![]() Shcherbina wanted to use water, but they explained to him that dowsing a nuclear fire with water could actually intensify the blaze. The question was how to stop it from burning and producing ever more radioactivity. ![]() ![]() May 1986 (Credit: Igor Kostin/Sputnik Images) Radiation levels rose. ![]() During the first days after the explosion, helicopter pilots dropped thousands of tons of sand, clay, boron and lead into the opening created in the roof of the reactor by the explosion, exposing themselves to extremely high levels of radiation. A helicopter ‘bomb run’ on the damaged Chernobyl reactor (visible in the background).
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