CHERNOBYL on HBO and Sky Atlantic recounts the 1986 power plant disaster which saw Europe pushed to the brink of a nuclear winter. Episode three of the mini-series is titled Open Wide, O Earth and sees a group of miners ordered to dig underneath the plant’s core to install a liquid nitrogen refrigerator to cool the molten core before it could melt through the Earth. But what happened to the miners and did they really dig naked?
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A couple of tourists walk in a symbolic alley with signs bearing names of villages and cities which were evacuated following the Chernobyl disaster during their tour of the exclusion zone on April 23, 2018.