Liquidators of Chernobyl, Going Beyond for Others. 

Process Paper

Jack Ertz Connor Neuser 

Website. 

The Chernobyl Liquidators.

Word count of website: 1196 

Process Paper: 415 

I became interested in my topic after seeing a Hulu ad about a Chernobyl series, after watching the television series it made me want to find out more about the topic. NHD started a little after I finished the television series and my partner, and I decided that the Chernobyl liquidator would be our topic. My partner and I also thought the at Chernobyl would be a good topic because a lot of people knew that the Chernobyl reactor had a meltdown. But not many people know about the cleanup of Chernobyl and how many lives were lost? The amount of people that lost their lives due to a procedure that was unsafe and could have been prevented. That is why I chose Chernobyl liquidators. 

The first place my partner and I went to was badgerlink and researched Chernobyl. The single website it gave us was mostly the background information about Chernobyl. The next step of our research was to find information about the Liquidators because that is the part that connects to the Theme. We then started to research the sarcophagus that went over the reactor. After, we spent a lot of time finding pictures of what Chernobyl looked like before the accident, during the accident, and after the accident.  Many of the websites were secondary sources because information of the accident wasn’t allowed to escape the Soviets. The few primary sources gave valuable information and quotes. 

The goal of our website was to take a reader who knows nothing about the accident and give them enough information to write an essay. Our website is meant to be purely informative on our topic, with also giving attention and credit to the men who sacrificed themselves. We used the NHD website builder to create our website. The website displays much information along with pictures of the accident, the effects, memorials, etc.  

The Chernobyl nuclear accident was one of the worst accidents in history. Being the worst, it obviously created many barriers to clean up. The cleanup was very dangerous, and the span of waste was very large.  The Chernobyl Liquidators not only broke that barrier, but that also broke barriers of fear and courage when sacrificing for the cleanup.  Over 600,000 liquidators sacrificed years off their lives to aid the cleanup. Those who did not get cancer in their later years were very lucky or died a much more gruesome death. We owe a debt of gratitude to the Liquidators for the barriers they broke.