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The title of the first episode, "1:23:45," is itself an instant signifier of dread. It marks the exact time, in the early morning of April 26, 1986, when Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukraine, catastrophically exploded. In just 58 minutes, the series premiere, directed by Johan Renck and written by Craig Mazin, does what few shows manage in an entire season: it establishes an atmosphere of suffocating dread, introduces a sprawling cast of real-life figures, and depicts a disaster of almost unimaginable scale with visceral, horrifying realism.
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The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic explosion that occurred during a safety test on one of the plant's nuclear reactors. The test aimed to determine how long the turbines would keep spinning and generating electricity in the event of a loss of power to the main cooling pumps. However, the test was poorly designed and executed, leading to an uncontrolled power surge that caused a steam explosion, which ruptured the reactor vessel and released massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. The title of the first episode, "1:23:45," is