Does HBO's new mini-series "Chernobyl" tell the real story? 06:41. ... there is one scene where workers shovel pieces of radioactive debris and throw it off a roof into the remains of the reactor.

At age 32, Jaan Krinal was forced to go to Chernobyl and clean the roof of the reactor; ... Jaan says the roof-cleaning scene depicted in HBO's mini-series Chernobyl mirrored real life events.

Adam Higginbotham, author of "Midnight in Chernobyl," told CBS News that the dramatic scene of liquidator workers who have to remove radioactive debris from the power plant's roof in episode 4 ...

Days later, when other European governments were detecting fallout and when U.S. satellites had photographed Chernobyl’s smoldering roof, the official news agency grudgingly acknowledged that an ...

During the scene when Legasov proposes that men be used to clear the rooftop rather than the stalled-out, overmatched robots to clear the roof, ... “Chernobyl” airs Monday nights at 9 p.m.

The £1.3bn concrete and steel arch will cover the remains of the reactor at Chernobyl, which lost its roof in a catastrophic explosion in 1986, triggering a health crisis across Europe.

True Stories from Chernobyl Disaster First ... Vasily Ignatenko was one of the first Pripyat firefighters on the scene after the explosion. He climbed to the reactor roof in an attempt to ...

Giant robots are moving a 900ft-wide shield over the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster. The £1.3bn concrete and steel arch will cover the remains of the reactor at Chernobyl, which lost ...