“This is what they mean by 'ghost town', she thought. It truly feels like a place frozen in time”
Source: Callsign: Queen (Zelda Baker)
“Accident - A statistical inevitability. Some nuclear power plants are built on fault lines, but ever mine, dam, oil rig, and waste dump is founded upon a tacit acceptance of the worst-case scenario. One a long enough timeline, everything that can go wrong will, however small the likelihood is from one day to the next. The responsible parties may wring their hands about the Fukushima meltdown - and the Gult of Mexico oil spill, and the Exxon Valdez, and Hurricane Katrina, and Chernobyl, and Haiti - but accident is no accident.”
“I'm twelve years old and I'm an invalid. The mailman brings two pension checks to our house - for me and my grandad. When the girls in my class found out that I had cancer of the blood, they were afraid to sit next to me. They didn't want to touch me.
The doctors said that I got sick because my father worked at Chernobyl. And after that I was born. I love my father.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“Peace comes when you accept that not all things are yours to understand.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“I remembered some lines from the papers: our nuclear stations are absolutely safe, we could build one on Red Square, they're safer than samovars. They're like stars and we'll "light" the whole earth with them.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“Buy potatoes,” he said. “Gotta hop.” Then he hung up. Of course. A cloud of fallout would threaten European food and water supplies, including the potato crop, placing a premium on uncontaminated American substitutes. Perhaps a few folks other than potato farmers think of the price of potatoes in America minutes after the explosion of a nuclear reactor in Russian, but I have never met them.”
Source: Liar's Poker
“¿"Acaso puede alguien ver un árbol y no ser feliz"?. Pues eso... Me gusta pensar. En cambio, el hombre acostumbra más a quejarse, pero no piensa.
Entrevistado de Voces de Chernóbil.”
“Chernobyl is like the war of all wars. There's nowhere to hide. Not underground, not underwater, not in the air.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“Death is more just than anything else in the world: no one can escape it. The earth takes everyone- the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no justice on earth.”
“Tšernobylin jälkeen… Lasten piirustusnäyttelyssä haikara astelee mustalla kevätpellolla… Alla lukee: ‘Kukaan ei ole kertonut haikaralle.’ Minulla oli samanlaiset tunteet.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster