Inside Chernobyl
A film based on the current situation in Chernobyl and Pripyat, when the Soviet government tried to cover up a catastrophic nuclear accident – as the world has never seen before.
Reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, releasing lethal amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. In the control room, Leonid Toptunov, a young but experienced technician, begins an experiment that results in an extremely unstable reactor configuration.
To this day, many switches in the control room are still in the same positions they were on the morning of the accident.
A plume of highly radioactive smoke continued to rise into the sky as the reactor core was uncovered. Located 132 kilometers north of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, Chernobyl was once a small town in the far west of the Soviet Union.
Nuclear fallout from the explosion was initially carried hundreds of miles by wind and clouds. Neighboring towns and communities are heavily polluted. However, nearly 1,000 miles from Chernobyl, Sweden was the first country to realize that a catastrophic event had occurred.
