On April 26, 1986, at 1:23 a.m., an explosion occurred in Reactor 4 of the Lenin Nuclear Power Plant, then located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR. For ten days, the nuclear fuel burns, releasing radioactive elements into the atmosphere that contaminate, by some estimates, three-quarters of Europe, especially Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.
The Soviet authorities tried to cover up the incident, while the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, did not speak publicly on the subject until May 14.
In 1986, 116,000 people had to be evacuated from the area surrounding the factory, which is still almost uninhabited. The dormitory town of Pripyat, which neighbors the power plant only 3 km away, has been emptied of residents who have not returned to the scene. In the following years, another 230,000 suffered the same fate.
A disaster whose devastating consequences can still be assessed today and which echoes even more the tragic stories of Ukraine during the war with Russia. For months, the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, is the target of strikes, which Ukrainians and Russians blame each other for…
Apocalypse Now
A five-episode miniseries that aired on HBO in the US and is now available to us on Prime Video’s Warner Pass, Chernobyl is one of the major successes of recent years.
With an exceptional level of writing, courtesy of Craig Mazin’s pen, carried by an extraordinary cast, starting with the fabulous Jared Harris as scientist Valery Legasov, whose post-mortem reveals a serious breach of site security and political pressure. to cover the matter, Chernobyl We offer a didactic and terrifying story, breathlessly terrifying.
But this meticulous reconstruction of the drama is also accompanied by a moving requiem, erected to the memory of all those who lost their lives in a battle too unequal to such a tragedy.
In particular, those who were called “liquidators”; A name that refers to the civilian and military personnel who immediately intervened at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on the morning of April 26, 1986, as well as the teams involved in the consolidation and cleanup of the area in the long term. Of the 600,000 liquidators employed, the death toll is estimated to be in the tens of thousands, although the numbers are still a matter of debate.
It’s no surprise that this shocking 5-episode mini-series rose to the top with an average viewership of 4.6 out of 5 stars. We can’t properly recommend watching a series with a string of episodes that will get on your nerves, but not much will be done to convince you. inevitable.
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