could probably negatively of the regime, rather than to identify really a little source of problems.

All right here? Uh, yeah, yeah, uh, all right, uh, all right, uh, all right, uh, all right, uh, talk, man, why I've got to be, the U.S.-Sovietic exists up for 40 years?

It's who, he, d'u, d'Auerre? Anyways, fast forward in December, 1983, Three, while the workers are so pressure to terminate the fourth-year-old before the end of the year. First, because with this reactor,

Chernobyl would be the most grand central nuclear of the Union Sovietic, but certainly because in Union Sovietic all work with these bonus. In effect, even in an utopia communist, the sole way to motivate the world to respect

these deadlines, is to their garroche a bit of this famous argent, a bit like if the capitalism triumphed to always, and that's deprimate. Resulta,

the gestionaires have been the ability to approve the project non-termined, history to respect the delay and that all the

whole people can't can't get his bonus. It's so what will do the director of Chernobyl,

Victor Brayukanoff. So, Camarad, it's achave the reactor. I've been want to profite

to this jute bonus for gaut my family at Noelle with these navets. But the

good navets, those who cut cheques chare. Well, however, the director, there's

a last test of security super important to have to the turbine. The time who's required for to do adequately

will surely make to make make the date of the delivery not if I'm just falsified the document in declaring that

the test has been made and that I'm talking the reactor like to give the question, my guy,

the NUKR is instinctive. Woo-hoo! So, that's that the director of the most central

nuclear of the U.S.S. has made a false declaration like what all were security

for the 50,000 people after we had just opened the central without the test of security. But if we decide to focus on the moment present, at least all the most

all of the rest there's going to say, the central is open and all but it would be able to do the test, someone? Absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

it's super important, yeah, yeah, you've got to see the bonavets that I've actually for my family at Neal. Whoa! It's...

It's, it's, so, it's so, We'll be with a test still not made at April 1996. Ah, cool,

I'm sorry. We're going to try to try in 1989, in 1984, and in 1985, but the three times it's not abutty

because it's a test very delicate to to do, especially when a central is already in March.

And, I'm not an engineer nuclear, but it's for that it was for it pervene,

without all we're debranched, we'll make an engineer-in-chef adjoin, Anatoly Diatlove, with his veritable diploma, God-Mercie, but who is also as known as a dick with the employees of the business. Ah, Camarad Diatlove! Merveh! Merveillance! Fosone de test at Tomé, Castor. Detail important, at this stage this state of this history.

Well, so it's what this famous test that causes so of mow-to-theathe to everyone. In gross, the dirigent have been to know what happens if if ever a pan of current survien and that the pomp

of refroodisman and then to control the reaction atomic. Hmm, relaxant. At the base, all the reactors of Chernobyl

was equipped of three generatrists of diesel to avoid that situation become out of control. The problem

is that it's a good 60-75 seconds for the start-te, which is pretty long when we're

in a cockote minute atomic. Oof, I'm sure I'm already stressed. I think I'll I'll take a little juice, here. Oh, it's very, pass-datt.

By chance, the engineers pangs that, in case of pan, the turbine who produces the electricity will produce just enough power in ralantissing to maintain in action the pumps of re-froodism

until as the generatrice embark. So, in gross, the test, is to firm the motor like in a pan and see the relentism of the turbine permits

to rest in the wind at what the generators of the secour embarks, if the generators of a little petted. Super chill, as we say.

The test is so prevue for 14.15, the Wednesday, 25 April, 1998 by the Equip of Year, which is jovial directed by Dietlove. Okay, bonte de nooy,

the team of the newy has relentied the reactor progressively before several hours, this hour, let's on the test.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. There are questions? Uh, uh, very, very, but,

let me pass a coup of telephone. Aye! No, no, no, no, No, no question. So, it's party for Chernobyl. Sough that 15 minutes

before the test, we're not possible to entombed the procedures because an other central nuclear had to make an arrest and a party of Ukraine had been a precious

electricity of Chernobyl. Normally, we'd have had to run the test at later, but for Diatlov, there's not question. He is determined to do the test

cut to cut, what is comprehensible considering that if there's something that he's chis, it's he's re-tenue responsible and and then-nege in Siberia.

