Chernobyl the history of a nuclear catastrophe

"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 Plok...

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Main Author: Plokhy, Serhii, 1957- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.