The Chernobyl disaster is one of the worst nuclear accidents in history and the area still remains radioactive to this day. Check out what happened immediately after the reactors exploded and how some brave men went into the warzone to try and save everyone from an even greater nuclear disaster. | The Infographics Show

The Chernobyl Divers: The Men Who Saved Europe🤯 After the April 1986 explosion at Chernobyl’s Reactor 4, officials realized a terrifying danger: molten nuclear fuel was moving toward a massive water pool beneath the reactor. If it had made contact, it could have caused an even greater blast—one powerful enough to devastate Kyiv and contaminate much of Europe. To prevent this, three men—engineers Oleksiy Ananenko, Valeriy Bespalov, and shift supervisor Boris Baranov—volunteered for a near-suicid

“Truly excellent television… harrowing and incredibly poignant.” - @Deadline #ChernobylHBO, a new HBO miniseries, premieres tonight at 9PM. Learn more: https://www.hbo.com/chernobyl | HBO