History influenced Chernobyl

The series dramatises the reactor explosion of 26 April 1986 and the eighteen months after it, and stays close enough to the record that its departures are the parts people argue about. From the event: the RBMK design flaw at the heart of the safety test, the graphite on the ground that told Dyatlov what had happened and that he refused to believe, the firefighters who handled it without protection, the liquidators, the evacuation of Pripyat, and the bill in lives that nobody will ever agree on. Ulana Khomyuk is invented, and is the one large liberty: a composite standing in for the scientists who worked on the response.