HBO Chernobyl

This is based on the (slightly inaccurate) HBO miniseries Chernobyl.
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Characters:
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Valery Legasov - Soviet inorganic chemist and deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute; chief scientific investigator on the accident.
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Boris Shcherbina - Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers; oversees government management of the crisis.
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Ulana Khomyuk - Fictional Belarusian nuclear physicist; represents many of the scientists who assisted Legasov.
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Anatoly Dyatlov - Deputy Chief Engineer at Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant; Oversaw the safety system test that led to the explosion.
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Viktor Brukhanov — Plant Director.
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Nikolay Fomin — Chief Engineer of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
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Akimov and Toptunov — Operators in the control room during the accident.
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Lyudmila Ignatenko — Wife of a firefighter exposed to radiation during the initial cleanup efforts.
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Vasily Ignatenko — Firefighter, one of the first on the scene.
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General Tarakanov — Supervised the "liquidators" cleaning the roof.