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.
Reactor 3 roof clean up.
Liquidators clean the roof of reactor 3 chernobyl.
Following orders issued by soviet authorities to mark the end of cleanup operations on the roof of reactor no.
Surviving liquidators are qualified for significant social benefits due to their veteran.
3 three men were ordered to secure a flag to the top the chimney overlooking the destroyed reactor.
The liquidators are widely credited with limiting both the immediate and long term damage from the disaster.
The severe damage to unit 3 has in the end made it easier to clean up than the other two reactors.
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Approximately 5 000 of them got the assignment to get on the roof of the reactor to clean up the radioactive debris.
Reached by climbing 78 meters up a spiral staircase.
Liquidators clean the roof of the no.
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.
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.
Humans were going to be given a task that remote control.
Liquidators clean the roof of reactor 3 chernobyl.
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.