They Fictionalize Nuclear Disasters Like Chernobyl Because They Kill So Few

HBO’s “Chernobyl” suggests that it is difficult to make an exciting movie about nuclear disasters without leading viewers to believe that they were much worse than they actually were. These events led me to think that there had been a relaxation of Hollywood’s hostility to nuclear energy, and so my heart sank when I learned that HBO would be airing a big budget miniseries on the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear energy disaster. Misattribution

Whatever their intention, our tendency to attribute the harm from Chernobyl to radiation, rather than to fire, is typical of how we view nuclear accidents more broadly.

Source: www.forbes.com