Chernobyl disaster - A commission was established to investigate the accident
Time: Saturday Apr 26, 1986
Place: Chernobyl, Ukraine, U.S.S.R
Details: A commission was established later in the day to investigate the accident. It was headed by Valery Legasov, First Deputy Director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, and included leading nuclear specialist Evgeny Velikhov, hydro-meteorologist Yuri Izrael, radiologist Leonid Ilyin, and others. They flew to Boryspil International Airport and arrived at the power plant on the evening of 26 April.
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