Oleksiy Breus, Last Chernobyl Reactor 4 Operator, Survives Disaster and War
On April 26, 1986, at 7:07 a.m., Oleksiy Breus entered the control room of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4 to find the roof blown off and smoke pouring into the sky. As a 27-year-old shift supervisor, he was ordered to pump cooling …