00:00But I think radiation's biggest effect on me was psychological.
00:10It's like this constant fear that something might go wrong because of it.
00:40It's like this constant fear that something might go wrong because of it.
01:10People were very tight-lipped and it was just the Soviet way of dealing with anything stressful,
01:39traumatic, is just to soldier through it, no emotion, you weren't allowed to slam the table at a government meeting.
02:09Meanwhile, countrywide radiation readings and samples have been flown into Stockholm for analysis.
02:38Human and animal milk was found to be contaminated, along with static water supplies, but there is no danger.
02:51It doesn't really seem likely that only two people have been killed in this, what has been an enormous disaster.
02:55No, that's official report.
03:07There may be hundreds and perhaps thousands of lives lost, certainly there are that many in danger.
03:12The Soviet Union has not only lied to the world, but has also lied to its own people about the extent of the damage.
03:29I don't remember anybody on TV or in the newspaper saying we were wrong to say what we said at first and it was actually an explosion
03:39and you're all in grave danger now and your health is going to be probably affected for years and decades to come.
03:45I don't remember anything like that.
04:09We mainly suffer physically from major burns and diarrhea and infections.
04:19I think it's one of the major lessons from this event is that we are not prepared.
04:29Russia and the others are still saddled with a crumbling nuclear and chemical infrastructure that makes the possibility of another environmental disaster impossible to ignore.
