Wafir Gusmanov describes himself as a man of the outdoor life, but he has not been able to work in his field or go out hunting as he would love to do, for a long time. In 1957 he was a tractor driver for seven villages in the old Kolchoz system. After the accident happened at Mayak, police officers came to his field where he was working and told him to help in the cleaning up operation of the Techa River banks. “The bridge had broken and with my tractor I drove through the water of the river many times. After the cleaning up, they burnt the clothes I had been wearing, but I was not decontaminated, nor was my tractor”. Gusmanov got radial disease that bent his bones and crippled him. One of his legs has broken six times.He can only drag himself forward on crutches for very short distances and needs to use a wheel chair most of the time. Gusmanov is against storage of nucleair waste, becaus he does not think it will happen in a safe manner: “For sure, somebody will take the money meant to implement security measures for safe storage, and run and we will be left to deal with the consequences”. (Half life book previous page)