Just here, all is normal in U.S.S. Resulta, the reactor will roll it at 75% during a little 9-hour the time that the other central

Ukrainian repartes, which, to be, to be an exercise of entreatment remarkable

of the part of the diatlov will have the consequences all inattendue. Is it

just not he comes to make show here? Detai nuclear, again.

Okay, it's It's still super-technic, so I that I just add to rar in can for antiphonies. The reactors sovietic

are the type RBMK. You're at least that I'm trying to make a joke. In gross, it's these reactors very effective,

all in being a result to which the Soviets are to get to their expertise particular,

it's to build cheap in turning the coinron. In a reactor, there's what

we're the moderator. That's what can't to to slow the neutrons for accelerate the reaction, I

will remember. In a reactor traditional, it's the low-lour of enrichi that makes to be able to rebounder the

neutrons and stimulate the reaction. And what is top-cooled with this system, is that if

the reaction part in cooey, the water there is so more more of moderator,

so the reaction will kind of relentire by it same. And that it's

security for very. So, thank moderator. Thank you. But, but the

low lourne-enrichy, it's actually very share, so that the Soviets they prefer re-froodied the reactor RBMk

with the lot of the robinet. Ah, we, we're doing this affair that. But the

other, it's absorbed the neutro, which he relenties the reaction, on the way to it

so they have constantly gere the reaction with the bars of control that are divided in

two sections, a section to relentire the reaction and a section in graphite for accelerated the reaction,

so that replace the water lourne. Just here, all right, because I'm not finished. A sub-productive of the fission nuclear, it's the Xenon 135, which, he, also, relenty the reaction and that, when a reactor roll at base-pricence,

it's accumulates, which is to ralenties even more plus the reaction. Possibly, at a point to chocker the reactor, and repartire a nuclear at Mitten, person who wants to.

So, there, it's a beau is a test, perhaps we're also in trying to test something that we have not necessarily want to test it? Hour zero. It's only at 23 hour 4 that Diathlove

finally the hockey for repartire the test and, unfortunately for him it's already a bout that the team to go ahead soopadabadu

it's even the time for the team of the night to return at the house Oh, well, let me be

not to soup it's for the fancipence of the team of the year, so yabadabadadoo Lassant Diatlove

with the team of night, A group more petite, more young, more experimented, and, certainly, not briefed at all on how to conduct

the test adequately. Hour 1. Vers mid-night-30, we're trying to launch the test, but the power shute in-dose of what is

considered stable and slash-o-safe, due in great party to all this danx-enon-135 of surplus. Camarate diatla

we roll at 5% of the power necessary to make the test. The reactor is in trying to sate in, and we don't know why. I think we're going to be annulay

by precaution. A camarad, Top Tuneov, I'll transfer a appell telephonic of the most importance. But the telephone have even

not sonned. Ayoy, I'm I'm pretty, but too t'or. Maloresement for the operators who

never been trained for that, I've been the manual of their disposition is full of info contradictory, and

of sections barred at the hand with some X and the like when I'd I'd like I'm making sure

that I'd be able to read at midnight the day of an exam and then resulta, today, like all the people in the

industry of the divertism, I've finished a grand total of zero university. Brief, all that will be

being turned more functional by the fact that diatlove is suddenly pretty of a furious

to get to the toilet. The little culot orthodox of Marrussie, the instructions, they are

incomprehensible, what's we do, Camarad Akimov. We've got Proceding with precaution and remaned gradually the power of the reactor. Oh, we've got to be that! Camarade Diatlov, I don't know that we don't

give us directives from the toilet so very optimal. Ayoy! Well, I guess we could... ...would all the bars of control in the same time of a single to expose 100% of the portion in graphite that accelerates that accelerate the reaction?

It should be enough of juice. Oh, that's the Fri-Sovietic! O'HR. 2. About 1.23, a few of time after having retired all the brakes on the barred of control, the reactor

sambaal. Oh, it's that it's a nuclear-merement barred there in. Vitt, Octu Nove. Pace on the button A-Z-5. It's the button

an arrest of urgency that makes that all the bars of control enter in the core the reactor of a shot to absorb the neutrons and stop the reaction. It's the equivalent

nuclear to debranched the ordi when you're on a site porno that's done the virus? I think we're correct. Camarade Akimov,

we're in 19896. What's an site porno? It's a carlo. It's on

an explosion so violent than to find the to the wheel tonne of the reactor

in the car radioactive at air Libre, who will garrochet a ploy of morseau of graphite mega radioactive everywhere around, and so, all in projecting a rayon

