This is the first picture ever taken of the breach.

这是第一张拍摄到的裂口照片

All my equipment jammed after a minute. I couldn't understand what was going on.

我的设备很快全都卡住了 我不知道这是怎么回事

I thought my batteries were dead. I only managed to take a dozen photos.

我以为是电池没电了 我只设法拍了12张照片

Once I returned to Kiev, I processed my pictures and I noticed the negatives were black and the colors very poor.

回到基辅后 我开始处理照片 我看到底片全都是黑的 没什么色彩

I didn't know it yet, but the photos had been exposed to radioactivity.

我当时并不知道这些照片全都暴露在放射线中

At the core of the blown-out reactor, and buried under 14 meters of rubble the graphite surrounding the nuclear fuel burns and melts the uranium.

爆炸的反应炉核心深埋在14公尺石砾下方 核心环绕核子燃料的石墨正在燃烧 并且熔化了铀

The radioactive fallout is going be 100 times greater than the combined power of the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

这些放射尘的威力 是投在广岛跟长崎的两颗原子弹 总和的100倍

At the Kremlin, eight hours after the explosion Gorbachev only has scant information on the situation.

爆炸后8小时 在克里姆林宫 戈尔巴乔夫掌握到的讯息非常贫乏

The first information consisted of 'accident' and 'fire'. Not a word about an explosion.

最早的消息都只说发生事故跟火灾 完全没提到爆炸

At first, I was told there hadn't been an explosion. The consequences of such false information were particularly dramatic.

最初我被告知并没有发生爆炸 这类错误资讯造成了恐怖的后果

Pripyat's 43,000 inhabitants life goes on as usual. They know nothing about the disaster 3 kilometers away.

普里皮亚季的4万3千名居民生活如常进行 他们对3公里外的灾变一无所悉

The information we got was that everything was sound, including the reactor.

我们得到的讯息都说一切正常 包括反应炉也是

When I asked the academician Alexandrov, he told me the reactor was absolutely safe.

我询问亚历山卓夫院士 他告诉我反应炉绝对安全

It could even be set up on Red Square. It wouldn't be any different than a samovar. Like putting cattle on Red Square.

甚至可以装置在红场 过程跟煮茶没两样 就像在红场摆个茶壶一样

There are rumors in the town of a fire at the plant and deaths in the night but no official information is been released.

城里传说着核电厂夜里发生火灾 并造成死亡 但是官方并没有发布任何消息

The white flashes on these images are the results of radioactivity on the film.

影片中的白色闪光是底片遭到放射性污染所致

People in the streets hardly blink an eye at the masked soldiers scattered throughout the city.

街头的行人对散布全城、戴着面具的士兵不以为意

Colonel Grebeniouk leads the troops in charge of controlling the situation.

克伦班亚克上校负责带领军队控制灾情