Chernobyl: Utopia in Flames
In 1970, near the Ukrainian village of Chernobyl, a utopia was born: the world's largest nuclear power plant. Its inhabitants, chosen for their talent and faith in the future, lived a dream that was shattered on April 26, 1986, when the technologically obsolete plant exploded, causing thousands of victims.
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In 1970, near the Ukrainian village of Chernobyl, a utopia was born: the world's largest nuclear power plant. Its inhabitants, chosen for their talent and faith in the future, lived a dream that was shattered on April 26, 1986, when the technologically obsolete plant exploded, causing thousands of victims.
1.Paradise
25-04-202345 minSince 1971, the young nuclear engineer Nikolai Steinberg has been working on the gigantic construction site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. As a student in Moscow he first he...
2.Accident
25-04-202345 minOn 26 April 1986, at about 1:23 a.m., a reactor explodes at Chernobyl. What begins as a safety test ends in an inferno. It remains the world's worst nuclear disaster to this day.
3.Lies
25-04-202345 minSoviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev receives a secret report of an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. How will the man so many hopes rest on respond to the disaster?
4.Legacy
25-04-202345 minAfter the Chernobyl accident, the world demands answers from the Soviet Union. Moscow makes the plant's staff the scapegoats and keeps quiet about the flaws in Soviet technology.
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