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Chernobyl liquidators were the civil and military personnel who were called upon to deal with the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union on the site of the event. The liquidators are widely credited with limiting both the immediate and long-term damage from the disaster. Surviving liquidators are qualified for ...
The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, near the Belarus border in the Soviet Union. [1] It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at the maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other ...
Red Forest. The Red Forest (Ukrainian: Рудий ліс, romanized: Rudyi Lis, Russian: Рыжий лес, romanized: Ryzhiy Les, lit. 'ginger-colour forest') is the ten-square-kilometre (4 sq mi) area surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant within the Exclusion Zone, located in Polesia. The name "Red Forest" comes from the ginger-brown ...
Valery Alekseyevich Legasov was born on 1 September 1936 in Tula, Russian SFSR, into a family of civil workers. [2][3][4] He attended secondary school in Kursk. [2] In 1949–1954, he attended School No. 56 in Moscow and graduated with a gold medal. [2] While he was a shy student, he excelled in both academic work and social activities being ...
Decades after the catastrophe, now a byword for state secrecy, crucial elements remain a mystery, Andy Gregory writes
Initially, the Soviet Union 's toll of deaths directly caused by the Chernobyl disaster included only the two Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers killed in the immediate aftermath of the explosion of the plant's reactor. However, by late 1986, Soviet officials updated the official count to 30, reflecting the deaths of 28 additional plant ...
Chornobyl.3828, or Chernobyl.3828, is a 2011 Ukrainian documentary film about the Chernobyl disaster. Directed by Serhiy Zabolotnyi, it is dedicated to the "liquidators" who were involved in cleaning the most dangerous areas of the plant roof, the "Masha" ("M") zone. The film is named for the 3,828 people who worked in this area. [1][2]
The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear disaster rated a level 7 accident on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the highest possible rating. The Fukushima nuclear accident, also rated level 7, is the only other level 7-rated accident. The accident occurred at 01:23 MSD on April 26th, 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in ...