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The Morning After

When daylight comes, the scale of the disaster becomes clear. The roof fire was extinguished, but the fire in what remained of the reactor was harder to put out. It takes two weeks and 5,000 tons of sand, clay, lead, and boron to extinguish it. According to official estimates, 5% of the nuclear fuel escaped into the air. The rest remains somewhere inside the sarcophagus shell.