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Old 03-21-2011, 08:47 AM   #822
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch View Post
I was watching a national Geographic documentary on Chernobyl last night, it was hard to believe how willing and able the Soviets were in throwing away lives.

The firefighters that went out were not informed that the fire they were fighting was in the core. Within hours most of the firefighters went down to radiation sickness.

They sent a unsuited man crawling underneath the vessel to check for leakage of fuel.

When they started building the sarcophagus (sp?) they sent thousands of Soviet soldiers to carry debris and throw it into the pit, they could only work for a total of three minutes and in those three minutes exceeded their life time dosage, most of those soldiers and firefighters died of the after affects, and the videos of the firefighters were disturbing to say the least.
Do you know the name of the doc, CC?
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