Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown

9:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Friday 19 June

Cover-Up

Season 1 Episode 2 of 4

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

Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown airs on National Geographic Channel at 9:00 PM, Friday 19 June. (Subtitles, audio description.)

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