Chernobyl

Posted on by

From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 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 Communist party rule, the regime s control of 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. Download Chernobyl By Serhii Plokhy – kino-fada.fr Causes and effectsOn 26 April 1986 the no.4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded In this book, Plokhy sets out to explain why and how this disaster occurred, and to look at the fallout, both actual and political, that followed Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University The book begins with him visiting the present day Chernobyl site, now a kind of macabre tourist venue, with the destroyed reactor buried in its o Causes and effectsOn 26 April 1986 the no.4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded In this book, Plokhy sets out to explain why and how this disaster occurred, and to look at the fallout, both actual and political, that followed Plokhy is t...As luck would have it, right about as I was finishing Chernobyl yesterday, I was invited to dine with my friend Gleb s daddy, Peter, a veteran of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building, the innocuous name Beria allegedly chose for the Soviet equivalent of the Manhattan Project.With author Serhii Plokhy s conclusions fresh in my mind, I put the question to him who was to blame for Chernobyl He did not hesitate culture he answered When the political decision was made to transfer responsib As luck would have it, right about as I was finishing Chernobyl yesterday, I was invited to dine with my friend Gleb s daddy, Peter, a veteran of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building, the innocuous name Beria allegedly chose for the Soviet equivalent of the Manhattan Project.With author Serhii Plokhy s conclusions fresh in my mind, I put the question to him who was to blame for Chernobyl He did not hesitate culture he answered ...Most of the technical detail was lost on me as I m not much of a physicist but it was still an interesting account of what went on in the days leading up to the disaster and beyond.

Chernobyl
  • 24 March 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 432 pages
  • 1541617096
  • Serhii Plokhy
  • Chernobyl