At last, when given the command to work inside a room right beside the reactor—where, after a single minute, their dosimeters reached their maximum readings—Usatenko and his men rebelled. They went toward the room, but then pushed over the camera monitoring the entrance and hid in safety until the time allotted for the task was up. It took the US-605 technicians ten days to install a new video camera. By then, Usatenko and his men were gone.
