disaster liquidators clearing Chernobyl

[Donkeyd]

After the Chernobyl Disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986, hundreds of thousands of workers known as “liquidators” were mobilized by the Soviet Union to contain the disaster. About 600,000 soldiers, engineers, miners, and civilians took part in cleanup operations between 1986 and 1990. Their duties included extinguishing fires, removing radioactive debris, decontaminating buildings, and constructing the concrete sarcophagus over Reactor No. 4. Many received high radiation doses, and thousands later developed serious health problems.

 

[Death2U]

Fuck that

 

[miketeevee13]

All brave and Noble but then you start glowing in the dark and your Willy falls off. ☢️

 

[lovestruck]

I heard these laborers were told they only had somewhere between 30 seconds to a few minutes to get in there shovel a few spots and get out or die from the radiation. They only could go in there once that's why there were so many men involved in the clean up. Most of these laborers died decades later from all sorts of cancer.

 

[AdaBull]

I don't find a lot of information about the gear they are wearing

 

[frank4477]

After the Chernobyl Disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986, hundreds of thousands of workers known as “liquidators” were mobilized by the Soviet Union to contain the disaster. About 600,000 soldiers, engineers, miners, and civilians took part in cleanup operations between 1986 and 1990. Their duties included extinguishing fires, removing radioactive debris, decontaminating buildings, and constructing the concrete sarcophagus over Reactor No. 4. Many received high radiation doses, and thousands later developed serious health problems.



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“How fortunate for governments that men don't think” A.H.

 

[markymark6373]

 

[Teeshine]

After the Chernobyl Disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986, hundreds of thousands of workers known as “liquidators” were mobilized by the Soviet Union to contain the disaster. About 600,000 soldiers, engineers, miners, and civilians took part in cleanup operations between 1986 and 1990. Their duties included extinguishing fires, removing radioactive debris, decontaminating buildings, and constructing the concrete sarcophagus over Reactor No. 4. Many received high radiation doses, and thousands later developed serious health problems.



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They're all dead now

 

[sloppy_toppy_timmy]

That looks like the same protective gear I use to clean my toilet after I drop my own catastrophic reactor 4

 

[Solomon Kane]

I don't find a lot of information about the gear they are wearing

It was Russian gear so no better than being wrapped in nothing.

 

[Jan_Savik]

You should watch the TV Drama "Chernobyl" Fuckin horrific what they all went through. Years later it is still highly iradiated. A European union initiative built the largest moving structure EVER created and slid it over the Chernobyl reactor, sealing it for what was hoped at least 100 hundred years. That was until a CRAZY RUSSIAN DICTATOR called Putin decided to go to war with the Ukraine and the Shield was hit by a Drone.