"Lost records" from Chernobyl reveal the eerie aftermath of the nuclear accident.

Everything was recorded for posterity.

Terrifying images of the death, destruction, and sickness that followed the Chernobyl meltdown 36 years ago — the deadliest nuclear accident in the world — were recorded on film and video but were concealed for decades. The accident was the deadliest nuclear accident in the history of the world. In a newly released documentary on HBO titled "Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes," these previously untold tales are finally being brought to the public's attention.

The film's trailer, which HBO uploaded to YouTube on Friday (June 3), offers a glimpse of what transpired in Ukraine (which was then a part of the Soviet Union, or USSR) in the aftermath of the horrific disaster which occurred on April 26, 1986, at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, which is located approximately 81 miles (130 kilometers) north of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.

Testimony from witnesses is included on the long-lost cassettes. It provides a picture of life in Chernobyl before the disaster. It shows how life there was irrevocably changed due to the accident. One of the witnesses says in the trailer, "Everything was documented." Still, many details of the explosion and potential dangers were obscured by Soviet officials, who sent in soldiers to "liquidate" the damage and help cover up the incident, according to a statement released by representatives of HBO. "Everything was documented," one of the witnesses says in the trailer.

People who lived in and around Chernobyl and the employees tasked with cleaning up the devastation at the site were afterward kept in the dark about the dangers that exposure to lethal radiation brought to their health. According to the statement, as more people exposed to the radiation from Chernobyl's accident became ill, their trust in the leadership of the Soviet Union declined, which contributed to the widespread unrest that finally led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the reactor explosion at Chernobyl resulted in the deaths of two plant workers. Subsequently, radiation sickness claimed the lives of 29 additional people, most of whom were firefighters who went to combat the inferno. According to earlier information provided by Live Science, the incidence of cancer among Ukrainian children increased in the years that followed, increasing by around 90 percent. According to a survey that Greenpeace International commissioned in 2006, more than 93,000 people in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia passed away from diseases connected to radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster.

The research indicated that about 270,000 people in those countries who developed cancer would not have done so if they had not been exposed to the high amounts of radiation caused by accident. This information was contained in the second part of the report.

The first episode of "Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes" will air on HBO on June 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, and it will be available to stream on HBO Max after its initial broadcast.

 

 

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