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The liquidator of the Chernobyl accident remembered about the lack of water after the disaster

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Workers in the exclusion zone after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (Chernobyl nuclear power plant) constantly lacked drinking water. One of the liquidators of the consequences of the disaster, Alexander from Kiev, recalled this in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to him, the water was brought in cisterns, and the workers had to line up for it. “They drank, filled them in glass bottles and took them with them to work,” said the agency's interlocutor.

Alexander was sent to the disaster zone along with other students of the Kiev Civil Engineering Institute in 1986.

On April 26, 1986, an accident occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, as a result of which the fourth power unit was completely destroyed. Almost 8.4 million residents of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia were exposed to radiation. A so-called exclusion zone was created around the nuclear power plant, from which two cities were evacuated – Pripyat and Chernobyl, as well as 74 villages.

More than 600 thousand people were involved in the work to eliminate the consequences of the disaster from 1986 to 1992. About 400 thousand people were evacuated from the disaster zone.

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