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Featuring revealing interviews with survivors speaking publicly for the first time, alongside rare insight into the CIA and Soviet responses, this series exposes a web of secrecy, miscalculation, and human cost. Astonishing new footage from inside the nuclear exclusion zone reveals how this scarred landscape is once again under siege as war encroaches on one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
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00:03Reactor number four was scheduled to be shut down for routine maintenance.
00:08Ironically, that was intended to have better reactor safety.
00:12By the time the test actually began, the reactor was like a loaded gun.
00:18It was the worst nuclear disaster in history.
00:21Where is that radioactive material going?
00:23Over the course of the last 40 years, I've never had an opportunity to speak about this in public before.
00:29The Soviet Union was not about the truth.
00:32The KGB classified the real reasons for the causes of the Chernobyl accident.
00:37They had to have a scapegoat, and that became the outrage.
00:41190 tons of uranium fuel remained unaccounted for.
00:45There was chaos.
00:47They had to send human beings into one of the most dangerous places on the face of the earth.
00:52There was the first people to witness what had happened.
00:56The power plant was perceived as the safest thing.
01:01No one would ever consider that something dangerous may happen.
01:05A Russian drone striking the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
01:10The Chernobyl story is arguably more relevant than ever.
01:14Disaster. The Chernobyl meltdown. March 1st on CNN and next day on the CNN app.
01:19A Russian drone breaker.
01:20A Russian drone solitary driven sun.
01:20A stellar man 멀리apan drone frapper.
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