Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count
The recent TV miniseries \u2018Chernobyl\u2019 has stirred up debate online about the accuracy of its portrayal of the explosion at a nuclear power plant in the former Soviet state of Ukraine. We fact-check the programme and try and explain why it so hard to say how many people will die because of the Chernobyl disaster.
Image: Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few weeks after the disaster. \nCredit: Getty Images