Building Chernobyl's megatomb

Resource Information

The work Building Chernobyl's megatomb represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Building Chernobyl's megatomb

Statement of responsibility

produced and directed by Martin Gorst ; executive producer Carlo Massarella ; a Nova production by Windfall Films Ltd. (part of the Argonon Group) for WGBH Boston produced in association with the BBC, and France Television, NHK, and N24

Title variation

Building Chernobyl's mega tomb

Contributor

• France télévision
• Gorst, Martin, 1960-
• Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai
• Massarella, Carlo
• Meyers, Eric, 1959-
• Shepard, Paul, (Film editor)
• British Broadcasting Corporation
• PBS Distribution (Firm)
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
• N24 (Firm)
• Windfall Films (Firm)

Film director

• Gorst, Martin, 1960-

Film editor

• Shepard, Paul, (Film editor)

Film producer

• Massarella, Carlo
• Gorst, Martin, 1960-

Narrator

• Meyers, Eric, 1959-

Production company

• Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai
• France télévision
• Windfall Films (Firm)
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
• N24 (Firm)
• British Broadcasting Corporation

Publisher

• PBS Distribution (Firm)

Subject

• 1986
• Ukraine
• Ukraine -- Chornobylʹ
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Radioactive waste repositories -- Ukraine
• Chernobyl Nuclear Accident (Chornobylʹ, Ukraine : 1986)
• Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986
• Documentary television programs
• Documentary television programs
• Nonfiction television programs
• Nonfiction television programs
• Nuclear reactors -- Shielding (Radiation)
• Nuclear reactors -- Shielding (Radiation)
• Radioactive waste repositories

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Nonfiction television programs
• Documentary television programs

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

In 1986 a catastrophic blast, 400 times more potent than the Hiroshima bomb, blew the lid off Chernobyl's Reactor No. Four, igniting fires that burned for days and sending a radioactive cloud across Europe. Ill-equipped workers heroically sealed the smoldering reactor in a concrete sarcophagus, but the hastily constructed shelter was only built to last 30 years. Now, 30 countries have come together to pay for a 25,000-ton steel shelter which will entomb the radiation and last for a century

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Edited by Paul Shepard

Date time place

Originally broadcast by PBS Apr. 26, 2017

Dewey number

• 621.4838
• 621.48/323

Intended audience

Rating: TVPG

Language note

English, subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing

LC call number

TK9210

LC item number

.N68 2017

PerformerNote

Narrator, Eric Meyers

Runtime

54

Target audience

general

Technique

live action