Chernobyl S01 4K 2019

On April 26, 1988, chemist Valery Legasov, safely hiding six audiocassettes with his memories, is hung up in his apartment.

On April 26, 1986 at 1:23:45 am, during a safety experiment at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a reactor explosion and fire occur. Alerted firefighters without special protection arrive at the scene of the accident, not suspecting that they are in the epicenter of the largest man-made disaster in human history. The leadership of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant assures the Kremlin that the situation is under control and the radiation background is normal, but at the insistence of academician Legasov, he, together with the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers Boris Shcherbina, are sent to investigate what is happening on the spot.