Lesser known facts about Chernobyl, second biggest Nuclear disaster history has ever seen
5 years, 7 months ago

Lesser known facts about Chernobyl, second biggest Nuclear disaster history has ever seen

India TV News  

HBO's mini-series Chernobyl has two episodes left and is already on the top trending show on IMDB with a thrilling average review score of 9.6/10. Take a look at some interesting facts about the Chernobyl disaster, that will surely help you understand the show in depth: Nuclear power plant Chernobyl The disaster took place in a nuclear power plant in Ukraine, Chernobyl on 26 April 1986 around mid-night 1:23 AM. Sources revealed that the amount of radiation released in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was 100 times more than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki incident.The range of nuclear rain affected a larger area, it was spread as far as Ireland. Chernobyl after Nuclear disaster The matter of concern is the psychological distress caused by the tragedy which is still impactful and is the largest public health concern right now according to sources. Chernobyl after Nuclear disaster In the nuclear disaster, about 100,000 people lost their lives due to the harmful radiation, and 90% of local children developed cancer and 5% of adults were also diagnosed with it.

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How a second nuclear disaster was avoided at Chernobyl in 2022
4 weeks ago

How a second nuclear disaster was avoided at Chernobyl in 2022

Live Mint  

W.W. Norton; 240 pages; $29.99. “We’re keeping calm for the time being,” Mr Heiko told his colleague, even though there were no guidelines for what employees at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant should do in the event of war. The nuclear facility is terrain he knows well: Mr Plokhy previously produced an outstanding account of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, …

What really happened at Chernobyl? How the world’s worst nuclear accident happened
1 year, 8 months ago

What really happened at Chernobyl? How the world’s worst nuclear accident happened

The Independent  

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Russian forces suffer radiation sickness after digging trenches and fishing in Chernobyl
1 year, 8 months ago

Russian forces suffer radiation sickness after digging trenches and fishing in Chernobyl

The Independent  

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Ukrainians mark Chernobyl disaster amid nuclear threats
1 year, 8 months ago

Ukrainians mark Chernobyl disaster amid nuclear threats

Associated Press  

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Wednesday marked the 37th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster amid an ongoing war and nuclear threats, somberly laying flowers at a monument for victims. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used the day to repeat his warnings about the potential threat of a new atomic catastrophe in Ukraine amid …

How geologists are using history’s worst nuclear disaster to open up earth’s history
1 year, 9 months ago

How geologists are using history’s worst nuclear disaster to open up earth’s history

The Hindu  

Thirty-seven years ago, on April 26 1986, the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown. In new research published in American Mineralogist, my colleagues and I show tiny zircons formed at Chernobyl change our understanding of how these crystals behave – and what they tell us about Earth’s past. Nuclear power plant reactor meltdowns have happened …

Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant: The real worst-case scenario
2 years, 4 months ago

Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant: The real worst-case scenario

The Telegraph  

When Chernobyl melted down in 1986 it led to a radioactive wind, radiation poisoning deaths and an exclusion zone the size of Derbyshire. Now, Europe’s biggest nuclear reactor, Zaporizhzhia, is in the spotlight, with concerns it could be the next name on this infamous list of nuclear reactor disasters as it remains in the crossfire of Putin’s war, reduced to …

Russia warns of another Chernobyl over Ukraine's attacks
2 years, 4 months ago

Russia warns of another Chernobyl over Ukraine's attacks

India TV News  

Ukraine's ongoing attacks on the Russia-controlled Zaporozhye nuclear power plant may cause a far worse disaster for Europe than the current energy crisis, a Russian Defense Ministry official has warned, media reports said. Igor Kirillov, who heads Russia's Nuclear Biological and Chemical Defense Troops, illustrated the likely worst-case scenario of a direct hit on Europe's largest nuclear plant, during a …

Nuclear chief: Russia’s Chernobyl seizure risked accident
2 years, 8 months ago

Nuclear chief: Russia’s Chernobyl seizure risked accident

Associated Press  

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Thirty-six years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday that Russian troops risked causing an accident with their “very, very dangerous” seizure of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Standing under an umbrella during a rain shower outside the damaged plant, agency Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi said …

Russian takeover of Chernobyl was ‘very dangerous’: IAEA chief
2 years, 8 months ago

Russian takeover of Chernobyl was ‘very dangerous’: IAEA chief

Al Jazeera  

Rafael Grossi says radiation levels around the former nuclear plant are now ‘normal’ but were up during the Russian occupation. The head of the United Nations’ atomic watchdog says Russia’s temporary takeover of the Chernobyl site was “very, very dangerous” and raised radiation levels but those have now returned to normal. “The situation was absolutely abnormal and very, very dangerous,” …

