April 26, 1986. A routine safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ends with Reactor 4's core blowing through the roof — and the Soviet Union deciding, for a day and a half, that the safest thing to do was say nothing.
This episode covers the disaster start to finish: what the test was supposed to prove, the reactor design flaw the operators were never briefed on, the exact sequence of the explosion, and the response that followed — the firefighters, the 36-hour delay before Pripyat was evacuated, the 600,000 liquidators, and the show trial that ended with three men blamed for a system-wide failure.
We also sort the real history from the myths that have grown around it, including the ones the HBO series helped popularize.
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