Research File: Chernobyl

Chernobyl decontamination activities (Flickr/atomicallyspeaking)

In this edition of the programme:

  • Two years after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Research File attends
    A conference in Washington reviewing the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident and how the world would deal with a similar disaster today;
  • A conference on combating blindness in the Third World, including cataracts and river blindness;
  • NASA’s 10-year Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Producers: Anne Blair Gould & Jonathan Marks
Broadcast: May 9, 1988