![]() ![]() "Unlike others, being a chemistry specialist, we knew what we were going for and knew what the consequences would be if we didn't do it," Lyashenko told Anadolu Agency in an exclusive interview. Serving as a chemistry specialist in the military, Lyashenko said he worked in a total of 12 rounds in the plant area for one month, adding that it was impossible to work longer at the high radiation areas due to health issues. Olexandr Lyashenko, 57, who now lives in Voskresenovko village in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, said he spent exactly 30 days in liquidation works since June 1986. ![]() The Chernobyl liquidators were the civil and military personnel who were called upon to deal with the consequences of the nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union on the site of the event starting from 1986, whose efforts to a big extend limited both the immediate and long-term damage from the disaster. The catastrophic explosion - linked to inadequately trained personnel - at the fourth reactor exposed the core and threw clouds of radioactive material over the surrounding territory. The accident known as the world's worst nuclear disaster, occurred on April 26, 1986, at the fourth reactor in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, 16 kilometers (10 miles) apart from the city of Pripyat - which was built in the 1970s to house workers at the plant - in the north of the Ukrainian SSR. 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. ![]()
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