HBO Chernobyl

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