Pictures: "Liquidators" Endured Chernobyl, 25 Years Ago

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - 15:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Robots couldn't handle the intense radiation at Chernobyl, so the dangerous nuclear cleanup job fell to the "liquidators" — a corps of soldiers, firefighters, miners, and volunteers.

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