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A reminder that the Chernobyl show is incredibly ahistorical despite having pretenses towards historicity. For example, it portrays the scientist living in a apartment block alone, when in fact he lived happily on a farm with his family, a fact acknowledged by his daughter in interviews. This is as well as pretending that the people who were dealing with the crisis weren't among the top in their field for nuclear science, and were a bunch of bumbling bureaucrats.
It also does not acknowledge that despite the Soviets lack of communication to the public, this was mostly due to the fact that they didn't exactly know what was going on as well, and causing mass panic with misinformation is exactly the wrong thing to do in a crisis.
And don't forget that the direct death count is in the 30-50 range. The UN says up to 4000 excess deaths over the 60 year post-disaster period. For the worst nuclear disaster. A disaster which can be prevented.
Compare that with the uncountable deaths yearly from coal burning. Which is a disaster that can't be prevented (except by not doing it). And thats not including climate change. The Chernobyl disaster is nothing compare to the social murder occurring daily in America.
(Not to mention the USSR relocated thousands of people out of the area. Compare that any of the thousands of superfund sites, where there is basically no assistance to leave. And if you do get compensation its after decades of legal battles.)