It was a sunny Saturday morning in the middle of spring and there was little sign that anything was wrong. Mothers pushed prams, men in short sleeves strolled through the streets, children sucked on ice lollies. Only the footage from that day gives a hint of anything amiss: every few moments the image flickers, flashes of light appearing on the screen.
This was the Ukrainian city of Pripyat on the morning of April 26, 1986. Just a few hours earlier, at 1.23am, a reactor at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant had exploded in what would prove to be the world’s worst nuclear disaster. Yet that morning, in the words of Oleksandr Sirota, a ten-year-old schoolboy: “Absolutely nothing made you think that something was wrong.”
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