Building Chernobyl's megatomb
(DVD) 

Title from title screen.

Running time give on container as approximately 60 min. Actual running time is less than 54 min.

Edited by Paul Shepard.

Narrator, Eric Meyers.

Originally broadcast by PBS Apr. 26, 2017.

In 1986 a catastrophic blast, 400 times more potent than the Hiroshima bomb, blew the lid off Chernobyl's Reactor No. Four, igniting fires that burned for days and sending a radioactive cloud across Europe. Ill-equipped workers heroically sealed the smoldering reactor in a concrete sarcophagus, but the hastily constructed shelter was only built to last 30 years. Now, 30 countries have come together to pay for a 25,000-ton steel shelter which will entomb the radiation and last for a century.

Examines the efforts to a team of international engineers to construct a protective shield to entomb the remains of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.

DVD; wide screen; stereo.

English, subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.