of the mark vertical blue in the sky, like it comes all the time in one other, in the film of Marvel. They're read to what to us other, D'Eard, Captain America

version of Chien in a house auntie? I'll verify that on internet, and I'll come after the pose. Oof, all these films

that I'd Never. Incredible. To return to the explosion of Chernobyl, I imagine that you have had to explain what what's going to be. Detail dark. Normally, I would say that it's difficult to because it's not like if there

there was a lot in the reactor in fusion at this moment there, but, but, though, there were. A first employee, directly in the hall adjacent to reactor, who is on the course, without ever knowing that there was a test of the other, and then

a second employee, who, by chance, was in the cell of the machine at the coat and who survived. Before to mourn't several hours later at the hospital in death and we're trying

a bit too too too far that's a test yeah, it's a tromperer as use of the expression by chance,

it's been in all the same of my domain of expertise of a guy who has essentially passed his course of science

physical in a secondar in a group with a cello and by you let's do all the

labortoir without without any trying, trying to foscement in saying you can't do you know

just to look and learn and learn and learn and I'm never nothing Well, I'm sorry,

Oria Wulpe. A guy of Europe of the East, in plus, he's irony. So, here's my synthesis, parsomé of bruifone.

Vue that the pomp of reffodism had been for the test, the water that's supposed to absorb

the neutrons is made to boughed. Which he had left more of the reaction, so the reaction

so the reaction is accelerated. It's made to gruget the Xenon 135 who relentiesed the reaction,

so it was going to go to after Now, when they've they've put on the button of Array of Urgence

A Z5, making that all the bars of control are abased in the same time, it would,

it would have been in plus tassed all the space where finally, all what's it's the

neutrons on the speed that you can't split of the atom, it's not

the landmine, until as the reactor to rune a reassurant 120

its power, it's that it will make that all the water of

refraudissement restant will ironically to be very much cold that it will be vaporized

direct in two gas, oxygen and hydrogen, just as that it it's it's a

first time due to the gas in a second explosion probably caused

by the hydrogen that poe in fire have you probably not a

traitor mo. To return in the cell of control where it's with reason

the panic but not for the bad reason. But, in fact, Top Tuneov, I'm absente two seconds for to goziere, you boozee my test. Chose certain, the reactor

does not assure me not to explode, because ryan n explodes in Union Sovietic. Last hour, envoying to someone to reactor four, to confirm it at which point it has not exploded. And it's so that many engineers and employing are going to be mortally irradied in opening the door of the cell of the reactor, which men now directly

on a crater abyssal fuming which vows me 400 times more of radiation than at Hiroshima. Ah, the radiation me made cuirr the visage. A chance that the reactor has not exploded.

Ah, no! Ereusement, the potpiers viened to arrive and ready to get the problem and metting the law there

as soon as never. With no equipment of protection against the radiation directly at a couple meters of the cause of

the explosion, to arrosed of the flame toxic and manipulate the debris mega-radiobattif while their boots

fonder on on the asphalt which is, it's like literally 3,000 degrees Celsius. Hey, the boys, you know,

that's not that got the metal in your mouth? I'm at all right, I'm in a story

more weird. I just just to touch a morseau of graphite and my man continue to rune

all over certain until before you see the good of metal came to embarked me too

This famous ghou metallic, it's, in fact, the first sign of the quantity massive of radiation who were all trying to imponging as a scot towel, thanks to the power of these spongy pochettes. It's, and it's time, before the pompiers get to vomere in jet, almost as powerful than those of their lancers' incandies. Detail dark. Well, let, depose your little juts and your biscuits at melas, because it's the moment to you explain exactly what he's past when we're in poisoned

by a dose also substantial of radioactivity. When the radiation pass a travel it's the electron of the atom which detrues

the link between our cellules. And as we're we're on the organs gastron intestino.

