30 years on, Chernobyl worker remembers disaster aftermath

Igor Magala can still remember the metallic taste he got in his mouth as he drove up to the Chernobyl nuclear power station on the morning of April 26, 1986. The night before, Magala -- the deputy construction boss at the plant -- had received a phone call telling him there had been an accident and summoning him in to help, but he had few other details. "At the beginning there was no information at all -- everything back then was classified as secret," Magala, now 78, told AFP as he stood in the