Serhii Plokhy

Chernobyl

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'A nuclear nightmare told minute by minute … extraordinary … powerful storytelling. Plokhy is a master' The Times

The gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an acclaimed historian and writer
On the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine. The outburst put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation. In the end, less than five percent of the reactor's fuel escaped, but that was enough to contaminate over half of Europe with radioactive fallout.
In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy recreates these events in all of their drama, telling the stories of the firefighters, scientists, engineers, workers, soldiers, and policemen who found themselves caught in a nuclear Armageddon and succeeded in doing the seemingly impossible: extinguishing the nuclear inferno and putting the reactor to sleep….
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  • Pavel Groznyhas quoted6 years ago
    In November 1988, a colleague of Oliinyk’s in the Writers’ Union, Yurii Shcherbak, helped organize the first truly mass rally in the city of Kyiv that was not under party control. A medical doctor by training and a distinguished medical scholar, Shcherbak had spent three months in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone soon after the explosion, interviewing scientists, plant operators, and liquidators. He began to publish chapters of his documentary novel about Chernobyl in the liberal Moscow journal Iunost' (Youth) in the summer of 1987 and completed it a year later.
  • Pavel Groznyhas quoted6 years ago
    A whopping twenty-one new reactors are under construction in China, plus nine in Russia, six in India, four in the United Arab Emirates, and two in Pakistan. Five new reactors are currently being built in the United States, and none in Britain. The next great nuclear-power frontier is Africa. Volatile Egypt is currently building two reactors—its first in history
  • Pavel Groznyhas quoted6 years ago
    Russia’s oil and gas riches helped it deal with the post-Chernobyl crisis, while resource-poor Ukraine and Belarus had nothing comparable. Those two countries introduced a special Chernobyl tax in the early 1990s, amounting in Belarus to 18 percent of all wages paid in the nonagricultural sector.

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