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Chernobyl

Paperback • 2019 • English • 1. edition

Chernobyl: history of a tragedy

By Serhii Plokhy

Part of the series Penguin history

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About the book

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 t...Show more

Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)
European history
Nuclear power and engineering

Book details

ISBN

9780141988351

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published year

2019

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Chernobyl

Format

Paperback

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