Chernobyl the history of a nuclear catastrophe
By: Plokhy, Serhii [VerfasserIn]
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BookPublisher: United States : Basic Books , 2020Description: xii, 404 Seiten Illustrationen 21 cm.ISBN: 9781541617070; 9781541617094.Subject(s): Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 | Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Ukraine -- Chornobylʹ | Nuclear energy -- Political aspects | Nuclear energy ; Political aspects | Nuclear power plants ; Accidents | Ukraine ; ChornobylʹDDC classification: 363.17 Summary: Wormwood. Congress -- Road to Chernobyl -- Power plant -- Inferno. Friday night -- Explosion -- Fire -- Denial -- Atop the Volcano. High commission -- Exodus -- Taming the reactor -- Invisible Enemy. Deadly silence -- Exclusion zone -- China syndrome --Counting lives -- Reckoning. -- New day. Writers' block -- Nuclear revolt -- Independent atom -- Global shelter.Summary: "On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic development over all else. Today, the risk of another Chernobyl looms in the mismanagement of nuclear power in the developing world. A moving and definitive account, Chernobyl is also an urgent call to action"--Provided by publisherSummary: An in depth look at the stories of firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who worked to extinguish the nuclear inferno of Chernobyl identifies the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry
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Originally published in 2018
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-387) and index
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Wormwood. Congress -- Road to Chernobyl -- Power plant -- Inferno. Friday night -- Explosion -- Fire -- Denial -- Atop the Volcano. High commission -- Exodus -- Taming the reactor -- Invisible Enemy. Deadly silence -- Exclusion zone -- China syndrome --Counting lives -- Reckoning. -- New day. Writers' block -- Nuclear revolt -- Independent atom -- Global shelter.
"On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic development over all else. Today, the risk of another Chernobyl looms in the mismanagement of nuclear power in the developing world. A moving and definitive account, Chernobyl is also an urgent call to action"--Provided by publisher
An in depth look at the stories of firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who worked to extinguish the nuclear inferno of Chernobyl identifies the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry
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