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Borys Baranov

Ukrainian engineer on Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (1940-2000) · Ukraine · On the map · Scientists

Boris Aleksandrovich Baranov was an engineer at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and a Chernobyl liquidator. As a liquidator, he and two others volunteered to drain the steam suppression pools under the fourth reactor building, thus preventing the reactor from exploding.

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