Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown

10:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Friday 19 June

Sacrifice

Season 1 Episode 3 of 4

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?

Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown airs on National Geographic Channel at 10:00 PM, Friday 19 June. (Subtitles, audio description.)

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