Radioactive Material: Truth and Lies in 'Chernobyl'

A meticulously designed re-creation of events surrounding the 1986 Ukrainian nuclear reactor meltdown, this HBO/Sky miniseries both depicts the political corruption and obfuscation of the day and carries echoes of today's discourse about post-truth and fake news. As Garry Westmore argues, the show ultimately uses its dramatisations and elisions to convey the experiences of the victims and witnesses of the event – as well as the confusion, fear and suffering that characterised its fallout.

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New & Notable, nuclear energy, Ukraine, USSR, Soviet Union, KGB, Donald Trump, cancer, creative licence