The explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant turned a routine safety test into a slow-motion war against an invisible enemy, fought while the ruined reactor kept burning. As the graphite core ...

We’re looking at the Chernobyl liquidators - the miners, pilots, divers, engineers, and young conscripts who became the human ...

KIEV, Ukraine — Sergey Krasilnikov, 65, was one of about 800,000 soldiers, firefighters, engineers, miners, farmers and volunteers tasked with taking part in the Chernobyl cleanup operation after the ...

KIEV, Ukraine -- As Ukraine and Belarus on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident with solemn words and an angry protest, some of the men who were sent to the site in ...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – Efforts to mitigate the consequences of the Chernobyl NPP accident is enormous efforts carried out by our state, Deputy Head of the Belarus President Administration Vladimir ...

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Ukraine on Tuesday commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident that sent radiation spewing across Europe, led to a death toll still being debated — estimates range from 4,000 ...

Military people call such places "FRONTLINE", liquidators who worked at the Chernobyl nuclear station called it "ROOF COATING". It was the most contaminated, and therefore the most dangerous, place in ...