Hello and welcome to your weekly safe dose of statistics analysis here on More or Less

on the BBC World Service.

See, a just world is a sane world.

There was nothing sane about Chernobyl.

This is a trailer for the HBO Sky TV series Chernobyl, which has brought renewed focus

on the biggest nuclear accident in history.

In 1986 there was an explosion at a nuclear power plant in the former Soviet state of Ukraine.

Are we actor core exploded, starting a fire on the ground and sending a radioactive cloud

of material into the atmosphere which would eventually make its way across parts of Europe?

Tell me how to put it up.

You are dealing with something that has never occurred on this planet before.

It's a five-part drama which feels incredibly realistic.

We've been watching in the More or Less shared house and we love it and we're not the

only ones.

So has Professor Jim Smith of Port Smith University in the UK?

Well, I thought as a drama it was a fantastic drama and it had me totally gripped partly

because I've spent nearly the last 30 years of my life studying Chernobyl.

But he had a few thoughts on the accuracy of some of the details.

As I was watching it out, my wife was sat next to me and she was getting sick of me sort

of muttering that didn't happen.

That didn't happen.

Well, that did happen.

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