Youri Korneev(Machine worker at N*4. "It was really bright there were a lot of colors like orange and red... it was beautiful."

Igor Kostin(Photographer)

When Igor went to the scene in his helicopter he seen smoke coming off the reactor. When he opened his window he could not hear the helicopter or anything around him. "It was like a black hole,and all my equipment died."

Mikhael Gorbachev( Former 1st state seceratary) "Early in the morning and at night you had to fight for air."

S.G. Nikoli Antochkin

was set to fight the fire still burning at chernobyl. Radioactivity was measured in units called Nunchkins. Normal atmospheric level is 12 millionths of a nunchkin. "The disometer only went up to 500 nunchkins. The needle was going crazy, it was completly off the scale there had to be atleast 1000 nunchkins at the height of 200 meters