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Meltdown (2020)

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The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Accident

Just seven years after Three Mile Island, what nearly happened on the Susquehanna River did happen. It's near the city of Kiev, population 2.5 million and about a thousand miles from Scandinavia. Chernobyl was kind of a nail in the coffin for that era of the nuclear industry. In terms of impact, there's no comparison.

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