Chernobyl Quotes

• ...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.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Real, People, Community

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

  Michio Kaku

  Pieces, Body, Facts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check – ironically enough – the reactor’s safety.

  Mark Lynas

  Safety, April, Enough

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• Ukraine announced plans to open Chernobyl, their nuclear disaster site, to tourists. They say it's just like Disneyland, except the 6-foot mouse is real.

  Conan O'Brien

  Real, Ukraine, Feet

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• 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.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Father, Pay The Price, People

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• Cesium, iodine from the Chernobyl reactor accident went around the world many times and everyone on the Earth has a piece of Chernobyl in their bodies, but it's very tiny - too small to cause much damage.

  Michio Kaku

  Iodine, Pieces, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side.

  Bill Gates

  Feet, Your Side, Earthquakes

  "Bill Gates’ Plutonium Pipe Dream: Convert Mountains of Depleted Uranium at Paducah to Power Earth for Centuries". "EnviroNews DC News Bureau" with Josh Cunnings, www.environews.tv. March 14, 2016.

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• How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off." Were the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Differences, Risk

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• Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

  Abdus Salam

  Nuclear, Safe, Nuclear Power

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• Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out.

  Tana French

  People, Poison, Wrecks

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• I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Running, Thinking, Nuclear

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.

  Bill Gates

  Islands, Two, Events

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World’s Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

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• The reactors in Japan are stable in the same way that a ticking time bomb is also stable. It wouldn't take much to light the fuse - a 6.6 earthquake, like what happened today in Japan, a pipe break, an over-pressurized containment vessel - anything could set it off, in which case we would have another Chernobyl, three times the magnitude of a Chernobyl accident.

  Michio Kaku

  Light, Japan, Earthquakes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.

  George Smoot

  Done, Reactions

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• Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . . Their lies will catch up to them. We need endless Chernobyl reminders.

  Ralph Nader

  Lying, Needs, Nuclear

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• If my goals and victories can help the world remember Chernobyl and bring a smile to the face of the people still suffering then I dedicate all my success to them.

  Andriy Shevchenko

  People, Goal, Suffering

  "Electric Sheva" by Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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• Ten years after the Chernobyl accident, and am I the only one that's disappointed? Still no superheros.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

  Sam Kinison

  Gay, Space, Community

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• Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!

  Jimmy Carr

  Years, Superhero, Disaster

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• Another thing we wanted to do, a lot of shows or movies that are in the future or the post-apocalyptic are very bleached, desaturated desert environments and we wanted to do the opposite of that. There's always talk about Chernobyl and the world that environment has recovered has become this idyllic, bizarrely refuge for wildlife.

  Miles Millar

  Opposites, Idyllic, Desert

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.

  Oren Peli

  Crazy, People, Degrees

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• There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Stupid, Doors, Intellectual

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

  Abdus Salam

  Technology, Different, West

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• Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market. It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.

  Akbar Ganji

  Iran, People, Black

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• There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

  John Warren Kindt

  Moving, Gambling, Population

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