First Nuclear Reaction / Chernobyl
EpisodeS1E950 min

Days That Shook the World

First Nuclear Reaction / Chernobyl

2 December 1942 and 26 April 1986. The first controlled nuclear chain reaction heralded the atomic age, but Chernobyl's runaway chain reaction was the first warning. How did the most exciting scientific breakthroughs ever lead to the disaster that the world had dreaded?

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Ricardo Agosti

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Ivan Avramenko

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John Basiulis

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Tamuna Cheishvilli

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Weetus Cren

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James Donaher

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Niel McCormack

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Alexei Palamarenko

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Boris Rogachevski

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Andrew Taylor

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Dmitri Vakulov

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Bronagh Waugh

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Lee Wiginton

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Katarina Burgess

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Blair Willoughby

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Mindy Lee

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Eugene Kotchetov

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Gary Parker

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Andrea Piovan

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George Shiskovsky

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John McQuiston

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Peter Guinness

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Dee Edmonds

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Christine Whittaker

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Shahana Meer

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Malcolm Paris

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George Foulgham

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Stuart Dobbs

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Mark Wright

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Graham Holtom

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Kirsty Robb

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Neil McDonald

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Ann Williams

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Andy Bush

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