I posted the following in February on my old blog, Looks like i hit the nail on the head according to
GiantBomb Fallout 3 -The End Game!!
2009-02-05 09:20:40
Fallout 3 was my game of the year. I know it had many shortcomings. For instance towards the end my dude was hanging out with Fawks the Super Mutant Killing everything we came across. Which made combat boring and looting pointless I have a house full power armor I never wear. The many hours before my overpowered badassery we quite enjoyable.
Now with Anchorage out (which was inter sting got a few items i didn't need, and u can murder the Outcasts) the "Pitt" (set in Pittsburg home of the Raiders) to follow then the comes the third piece of DLC "Broken Steel" where you continue the main quest to murder the Enclave, alongside the Brotherhood.............
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............................. ?continue the main quest?I am dead?Right?The Enclave are all dead?....................
.......................Ahhh...........Aquestion that needs answering........I have put a cups to the ground and list end to the rodeo. It sounds like Bethesda is going to re-do the ending..............allowing my dude to throw Fawkes inside the radiation tank, He is already fucking mutated, he has done it before.
So the gist is you will be able to send your follower into the chamber instead of yourself resulting in death