• Rating:
• Genre: History
• Movie Type: Tragedies & Catastrophes, Environmental Science
• Release Year: 1986
• Country: US
• Run Time: 23 minutes

Plot

Part of the ABC News Nightline series, which features favorite episodes from anchorman Ted Koppel's award-winning television news program, ABC News Nightline: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster investigates the world's worst nuclear power accident. On April 25, 1986, in the former U.S.S.R., the Chernobyl nuclear power plant tested a reactor without performing all necessary safety procedures. The result: Several explosions and a deadly fireball of nuclear power blew the lid off the reactor, killing 30 people right away, and forcing thousands to evacuate. ~ Betsy Boyd, All Movie Guide

Cast

Ted Koppel - Host

Similar TV Episodes

Chernobyl: Chronicle of Difficult Weeks; Three Mile Island Revisited; Chernobyl: The Taste of Wormwood; Chernobyl: Ten Days for Disaster; Chernobyl: Bitter Taste of Wormwood; Chernobyl and Three Mile Island; ABC News Nightline: Chernobyl Plant - The Aftermath; ABC News Nightline: The Day After - Questions/Emotional Impact; ABC News Nightline: The Day After - The Perils of Nuclear War

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