A Message In A Bottle

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A Message In A Bottle · Page 12

Miners push a heavy cart along rails out of a dark tunnel.

And still the fire burned.

They sent six hundred helicopter pilots to drop bars of lead into the reactor to try and cool it down.

They sent miners to dig down underneath the reactor.

It was so oven hot that they worked without any protective clothes.

They dragged the earth out of the tunnel on their hands and knees. They poured liquid nitrogen down the hole. They had to stop the heat of the fire from cracking the concrete floor at the bottom of the reactor and reaching the water underneath.

That would have made a second explosion, so big, so terrible … no one could imagine the destruction… maybe all of Ukraine, maybe all of Europe…