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Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown
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Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown

Sun, Mar 8, 2026
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Featuring revealing interviews with survivors speaking publicly for the first time, alongside rare insight into the CIA and Soviet responses, this series exposes a web of secrecy, miscalculation, and human cost. Astonishing new footage from inside the nuclear exclusion zone reveals how this scarred landscape is once again under siege as war encroaches on one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

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Episodes

1 season · 4 episodes

Running · 2 upcoming · 2 aired
Season 1
4 episodes · 2 upcoming · 2 aired
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  • E1
    Inferno
    Aired · Mon, May 18, 2026 · 60m

    On April 26, 1986, a massive explosion rips through a reactor during a safety test at a power plant in Ukraine, triggering the worst nuclear accident in history. Within 24 hours, a lethal radioactive cloud starts to circle the globe.

  • E2
    Cover Up
    Aired · Mon, May 18, 2026 · 60m

    The day after the incident, helicopter crews brave deadly radioactive smoke to extinguish the fire raging in the reactor core. As 50,000 locals evacuate, Soviet authorities try to conceal the scale and human cost of the accident.

  • E3
    Sacrifice
    Drops · Mon, May 18, 2026 · 60m

    In the weeks following the meltdown, workers battle lethal radiation to clear debris and construct a protective tomb around the destroyed reactor. Amid speculation, Soviet scientists reveal what they can about the cause of the catastrophe.

  • E4
    Fallout
    Drops · Mon, May 25, 2026 · 60m

    As the USSR collapses, an investigation uncovers the cause of the accident and scale of the Soviet cover up. Today, Chernobyl's toxic legacy persists as the nuclear exclusion zone becomes a war zone, raising fears of another disaster.