
A newly published documentary, entitled "New Sky Documentaries Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes", has revealed new and extremely serious images from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
The documentary is an unprecedented look at the human cost of the extraordinary radioactive collapse and concealment of information that followed the tragedy on the part of the Soviet Union.
Horror footage that has never been published before gives an inside look at the worst nuclear incident that has occurred on earth since the Hiroshima explosion.
The horrific images include small children with "fish tails", young people covered with strange wounds and children with extremely rare cancers. Babies with 'shiny' green spots and cancers caused by horrible radioactive exposure are among the gloomiest images published so far.
They also show the devastating effect the disaster had on the first reactors to land on the ground with almost no protective equipment.
The Chernobyl accident occurred on April 26, 1986, in unit number four at the plant near Pripyat, in northern Ukraine. Staff made fatal mistakes during a safety test that caused the nuclear reactor to explode, mistakes that were documented in the well-known HBO drama, Chernobyl.
More than 100,000 people were evacuated and a 20-mile exclusion zone was created that still exists today. Two workers were killed in the initial blast on April 26, while 134 others were hospitalized due to acute radiation poisoning.
Of that group, 28 died and 14 others underwent therapy following suspicions of radiation-induced cancer in the years that followed.
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes also features archival footage of initial media coverage and new interviews with expert eyewitnesses.
Soviet officials insisted the blast had no effect on the health of the local population, but at the same time they worked to evacuate the area and plan a massive concealment of evidence from the shocking event, as within a few days, the radiation had spread to Scandinavia.
About 200,000 are thought to have died as a direct result of the nuclear disaster even though Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov insisted the death toll was only seven.