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mean that i mean. i want to have. a happy thought when i want. to. get get get get get a bloody of brains ashleigh cutie she does it to the accident or rather the catastrophe that took place was the biggest technological disaster in human history

. the accident affected all of ukraine. all the systems in russia and the u.s.s.r. as a user there from georgia and other countries too deluded. so in my opinion with that the people who contains the damage actually say to the whole world that. the. deals my devoted my life to building power stations in nuclear reactors. were.

not able reactor was the last i've built. you're. right. i knew it was.

for many years i tried to forget it it was a childhood trauma and i didn't tell anyone about it. i'm still afraid. it still haunts me that the south that you shot me. your moment 'd the chernobyl disaster still affects people. people who are suffering dealing with illnesses people who are dying. to eat but they have since i came back the doctors did their best to help me. yeah. i had 2 strokes here and so the blood vessels in my head were damaged by the accident the food room almost.

severed therefore it haunts me alive one night philonous horrible memories of chernobyl come to me and i can't fall asleep because it keeps haunting me every day as monk who has a road. map that perhaps i'm tired. and i care. for her i have. a matter of her daughter i think. that i am glad i am right and perfect i have a credit. but i also got a son i come to the book as i on the day of the disaster. i woke up in the morning when it was a friday and i had school that day in a queue of obey i went to school as usual but on the gun you don't see them but on the way to school i saw lots of ambulances and machines washing the streets with

some chemical some kind of foam that it did not of course and it looked like snow all over the street. it was foam a chemical this was unusual. they usually just used water. in the classic focus of the mine. that was peculiar. and when i got there no one was around the school was closed and i didn't understand why. there was no announcement that there was no school oh and you were on leave. it would be you and me when i got to school the door was closed accords there was no one outside there's so much going on i stood there for a few minutes and knocked on the door. then they open the door and they let me here so that it's effective and i went to my classroom and so kids they are. somewhere crying because their parents were on duty at the reactor that night and they didn't

come home. that i love them. but i don't have any richard numbers. i only found out about the accident at the chernobyl station 3 or 4 days later when they had to tell the whole world about it but from the british i pictured we are because the radiation had already reached sweden or the yards of their flowers reporter got there. i mean we all had no idea about it neither the army nor the civilians to move. there was a call the roof of reactor 4 is on fire. the station was secured by a military firefighting unit and i presume if a nuclear station is on fire that's the biggest emergency there is that was the building we're. the 1st to arrive were to fire fighting units who were a 5 minute drive away and they went right to work to be

a remind me and they were the 1st ones to make it to the reactor when you know. every single one of them died just to. see to do with that you could of course all the people working there they were so horrible. none of them survived obviously none of them survived. and you look i don't know what i slept for the 1st time. when we ate for the 1st time. i mean i can't remember i only remember the young men the soldiers coming in with. me and we thought it was going to the helicopter. or was. 0 i.r.c. going that's all we could think of a hot meal a tongue a look how you did none of us knew what to do you thought we didn't know what you what radiation was most of us had ever seen such a thing it was like we were at war. so tragic so horrific

a ship. one in the so many people i'm so much chaos there were people on the floor but it's so many people everywhere if for how you have city are you under siege. yes nozzles are also i knew the reactor had exploded and that radiation began to spread all around into the air. to who it was when radiation rises in the air it's like detonating an atomic bomb the shockwave collapsed the reactor roof and destroyed the reactor which as you know made the graphite fly all the way to reactor 3 letters there was graphite everywhere spores . were to do more growth growth from the night between april 25th and 26th i was operations commander

of the brigade is. we are forced. to have better border i had a whole control room with instruments but our instruments didn't show anything because they didn't show that the radiation was increasing so we didn't know what things were. being sure you're going to do for sure that when we went outside we saw that around the puddles left by the rain or some substance that accumulated a little door. i figured naturally that it was pollen from the surrounding trees. your ear. we're nothing to get ripped apart see i actually think it was nuclear fallout of that year when they were pregnant and addicted person not at the time we thought it was a color guard and the truth it's neither original a cheer nor the brigade commanders told us there had been an accident and the reactor. you said should and i'm not don't show up for the fly i would have insured for. the foreman found

me and told me to move out so i went. no i had no idea the situation was so bad that the radiation level was so hard with them those who knew who said anything everything was top secret somewhere we were the greatest country we had to catch up with and beat america and so on the dunny and what were good. enough not to get by on the government gave us no information nothing on the radio or t.v. only room a song into the box more sinister there was a malfunction or look on some said there was an explosion a fire in the locker of the flat earth where we had no idea what happened you know that's another that we were given no information so we decided to go ourselves and see what was happening on a clock on the deck of the little. micro day. my father took all the clearances for kids. my mom was busy at home. and we went to the stadium and prepared.

