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Igor Fedorovich Kostin (27 December 1936 – 9 June 2015) was one of the five photographers in the world to take pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near Pripyat in Ukraine, [1] on 26 April 1986. He was working for Novosti Press Agency (APN) as a photographer in Kyiv, Ukraine, when he represented Novosti to cover the nuclear accident in ...
The Chernobyl Trust Fund was created in 1991 by the United Nations to help victims of the Chernobyl accident. [127] It is administered by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs , which also manages strategy formulation, resource mobilization, and advocacy efforts. [ 128 ]
On April 26, 1986, reactor number No. 4 at the Chernobyl plant, some 100 kilometers north of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, exploded during a botched safety test.
The explosion and fire at the Chernobyl No. 4 reactor contaminated the soil, water and atmosphere with radioactive material equivalent to that of 20 times the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [3] In the post-disaster cleanup operations, a majority of the pine trees were bulldozed and buried in trenches by the "liquidators".
The Elephant's Foot is a mass of black corium with many layers, resembling tree bark and glass. It was formed during the Chernobyl disaster of April 1986 from a lava-like mixture of molten core material that had escaped the reactor enclosure, materials from the reactor itself, and structural components of the plant such as concrete and metal. [3]
Anatoly Ivanovich Rasskazov (Russian: Анатолий Иванович Рассказов; 16 January 1941 – 17 February 2010) was a staff photographer and illustrator at the Soviet Chernobyl power station. He was the first person to photograph the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. [1] [2]
Vasily Ivanovich Ignatenko (Ukrainian: Василь Іванович Ігнатенко; Belarusian: Васіль Іванавіч Ігнаценка; Russian: Василий Иванович Игнатенко; 13 March 1961 – 13 May 1986) was a Soviet firefighter who was among the first responders to the Chernobyl disaster.