A heroic engineer who helped mitigate the nuclear disaster took his own life in , no longer able to cope with the ravages of radiation poisoning.Plant engineer Viktor Smakov, 75, jumped from a balcony on his high rise residential building and fell 150ft to his death. He was one of the first on the scene on 26 April 1986 when reactor number four of the Soviet power station exploded, and was a key witness to the horror.
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