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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “At first, Captain Zborovsky wasn’t afraid of what lay ahead.18 After all, he thought, his commanders would never have given him an assignment that they knew was certain to kill him. Only when he had entered the plant did he begin to comprehend the threat he faced. The staff there had already seen many of their friends flown out for treatment in the special clinic in Moscow, and they looked at him with the pity reserved for a condemned man.”

51. “At first, Captain Zborovsky wasn’t afraid of what lay ahead.18 After all, he thought, his commanders would never have given him an assignment that they knew was certain to kill him. Only when he had entered the plant did he begin to comprehend the threat he faced. The staff there had already seen many of their friends flown out for treatment in the special clinic in Moscow, and they looked at him with the pity reserved for a condemned man.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “Despite the growing atmosphere of alarm among the physicists at the burning reactor, the government commission and the Politburo remained determined to conceal the news of a possible meltdown from the world beyond the thirty-kilometer zone.”

52. “Despite the growing atmosphere of alarm among the physicists at the burning reactor, the government commission and the Politburo remained determined to conceal the news of a possible meltdown from the world beyond the thirty-kilometer zone.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “The report made it clear that accidents were not merely possible under rare and improbable conditions but also likely in the course of everyday operation.”

53. “The report made it clear that accidents were not merely possible under rare and improbable conditions but also likely in the course of everyday operation.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “They lined the floor of the cabins with the four- and five-millimeter-thick sheets and filled the wells of their seats – designed to accommodate parachute packs – from the bags of shot. They even had a rhyme about it: Yesli hochesh byt’ otsom, zakrivay yaitso svintsom. “If you want to be a dad, cover your balls in lead.”

54. “They lined the floor of the cabins with the four- and five-millimeter-thick sheets and filled the wells of their seats – designed to accommodate parachute packs – from the bags of shot. They even had a rhyme about it: Yesli hochesh byt’ otsom, zakrivay yaitso svintsom. “If you want to be a dad, cover your balls in lead.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “Aleksandrov also saved money by dispensing with the containment building, the thick concrete dome built around almost every reactor in the West, intended to prevent radioactive contamination escaping from the plant in the event of a serious accident – but which, because the RBMK was so enormous, would have doubled the cost of building each unit.”

55. “Aleksandrov also saved money by dispensing with the containment building, the thick concrete dome built around almost every reactor in the West, intended to prevent radioactive contamination escaping from the plant in the event of a serious accident – but which, because the RBMK was so enormous, would have doubled the cost of building each unit.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “Even the most gentle summer breeze recirculated dust carrying alpha- and beta-emitting particles into the air. Every rain shower washed radiation from the clouds and flushed more long-lived nuclear isotopes into the ponds and streams.”

56. “Even the most gentle summer breeze recirculated dust carrying alpha- and beta-emitting particles into the air. Every rain shower washed radiation from the clouds and flushed more long-lived nuclear isotopes into the ponds and streams.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “The granite used to build the US Capitol is so radioactive that the building would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants.”

57. “The granite used to build the US Capitol is so radioactive that the building would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “6 million curies of radiation.”

58. “6 million curies of radiation.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “They worked on their knees, in a widening pond of gamma-emitting water. The two-fingered rubber mittens of their L-1 suits were clumsy and hot; they threw them off and used their bare hands. An hour later, the task complete, the men retired, exhausted, with an odd taste of sour apples in their mouths.”

59. “They worked on their knees, in a widening pond of gamma-emitting water. The two-fingered rubber mittens of their L-1 suits were clumsy and hot; they threw them off and used their bare hands. An hour later, the task complete, the men retired, exhausted, with an odd taste of sour apples in their mouths.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “For Gorbachev, this was a sudden and unexpected test of the new openness and transparent government he had promised the Party conference just a month earlier; since then, glasnost had been nothing more than a slogan. “We should make a statement as soon as possible,” he said. “We can’t procrastinate.”

60. “For Gorbachev, this was a sudden and unexpected test of the new openness and transparent government he had promised the Party conference just a month earlier; since then, glasnost had been nothing more than a slogan. “We should make a statement as soon as possible,” he said. “We can’t procrastinate.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “A neutron pulse surged through the dying reactor, and thermal power peaked at more than 12 billion watts.”

61. “A neutron pulse surged through the dying reactor, and thermal power peaked at more than 12 billion watts.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “All living tissue is radioactive to some degree: human beings, like bananas, emit radiation because both contain small amounts of the radioisotope potassium 40; muscle contains more potassium 40 than other tissue, so men are generally more radioactive than women. Brazil nuts, with a thousand times the average concentration of radium of any organic product, are the world’s most radioactive food.”

62. “All living tissue is radioactive to some degree: human beings, like bananas, emit radiation because both contain small amounts of the radioisotope potassium 40; muscle contains more potassium 40 than other tissue, so men are generally more radioactive than women. Brazil nuts, with a thousand times the average concentration of radium of any organic product, are the world’s most radioactive food.”

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