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Chernobyl Engineers Manually Activate Cooling System

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Two engineers, Yvchenko and Tregov, manually activated the emergency high-pressure cooling system at Chernobyl. Yvchenko guided an injured pump operator to safety before accompanying Tregov. Tregov was tasked with flooding the reactor core with water.

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Chernobyl disaster nuclear safety emergency response

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“Then Yvchenko saw his colleague Yuri Tregov emerging from the gloom. Tregov had been sent from control room number four to manually turn on the taps of the emergency high pressure cooling system and flood the reactor core with water.”

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