Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown

Ended First aired 19/Apr/2026 United Kingdom English 1 season(s) 4 episode(s)

Featuring revealing interviews with survivors speaking publicly for the first time, alongside rare insight into the CIA and Soviet responses, this series exposes a web of secrecy, miscalculation, and human cost. Astonishing new footage from inside the nuclear exclusion zone reveals how this scarred landscape is once again under siege as war encroaches on one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

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Season 1 · Miniseries

4 episode(s) · Air date: 19/Apr/2026

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S1E4

Truth

Air date: 20/Apr/2026 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 44 min

Summary

14 months after the disaster, plant operators face a Soviet show trial. At the reactor, scientists hunt for the deadly remains of the radioactive fuel. As the USSR crumbles, an independent investigation reveals the true cause of the accident, and the full scale of the cover up. 40 years later, the nuclear exclusion zone turns into a war zone.

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Sacrifice

Air date: 20/Apr/2026 · Time: 23:00 · Runtime: 44 min

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?

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Cover-Up

Air date: 19/Apr/2026 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 44 min

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.

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Inferno

Air date: 19/Apr/2026 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 43 min

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Survivors recount the terrifying first 24-hours of the worst nuclear accident in history. After a reactor explodes during a safety test at a power plant in Ukraine, firefighters rush to the scene, unaware of the lethal levels of radiation. Soviet authorities try to cover up the disaster as a cloud of radiation begins to circle the world.

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