Obviously, the events of the disaster took place in the Ukraine, but the actors speak in English accents — something that has not gone unnoticed by the millions watching it.
The show's creator Craig Mazin set the record straight on the HBO show's official podcast, revealing the cast was originally going to speak in Russian accents, but there were concerns they sounded "comic".
"What we found very quickly is that actors will act accents. They will not act, they will act accents, and we were losing everything about these people that we loved," Mazin said.
"Honestly, I think after maybe one or two auditions we said, 'OK, new rule. We're not doing that anymore'.
"We didn't want to fall into the 'Boris and Natasha' cliched accent (from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show) because the Russian accent can turn comic very easily.
"My hope is that the accent thing just fades away in seconds and you stop caring about it. "Ultimately, a person's accent is completely irrelevant to what's going on because there are things happening that don't even need an accent to be communicated — panic, fear, excitement, worry, sadness. They're just emotions."
It's still debated how many people died in the Chernobyl disaster due to radiation and long-term health effects as a result of the nuclear accident, with estimates ranging from 4000 to a whopping 90,000.
To this day, areas of Eastern Europe are still impacted by radiation.
Chernobyl is available to stream on Neon.
