PHOTO ESSAY: Chernobyl liquidators return to where they faced an invisible enemy

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, soldiers, firefighters, engineers, miners and medics were summoned from across the USSR. They were known as “liquidat...

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