Listen to Virginie Girod’s story on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986. Throughout Europe, engineers and scientists specializing in nuclear power are bound by professional secrecy regarding the effects of the radioactive cloud. The most irradiated victims, especially among the firefighters called after the explosion, are taken to hospital No. 6 in Moscow, the only one capable of taking care of people exposed to high doses of radiation. But the nurses know: soon, these men will start decomposing alive. And this is only the beginning of the carnage… This story is a Europe 1 Studio production.
Bibliography:
Markiyan Kamysh, La Zone, Arthaud, 2016
SOURCES
Transcription of the Legasov tapes in English:
https://legasovtapetranslation.blogspot.com/2019/10/tape-3-side-b.html
Igor Kostin, Chernobyl, The Arenas, 2020
DOCUMENTARIES
The Battle of Chernobyl, Thomas Johnson, 2006
The Sacrifice, Wladimir Tcherkoff, 2004.
Archives :
“Chernobyl: we have nothing to fear in France”, interview with Professor Jean Chanteur, Benoît Duquesne, May 3, 1986
Testimonies of French students in kyiv, Alexandre Lichan, May 1, 1986
Interview with a member of the European Commission on the radioactive fallout from Chernobyl on French agriculture, Eric de Riedmatten and Benoît Duquesne, 15 May 1…
