TIL during the Chernobyl Disaster, Aleksandr Lelechenko saved his colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through radioactive water three times in place of his younger colleagues. He died less than 2 weeks after the disaster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster



Submitted March 01, 2015 at 03:05PM by jakegt1 http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2xjs20/til_during_the_chernobyl_disaster_aleksandr/