Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown (2026)

Episode Overview

A year and two months after the catastrophe, the plant’s operators are put on a staged Soviet trial. Meanwhile, at the reactor, experts desperately search for the lethal remnants of the melted fuel. As the Soviet Union begins to collapse, an independent probe uncovers the real reason for the disaster—and the massive cover-up behind it. Four decades on, the once-abandoned exclusion zone becomes a battlefield.