The Actual Chernobyl Death Toll Is Way Greater Than The HBO Miniseries Could Ever Show

At one point in time, Chernobyl was a relatively unremarkable town that happened to be the site of a nuclear power plant. The HBO series Chernobyl shows how it went from an unremarkable Russian town to becoming shorthand for the devastating effects that radiation can have on people. The death toll of the Chernobyl explosion is contested among different sources, but it can be universally agreed upon that the results of the explosion are a gruesome sign that the dangers of the radiation that comes with nuclear power is hard to mitigate.
Read more: https://www.bustle.com/p/the-chernobyl-death-toll-is-way-greater-than-the-hbo-miniseries-could-ever-show-17871364?source=Snapzu