What Happened at Chernobyl: 40 Years On

The events of April 26th, 1986 had far reaching effects - leading to the contamination of large parts of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, and ultimately hastening the collapse of the USSR. Jordan Dunbar travels to Chernobyl forty years later, speaking with people who were there on that fateful day and have never spoken to international media before - including two ‘liquidators’ tasked with the perilous job of cleaning up the aftermath of the nuclear disaster, as they meet and relive the extraordinar...

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