Soviet Union: Chernobyl Liquidators Badge

The badge complete with riband bar, and reverse pin-back fittings, as-worn

Awarded to all personnel, civilians, military & volunteer services involved in the massive and lengthy logistics operation to cleanse, entomb, salvage and isolate, the contaminated radioactive zone at the former Chernobyl Nuclear Plant

The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of Ukraine SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. The initial emergency response and subsequent mitigation efforts involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion roubles—roughly US$68 billion in 2019, adjusted for inflation. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history

Condition: EF

Code: 23876