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Originally Posted by glatt
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The pics from the second set has a few from within the first few days after the event. You can see smoke rising from the reactor building, but not enough to think that it was necessarily the day after, or at least early the day after. The accident happened at night.
The guys with the moon suits didn't hit the scene until much later ... I think late the first or early the second week, off hand (too lazy to check, yes I am) but those poor bastards were doing things like directly handing chunks of radioactive graphite that had been spewed out of the reactor core when it exploded. They were Red Army Soldiers, a lot of whom had no clue what they were dealing with. The moon rover looking vehicle was one of the remote control bulldozers that were a spectacular failure in the radiation-heavy atmosphere of the plant. That's why they brought the Red Army guys into clean up by hand.
(I read Grigory Medvedev's book on Chernobyl last year, and just started Zhores Medvedev book (Legacy of Chernobyl) this week.)