Guy's Road to Chernobyl

U&Yesterday HD

7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Wednesday 4 December

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Guy Martin visits the site of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine to explore the record-breaking engineering solutions designed to make the area safe. After receiving specialist training about how to avoid contamination, he is allowed into the most radioactive place on earth, a restricted exclusion zone of 1,000 sq miles. He heads straight for the breached reactor, which is now entombed within a 36,000-ton shelter, and climbs to the top of the structure to carry out a radiation survey