At that time my notions of nuclear power were utterly idyllic. At school and at the university we'd been taught that this was a magical factory that made "energy out of nothing," where people in white robes sat and pushed buttons. Chernobyl blew up when we weren't prepared.
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Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster.