[{"n": "Investigations into the Chernobyl Disaster", "u": "/e/aftermath/investigations-into-the-chernobyl-disaster/", "s": "Two international reports reached different conclusions about the main cause."}, {"n": "Chernobyl Liquidators", "u": "/e/aftermath/chernobyl-liquidators/", "s": "The civil and military personnel who dealt with the consequences of the disaster."}, {"n": "Effects of the Chernobyl Disaster", "u": "/e/aftermath/effects-of-the-chernobyl-disaster/", "s": "How the radioactive release spread and where the contamination fell."}, {"n": "Deaths due to the Chernobyl Disaster", "u": "/e/aftermath/deaths-due-to-the-chernobyl-disaster/", "s": "The agreed short-term toll and the contested long-term estimates."}, {"n": "Chernobyl Disaster", "u": "/e/events/chernobyl-disaster/", "s": "The explosion of reactor 4 on 26 April 1986 and what followed."}, {"n": "Chernobyl Forum", "u": "/e/organizations/chernobyl-forum/", "s": "The group of UN agencies that assessed the consequences of the accident."}, {"n": "Chernobyl Shelter Fund", "u": "/e/organizations/chernobyl-shelter-fund/", "s": "The international fund that pays for making the reactor shelter safe."}, {"n": "Oleksiy Ananenko", "u": "/e/people/alexei-ananenko/", "s": "Ukrainian engineer who helped drain the pools beneath the fourth reactor building."}, {"n": "Volodymyr Pravyk", "u": "/e/people/vladimir-pravik/", "s": "The lieutenant who led the first firefighting response at the plant."}, {"n": "Valery Legasov", "u": "/e/people/valery-legasov/", "s": "Soviet chemist who helped direct the containment of the disaster."}, {"n": "Vasily Ignatenko", "u": "/e/people/vasily-ignatenko/", "s": "Pripyat firefighter who was among the first on the roofs that night."}, {"n": "Anatoly Dyatlov", "u": "/e/people/anatoly-dyatlov/", "s": "Deputy chief engineer who supervised the test at Reactor 4."}, {"n": "Valery Bespalov", "u": "/e/people/valeri-bespalov/", "s": "Engineer in the three-man team that drained the pools under the reactor."}, {"n": "Boris Baranov", "u": "/e/people/boris-baranov/", "s": "Shift supervisor who volunteered to drain the pools under the reactor."}, {"n": "Boris Shcherbina", "u": "/e/people/boris-shcherbina/", "s": "Soviet deputy premier who headed the commission on the disaster."}, {"n": "Nikolai Fomin", "u": "/e/people/nikolai-fomin/", "s": "Chief engineer of the plant who approved the safety test."}, {"n": "Aleksandr Akimov", "u": "/e/people/aleksandr-akimov/", "s": "Shift supervisor at Reactor Unit 4 on the night of the disaster."}, {"n": "Leonid Toptunov", "u": "/e/people/leonid-toptunov/", "s": "The young engineer at the reactor control panel that night."}, {"n": "Viktor Bryukhanov", "u": "/e/people/viktor-bryukhanov/", "s": "Director of the plant from its construction until the disaster."}, {"n": "Leonid Telyatnikov", "u": "/e/people/leonid-telyatnikov/", "s": "Commander of the fire brigade that protected the power plant."}, {"n": "Valery Khodemchuk", "u": "/e/people/valery-khodemchuk/", "s": "Pump operator who was the first casualty of the disaster."}, {"n": "Viktor Kibenok", "u": "/e/people/viktor-kibenok/", "s": "Lieutenant of the Pripyat fire brigade who died after fighting the fires."}, {"n": "Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant", "u": "/e/places/chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant/", "s": "The power station where reactor No. 4 exploded in 1986."}, {"n": "Red Forest", "u": "/e/places/red-forest/", "s": "The pine woodland that died and turned ginger-brown after the disaster."}, {"n": "Chernobyl Exclusion Zone", "u": "/e/places/chernobyl-exclusion-zone/", "s": "The restricted area drawn around the plant after the disaster."}, {"n": "Pripyat Amusement Park", "u": "/e/places/pripyat-amusement-park/", "s": "The fairground in Pripyat that was due to open days after the disaster."}, {"n": "Slavutych", "u": "/e/places/slavutych/", "s": "The city built to rehouse the workers of the plant after Pripyat was abandoned."}, {"n": "Duga Radar", "u": "/e/places/duga-radar-station/", "s": "The Soviet early-warning radar whose antenna stands in the Exclusion Zone."}, {"n": "Pripyat", "u": "/e/places/pripyat/", "s": "The city of the plant's workers, evacuated one day after the disaster."}, {"n": "The Elephant's Foot", "u": "/e/technology/the-elephant-s-foot/", "s": "The mass of solidified corium beneath Reactor 4."}, {"n": "Chernobyl Sarcophagus (Shelter Object)", "u": "/e/technology/shelter-object/", "s": "The steel and concrete shelter built over reactor 4 in 1986."}, {"n": "New Safe Confinement", "u": "/e/technology/new-safe-confinement/", "s": "The arch placed over reactor 4 and its old sarcophagus in 2016."}, {"n": "RBMK Reactor", "u": "/e/technology/rbmk/", "s": "The Soviet reactor design used at the Chernobyl plant."}]