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Two men die that night, 28 more will follow in the next few months. They are the first victims of Chernobyl. No one was prepared for such a crisis.
当晚有2人死亡接下来几个月还有28人丧命 他们是切尔诺贝利的第一批受害者 没有人预料会发生这样的危机
For the next seven months, 500,000 men wage hand to hand combat with an invisible enemy.
接下来7个月 有50万人将携手与看不见的敌人奋战
A ruthless battle that has gone unsung which claims thousands of unnamed and now almost forgotten heroes Yet, it is thanks to these men that the worst was avoided:
这是一场无人知晓的残酷战役 数千名被遗忘的无名英雄丧命 然而多亏了他们才避免了恐怖的第二场爆炸
A second explosion, ten times more powerful than Hiroshima, which would have wiped out half of Europe.
其威力将是广岛原子弹的十倍 半个欧洲将被夷为平地
This was kept secret for twenty years by Soviets and the West alike. Many of these images have never been seen before.
这件事被苏联与西方世界秘而不宣20年 这些画面都是首次揭露
They were taken by journalists who were also exposed to nuclear contamination, some whom later died.
由暴露在核污染下的记者所拍摄 有些人已在稍后过世
Those images tell the story of a hidden war whose consequences continue twenty years later to worsen the toll of the disaster.
这些画面透露出一场隐密的战事 20年来这场战役的死伤人数 仍持续增加当中
This is the true story of the Battle of Chernobyl. By early morning the clouds are already being contaminated by the radioactive column rising one thousand meters into the sky.
为您报导抢救切尔诺贝利的真实故事 到了早上 云层已经被冲上高空一千公尺的放射性云柱所污染
Igor Kostine is a photographer with the news agency Novosti.
伊戈科斯汀是俄罗斯新闻社的摄影记者
When a friend and helicopter pilot phones him that morning to offer to fly him over Chernobyl all Kostine knows is that something has happened at the plant during the night.
一名直升机驾驶朋友那天早上自愿载他去切尔诺贝利 科斯汀当时只知道核电厂夜间发生状况
He is the first journalist to witness the gaping hole. When we got close to block 4 and circled round it, I had no idea of the risk.
他是第一名目睹裂开洞口的记者 当我们靠近第四区并在上头盘旋 我完全不知道其中的危险
When we flew over the block, I opened the window of the helicopter. I didn't realize then what a big mistake that was.
我们飞到第四区上空时 我打开直升机窗户 我当时并不知道犯下大错
The thin translucent smoke he sees rising from the ruins is in fact highly radioactive.
他当时见到的废墟升起的稀薄透明烟雾 其实具有高度放射性
Kostine is one of the few Chernobyl reporters on the scene in the earliest hours of the accident, to had survived serious exposion to radiation.
科斯汀是少数最早到达事故现场的记者里头 严重暴露在辐射能中却依然存活的
When I opened the window, I couldn't hear a thing. The ruins of the reactor were below me.
我打开窗户什么都听不到 反应炉的废墟就在我下方
I felt like I was floating in the space. Like in a tomb. A real dead silence. I couldn't even hear the helicopter anymore.
我觉得有如漂浮在失重的太空 仿佛身处墓地 现场一片死寂 我甚至再也听不见直升机的声音
Nothing. A black hole. A tomb and deathly silence.
现场空无一物 一片黑洞 像是个死寂的坟墓
