Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown Season 1 Episode 3 - Sacrifice

Airdate: 2026-Apr-20

Episode summary:

Workers begin to clean-up the deadly radioactive fallout from the explosion. After troops establish an exclusion zone, Gorbachev orders the construction of a vast concrete sarcophagus to cover the destroyed nuclear reactor. In Vienna the world finally hears the Soviet explanation of what went wrong - but are they telling the truth?

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 >