it was a fairly open space and we could see the reactors from there were so much better at that down and i assume because it was daytime i could really see the flames as a lot of it but i saw the smokes crack smoke coming out. and i saw lots of helicopters and planes and cars and military men on the way to the reactor and shots of our show you it was then that we realized bunkers a disaster had occurred she got out song. should love when we got to try not be sent me straight to city hall. it's city hall they told me your mission is to check vehicles and prevent any disorder shouting

disturbances and so on you have the skirts this pretty secure the area for that but what does that mean. and with means we checked vehicles going in and out of the greek escort of buses carrying the evacuated people and children of the abuser and we caught looters. who supports the early enough to be assisted me is the to me free of all costs to elude the law to do it of. the news a creditor that's needed to put it it's the only thing that has it that's good or good i only remember being in people is nothing before that law so my whole life began there. that is i went to kindergarten and school there i grew up there until the disaster happened quantum spock all the families living in town had something

to do with the reactor some work there some worked in town in the schools but they all have some connection that it was the town's whole purpose. i knew. there were planning our families i mean most of them had many children. and because of that we have lots of kindergartens and schools. 1 and i was in 3rd grade in the morning i went to elementary school and around reno i went to art school hoodlum was a very low minute. i had lots of friends there are sort of it was a wonderful life for you you could even call it a perfect. i didn't see what was happening around here all right maybe it was just because i was a child given that's how i remember it because it was a special time as a credit that they get or are there any room march from. campus

to be luxury and should not be a woman in labor kamen squad she was giving birth so we took care of that we'll bring you more before that the same woman who is married to a fireman stopped on her balcony and watched the reactor explode which i had been in constant contact with the radiation for 24 hours she knew. and when the baby came out. it was black. jordan of a theater at a book that was the 1st incident which took effect but a few hours later another girl in labor came and she gave birth but the baby was dead and then will you be listening after that all the pregnant women a different stage of pregnancy were called in for emergency examinations. and when they were all examined which was done very quickly because time was of the essence the initial time you determined to do live and to dying process that will sustain i

knew the women were in a terrible state. also glasses but drugs to look at a divine being in this what we saw inside. with all the veto since it was exactly like in the books that to stop all the heart defects he's the eye is the limit but within just a few hours a week you can you all those babies were contaminated and you saw get it you were 36 women at all stages of pregnancy and it went on for a nice or a bit longer. maybe a bit longer has no one should which annoyed she was with you that's how we dealt with the problems you should wish. it was the most to reflect day of my life the book which instruction indeed i wish i could erase it what were your ideal of which you can just choose.

by i have put it there more later that evening soldiers went to all the houses there told us he's allowed to prepare to leave. and. we never thought it would live in forever but they told us it will last 4 days name. they told us to take only casual clothes by going on a picnic or camping and attend regularly song so we thought we were leaving because they said there were things they had to do want to thank you cleanse the town so everyone had to leave your bed will be gone for 4 days and then come back so we

take nothing with us by and move us closer to the like a house from the lord and you pretty much people didn't know where they were going what was happy. you know for washing year they didn't take any clothes or possessions i heard them crying screaming which they have to be imagine leaving all your possessions behind soon as you started the sure to drop everything and they take you somewhere you have no idea where that is all the thing is national that even though you don't know where they're taking you. with this night it will never see you don't know what's going to happen when years later still wants the money. that was the 1st day. the 2nd stage was.

living. in. the enemy of the me. and. they're not going to drink you asked if you need. it. i don't. think many of you would have not met him and.

that was the worst thing that had ever happened to me. i had a crisis. of activists with ms but my life was torn into crime civilians in the touch of course that. v. f. f i want that i'm why the long this is my house. the other variable

treats a vehicle haven't been here in 33 years. my children grew up here instead of them with a little we spent the best years of our lives here for a law firm a living will the. 5.

