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Chernobyl liquidators. A group of liquidators gathered at the Museum of Slavutych on the 32nd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, 2018. Soviet military badge (left) and medal awarded to liquidators. The central detail of the Liquidators' medal, with traces of alpha (α) and beta (β) particles and gamma (γ) rays over a drop of blood.
t. e. 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 ...
Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama television miniseries that revolves around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed. The series was created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck. It features an ensemble cast led by Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, and Paul Ritter.
Monument to Those Who Saved the World in the city of Chernobyl, dedicated to Chernobyl liquidators. On the night of April 26, 1986 at 1:23 an explosion occurred at the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A large fire broke out on the roof of the reactor.
The National Commission for Radiation Protection of Ukraine disputed the 6,000 estimate as much too high, maintaining that a Chernobyl-cleanup-related death toll of 6,000 would outstrip confirmed liquidator deaths from all other causes—including old age and car crashes—during the period in question. [citation needed]
As a liquidator, he and two others were sent to drain the steam suppression pools under the fourth reactor building, thus preventing the reactor from exploding. Baranov lived almost 20 years after the Chernobyl disaster, passing away in Kyiv , Ukraine on 6 April 2005, aged 64.
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 ...
Mykola Mykolayovych Melnyk (Ukrainian: Микола Миколайович Мельник; 17 December 1953 – 26 July 2013), also known as Nikolai Melnik, was a Soviet-Ukrainian pilot and liquidator hero renowned for his high-risk helicopter mission on the dangerously-radioactive Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant building immediately after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.