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Chernobyl: Design. Denial. Fallout.

11 episodesabout 2 min eachEpisode 1 is free

Chernobyl: Design. Denial. Fallout.

A safety test, a flaw nobody mentioned, and an alarm that went off in Sweden.

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  1. Episode 1: The Alarm Moscow Couldn't Hide Free1:59 A reactor explodes in Soviet Ukraine, but the outside world discovers the secret through radiation alarms in Sweden.
  2. Episode 2: The Town Built for a Future That Vanished Locked2:10 Seven years before the explosion, foreign visitors are shown a model nuclear city designed to embody Soviet confidence.
  3. Episode 3: The Test That Wouldn't Stay Small Locked1:40 Weeks after a local warning, technicians begin a low-power test that pushes one of the plant's four reactors beyond control.
  4. Episode 4: The Fire No One Could Safely Approach Locked1:57 Reactor Number Four explodes, leaving firefighters to battle a graphite fire above radiation levels assessed as lethal.
  5. Episode 6: The Border Drawn Around an Invisible Enemy Locked1:59 Authorities answer contamination by drawing a restricted landscape across Ukraine and neighboring Belarus.
  6. Episode 7: The Army Sent Into the Reactor's Shadow Locked1:50 Hundreds of thousands of liquidators confront radioactive debris that machines and boundaries cannot make safe.
  7. Episode 8: The Fuel Lost Inside the Wreckage Locked1:39 Scientists search the ruined plant for missing fuel while competing evidence offers different explanations for how the catastrophe began.
  8. Episode 9: The Number No One Can Agree On Locked1:46 Observed deaths and thyroid cancers are real, but attempts to calculate Chernobyl's total human toll divide researchers.
  9. Episode 10: The Disaster That Broke Trust Locked1:36 Chernobyl's deepest fallout becomes political and psychological as evacuation, secrecy, and uncertainty corrode public faith.
  10. Episode 11: The Cameras That Entered the Dead City Locked2:00 Filmmakers, scientists, and political visitors turn abandoned Pripyat into a contested archive of disaster and remembrance.
  11. Episode 12: The Name the Ruins Still Carry Locked1:47 Inside two nations' restricted landscapes, Chernobyl endures as a place, a disputed health legacy, and a warning about secrecy.

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