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“Is there anything more frightening than people?”
“I make my way back whistling. Gerry nods towards Mrs Brady who is standing beside the trolleys.Morning, Mrs Brady, I say cheerfully.I push her provisions out to the car.Things are something terribl...”
“Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.”
“Look, Im real sorry about Cheryl, I know you loved her a lot, Mandy apologized gloomily. Its wrong that people have to keep killing off Pollution.Its alright, I think she wants to be remediated, Al...”
“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 Amer...”
“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 wh...”
“It's certainly true that Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the deliberate product of a culture of cronyism, laziness, and a deep-seated indiff...”
“We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.”
“Chernobyl, an accident or the most successful anti-Marxist attack in recorded history?”
“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 eart...”
“…Look, I’m real sorry about Cheryl, I know you loved her a lot,” Mandy apologized gloomily. “It’s wrong that people have to keep killing off Pollution.”“It’s alright, I think she wants to be remedi...”
“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 A...”
