47 minSeason 1 • Episode 2
LatestIncluding first-hand accounts from survivors, including Oleksiy Ananenko, who braved radioactive waters to prevent a second explosion, and Maryna Sivets, whose unborn child's life was put at risk
On April 26, 1986 Reactor 4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, releasing clouds of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere. With access to hundreds of declassified KGB documents, Chernobyl: The New Evidence reveals the serious concerns of the KGB, the sacrifices the Soviet leadership were willing to make to keep the story quiet and the bravery that saved the world from an even more deadly disaster.
Editing
KGB documents sync with survivor testimony — devastating.
Writing
Cold bureaucratic language becomes horror poetry.
Creator
Andy Webb
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'divers' weren't actually divers — they were engineers who waded through radioactive water in wetsuits to open valves by touch.
Declassified KGB files show Moscow knew the RBMK reactor flaws for years but prioritized plutonium production over fixes.
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