Chernobyl [BLU_RAY] 8717418579845 Chernobyl is a 5-episode HBO series that tells the powerful, visceral story of the worst human accident ever: the massive 1986 explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union, which released radioactive material not only to humans. around Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, but even reached Scandinavia and Eastern Europa . From the moment of the early morning explosion to the chaos and loss of life in the days, weeks and months that followed, Chernobyl unites compelling stories of brave and self-sacrificing people with the shocking immobility of a government trying to pass the blame and minimizing the dangers of this disaster.