Episode 353 - Chernobyl: The Power Station That Ended a Nation
RedHanded20 Jun 2024

Episode 353 - Chernobyl: The Power Station That Ended a Nation

The world’s most infamous nuclear disaster officially killed just thirty-one people, but in reality it’s death toll is incalculable. Raining radioactive debris over a city, and melting the skin off the on-site workers, the explosion and subsequent meltdown at Chernobyl reactor 4 is one of the most devastating man-made accidents in history.


This is the story of how fear, bureaucracy, and lies first brought down a nuclear power station, which then brought down a nation.


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