i read good about 3 years old when i 1st entered the zone they put a mask on me on my face about 20 kilometers from the station. drops it's going to have to and i wore that mask all day. and that was on the 1st day. of the pyramids he knocked out always on the 2nd day i didn't wear a mask when i entered the zones only when i went up on the roof or comes up with the most of the markers and i drifted in and with you on the 3rd day i only wore it when i was actually on the roof of the workshop and sometimes on the roof i take it off so i could smoke might they all explain why but again you can evade you meet the enemy is invisible you said you drop the could you be it has no flavor of smell or form so people weren't afraid are going to through our. knees we didn't realize

at the time what it could eventually cause. when you've been in my room. we were the chip work. for 3 of mercury. later i saw the results when people i had worked with started dying skimmer of what they could not burn. but we weren't afraid after. we'll talk or solution the why didn't you know i heard about 2 general who are in charge of the platoons working near the reactor . street at least in the orange forest region risk ridge and you know what the orange forest is ridge a missile one was walking toward the forest green you the other toward the reactor . and they started talking you started to worry there was a huddle by the. how did you know one of them stepped into the puddle. they always carry radiometers he tested the 1st of them and the radiometer showed

200 the puddle measured 200 and they sent him straight home only stood there for 10 minutes one foot in a puddle was all a tuck what should. the jets know that the radiation had struck many people just the word of it and by then it was felt in other countries to finland in finland in poland in italy if it. is noted that a bunch of wisdom people she did more of a chav gave a speech on may 14th will end on may 15th there was a government meeting where it was decided to charge our bureau with the task of building up protective structure over the reactor that exploded the people nicknamed the structure of the sarcophagus those wires ago.

took video and decide where for money should be the route that period before they finished the sarcophagus would not a protective structure could you love the room increases the reactor gave off a massive amount of nuclear emissions which will have an area where not millions. they're going to write tens of millions live. so many communal. but almost at must. there is no seal. need to have good natural functions like the wind carried not just the nuclear fallout from the explosion but also the contaminated dirt and sand that those rebels are it was a huge catastrophe the devil is listening to us till. he gets the most a look up in order to reduce the nuclear fallout yeah it was decided to stop trying

to extinguish it with water you understand why it was a blessing that sneered at the instead it was decided to cover the reactor with sandals he said no way in the is there look they're looking for this they put together a special brigade of military helicopter pilots so drop sacks of sand and lead around the reactor to reduce the nuclear fallout that filming should live with the seal. but it didn't need to be usable don't. you to be. pretty there because that specific really is. a robot or a bird or the neutralization process robots were used which were brought from japan

and germany are very very ready for it or perceive them or few. here when they brought them there apparently they didn't tell the engineers about the radiation levels on the roof for 3 storage markers for birds removed. when they activated the robots on the roof they started working. on the roof had you lived through or admired your one robot fell off the roof because it lost control. but your version for trivial to rid of. at the bureau but. i mean that was just the robots rear we were living human beings who worked in absorb all that radiation rigor for short periods of time granted girl 2 for all but they called us bio robots enough to really be a robot. girl with. time to get new

more work in places where the robots couldn't do the job the buyer wrote much did it people had to do it until it's sure there was no time to find another solution. they made every effort not to endanger human lives but nothing else could be done that we're losing you to think any of us are yet seen moving there was no other solution and she won us the world the robots simply didn't work you see when you have a band we were very frightened by your liturgies you. know the moon the drilling operation of pumping out the water and removing the nuclear waste around the station had to be done quickly look at that it had to be raked out with a shovel. meant by hand. eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat because there were for you to make room for mom go ready what are mothers and we came out on the roof they'd say there's

a graphite rod it has to be removed if you are new but they're well if you could always move it was impossible to measure the radiation levels or the graphite rods of the research they were far beyond what our instruments could measure as we had it would have been to drugs suited them suitably good although we worked in short chips with which we had to work in difficult conditions and near the reactors them some of them for money at the power distance from the reactor determined how much radiation we absorbed says so we used monitors in the computer and at the end of the day we saw that they'd absorbed an almost lethal amount of radiation you know yeah you'd have to call that they saw. the. roll off. it moved again my remark original sin there was some sort sure we sent 800 men to

the roof every day through it's already. pushed further away and they were due to be put on lead aprons and went straight on to the roof here where they used shovels to break the waste dump into the reactor below. us. for the 2nd their time was up they were ordered off the roof but by the welcome under the new measure for concrete and then they'd come down and go change clothes while the next 20 men went out on purpose to get to where they separate the river. for the others in this process was repeated nonstop butterfly you desperately want . to. live bush are you sure felt give the room come up for our dogs we were instructed

