Sponsored: The true story of the chaotic fallout – and attempted cover up – of Chernobyl unveiled in new miniseries
The Chernobyl disaster is etched in our collective memories, but the true story of the nuclear catastrophe, and the efforts to save the entire continent of Europe from its effects, have not been explored on screen until now.
“Above all,” says writer and executive producer Craig Mazin, “you will witness the true stories of the heroes of Chernobyl as they fought an unprecedented war against an invisible enemy, even as their own government betrayed them”.The miniseries documents how the accident at Ukraine’s Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in the then-USSR, actually resulted from a safety test gone wrong.
The drama is based on both first-person testimonies from Soviet scientists, as well as reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency. To add to its authenticity, it was filmed at Ignalina, a sister plant of Chernobyl.There were 700,000 people around the Soviet Union involved in the clean-up operation, and the huge ensemble cast in Chernobyl reflects this.
The figures are striking. The official Soviet death toll from Chernobyl stands at just 31. However, some organisations put the real figure up to the hundreds of thousands, with a spike in cancer rates in Ukraine and Belarus, particularly among children, after the disaster.
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