'At Chernobyl, everything seemed to be cracking and melting inside': A former Ukrainian 'liquidator' recounts the disaster 40 years later
- Posted on April 25, 2026
- By Le Monde
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'At Chernobyl, everything seemed to be cracking and melting inside': A former Ukrainian 'liquidator' recounts the disaster 40 years later
Halyna Kharshenko went to work at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986, unaware of the scale and severity of the explosion that had just occurred. The next day, she had to be rushed to a hospital unit where the staff would only approach her in full protective gear.
