Nobody Has Touched This Basement Since Chernobyl — Here's Why

The first firefighters at Chernobyl were carried into Pripyat's hospital on April 26, 1986. Their radioactive boots, jackets and helmets were thrown into the basement, and nobody has touched them since. This Chernobyl documentary follows the firefighters who climbed onto the burning roof of Reactor 4: Lieutenant Volodymyr Pravyk, Lieutenant Viktor Kibenok, Vasily Ignatenko and their crews. We go inside Pripyat Hospital No. 126 (Medical-Sanitary Unit 126) on the night of the disaster, follow the men to Moscow's Hospital No. 6, and uncover why the hospital basement is still one of the most radioactive rooms in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, forty years later. ▶ Subscribe for more nuclear history:    / @brokenarrowfiles   Chapters: 0:00 The boots under the hospital 1:24 The night shift 5:01 The roof 8:21 Hospital No. 126 11:55 The flight to Moscow 14:17 The two weeks 18:16 The city empties 20:47 The people who went down 23:30 Why nobody cleans it up 25:18 What the basement teaches us Broken Arrow Files uncovers the untold stories behind the nuclear age: the disasters, the buried secrets, and the engineering that saved us. Every film is built on real research and told with respect. #Chernobyl #ChernobylDisaster #NuclearHistory