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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
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And yet, despite all the details and quite an academic feel, it remains an accessible and quite engaging book that kept my interest throughout. It’s an excellent account of the catastrophe, the aftermath and the people involved. You don’t have to enjoy science and academia to appreciate it.
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Some other quite interesting books about Chernobyl nuclear explosion and its effects:
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl by Mary Mycio
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown
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“[…] It is still imperative that we draw the right lessons from the Chernobyl disaster. The most crucial lesson is the importance of counteracting the dangers posed by nuclear nationalism and isolationism and of ensuring close international cooperation between countries developing nuclear projects. This lesson is especially important today, when the forces of populism, nationalism, and anti-globalism are finding more adherents in a world that relies increasingly on nuclear technology for the production of energy.This definitely is not a light read. Dense, detailed and very comprehensive, it painstakingly recreates not just the accident itself but paints a vivid picture of *very Soviet* preceding events with the policies, mismanagement, defects in designs and construction and the fear of retributions that made the meltdown almost inevitable, as well as the wide range of consequences among which was the decline and the downfall of the Soviet Union.
The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986.�
And yet, despite all the details and quite an academic feel, it remains an accessible and quite engaging book that kept my interest throughout. It’s an excellent account of the catastrophe, the aftermath and the people involved. You don’t have to enjoy science and academia to appreciate it.
—ĔĔĔĔ�
Some other quite interesting books about Chernobyl nuclear explosion and its effects:
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl by Mary Mycio
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown
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It seems that the initial assessment of all those involved in the Chernobyl catastrophe was so far off that it’s terrifying. It took hours just to accept the fact that the supposedly ‘safe as a samovar� reactor actually exploded. It took forever to accept the sheer scale of the disaster. And it took years to even consider that it was not purely a human error that led to the catastrophe but a manifestation of a broken social system.
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Wow, so many good comments on Ploxii's book. I must read soon. I have followed this catastrophe, the sarcophagus to "contain" potential future explosion, + recent fires. NatGeog also filmed residents, 2 + 4 legged. Putin's invasion of Ukraine also interested me. I recommend group Chernobyl Childrens Fund to see the awful consequences still.
Patrick Sullivan wrote: "Wow, so many good comments on Ploxii's book. I must read soon. I have followed this catastrophe, the sarcophagus to "contain" potential future explosion, + recent fires. NatGeog also filmed residen..."You certainly should read it. It’s very well-researched and well-written.
Recent Chernobyl fires had me on the edge for a bit. There were google images showing how close the fires got to the reactor building, and that was scary indeed.
Seth wrote: "Loved this book!"It’s a really good and well-written one, isn’t it?
How are they going to deal with the remains of reactor 4 which will remain dangerous for millennia?
John wrote: "How are they going to deal with the remains of reactor 4 which will remain dangerous for millennia?"That’s the question to which there is no answer, the assumption is � hopefully someone will come up with something some day.
Maiden Misty's wrote: "Awesome review Nataliya 💛🐥"Thanks, Misty!
