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Midnight in Chernobyl : The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
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from breic
Great story, very well written. Some of the momentum is lost in the second half, but it never lost my interest. > At the dawn of the 1970s, in a bid to meet its surging need for electricity and to catch up with the West, the USSR embarked upon a crash program of reactor building. Soviet scientist...
from rivkat
Recounts how the reactors were built (shoddily) and then tested without sufficient understanding or controls, so that a known weakness in the technology was triggered. Subsequent attempts to fix the problem wasted lives and resources without doing much except making further fixes harder—a reminde...
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*I received this book through a GoodReads Giveaway.* Chernobyl is a disaster I find endlessly fascinating and this history does an excellent job of recounting not just the disaster itself, but its place in the larger history of Soviet history and civilian nuclear power plants. The author lays the...
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This is the second book on Chernobyl I've read. This one goes into a little more detail on the people involved in the incident in the months and years after the event. It also presents a little more history on the Soviet nuclear industry and the lack of attention to safety that precedes the accid...
from utbw42
This is the second book on Chernobyl I've read. This one goes into a little more detail on the people involved in the incident in the months and years after the event. It also presents a little more history on the Soviet nuclear industry and the lack of attention to safety that precedes the accid...
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