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February 19 - March 28, 2023
When one former nuclear submarine officer first took his seat at the desk in Chernobyl’s Unit One, he was horrified by the colossal size of the reactor and how antiquated the instrumentation was. “How can you possibly control this hulking piece of shit?� he asked. “And what is it doing in civilian use?�
When Evgeny Velikhov heard the news, he was horrified. The academician asked Deputy Minister Silayev to call Gorbachev with a message: “Tell him that our outhouse is overflowing, and they’ll have to climb a mountain of shit.�
