Fermi/Chernobyl Days That Shook the World : Season 1 Episode 8
BBC Four
Aired: October 22nd, 2003 @ 9:30 PM EST on BBC Four
2 December 1942 and 26 April 1986 The first controlled nuclear chain reaction heralded the atomic age, but Chernobyl's runaway chain reaction was the first warning. How did the most exciting scientific breakthroughs ever lead to the disaster that the world had dreaded?
