Unfurling the codex…
An unofficial, source-cited reference to the real 1986 Chernobyl disaster: the people, places, reactor technology and aftermath, each entry written from its own Wikipedia article. This is the history; the HBO dramatisation has its own codex.
Oleksiy Ananenko · Volodymyr Pravyk · Valery Legasov · Vasily Ignatenko · Anatoly Dyatlov · Valery Bespalov · Boris Baranov · Boris Shcherbina · Nikolai Fomin · Aleksandr Akimov · Leonid Toptunov · Viktor Bryukhanov · Leonid Telyatnikov · Valery Khodemchuk · Viktor Kibenok
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant · Red Forest · Chernobyl Exclusion Zone · Pripyat Amusement Park · Slavutych · Duga Radar · Pripyat
Chernobyl Forum · Chernobyl Shelter Fund
The Elephant's Foot · Chernobyl Sarcophagus (Shelter Object) · New Safe Confinement · RBMK Reactor
Investigations into the Chernobyl Disaster · Chernobyl Liquidators · Effects of the Chernobyl Disaster · Deaths due to the Chernobyl Disaster