The terrible night of April 25-26, 1986: the world remembers the terrible tragedy of Chernobyl and honors the memory of the victims of the world's largest man-made disaster
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Slavutych, Chernobyl NPP, development of areas near Chernobyl.
"Held a meeting on all aspects: transport, energy, jobs and, of course, security issues. We must do everything to ensure the normality of life for all our people. Thanks to everyone who works for this!"
Human "bio-robots" had to make homemade lead lined suits to then spend 40 seconds to 2 minutes on the roof of reactor #3 shoveling bits of the reactor core into the hole where reactor #4 used to be. 3,500 people did this task.
The Famous Photo of Chernobyl’s Most Dangerous Radioactive Material Was a Selfie
The Elephant’s Foot would have killed anyone within a couple of minutes.
by David Goldenberg January 24, 2016 Updated: August 10, 2022
"... This picture first came to America in the late 1990s, after the newly independent Ukrainian government took over the plant and set up the Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology (spelling often gets changed as words go from Russian to English). Soon after, the center invited other governments to collaborate on nuclear safety projects. The U.S. Department of Energy tapped the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL)—a bustling science center up in Richland, Washington—to help..."