Thursday, June 14, 2007
A Critical Mass
There was a moment when there existed the danger of a nuclear explosion, and they had to get the water out from under the reactor, so that a mixture of uranium and graphite wouldn't get into it--with the water they would have formed a critical mass. The explosion would have been between three and five megatons [350 Hiroshimas]. This would have meant that not only Kiev and Minsk, but a large part of Europe would have been uninhabitable.
--Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
--Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
