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Inside Chornobyl, 40 years after the nuclear disaster

Season 2026 Episode 86 | 9m 57s

Forty years ago, the world’s worst nuclear power disaster exploded into history at the Soviet Union’s Chornobyl nuclear plant in what is now Ukraine. The ensuing cover-up and clean-up operation made Chornobyl a byword for dereliction and mismanagement. Special correspondent Simon Ostrovsky and cinematographer Amanda Bailly report from the Chornobyl exclusion zone.

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