10 Chernobyl Facts You Never Knew

The second episode of the Chornobyl Uncharted from the long-term insiders! Today we collected ten little-known facts about projects of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Pripyat, and the Chornobyl zone that were never done, and remained on paper. Probably, you never heard about most of them.

00:00 – Intro
00:36 – 1. Early projects of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant
03:07 – 2. The City of Pripyat could look completely different
04:08 – 3. Villages, that disappeared because of the power plant construction
06:17 – 4. How some iconic buildings of Pripyat were supposed to look
08:25 – 5. Here could be installed the world's biggest reactors
10:27 – 6. Districts of Pripyat that were never built
11:56 – 7. Post-disaster life of Pripyat
14:17 – 8. Villages, that were excluded from the Chernobyl zone
15:22 – 9. Alternative Projects for the New Safe Confinement of the Reactor 4
16:33 – 10. Duga OTH radar antenna could become a wind power plant
17:33 – Outro

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