Why France Lied About Chernobyl ! The Radiation That Crossed Borders
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Why France Lied About Chernobyl ! The Radiation That Crossed Borders
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The radioactive cloud from Chernobyl crossed 20 countries.Some governments told their people. Most did not.This is the story of what European governments knew —and the calculations they made about what to tell you.In this episode:— How Swedish engineers detected the radiation before Moscow admitted the explosion— Which European governments raised their own safety limits to avoid a public panic— How France told its citizens the cloud had stopped at the border— The long-term cancer data that governments spent decades disputing— Why the official death toll from Chernobyl remains one of the most contested numbers in modern scientific historyThe Soviet Union was not the only governmentthat decided what its citizens were allowed to know.CHERNOBYL: DECLASSIFIED — Full Series▶ Ep.1 — The Night It Happened▶ Ep.2 — They Knew. They Said Nothing.▶ Ep.3 — Built To Fail▶ Ep.4 — The Cloud They Said Stopped [YOU ARE HERE]▶ Ep.5 — Could It Happen Again?