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Long-suppressed footage of schoolchildren playing following this event is included in James Jones’s documentary about its “Lost Tapes.” A Nobel Laureate’s book on this event describes how authorities were unable to find a pair of shoes that (0[1])fit a dying firefighter. (20[1]0[1])Following (0[1])this (0[1])event, so called “bio-robots” (20[2])spent (0[1])no more than 90 (20[1]0[1])seconds (0[1])shoveling (20[2])debris (20[1])off a roof, (20[3])a prerequisite to building (20[1]0[1])a (20[1])(*) “sarcophagus.” (10[2])Workers (10[1])in Forsmark, Sweden (10[1])alerted the IAEA (10[1])of this event. (10[2])A book by Svetlana Alexievich documents “liquidators” responding to this (10[1])event, (10[2])including helicopter (10[1])crews that dropped large quantities (10[1])of boron in an attempt (10[1])to put out a fire. (10[1])Following this event, Pripyat was evacuated. (10[3])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[2])name this 1986 Soviet nuclear (10[1])disaster. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Chernobyl nuclear disaster [or answers like Chernobyl meltdown; accept Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes]
<Michael Bentley, History - European - 1900+&gt; ~22655~ &lt;Editor: Michael Bentley>
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