HBO Chernobyl

This is based on the (slightly inaccurate) HBO miniseries "Chernobyl".
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Characters:
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Valery Legasov — a Soviet inorganic chemist and deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute; the lead scientific investigator of the accident.
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Boris Shcherbina — deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers; oversees the government's management of the crisis.
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Ulana Khomyuk — a fictional Belarusian nuclear physicist; represents the many scientists who assisted Legasov.
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Anatoly Dyatlov — deputy chief engineer of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl NPP; oversaw the safety system test that led to the explosion.
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Viktor Brukhanov — director of the plant.
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Nikolai Fomin — chief engineer of the Chernobyl NPP.
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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 — a firefighter, one of the first on the scene.
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General Tarakanov — led the "liquidators" tasked with the cleanup on the roof.