Russia’s Chernobyl seizure seen as nuclear risk ‘nightmare’
2 years, 8 months ago

Russia’s Chernobyl seizure seen as nuclear risk ‘nightmare’

Associated Press  

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Here in the dirt of one of the world’s most radioactive places, Russian soldiers dug trenches. Even now, weeks after the Russians left, “I need to calm down,” the plant’s main security engineer, Valerii Semenov, told The Associated Press. Russia’s invasion marks the first time that occupying a nuclear plant was part of a nation’s war strategy, …

Is a nuclear disaster likely in Ukraine?
2 years, 9 months ago

Is a nuclear disaster likely in Ukraine?

Al Jazeera  

The IAEA and nuclear experts warn Ukrainian nuclear sites are at risk following Russia’s invasion. The International Atomic Energy Agency expressed “grave concern” about the security of Ukraine’s nuclear sites, warning that the fundamental principles of safely operating such facilities had been violated at the two captured sites. The nuclear watchdog has also expressed concern about the conditions in which …

Chernobyl nuclear plant loses power again after supply lines damaged by Russian forces, says Ukraine
2 years, 9 months ago

Chernobyl nuclear plant loses power again after supply lines damaged by Russian forces, says Ukraine

Firstpost  

The nuclear plant enclosed in a giant steel and concrete sarcophagus lost power early last week but supply was restored on Sunday Kyiv: Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986, has once again lost its electricity supply, energy operator Ukrenergo said Monday. “The line that supplies the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and …

What we know about Chernobyl since Russia took control of the site after invading Ukraine
2 years, 9 months ago

What we know about Chernobyl since Russia took control of the site after invading Ukraine

ABC  

International concern about Russia capturing nuclear power plant sites, including the defunct Chernobyl — site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986 — has been mounting since the Russian-Ukrainian war began last month. On Wednesday, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said it had lost all communications with the Chernobyl site, along with Zaporizhzhia — the largest nuclear power plant …

Chernobyl: Why did Russian troops take control of infamous nuclear disaster site?
2 years, 10 months ago

Chernobyl: Why did Russian troops take control of infamous nuclear disaster site?

The Independent  

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Russia-Ukraine war: With stress on stranded workers, risk at Chernobyl nuclear site rises
2 years, 10 months ago

Russia-Ukraine war: With stress on stranded workers, risk at Chernobyl nuclear site rises

India Today  

Russia on March 4 reportedly took full control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant — the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster that occurred in 1986. EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL STRESS OF WORKERS RISES The Russian soldiers have been able to station themselves inside the 32 km Chernobyl exclusion zone and have surrounded the perimeter of the plant. "Some of the …

Attack on Ukrainian nuclear plant triggers worldwide alarm
2 years, 10 months ago

Attack on Ukrainian nuclear plant triggers worldwide alarm

Al Jazeera  

Russian strike sparks global alarm it could dwarf the world’s worst nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Chernobyl in 1986. After the attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in the southeastern city of Enerdohar on Friday, the chief of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said a Russian “projectile” hit a training centre, not any of the six reactors. …

Russia’s nuke plant attack revives Chernobyl disaster fears
2 years, 10 months ago

Russia’s nuke plant attack revives Chernobyl disaster fears

Associated Press  

LONDON — Russia’s attack on a nuclear power plant in Ukraine has revived the fears of people across Europe who remember the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which killed at least 30 people and spewed radioactive fallout over much of the Northern Hemisphere. Politicians rushed to criticize Russia’s “reckless” actions, and Ukrainian authorities renewed calls for a no-fly zone to ensure Europe …

With Chernobyl capture, Putin has wound the clock 36 years back to Soviet story
2 years, 10 months ago

With Chernobyl capture, Putin has wound the clock 36 years back to Soviet story

India Today  

When the Russian forces hurriedly captured a relatively unguarded Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine hours after President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of the country on February 24, he took back the Great Russian Dream story 36 years back from where it all began. The protests over the disaster in Chernobyl nuclear plant, barely 150 km from Kyiv, the Ukrainian …

Ukraine nuclear agency says Chernobyl radiation levels rising, day after being seized by Russia
2 years, 10 months ago

Ukraine nuclear agency says Chernobyl radiation levels rising, day after being seized by Russia

