A rumour had it that the very last leg of the assignment was going on the roof of the reactor to clean up as much debris as possible.
Reactor 3 roof clean up.
Liquidators clean the roof of reactor 3 chernobyl.
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Cleaning up the plant s three reactors that had at least partial meltdowns after the earthquake and tsunami is a monumental task expected to take three to four decades.
Liquidators on the roof of reactor 3 in chernobyl cleaning up debris.
A haunting part the latest episode of hbo s chernobyl the happiness of all mankind is the fact that the soviet union resorted to using humans to clean up the radioactive debris particularly the graphite from the core of reactor 4 on top of the power plant s roof of course as with anything shown in the chernobyl miniseries one of the first questions viewers ask is did that really happen.
Reactor unit 4 was the one that blew up on april 26 1986.
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Following orders issued by soviet authorities to mark the end of cleanup operations on the roof of reactor no.
Humans were going to be given a task that remote control.
A blackout roils the plant as the air.
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Liquidators clean the roof of reactor 3 chernobyl.
Liquidators clean the roof of the no.
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At first workers tried clearing the radioactive debris from the roof using west german japanese and russian robots but the machines could not cope with the extreme radiation levels so authorities decided to use humans.
Blows the 1 000 ton roof right off the reactor and shoots a fireball high into the night sky.
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Their job was to scoop up the radioactive graphite chunks up and throw them over the side and i think they were told not to look over the edge at the pile of.
Taking out the stored fuel rods is only a preliminary step and just removing the ones in unit 3 is expected to take a year.
Reached by climbing 78 meters up a spiral staircase.