Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach. Episode 23, Nuclear Meltdown: Chernobyl [eFilm]
2024
Streaming Video
No engineering failure in history had more world-changing consequences than the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the former Soviet Union. Discover the numerous design, personnel, and bureaucratic flaws that resulted in the explosion of Reactor 4 during a routine safety test-releasing 800 times more radioactive material than the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Imprint:
The Great Courses, 2022.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (43 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Title from title frames.FilmIn Process Record.Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2022.
Performers:
Stephen Ressler
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
BRN:
820338
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