Dossier
Chornobyl nuclear disaster
Coverage of Chornobyl nuclear disaster in the Nexus archive.
- Chornobyl’s surviving ‘liquidators’ return 40 years after nuclear disaster
Approximately 600,000 workers, including soldiers, firefighters, engineers, miners, and medics, participated in the cleanup after the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. Survivors of this group, known as 'liquidators,' have returned 40 years later.