Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown

National Geographic Channel

11:00 PM to 12:00 AM

Friday 19 June

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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