So it's part for of a violent diarray and vomissment but at through the parrointestinal

more fragile than the paper of toilet molley so that the bacteria of your

material fecal have already the power to be the power in the case, it

doesn't want to want to in the shoes, in these conditions like like those who've vied the pompiers at Chernobyl, you subibed these brulure on the car, and your mollosceuse stop to produce

these globules blind. Portan, ideal, for combat these bacteria fecal that's all interiors of you. The pain is insupportable. Eventually, there's a kind of period of accalalmed,

probably caused by the endorphine secreted by the car when you suffer too, and it's so that suddenly the maladies have to go better just to give those people. And two seconds

After that, it comes in three-foy-per-pire. All the organs and vessels sanguine and are finished by mourn of an infection sanguine, while your skin's feroche in resting to call at your o'Reilly of hospital, what will arrive at

all the pompiers who have combated the fire this day. In this time, the director of the building, Victor Brighoucanov, has been to be reveighed in plain night,

but, fidel to this famous politics soviette to nothing to really communicate clearly to person, we say only that you have an incident

at the prison. And it's son, at this point, not like an urgency that's going to run in a bus. Trot! I've been mocked my Array!

Eh, to all the way, he has not the fire. Hour three. In the the usine, it's been able expulsed the

vomit mutant, and that Mew, Diatloff continue to think that a RBMK that can't

not explode. And so, even when there there's a dude that will debarker the pore because we

call chalureusely a bronage nuclear. The reactor number four has exploded, I mean, I've seen, of my proper eyes!

Oh, no, it must be a citerne of re-froodisman that petted the water contaminated, which has rendered Malad, Kamarad Akimov, Kamarad Toptunov, we have reintroduer to the water in the reactor before that all these vapors and that we'll subdubts

a fusion, which would be the worst result possible in our situation. Uh, okay, but the system of irrigation electronic, we're not,

Well, go, let's open manually, or, or, if you'll have a super-beau bronzage. You'd have me remircied, in fact. Detail dark. Fah, they're going to open these vans of water manually colled on an incident nuclear, absorbing these doses lethal of radiation

who will literally liquefied in their lid of hospital two months later, all that for refroreder a reactor that existed already more. Drol, no? Hour 5.

About four hours of the morning, Briucanov arrived at his station and he's being called that of simple incident, it was perhaps edulcarry a bit the gravity of the situation. So he will be in a form in a mod U.S.S.S. in the bunker of the air-frored of the U.S. with the most sinister agents of the KGB Dispon, the story of aligning these flutes before the most comfortable with Moscow.

Detail phoned! Oh, the circumstances, obviously. When will be the time to evaluate the danger of the situation for the The city of Pripyat, Diatlov will reassure all the world that all is under control, just before to vomere and to lose knowledge by ter. It's an excellent dynamic of cartoon, but perhaps inquieting, live.

We decide, don't, that the major affair to fair to face of this manifest absence of problems, is to not informer the population, to block the lines of telephone, and to impure kink to quite the city, the story to evite to semming the panic, but, certainly, to impish that it nuise to the reputation of the U.S.S.

You, have you already heard this, the phrase? Ah, the U.S.S. I'm surprised, but they have a good reputation of an habit. Hour 7. Vers 6.35 of the morning, the pompiers are successfully finally to end up the incandes on the to-de-turbine and the reactor, but the fire of graphite

at the center of the crater will continue to be able to burn for a little 20 years, crashing non-stop, of particles radioactive in the atmosphere. Is that the music, or... Ours 12.

Ver 11 o'er, these camions siren commons are aroused the rue of Pripyte without any it's all over. Circulate, there's nothing to

do you do not fereg the rues with a substance supposedly capable of to absorb the radiation.

Just of them no, no, reason particular. We said that today it's a good

good day to do it for it and that if it was not today, we're my family

that said in fact, coupable, but more seriously to play in the park with your famed, and your infant and your

old age. Hour 13. It's about midi to Moscow that we inform Mikhail Gorbachev, the Secretary General, so boss of the

Party Communist, of the situation at Chernobyl. And even in it's addressing to him, we're not super transparent

on the situation. Well, we, we're like these little tracrackat in Chernobyl, but the incandies is

metrised, and the level of radioactivity super chill. We've I'll goy! Detail

dark. The level of radioactivity was really poachy the pantote. It's just that the apparel to measure the radiation, the dosimetre, had a measure maximal that was almost

6,000 times inferior to the actual level of radiation in the air. Possibly, grace of the 6th sense of his tache de vines in the front,

Gorbachev, will kind of probably more prudent to invite two guys on place to be in the situation, Valeri Legassov, the first director

adjoin of the principal center of research nuclear-soviets, and Boris Sherbinah, the vice-president of the Council of the Ministers. And all two

know not in what we're going to get to be in front of this, it's a bit an espeteer a bit an espouse of and I'm invite to consider

the catastrophe of Chernobyl like their film Rush Hour. Camarad Cherbina, it's a catastrophe.

