Pavel Fomin was a safety manager at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. He rushed to the plant after he saw the explosion. His wife and children eventually got evacuated, but he stayed to help.

"They were people like us," shop manager Gerald Hirst said ... caused when reactor number four at the nuclear power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine, exploded in the early hours of 26 April, 1986.

Chernobyl engineer Oleksiy Breus ... while the others had been ordered in by their manager. They knew where the valves were, so they were the right men for the task. "If I didn't do it, they ...