Why are you quoting so selectively? Your credibility was not very high to begin with. That particular quote reads "may not even have known that the accident w

Why are you quoting so selectively? Your credibility was not very high to begin with. That particular quote reads "may not even have known that the accident was anything more than a regular electrical fire" Right below there are contradicting accounts quoted: "However, Anatoli Zakharov, a fireman stationed in Chernobyl since 1980, offers a different description: I remember joking to the others, "There must be an incredible amount of radiation here. We'll be lucky if we're all still alive in the morning." Twenty years after the disaster, he claimed the firefighters from the Fire Station No. 2 were aware of the risks. Of course we knew! If we'd followed regulations, we would never have gone near the reactor. But it was a moral obligation—our duty. We were like kamikaze.[29]"