Firstpost  

The agency attributed the rise to ‘disturbance of topsoil due to heavy military equipment movement.’ The now-defunct Chernobyl was the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986 Kyiv: Ukraine’s nuclear energy regulatory agency says that higher than usual gamma radiation levels have been detected in the area near the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant, after it was seized by …

Explained - Why did Russia capture Chernobyl, site of horrific nuclear incident
2 years, 10 months ago

Explained - Why did Russia capture Chernobyl, site of horrific nuclear incident

Hindustan Times  

Chernobyl - the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in April 1986 - is now under Russian control. This file photograph taken on December 8, 2020 shows a monument in front of the giant protective dome built over the sarcophagus of the destroyed fourth reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Military experts believe Russia moved to capture Chernobyl simply …

Russia Ukraine War: Chernobyl, site of world's worst nuclear disaster, captured by Russian forces
2 years, 10 months ago

Russia Ukraine War: Chernobyl, site of world's worst nuclear disaster, captured by Russian forces

India TV News  

Highlights The Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been captured by Russian forces The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone lies between the Belarus-Ukraine border and the Ukrainian capital It is impossible to say that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is safe: Adviser Podolyak The Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been captured by Russian forces. Ukraine officials said they had lost control of the …

Chernobyl no-go zone targeted as Russia invades Ukraine
2 years, 10 months ago

Chernobyl no-go zone targeted as Russia invades Ukraine

Associated Press  

KYIV, Ukraine — It was among the most worrying developments on an already shocking day, as Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday: warfare at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, where radioactivity is still leaking from history’s worst nuclear disaster 36 years ago. it is impossible to say that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is safe.” He warned that Russian authorities could blame …

Chernobyl nuclear plant targeted as Russia invades Ukraine
2 years, 10 months ago

Chernobyl nuclear plant targeted as Russia invades Ukraine

Al Jazeera  

Major gun battle breaks out between Russian and Ukrainian forces at the stricken radioactive site, with its safety status now unclear. Fighting broke out after Russia invaded Ukraine at the Chernobyl nuclear plant where radioactivity is still leaking from history’s worst nuclear disaster 36 years ago. Everyone should understand that it’s not only about Ukraine, the whole of Europe is …

Nuclear reactions found smoldering at Chernobyl ‘like embers in a barbecue’
3 years, 7 months ago

Nuclear reactions found smoldering at Chernobyl ‘like embers in a barbecue’

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists monitoring the abandoned Chernobyl …

Ukraine opens new nuclear waste site at Chernobyl
3 years, 8 months ago

Ukraine opens new nuclear waste site at Chernobyl

Associated Press  

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s president on Monday unveiled a new nuclear waste repository at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster that unfolded exactly 35 years ago. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Chernobyl together with Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and vowed to “transform the exclusion zone, as Chernobyl is referred to, into …

Chernobyl after 35 years: 10 chilling images reveal scars left behind by nuclear disaster
3 years, 8 months ago

Chernobyl after 35 years: 10 chilling images reveal scars left behind by nuclear disaster

Firstpost  

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster took place on 26 April, 1986 - exactly 35 years ago. Image credit: Ian Bancroft/Flickr Over the next few months, a total of two million people are believed to have been relocated as a result of the accident. Image credit: Carpetblogger/Flickr Two plant workers died as a direct result of the explosion, and 28 firemen and …

Chernobyl serves as a monument to human error 35 years after nuclear disaster
3 years, 8 months ago

Chernobyl serves as a monument to human error 35 years after nuclear disaster

Firstpost  

The Chernobyl plant is out of service, but there is still much work to be done at the decommissioned plant. Editor’s Note: Today is the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that took place on 26 April 1986 due to a flawed reactor design run by unqualified personnel. The vast and empty Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the site of …

35 years since nuclear explosion, Chernobyl remains a place of 'tragedy and memory' for Ukrainians
3 years, 8 months ago

35 years since nuclear explosion, Chernobyl remains a place of 'tragedy and memory' for Ukrainians

Firstpost  

The Chernobyl zone saw its tourism increase twofold after the lauded television miniseries of 2019 and officials hope that level of interest will continue, or grow, once the global pandemic has receded. KYIV, Ukraine: The vast and empty Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is a baleful monument to human mistakes. “This is an …

35 years since nuclear disaster, Chernobyl warns, inspires
3 years, 8 months ago

35 years since nuclear disaster, Chernobyl warns, inspires

Associated Press  

KYIV, Ukraine — The vast and empty Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is a baleful monument to human mistakes. “We are doing everything possible so that this territory, where it is now impossible for people to live, is used with benefit and gives the country a profit,” said Serhiy Kostyuk, head of the …

Could Ukraine’s nuclear industry face another Chernobyl?
3 years, 8 months ago

Could Ukraine’s nuclear industry face another Chernobyl?

