Chernobyl Cleanup Worker: 'We Thought We Were Saving a Country'
![](https://media.wnyc.org/i/800/0/c/85/photologue/photos/4986449763_e449be8d9a_b.jpg)
Truck for transporting nuclear material, photographed in the Chernobyl exclusion zone
( Giles Thomas / flickr )
( Giles Thomas / flickr )
Produced by Kristen Meinzer