HBO’s show about the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster is the highest rated show on IMDB of all time in part because of its ability to make otherwise dull topics—meetings, shoveling, courtroom exposition—riveting. To suss out fact from fiction, Paul and Matthew invited Matt Crozat from the Nuclear Energy Institute to discuss the show’s portrayal, the history of nuclear plant disasters—including Three Mile Island and Fukushima—and the future of the nuclear energy in America and around the world.

How accurate was the HBO show Chernobyl? Why was Chernobyl so catastrophic? What is considered a high radiation level? Should we be optimistic about nuclear power? Have we come a long way since Chernobyl? How is Chernobyl a story about toxic leadership?

Further Reading:

Why HBO’s “Chernobyl” Gets Nuclear So Wrong, written by Michael Shellenberger

Chernobyl and the dangerous ground of ‘dark tourism’, written by Francesca Street

Photographs capture an abandoned world inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, written by Oscar Holland

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