Al Jazeera  

Thirty-five years after the disaster, the nuclear industry is Ukraine’s most reliable economic lifeline. Thirty-five years after a botched security test caused the worst nuclear disaster in history, he is at the helm of Energoatom, a state-run consortium in charge of Ukraine’s four nuclear stations and their 15 reactors. “The switch to Westinghouse fuel is potentially dangerous,” Oskar Njaa, the …

Abandoned plant and wasteland: Ukraine eyes Unesco World Heritage tag for Chernobyl
3 years, 8 months ago

Abandoned plant and wasteland: Ukraine eyes Unesco World Heritage tag for Chernobyl

India Today  

A mothballed nuclear power station surrounded by wasteland, rubble and abandoned buildings is not what most people associate with a Unesco World Heritage site. "We believe that putting Chernobyl on the Unesco heritage list is a first and important step towards having this great place as a unique destination of interest for the whole of mankind," said Ukrainian Culture Minister …

Chernobyl named TV’s most addictive series in new study
4 years, 2 months ago

Chernobyl named TV’s most addictive series in new study

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A new study has named the 2019 historical drama Chernobyl as …

Ukrainian firefighters battle two blazes near Chernobyl nuclear power plant; over 60 acres of forest affected
4 years, 9 months ago

Ukrainian firefighters battle two blazes near Chernobyl nuclear power plant; over 60 acres of forest affected

Firstpost  

The Chernobyl nuclear plant was evacuated in 1986 following an explosion that caused radioactive contamination. Firefighters in Ukraine put out blazes in two areas of the forest surrounding the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power station on Monday. The nuclear plant was evacuated in 1986 following an explosion that caused radioactive contamination. Yehor Firsov, the head of the state ecological inspection service, …

The true toll of the Chernobyl disaster
5 years, 5 months ago

The true toll of the Chernobyl disaster

BBC  

The true toll of the Chernobyl disaster Getty Images The remains of reactor number four at Chernobyl is now encased in an enormous protective sarcophagus Covered up by a secretive Soviet Union at the time, the true number of deaths and illnesses caused by the nuclear accident are only now becoming clear. Getty Images The number of deaths and illnesses …

Loved Chernobyl on Hotstar? How the 1986 nuclear accident began disaster tourism
5 years, 5 months ago

Loved Chernobyl on Hotstar? How the 1986 nuclear accident began disaster tourism

India Today  

Travelling to your heart's content and visiting gorgeous foreign cities is considered to be the ultimate life goal today. For the uninitiated, disaster or dark tourism is travelling for curiosity's sake to locations where an environmental disaster, either natural or man-made, has occurred and has caused great damage or loss of life. If you have seen the hit HBO miniseries …

How does HBO's series Chernobyl differ from real events?
5 years, 6 months ago

How does HBO's series Chernobyl differ from real events?

ABC  

By now you've probably heard of HBO's haunting mini-series Chernobyl. In a podcast explaining each episode in the series, Mazin said he did not want to do "the Boris and Natasha" and "the Russian accent can turn comic with very little effort". "He knew a lot about radiation, and the chemistry of radioactive materials, but he was not really an …

‘Chernobyl’ producer calls on tourists to respect ‘terrible tragedy’
5 years, 6 months ago

‘Chernobyl’ producer calls on tourists to respect ‘terrible tragedy’

CNN  

CNN — The writer and producer of the hit HBO series “Chernobyl” has called on visitors to the site of the nuclear disaster to show respect, after a series of inappropriate photos were posted online. Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images Top attraction: Tour company SoloEast has reported a rise of around 35% in the months since the HBO show first aired. Genya …

Chernobyl suddenly becomes visitor hotspot
5 years, 6 months ago

Chernobyl suddenly becomes visitor hotspot

CNN  

CNN — It was the scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, but three decades later Chernobyl is emerging as one of the planet’s hottest tourism tickets after a new TV series. Liam Daniel/HBO Although “Chernobyl” was mainly filmed in Lithuania, its success has seen demand for tours of the area near the infamous Ukrainian site increase by around a …