that the men could take a maximum dose of 11 can you work very soon if you're on board for a provider it was very similar to this amount of radiation determined how long the soldiers were allowed to stay on the roof of your mind was to work the future is boards room where bridges are going to remember her junior mt creature firm up with the notion were put on we continued working as we saw fit and did as much as we could without absorbing the neck some amount of radiation growth for. what they're . going to bomb you will find me there was a young man a firefighter. i don't remember his last name. was a young man and he was diagnosed with level 3 radiation you know of some systems face was bad. just his face but since he had a high dose of radiation he had other symptoms to keamy he looked at me as you

face was covered in burns on those 2 dots you guys looked at me leaving the door in the mean yes like really please. help me somehow god. i remember what i told him. everything will be all right. let's hope for the best. and he replied. can you tell my mother that. at that his he was i it's one like him that this was at the same time because of ray of hope i'm quick to look at what's rushed i didn't tell his mother anything money i knew he wouldn't survive i can use the premolar stones.

militias who never did let's hear the accident affected all of ukraine she says because the noise and all the systems in russia and the u.s.s.r. so good you and other countries to you so in my opinion with the people who contains the damage actually saves the whole world really some boy want to school and all the people who blocked off the burning reactor with their own body back to the authority of a sort of prefer those who built this economy guess did it at the expense of their health it was literally. make their move if there were you have to understand they treated us as living materials. who thought it would cost us the liquidators our lives military and got a. room with real good for we were the living material supplied by the induction

centers and they are matters. sure nobody had a better noble there were 3 special units and representatives of every military region everywhere u.s.s.r. figure for you here they all had no choice but to work to contain the radiation coming from the reactor for you guys from the can that. virtual lot of people how many i won't say she said comfort zone in the sarcophagus alone involved over half a 1000000 people for volume 600000. milledge you know there were 12 districts $50000.00 per district. but they couldn't make them work $24.00 seventh's or on 8 hour shifts. they worked as much as the radiation allowed live stuff. some went up for 3 minutes they raked dumped it and left. and that was that. is what sort of war they worked below for 2 hours when they had

to prepare equipment of. people couldn't be kept in the area for over 2 hours. we were responsible for that is a. luthier but. the people who went through went through. they knew they had to carry out a national governmental mission that had been placed before them. and there was a virtue and they believed it was their duty to be. here you should. if not me then who do it someone had to do it it had to be done. how can anyone work read it. when there was no time to think let alone regret it. we had to work to get the job done. if you were used to it before you threw it liquidator had

a child today they would be automatically designated a disaster victim of a child rebuilding. if you would if your doctor you know for. sure didn't get you the number of children in ukraine that would be designated as disaster victims is in the millions you just read through movement. do you think at jupiter these are only those who were born afterwards but also those who were born there at the time of the accident arriving in areas affected by the radiation of drugs work better better. and you know has that and if i hadn't been back to prepared since i didn't want to

go back i was afraid to go and. it was all very traumatic for me. yamato much appreciated.

if the center is this the town square og there is a culture hall there is that it. was a girl where is the music school might like to see the music school or do i stand

there get on with us. on this disc it isn't far we can walk it's just 100 meters from where you swing at them. is there still radiation here. yes but it's low about one unit it's about one my grocery of it being i'm going to what's the normal level green in ukraine and 0.3 but it's ok it isn't considered critical just that. this is all that's left of the concert hall dark this is the concert hall yes we have to come here often.

she loved up on and again i let my sister took violin lessons here and she also performed in concerts. candy and i took painting courses so i sat in the audience when she performed on stage 68 violin you are not a king arthur i. can cook i'm speechless. 100 i don't know. just a little it's funny it's a painful memory. in the film when the proof would have been no one could have been protected from all

of it. already loosened musher it's part of our lives and we can't escape it i've got to move a 1000 you got an abortion these people did a heroic deed. did they knew you could do receivership were they rewarded for it. nor does actually high think they were simply forgotten. i knew. where you are because no one needs them now but the most i need to be with you come when you miss me. when you're so sorry. when i delve into memories of the past few would and i recall the people who gave their lives and remained anonymous. brutally nobody knows them that you would that's the truth or the nice way usually i knew you could do it use not you

no one's heard of them and they did a heroic deed you say they should by saving the lives of millions was with you near the war. menuhin the new gee.

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