9 Things I Learnt From the Chernobyl TV Series

When I was a kid, Chernobyl was the reason people couldn’t sell their livestock.

I live over 1000 miles away from the site of the Chernobyl disaster. I was born years after the explosion.

But when I was a kid, Chernobyl was the reason people couldn’t sell their livestock.

The restrictions on sheep farmers were only lifted in 2012.

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Beyond that, I knew very little.

I think, in my mind, I imagined some sort of cross between Aberfan and 9/11. A chilling thought in itself, really.

Over the years, I understood a little more, but the impact was still hard to imagine — until it was on-screen.

The Sky/HBO series ‘Chernobyl’ was incredible. Simply incredible.

(Though obviously, extremely heavy stuff!)

And this eye-opening series taught me a few things about life, the universe, and everything:

1. Nuclear power is not safe.

Like, I kind of knew this anyway. But this series confirmed it.