Chernobyl is everything they say it is. Watch it now
5 years, 7 months ago

Chernobyl is everything they say it is. Watch it now

Hindustan Times  

Quietly, without preamble or marketing blitz, HBO’s miniseries Chernobyl became the highest-rated show on IMDB last week. The scenes switch between ground zero and hospitals unprepared for the horror; from the obliviousness within the blast radius to Moscow’s sanitised and impervious corridors of power. HBO’s dramatised retelling of present-day Ukraine’s 1986 nuclear disaster, its immediate gory aftermath and the terrible …

Chernobyl: Russia to create own series about nuclear disaster after HBO criticism
5 years, 7 months ago

Chernobyl: Russia to create own series about nuclear disaster after HBO criticism

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Russian TV network is creating its own interpretation of the …

Disaster management: on the HBO series, Chernobyl
5 years, 7 months ago

Disaster management: on the HBO series, Chernobyl

The Hindu  

Chernobyl, the new limited series about the eponymous nuclear plant where a reactor blew up in 1986, is a war drama without intending to be one. The greatest war stories aren’t about the battle itself, or the nature of enmity that leads to strife, or what a victory achieves, but about the men and women whose lives remain changed forever. …

Visiting Chernobyl? Here's what to do and what not to do at the infamous nuclear disaster site
5 years, 7 months ago

Visiting Chernobyl? Here's what to do and what not to do at the infamous nuclear disaster site

ABC  

As HBO's Chernobyl miniseries wrapped up in Australia this week, there were reports the number of tour bookings to the site of the worst nuclear accident in human history was skyrocketing. Key points: The disaster happened on April 26, 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine Tourists visiting the site should strictly follow safety procedures and be aware …

Chernobyl review: HBO series on 1986 nuclear disaster is a gripping tale of the horrors of bureaucracy
5 years, 7 months ago

Chernobyl review: HBO series on 1986 nuclear disaster is a gripping tale of the horrors of bureaucracy

Firstpost  

“I’ve wondered why everyone was silent about Chernobyl, why our writers weren’t writing much about it — they write about the war, or the camps, but here they’re silent. So what’s better, to remember or to forget?” Asks Yevgeniy Brovkin, an instructor at a State University in Soviet Russia, in Nobel Prize winning writer Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl, an …

Chernobyl becomes highest rated IMDb show
5 years, 7 months ago

Chernobyl becomes highest rated IMDb show

India Today  

HBO's Chernobyl, which dramatises one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes due to an explosion in a nuclear plant, has surpassed shows such as Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad to become IMDb's all-time TV rankings just days after airing. The five-episode show, written by Craig Mazin and directed Johan Renck, had a 9.6-star rating out of 10, based on …

Why ‘Chernobyl’ Is the Most Relevant Show of Our Time
5 years, 7 months ago

Why ‘Chernobyl’ Is the Most Relevant Show of Our Time

The Quint  

One question is repeated through four episodes, by the panicking scientists in the control room that night, by those aiming at damage control and by the perpetrators of the crime – How does an RBMK reactor explode? As a layman, you are fed this question again and again to find an answer in the events that led to the disaster, …

Chernobyl review: An outright masterpiece, HBO delivers the best new show of 2019. 5 stars
5 years, 7 months ago

Chernobyl review: An outright masterpiece, HBO delivers the best new show of 2019. 5 stars

Hindustan Times  

Chernobyl Director - Johan Renck Cast - Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard, Emily Watson Rating - 5/5 Chernobyl review: The best new show of 2019. Watch the Chernobyl trailer here His carefully chosen words - the warmth, the superficiality - couldn’t be more thematically relevant to Chernobyl, the new five-part HBO miniseries, based on the immediate fallout of the worst nuclear …

Chernobyl review, episode 1: New HBO and Sky series is a triumph of a disaster
5 years, 8 months ago

Chernobyl review, episode 1: New HBO and Sky series is a triumph of a disaster

The Independent  

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Chernobyl: What it's like to visit the nuclear disaster zone
5 years, 8 months ago

Chernobyl: What it's like to visit the nuclear disaster zone

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Serhii Uzlov takes a millisievert reading of clothing worn by the first responders to the Chernobyl …

‘Chernobyl’ turns the Soviet nuclear disaster into a riveting miniseries
5 years, 8 months ago

‘Chernobyl’ turns the Soviet nuclear disaster into a riveting miniseries

CNN  

CNN — Spare, bleak and devastating, HBO’s “Chernobyl” captures a moment during the waning years of the Cold War when the Soviet Union experienced a nuclear disaster, then tried to cover up the extent of the damage. “It’s not alarmist if it’s a fact,” Legasov says in the second episode, although no one seems particularly eager to listen to his …

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