Top 60 Adam Higginbotham Quotes (2024 Update)
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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “The accident and the government’s inability to protect the population from its consequences finally shattered the illusion that the USSR was a global superpower armed with technology that led the world.”

51. “The accident and the government’s inability to protect the population from its consequences finally shattered the illusion that the USSR was a global superpower armed with technology that led the world.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “The work fell to military engineers and civil defense and chemical warfare troops under the command of the Soviet General Staff, many of them young conscripts. It was chaotic.”

52. “The work fell to military engineers and civil defense and chemical warfare troops under the command of the Soviet General Staff, many of them young conscripts. It was chaotic.”

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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.”

53. “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: “An hour later, the task complete, the men retired, exhausted, with an odd taste of sour apples in their mouths.”

54. “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: “The lecturers back in Moscow might tell you that radiation has no odor or taste, he explained, but they’ve never been to Chernobyl. Intense gamma fields of 100 roentgen an hour and above – on the threshold for inducing acute radiation syndrome – caused such extensive ionization of the air that it left a distinctive aroma, like that after a lightning storm; if you smell ozone, his colleague said, run.”

55. “The lecturers back in Moscow might tell you that radiation has no odor or taste, he explained, but they’ve never been to Chernobyl. Intense gamma fields of 100 roentgen an hour and above – on the threshold for inducing acute radiation syndrome – caused such extensive ionization of the air that it left a distinctive aroma, like that after a lightning storm; if you smell ozone, his colleague said, run.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “More than seven years after the Japanese disaster, the United States still had a hundred licensed and operational power reactors – including one at Three Mile Island. France continued to generate 75 percent of its electricity from nuclear plants, and China had recently embarked on a reactor building spree, with twenty new units under construction and thirty-nine already in operation.”

56. “More than seven years after the Japanese disaster, the United States still had a hundred licensed and operational power reactors – including one at Three Mile Island. France continued to generate 75 percent of its electricity from nuclear plants, and China had recently embarked on a reactor building spree, with twenty new units under construction and thirty-nine already in operation.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “The designers assumed that, so long as they followed the new instructions closely, human beings would act as promptly and unfailingly as any of the plant’s electromechanical safety systems.”

57. “The designers assumed that, so long as they followed the new instructions closely, human beings would act as promptly and unfailingly as any of the plant’s electromechanical safety systems.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “By the end of May, more than five thousand square kilometers of land – an area bigger than Delaware – had become dangerously contaminated.”

58. “By the end of May, more than five thousand square kilometers of land – an area bigger than Delaware – had become dangerously contaminated.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “At the Chernobyl plant, the operators manning the three remaining reactors were also demoralized by the way their dead colleagues had been blamed for the accident. Although they went to work dutifully every day, many believed the true causes of the disaster had not been properly considered; some remained convinced that the same thing could easily happen to them.”

59. “At the Chernobyl plant, the operators manning the three remaining reactors were also demoralized by the way their dead colleagues had been blamed for the accident. Although they went to work dutifully every day, many believed the true causes of the disaster had not been properly considered; some remained convinced that the same thing could easily happen to them.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “If we survive until the morning, we’ll live forever.”

60. “If we survive until the morning, we’ll live forever.”

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Adam Higginbotham Quote: “Steam pressure inside the sealed reactor space rose exponentially – eight atmospheres in a second – heaving Elena, the two-thousand-tonne concrete-and-steel upper biological shield, clear of its mountings and shearing the remaining pressure tubes at their welds. The temperature inside the reactor rose to 4,650 degrees centigrade – not quite as hot as the surface of the sun.”

61. “Steam pressure inside the sealed reactor space rose exponentially – eight atmospheres in a second – heaving Elena, the two-thousand-tonne concrete-and-steel upper biological shield, clear of its mountings and shearing the remaining pressure tubes at their welds. The temperature inside the reactor rose to 4,650 degrees centigrade – not quite as hot as the surface of the sun.”

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

62. “6 million curies of radiation.”

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