The incand the core of the reactor is zero-etain, and Produce more radiation in one hour than what the core human can enquecassed by annie. The sole solution would be dropped by helicopter a genre of

a mix of sand and an material capable of absorb the neutrons that we call the bore. Perfect. We do that. No, the things are not so simple. If we envoy a helicopter at least of the incandies, he would be in a nuisance so aggressive That it would be the pilot quasi-instantanately

and that the helicopter would beckxed what would want to mindrere the situation would be a problem to plus. But,

finally, it must be able there's a solution that we can elaborate, of preference in fuming a quantity

of siarrate in the 80. We're in a hospital, by the way. So, the solution that will be

to get the sand and the bar by helicopter on the fire, but in diagonal, and the pilot will come even

to get a max dose of radiation, but not enough for that the helicopter's cras. Ah, well, it's simple, finally.

Other good news, after a brief 306 hour of exposition to the retombes radioactive fudroyant,

we've finished by evacue the Ville of Pripate, but in it's not possible. Attention,

attention, attention, abitant of Prikate, the Council Municipal you inform that in reason of a leger incident of

nothing to anything at the central electric of Chernobyl, we are constrained to evacuate the population of a fashion super-temporary. Three days,

but you're quite a maximum of the age, bad, the nouriture and all your papers important, just in the

case, attention, attention. 116,000 evacue who reverton never their maison. By course,

the evacuation arrive for insid at point, because the 28 April, the Swede, the Swede

which is found at no more of 1,200 kilometers, detect a suspect hoax of radiation in the air. And he's reached to calculate that it came to Chernobyl. Some hours later, the Americans have already took these photocatellites

in the 1980, and the newveled the tour of the world, which obliges the Party Communist to make a declaration, some of all the conic. The 26th

April, there would have had an accident at the central nuclear of Chernobyl, but all is under control. Save that... Camarad Cherbina!

Ah, Camarad, Legassov. What, again? But good news? Well, no, contrary. He would seemer that, in force to garrochet of the sand and the board on diagonal,

what is a miracle. All that we have created, it's a couch that emprisoned the incandies radioactive devened so much show that he commons to

to make fonder the betton the bedo the planchet create a corium a material

semi-liquid radioactive comparable to the lav And parnie me your mumbo-jombo scientific

and explain me that in a phrase like I heard a podcast in the

char if he can't pass across the planche that he is present

presently in presentment he will inevitably fall in total the

water that's accumulated a cause of the pompier what could create instantanement an other explosion

of vapor toxic that ejector even more of material radioactive in the air. Baird, it would be a good for the safety,

all that's all right to try to find a solution in enchaning the cigarettes like the solution of clop soviatic

it's going to get to get to the car in the water in soud of plonger

with the water ultra-contamined radioactive to the manual, to manually open the valves and

vided the basins so the reactor. A mission epic that we'll baptize the Esquade of Suicide because we were convinced that

would have come from there without minimum a cancer that brie in the barrage, they will be able reach.

Detai, Encouraging. Yeah. Of many media, and the propaganda of the party

will insinue that are more in hero for their patry, but all the world in the esquade

of suicide of a survive, there is one who is in 2005 of an attack cardiac, and the two other were still alive in 2025, eh, well...

Detain, discourageant. Oh! Today, we know that the Corium, the lava radioactive, had already started to see-gootting in the basin before that the water could be drained, and, finally, it would just

solidified in the water without fair of explosion, so, all that for anything. Camarad, Cherbina! What, again? Good news? But, yeah, sure, that no.

Voye you now that the water is drained I'm fear that the cure in fusion can risk

to pass at the soil and contaminate the nap friatic rending inhabitable

all the Ukraine and a great party of Europe. Ah, and I imagine

that we can't just be more more of and the

replaced by the coffee? But it's an excellent idea, is that I

can you bomb a cigarette? So at this stage, if at this stage, believe it or no, the solution

is, one the first very simple. It's suffie to make a call a quantity dis-reasonable to mineur

to creus a tunnel directly to the reactor, and installs a kind of sandwich of graphite and of

bitton that would make office of surface of refodism for diffus the shower and stabilise the

sun? Are you sure that's the solution the most simple, legassov? It's that or,

if I'm I'm going to 25 ton of azote liquid per year for to guard

the soil and I'll just all right. It's just it can't be a coffee glassed. Okay.

