Viktor Bryukhanov, who helped build and manage the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, where a reactor explosion in 1986 released a radioactive dust cloud over Europe and a humbling fog of ...

Chernobyl can seem too horrible to be real at times, and it's even more horrific once you realize that much of the show is pulled from personal accounts of the Chernobyl disaster and is based on ...

Viktor Bryukhanov (left) and chief engineer Nikolai Fomin appear in a Soviet court in 1987 (ITAR-TASS) April 25, 2006 -- The former director of the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear power plant says the ...

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