Alexei Ananenko News Today

The three brave workers put their lives in danger and dipped their feet in a pool that was filled with harmful radioactive material to save millions.

People's deplorable actions ultimately have more to do with socially induced fears and mistrust than some inherent evil. Fiction and tradition tells us humans are fundamentally wicked, but history says otherwise.

Alexei Ananenko, 62, was one of three men who volunteered to wade through radioactive water in May 1986 to prevent a second cataclysmic explosion at the stricken nuclear reactor.

Many people carry the hope that they will be the one that helps as many people as possible in the event of a disaster. They hope to be the hero and not