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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
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I listened to this and in the beginning I was taking notes, but soon gave up on that. This book is so dense, imparting so much information. It was a mess up of epic proportions from beginning to end up. Substandard materials, shortages, money that was supposed to be used for maintenance of the plant, used instead for town amenities. Workers who had little clue what they were doing, pressure from party bosses to get the reactors operational, and then they don't even realize that the reactor had blown up. People getting sick, wading into and touching radioactive materials, hesitancy and unwillingness to evacuate the town. Then the cover-ups, misinformation. My goodness, what a terrible, horrific incident this was. I thought the author did a great job assembling this information and glad this had a PDF file. So many times the audio does not.
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Apr 11, 2019 02:33PM
Great review, Diane.
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I would recommend Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. It is quite fascinating.
Sad to know this tragedy was caused by human greed and human error. (Why am I not surprised?)😕
Interesting review as always Diane and on an extremely interesting subject. The heroism of the Russians in attempting to contain the fire was exceptional and saved much of Europe from a terrible fate. I remember the night the contaminated wind reached here. I knew it was approaching and had been listening to the news to see when it would arrive. There was nothing on our news at all. A complete silence from the government. I listened to the French radio and discovered it had passed the Channel Islands some hours before and had therefore reached Britain. I had spent the warm, windy evening out walking with my children so was not pleased. The level of radioactivity was obviously low by the time it came here ( although we all found specks of black in our hair and on our clothes) but even so I think people have a right to know; also in various places it rained heavily and so brought more of the contamination down to the ground which is why we still can't eat lamb from some upland areas of Wales.Wild life is evidently flourishing in the region of Chernobyl as there is no human activity to disturb it.
Great review Diane about a very interesting topic. The long half life of the spent fuel rods are ever a concern; an accident like Chernobyl worries the hairs on my head.
Great review, Diane! I read it with trepidation in the pit of my stomach. I can’t even imagine being a part of this “accident.� I’m adding this to my TBR list and am sure it will scare me and make me angry and very concerned for our earth. O
Very nice review, Diane. I worked with someone who said she'd grown up near (but not too near) there, and could never bring herself to talk about it.
Thanks ever so much ladies. Carol, that is so frightening, because one doesn't know what to expect.Will add the book you recommended Elzabeth.
Definitely a matter for concern Libby.
Diane, you may be interested in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, set to premiere in May, I believe. Here's the movie trailer for it:
Great review, Diane. I still remember the movie from the ?1980s with Jack Lemon and ?Jane Fonda that just coincidentally was released almost at the same time as the accident at the nuclear facility at Three Mile Island. I always thought that was scary and that didn’t blow up. I am going to add this. I actually saw an ad today, on CNN website I believe, for a vodka made at Chernobyl. Why? I wonder.
