Da. The tardy, lackidaisical, whatever-you-want-to-call-it responed of Moscow to this accident is widely credited with helping to destroy whatever vestiges of credibility that the CP-USSR had at the time.
I expect to be in Ukraine in the summer. I'll pursue this question then (I'll be at a nuclear station of a completely different design than Chernobyl).
Thanks for giving me a diversion for my trip!
Which AEhS are you going to? Zaporozh'e?
Spaceba?