Plot

In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.

In April 1986, a huge explosion erupted at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in northern Ukraine. This series follows the stories of the men and women, who tried to contain the disaster, as well as those who gave their lives preventing a subsequent and worse one.

On 26 April 1986 the Number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded and caught fire. This is the story of that event, the aftermath, how the real reasons for the incident were covered up and how one man fought to reveal them.—grantss

On April 26, 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near Pripyat, Ukraine experienced a malfunction which resulted in a core explosion in reactor 4. This miniseries follows Valery Legasov, the lead scientist working to control the disaster, Boris Shcherbina, a Soviet politician representing the interests of the Soviet government during the disaster, and Ulana Khomyuk, a nuclear physicist working to uncover the truth about what really happened at Chernobyl. This series tackles the problems that arise when the truth is ignored and kept from the public, begging the question: "What is the cost of lies?".

In 1986, Chernobyl suffered the worst nuclear meltdown in human history: changing the course of the Soviet Union and leading to the inevitable downfall of Communism in Europe. This is the story of what happened on the frontlines of the chaos, the cover-ups behind closed doors, and the civilians held prisoner to the circumstances of Earth's greatest nuclear disaster.—Johnny