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Mirror: Selfless Chornobyl ‘suicide divers’ saved Europe from nuclear devastation

Published June 17, 2019 at 9:46 am

The new confinement arch built over the infamous Reactor 4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine. The reactor exploded on April 26, 1986, hastening the collapse of the Soviet Union more than five years later.

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The world owes him an eternal debt, but for Chornobyl hero Alexei Ananenko, it was just part of the job.

Engineer Alexei was one of three men who volunteered to wade through radioactive water to prevent a second cataclysmic explosion at the stricken nuclear reactor.