Character: Valery Legasov

- Why worry about something that never will be?
- Why worry about something that never will be? Just fine... It's on the money necessary to print.

I was afraid the prices however, now I only ask: what price a lie?

- For liquidation of the accident will take three years and about seven hundred and fifty thousand people. Including doctors and engineers.
- And how many will die?
- Thousands. Perhaps tens of thousands.

- Have you ever dealt with the miners?
- No.
- My advice to you: tell the truth. They work in the dark, so you can see everything.

- What will happen to our children?
- What? With divers?
- With divers, firemen, those that were in the hardware room. Exactly how they will be affected by radiation?
Some of them were so badly irradiated that the radiation will break down their cell structure. The skin will blister, become red and then turn black. Then begins the latent period. The symptoms go away, it would seem that the patient is recovering, he is already healthy, but it's not. It usually only lasts a day or two.
- Go ahead.
- Then it becomes evident that the cells are damaged, the spinal cord dies, dies the immune system, organs and soft tissues begin to decompose. Arteries and veins burst, become like a sieve, so it is impossible even to enter the morphine and the pain unimaginable. And then after three days or three weeks death. That's what happens with those guys.
How about us?
- Well, we... we irradiated all the time, but not as much so the radiation won't kill the cells, but it is enough to damage DNA. So, over time, cancer. Or aplastic anemia. In any case - we're gonna die.
- Then, in some ways we got off easy.

Professor Legasov, you are there for only one reason, you know? To stop it all. I don't want to hear questions, I want to know when this is all over.
- If you want to know when Chernobyl will be safe, the half-life of plutonium-239 were twenty-four thousand years. We will not live.

We are dealing with a catastrophe this world has ever seen.

- There are not three x-rays and fifteen thousand.
- What does this figure mean?
This means that the reactor is opened. And the fire that we saw with our own eyes, emits radiation two times more than the Hiroshima bomb. It's for an hour. And so, hour after hour. Twenty hours after the explosion - at the moment, forty bombs. Tomorrow will be another forty eight. And it will never stop nor in a week nor in an hour. He will blaze and spread his poison, until the whole continent will not die out.

- Fly directly above the reactor.
- If we fly over the reactor, you will die in less than a week! Die!
- Comrade?
- Fly over the building! Or I'll shoot!
- If you fly over the reactor, tomorrow he'll be begging to get shot.

The RBMK reactor running on uranium-235. Each atom of uranium-235 as the bullet moves almost at the speed of light, penetrating through everything in its way: wood, metal, concrete, flesh. In one gram of uranium 235 contains more than a billion trillion of these bullets. Only one gram. In Chernobyl it of over three million grams and he is now on fire! The wind will carry radioactive particles across the continent, with rain they will rain down on us. This three million of billions of trillions of bullets in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the foods we eat. Most of these "bullets" will fly another hundred years, and some fifty thousand years.

To be a scientist means to be naive. We got so caught up in seeking the truth, do not think how little people want us to find her. But it is always there, whether we see it or not. Selectable or not selectable. The truth doesn't care about our needs and desires. She doesn't care about our government, ideology, religion. She will be waiting. All the time.

Akimov presses the AZ-5. The extracted control rods back into the reactor. Rods made of boron steel that reduces the reactivity. But the tips... the Tips are made of graphite, and he speeds up.
Why?
Why? For the same reason why around our reactors no caps in the West. Why don't we use normal enrichment fuel. For the reason why we're the only nation that builds fotografirovat reactors with a positive void coefficient. It is cheaper.