"They're about to start dismantling the reactor to make it safer. As soon as they open it up, which they'll do imminently [with robots], radiation will spill out, so it won't be safe."The star, who previously climbed Mount Everest and rowed the Atlantic, visited Chernobyl, in northern Ukraine, for a week last autumn to film a feature-length documentary, Inside Chernobyl with Ben Fogle.The destroyed plant and its surrounds are a haunting, post-apocalyptic landscape that is the result of the worst mistake in history - on April 26, 1986, a poorly executed technical test at the energy plant caused an explosion and fire that led to the release of massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment.Even 35 years later, filming there.
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