Chernobyl : history of a tragedy /
by Plokhy, Serhii.
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BookPublisher: London : Allen Lane, 2018Description: 256 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780241349021 (hbk.) :; 0241349028 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 363.1799 PLOSubject(s): Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986 | Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Ukraine -- Chornobyl | Nuclear energy -- Political aspects | Radioactive pollution -- Ukraine -- Chornobyl Region | Industry | IndustrySummary: On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighters and those living in the area were abandoned to their fate. The blast put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation, contaminating over half of Europe with radioactive fallout. In 'Chernobyl', award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy draws on recently opened archives to recreate these events in all their drama, telling the stories of the scientists, workers, soldiers, and policemen who found themselves caught in a nuclear nightmare.
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Crosby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 363.1799 PLO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002957234X |
On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighters and those living in the area were abandoned to their fate. The blast put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation, contaminating over half of Europe with radioactive fallout. In 'Chernobyl', award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy draws on recently opened archives to recreate these events in all their drama, telling the stories of the scientists, workers, soldiers, and policemen who found themselves caught in a nuclear nightmare.
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