Participants of the Chernobyl catastrophe liquidation

FILE Participants of the Chernobyl catastrophe liquidation, June 1986. The Chernobyl catastrophe – is destruction of the 4th energy unit of the Chernobyl NPS on April 26, 1986. The destruction has an explosive character and the reactor was destroyed completely, and much radioactive materials were thrown out into atmosphere. This accident is considered to be as the biggest one during the whole history of nuclear energy both by supposed number of perished people and economic damage. Photo byPyasetsky Vasily/UNIAN