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Inside Chernobyl’s Forgotten Laboratory 15 | Chornobyl Uncharted Ep 29

Located at the very north-west of the city of Pripyat, this building looks like an ordinary Soviet kindergarten. But hidden inside it was one of the most ambitious scientific research programs in Chernobyl — a laboratory that continued operating for years after the 1986 disaster, in the middle of an abandoned city. This was Laboratory 15. In this episode of Chornobyl Uncharted, we explore one of the least known research facilities in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. This laboratory was part of a large scientific effort to study radioactive contamination of soil, crops, animal feed, and ash after the Chernobyl nuclear accident. During the 1990s, scientists collected thousands of samples from experimental fields and farms across the Chernobyl Zone. These samples were transported to Laboratory 15 for analysis, where researchers measured radionuclide accumulation and searched for ways to reduce radiation in food and agricultural materials. Today, almost no one remembers what this laboratory was for. Using rare survey footage filmed in 2021, we document the interior of Laboratory 15 as it exists today: storage rooms filled with radioactive samples, damaged bags of crops and soil, scientific equipment, and traces of long-term research that continued well beyond the collapse of the Soviet Union. Laboratory 15 was eventually abandoned — not only because of funding, but because the entire concept of Chernobyl research changed. This episode examines how the first generation of Chernobyl science ended, and how modern research in the Exclusion Zone is carried out today. 00:00 Intro 00:33 What Laboratory 15 was and how it appeared 06:07 Chistogalovka Test Site 07:37 Exploring the laboratory 14:40 Outro Chornobyl Uncharted is an independent documentary project focused on original sources, archival materials, and the scientific history of Chernobyl. Your support helps us preserve this heritage:   / thechernobylfamily   https://buymeacoffee.com/chernobylfamily Bonus materials / sources: A story about Gamma the Cow:   / gamma-cow-102134947   Unique images from a scientist who worked at the CheNCMI experimental farm:   / gamma-cow-and-of-104048048   Chernobyl Evolution Site — an article about genetics studies at the CheNCMI farm:   / chernobyl-02-at-102136246   Y. Samoilenko’s report on plans for Pripyat’s use in the post-Chernobyl period:   / chernobyl-88-vol-103742340   Historical scientific plots in the Chernobyl Zone:   / my-chornobyl-mud-145174913   A brief but emotive insight into modern Chernobyl science in action:   / 116680374