Bits of History

Grave of shift supervisor Borys Baranov, the third Chernobyl diver and Hero of Ukraine

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Part of letter written by Anatoly Dyatlov to Toptunov’s Parents
Translation
“ Let me speak my thoughts, for the grievance is throttling me. The real causers of the disaster got off lightly, operators only were put in the wrong. We were presented as...

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Close-up pictures of the reactor lid that weighed approximately 1000 tons.

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That is not an evacuation. Pripyat was built simultaneously with the power plant, so both construction workers and NPP employees were initially living in villages around the construction site. More than 30 buses were gathering them every morning and...

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