Chernobyl Liquidators
Disaster Response
An archival photo of Chernobyl "liquidators" involved in the initial cleanup after the nuclear disaster. These particular responders are on the roof of Reactor Three. Note the distortion at the bottom of the photograph from the high levels of radiation on site.
Igor Kostin
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1986-1987
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Radiation Hotspots Resulting From the Chornobyl' Nuclear Power Plant Accident
Chernobyl disaster
Map of concentrations of cesium-137 in the areas surrounding Chernobyl. This information wasn't released until three years after the event, meaning that there were whole swaths of people in Russia un aware they were in danger at all, as well as people in Ukraine and Belarus who had been unknowingly living in areas with higher concentrations of cesium-137 than the 30km danger zone.
Handbook of International Economic Statistics 1996
1996
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