The TV show "Chernobyl"

Chernobyl, an HBO/Sky co-production, tells the dramatic story of the 1986 nuclear accident, one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history, and the sacrifices made to save Europe from an unimaginable disaster. On April 26, 1986, a massive explosion occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, Soviet Union, which released radioactive material across Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, reaching as far as Scandinavian countries and Western Europe. Jared Harris plays Valery Legasov, a leading Soviet chemist. Part of the team called to help, he is the first to understand the scale of the disaster. Stellan Skarsgård plays Boris Shcherbina, the Russian deputy prime minister sent by the Kremlin to lead the government's Chernobyl commission in the hours after the accident. Emily Watson is Ulana Khomyuk, a Soviet nuclear physicist determined to unravel the mystery that led to the Chernobyl disaster.