#449-450 - April 10, 1996 - Special: Chernobyl: Ten Years of Disaster. Possibility and Necessity of Phase-out of Chernobyl

"And since we couldn't do anything anyway, we had no problems with our conscience any more. If, for example, we were given an order to dig up the earth from the buildings to the fences: we just moved the fences and that was it ... Cleaning up just one part seemed like utter nonsense (as did the cleaning of everything else while the power plant continued to spit out contamination), and so we simply decreased the measures of nonsense and started to fit our days in the categories of the comfort of this nonsense."
Source: Tiit Tarlap, Chernobyl 1986, Memories of an Estonian Cleanup Worker