Chernobyl Disaster Quotes

Five years after the Chernobyl disaster, in the summer of 1991, the last summer the Soviet Union was still in existence, I visited Ukraine. I trekked out to the 20-mile exclusion zone - it had been cleared of all people after the accident - together with some local environmental activists.

...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real force of nuclear energy, out of control.

Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic.

After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them.

Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire.

Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills.

The Chernobyl technology is different from the technology which is used in the west, mainly.

In fact, all of us have a piece of Chernobyl in our bodies going back to 1986.