In the immediate aftermath, the firefighters that attended the scene all received lethal doses of radiation and died very quickly at the Hospital No.6 in Moscow. Of the ‘liquidators’, as the reserve military forces that were called in to clean up the area, as well as the miners that dug a tunnel under the reactor to prevent an even more destructive blast from occurring, and the pilots that flew countless sorties over the reactor, little hard evidence of death rates is forthcoming.
Most of the direct victims are buried at the Mitino cemetery in Moscow. Each body is sealed in a concrete coffin, because of its high radiation.
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