Tom Scott

Containing the Worst Nuclear Disaster in History: Chernobyl's New Confinement Structure (2015x39)

Air date: Jul 27, 2015

Deep in rural Ukraine sits what was once the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station. Now, it's the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history: and one that still needs to be contained, thirty years later. How do you deal with something that'll be this toxic for so long into the future?