Character: Boris Shcherbina

When the stake is your life and the lives of everyone you love - the remorse you already do not care, they are useless.

- 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.

- When this is all over, take care of them?
I don't know...
- See, you don't know...

- 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.

You do this because it's necessary. It is you, because nobody else can. If not millions will die. Can there be a more valid reason? That's what has always distinguished our people - thousands of years of self-sacrifice in our veins. And every generation waiting for his trial. I spit on the people who made it and curse the price that must be paid.

- 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.