Chernobyl Resources

This is a place for more information on the miniseries and the history

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These articles are from NewsELA and can be adjusted to suit your reading level. Both are about Chernobyl:

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From NewsELA on Fukushima

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This is from a different nuclear disaster.

Criticism and reviews in the American Press:

HBO's 'Chernobyl' Is A Dramatization Of 1986 Nuclear AccidentHBO's five-part series Chernobyl is a compelling drama about one of the world's worst nuclear accidents. It's also a look at the dangers of a government where politics are more important than reality.

How HBO Got It Wrong On ChernobylI was hoping HBO would have the courage and integrity to do their homework about radiation and consult even 1 nuclear scientist or radiobiologists. Or even read the U.N. Chernobyl Forum Report. But nooo…they decided that talking to journalists, historians and antinuclear activists was much better.

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Craig Mazin's Years-Long Obsession with Making 'Chernobyl' Terrifyingly Accurate"We had a general standing philosophy from the beginning, which was: Accuracy is everything to us."

What HBO’s “Chernobyl” Got Right, and What It Got Terribly WrongThe show’s creators imagine confrontation where it was unthinkable—and, in doing so, they cross the line from conjuring a fiction to creating a lie.

HBO’s Chernobyl is a terrific miniseries. Don’t accept it as the whole truth.Writer Craig Mazin on turning disaster into great TV and narrative poison.

Plenty of Fantasy in HBO’s ‘Chernobyl,’ but the Truth Is RealAhead of the series finale, a science writer who has toured the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster weighs in.

12 ways HBO changed the Chernobyl storyHBO’s “Chernobyl” mixes fact with fiction in its dramatization of the 1986 nuclear meltdown in Soviet Ukraine. Here are 12 things that didn’t happen exactly as they’re shown in the miniseries.

The Unique, Addictive Dread of ChernobylHow did an HBO miniseries reignite so much debate about a decades-old disaster?

HBO's new miniseries aims to tell the "untold true story" of the 1986 Chernobyl Incident, but how dramatized is it?It has been 33 years since the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl Power Plant, and the incident continues to fascinate audiences.

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