A new documentary contains " lost tapes " of the Chornobyl disaster that have never been seen before , showing the horrific destruction and anguish that occurred during and after theworst nuclear incident in chronicle . In a Modern trailer for the Sky Original documentary , Chernobyl : The Lost Tapes , HBO free small snippets of footage of the heroic actor that fought to contain the fallout and of the thousands of resident physician evacuating the domain , including the voice of locals that the docudrama claims were “ silenced ” adopt the disaster .

The Chornobyl disaster take place in 1986 , when a perfect storm of operator neglectfulness and primal flaws in the plant design resulted in a reactor nuclear meltdown on a scale the cosmos had never meet before . Just 130 kilometers ( 81 mi ) north of Kyiv , the reactor sent a plumage of radioactive dust into the sky in a rainbow beam of twinkle , with contaminated particulates detected 1,100 kilometer ( 683 miles ) forth in Sweden and radioactive rain falling over the skies of Britain .

It remains one of just two atomic incident rat 7 ( the maximal rating ) on theInternational Nuclear Event Scale , with Fukushima being the other .

The new footage throw a rare glimpse into the life of occupant of the nearby town Pripyat , most of whom were evacuated to never render . It shows the desperate work of yard of Soviet miners , functionary , and technicians that worked to stop the catastrophe from becoming a global catastrophe , all whilst attempting to cover up the incident from the humanity ’s sleepless oculus .

“ Thirty - six years after the Chernobyl nuclear nuclear reactor explode in Soviet Ukraine , fresh uncovered archival footage and recorded consultation with those who were present paint an excited and riveting portrait of the extent and gravity of the catastrophe and the lengths to which the Soviet administration went to hatch up the incident , including the soldiers sent in to “ liquidate ” the damage , ” HBOsaid .

Chernobyl : The Lost   Tapeswill be available on HBO Max on June 22 in the US or on Sky in the UK .

Chernobyl , as the baron industrial plant is known in the West , is the romanization of the Russian spelling . The romanization of the Ukrainian spelling is Chornobyl . To array with sources we kept this spelling throughout the article .