At first workers tried clearing the radioactive debris from the roof using west german japanese and russian robots but the machines could not.
Russian liquidators chernobyl roof.
In the minutes to years that followed around 530 000 recovery operation workers such.
Confessions of a reporter by author igor kostin the vast majority of liquidators people responsible for managing the crisis in its aftermath who were tasked with removing the radioactive material from the third roof were middle aged.
Surviving liquidators are qualified for significant social benefits due to their veteran.
Furthermore they could only be on the roof for a very short period of time.
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A nail biting 90 seconds of invisible visual effects.
The chernobyl liquidators were the civil and military personnel who were called upon to deal with consequences of the 1986 chernobyl nuclear disaster in the soviet union on the site of the event.
There s a lot of great invisible effects work in hbo s chernobyl but one scene that i was astonished by in particular involved the rooftop liquidators people sent up to clear radioactive debris from the russian nuclear power plant s rooftop in short bursts it was bad news if they stayed any longer than 90 seconds each.
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.
According to the book chernobyl.
Chernobyl miniseries episode 4 90 seconds on the roof one of my favorite scenes from the hbo tv show miniseries chernobyl.
Liquidators clean the roof of the no.
The 1986 nuclear power plant explosion in chernobyl hurled huge amounts of radioactive material into the air.
Liquidators clean the roof of the no.
Tasks carried out by the liquidators were wide ranging and included building waste repositories water filtration systems and a sarcophagus to entomb reactor number four.
The chernobyl nuclear power plant sarcophagus or shelter structure ukrainian.