Valery Legasov
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Valery Alekseyevich Legasov was a Soviet inorganic chemist, professor at Moscow State University, first deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, and a member of the Academy of Scie
Legasov, c. 1986
Valery Legasov
Reactor 4 several months after the disaster.
Legasov (second from right) at a Vienna press conference, August 1986
Chernobyl disaster
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On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded. With dozens of direct casualties and thousands of health complications stemming from the disa
Valery Legasov
…the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He is best known for his efforts to contain the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. In August 1986, Legasov presented the findings of an investigation to the International Atomic Energy Agency at the United Nations Office at Vienna…
Firefighter Leonid Telyatnikov being decorated for bravery
Image showing a graphite moderator block ejected from the core
Pripyat with the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the distance