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You can watch Chernobyl: Abyss (2021) for free on Hoopla, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

The radioactive exclusion zone becomes a claustrophobic battlefield where ordinary people face an invisible, lethal enemy. These desperate sacrifices highlight the frantic human struggle to contain a meltdown that threatened to erase much of Europe.

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