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Safety and preparedness

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Radiation and chemical safety training for the military, rescuers and teachers

July 11, 2016First aid course for guidesIn the Zone the hospital is far away. If someone feels unwell in Prypiat, for the first minutes only the guide will be there. So our guides learned to save lives.Read more
April 2020Helping firefighters and victims of the 2020 fires in the ZoneThe fires reached Prypiat. Firefighters fought them in the same old ZIL trucks seen in every photo from 1986, and without maps of the area. "We're like blind people here," they said.Read more
September 22, 2020Dosimeters and maps for exercises of the 135th Territorial Defense Battalionrussian troops were holding exercises in Belarus, and the border along the Zone was being reinforced. Reconnaissance soldiers needed our dosimeters. A year and a half later, the columns came from exactly there.Read more
August 27, 2021, Chornobyl HUB, 11 Andriivskyi DescentFree COVID-19 vaccination for tourism workersGuides work with people from different countries every day, so their risk of infection is among the highest. We turned Chornobyl HUB into a vaccination point for the whole tourism industry.Read more
since April 2022Radiation and chemical safety trainingsThe most dangerous thing in a nuclear or chemical strike is not knowing what to do. We teach this to soldiers, deminers, police officers and teachers.Read more
September 20, 2022Explaining the safety of the Vyshhorod hydroelectric dam to Kyiv residentsIn the fall of 2022 panic spread across Kyiv: what if the russians struck the Vyshhorod hydroelectric dam? We answered without exaggeration - with science in hand.Read more
since 2022; example - March 2024On-site radiation measurements to reassure peopleAfter the strike on the Academy of Arts, the people clearing the rubble asked: was there radiation in the missile? We came with dosimeters.Read more

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