Okay. We have required to how much of minors exactly? 450 minors

who are working on shift continue 24 hours on 24 on 24 for 24

during a 15th of a year, a challenge that certain it was

they were in bobette direct in radiation. But in same time I can to understand.

Some sometimes, we're to be about about I'm going to be able to this moment.

Wanted you more more than how we're doing more on the podcast? Detail, discourageage

oh, I'm doing a pattern. The time they finish to creus the fire it's already

arrested of himself, his combustible radioactif immobilized in a way quite secure

in the soil. The tunnel was 100 superflued finally, we're going to be

before the 450 minors could be well, all pogned a good dose mortal of radiation for a ryan. Rended there, the problem

the more pressing at their air is to need to need the hundred tons of debris radioactive on the to-the-to-o-complete, which continue to empoisoned the

Europe all complete. Camarad, Cherbinah! What again? We must, start to be close to the problem, no? It's,

it's worse than all, the worst-per-to-too- telecommanded that we've made to cleaner the Toys, have instantanement been busied by the radiation.

Okay, so we're going to use of these sort of bio-robot? It's the term that we're using for real, and just as we're being clear, the biotobos, it was, just a way to say, des humans.

Detail dark. Yeah, so it's not more than 5,000 bio-robot who are going to needy-the-to-nett, at a grand coup of 90-second to ramace a maximum of debris radioactive the

most quickly because there was zero equipment adequate for the normally you're you're just the right to make a pass of

a manage like a year, but the more the more hard to do you return to six times. And for

to disinfecting, it's simple, it's suffice to buy a vodka before to die of cancer. Detai dark vegan.

The last step of the needoyage it's going to gone all the animals of the region

that's softage or domestic. In effect, the radioactive, a force to consume the nouriture, of the water contaminated, and to absorb the pushire radioactive in their

furrure, we'll demand to some of bi-robot, to well-wloor the euthanasia. All the animals of the region. By where you commence? The chasseurs are annually there and they're using never. Brief, after that, it's just to

decreted an zone of exclusion of 2,600 km-carre around the central, Construing a sarcophage in beton to isolate the rest the reactor number 4, lance a process bidon in which we're condone diatlov and Brioucanov

and all the other responsible at 10 year to pelage of nage and make a beau chou rose on the affair Chernobyl. Cherbina will

die in 1990, possibly of an empoisonment mortal at the radiation but we don't because one of the first affairs that was done in

1988 to protect the U.S.S., which anyways will finish one long later. It's to sign a decree like what the medicine have

not the right to cite the radiation as cause of his disset. Trey possibly by radiation but Ch.

Legasov, he, will tend to have passed some reform of security to avoid a second

catastrophe, but it will be seen an attack to the integrity of the U.S. So,

we will exclude the Consin Scientific of Research Nuclearer, he will be subircelling of the

part of his pairs and he will spend at the last month the second anniversary of

Chernobyl. End. The fan, moat of the history, with a grand h. Well, what's we can try to all that? Croyed me, I'd have been to say, nothing to peer than the USSR,

but, unfortunately, all part to believe that Chernobyl is certainly a trist combination of error human and of defoes of fabrication of a central

nuclear-batted for having a bonus in a world communist, where all the world partage all, but people

don't, let's not fash that the U.S.S. But at all the other of that, one of the repercussions is to have created a comprehensible mega-trauma social

face to the energy nuclear, that's what we're talking, on is a sum of security, but when it's a lot, it's really bad, but it's

not often, but it could deciming the humanity, but it's not often, but it could be. And, today, again,

40 years after the catastrophe, we're on recant always the countercoup, particularly in Ukraine and in Belarusi,

where the population even, at this day, shows the toll of cancer more than the way of these

joyeus particles radioactive don't know of the sky like a bordey of a nose

mortals. Hey, want you a note positive to finish? The animals like the

loup and the cair have come to come back to Chernobyl, to be to be able, and even

to prosper in the ruins of the village on which the nature repran per

a few a few its role, the moral of the human finally

by sote the land, it will be been correct. I'm called Charles Beauchinne, and the Couchemore

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