The fires kept burning for days and days in the melted-down reactor - most who died had no idea how dangerous the whole situation was. The cleanup operation wa

The fires kept burning for days and days in the melted-down reactor - most who died had no idea how dangerous the whole situation was. The cleanup operation wasn't much better - men cleaning nearby reactor roofs in 45 second shifts and heavy lead aprons because the radiation was too bad for a fleet of robots to function.