So right now we are on the main square of Pripyat city from where people were evacuated
And that building, where is the radiation sign, was the mayor's office before the accident
And after the disaster Gorbachev decided to get nuclear physicists together here
to decide what to do with the reactor number 4
to build the first confinement and how to deactivate this area.
And Legasov, nuclear physicist, he lived together with Sherbina,
if you remember from the HBO series, at that building
so there is a hotel called "Polissia" and they've got their office here.
That's right. Yes. At the first meeting
after the accident they met together at night when the accident happened
They've got the first information and there is a bunker here in the basement
They met all together here and got a first meeting.
Not too long but the first information they have got was from Diatlov.
Because Diatlov was responsible for the test.
And definitely they trusted to this guy because he was very experienced nuclear physicist as well
And Diatlov said that they have got just an accident with the electricity, the fire on the roof.
Maybe the tank with the heavy water was damaged.
So that is why radiation is a bit high and the official information was that the radiation is about 4 roentgens only
Right...
That's right, yes.
It happened inside that building on the ground floor. That's right.
On the reception, yes. Inside the hotel.
Yeah, it is a true story, yes.
But the liquidators and the soldiers, mostly soldiers.
They've got special troops from the army, yes.
It was necessary because as you can imagine they have got a lot of contaminations here
and this animals... they were walking everywhere...so...
They have got no choice
But domestic animals maybe weren't killed a lot
because domestic animals were left inside the building so they died...
Well, that's right.
Animals come back because they can't distinguish, you know, contaminated radioactive places...
or not radioactive places...
So the wildlife is coming back to the Chernobyl zone
and get more trees even inside the city, as you can see, a lot of trees and the radiation didn't kill it.
It depends on level of contaminations and radiation.
If it is quite enough... I mean if it's high enough to kill the tree then it kills the tree
Or a plant.
The same story with the animals. If they leave for example inside the contaminated area
Definitely, they eat contaminated food and drink contaminated water
And they die when they get enough to die.
I got it
All the people who come here ask about the mutated species. Everyone would like to see them
Unfortunately, I would like to get them but we haven't got any mutated animals
Maybe it's good but people are curious
We haven't got any mutated animals. Maybe some plants... Yes, we have some mutated trees
But it's like... The nature is changing because of radiation influence
This is like genetically modified products
So it is not so dangerous. If you have for example mutated tree because of the radiation
It doesn't mean that this tree is dangerous
It's just a new kind of tree, but unfortunately or luckily not to get any... I don't know...
animals...dears with 2 heads or six legs.
Both people and animals have a rejecting system. Kind of a protection system.
If something is wrong it won't survive and will be rejected by body.