Is there anything more frightening than people?

Los hombres nunca están a la altura de los grandes acontecimientos. Siempre les superan los hechos.

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.

Chernobyl is like the war of all wars. There's nowhere to hide. Not underground, not underwater, not in the air.