Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown Season 1 Episode 2 - Cover-Up

Airdate: 2026-Apr-19

Episode summary:

Two days after the explosion, the world wakes up to a terrifying global disaster. At the power plant, helicopter pilots try to put out a fire in the reactor core, braving plumes of highly radioactive smoke. Soviet authorities eventually begin to evacuate 50,000 people from the local area, while still trying to conceal the scale of the accident.

About Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown series:

On April 26th, 1986, a safety test at unit number four of the Chernobyl power station triggered the worst nuclear accident in history. The massive ...Show more >