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 …

On April 26, 1986, the largest nuclear disaster in human history occurred. As a result of the explosion and destruction of reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a massive amount of radioactive isotopes were released into the atmosphere. Squads of liquidators were sent out to combat this invisible and deadly enemy.

2019年7月26日 · These people – who became known as “liquidators” due to the official Soviet definition of “participant in liquidation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident consequences” – were given a...

2019年4月26日 · Under the sarcophagus, some 130 feet below ground, at the epicenter of the explosion, liquidator Georgi Reichtmann, a Chernobyl engineer, measures radiation levels in 1990.

The story of the people, liquidators, involved in the clean up of the contaminated zone following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

2018年9月8日 · These brave firefighters, soldiers, janitors, and miners—the so-called "liquidators"—did everything from hosing down streets to felling trees to building a concrete sarcophagus around the exposed...

Seven hundred thousand men were conscripted into the Chernobyl area to “liquidate” or “blot out” the released radiation from the Chernobyl Nuclear accident. The selfless efforts of these “liquidators”—miners, soldiers and firemen—are unparalleled in history.

Officials believed that the situation was manageable and the consequences of the Chernobyl accident could be eliminated in a short time. This was the reason why people who were engaged in the clean-up operations were called “liquidators (10).

At Chernobyl, 134 liquidators quickly developed radiation sickness, and 28 of them died from it. These people were exposed to radiation levels as high as 8,000 to 16,000 mSv, or the equivalent of 80,000 to 160,000 chest X-rays, according to the World Health Organization.

2021年4月26日 · The eyewitnesses of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in modern-day Ukraine, also known as the "Chernobyl liquidators", recalled the horrors of the nuclear plant accident on the disaster's 35th anniversary.