Author: Zhores A. Medvedev
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: chernobyl, legacy
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 1992-02-17
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0393308146
ISBN-13: 9780393308143
On the morning of April 26, 1986, a Soviet nuclear plant at Chernobyl (near Kiev) exploded, pouring radioactivity into the environment and setting off the worst disaster in the history of nuclear energy. Now a former Soviet scientist gives a comprehensive account of the catastrophe. Photographs.
Author: Igor Kosti
Publisher: Umbrage Editio
Keywords: reporter, confessions, chernobyl
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1884167578
ISBN-13: 9781884167577
On April 26, 1986, Reactor #4 at the V. I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant near Chernobyl exploded, releasing 400 times more radioactive matter than the bombing of Hiroshima. Igor Kostin, then a reporter for the Novosti Agency, took the very first photograph of the accident, continuing to endure massive radiation overexposure to document the disaster for the International Atomic Energy Agency. For the next twenty years he persistently investigated the explosion’s effects on mankind and the environment. This never-seen-before photographic collection tells the incredible stories of liquidators,
Author: Aleksey Stepanow
Publisher: Panini
Keywords: deserteur, chernobyl, shadow
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-05-22
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 383321872X
ISBN-13: 9783833218729
Authors:Grigori Medvedev, Andrei Sakharov,
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: chernobyl, truth
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1991-04-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0465087752
ISBN-13: 9780465087754
Grigori Medvedev, a former chief engineer at Chernobyl, was commissioned by the Soviets to investigate the nuclear accident that took place on April 26, 1986. This is Medvedev’s own minute-by-minute account of both the disaster and the cover-up.
Author: Mary Mycio
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Keywords: chernobyl, history, natural, forest, wormwood
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2005-09-09
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0309094305
ISBN-13: 9780309094306
In 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down, 135,000 people were evacuated. Almost twenty years later, the area remains a no-mans land, with radiation too intense for people to live there safely. Amazingly, though, it is nevertheless home to a unique and extraordinary new ecosystem. When the explosion ripped through the Number Four reactor complex that fateful day, spewing flames and chunks of burning, radioactive material into the air, one of the worlds worst nightmares was realized. As the news gradually seeped out of the USSR and the extent of the disaster was confirmed,
Author: David Nelson
Publisher: Greenhaven
Keywords: history, world, modern, perspectives, chernobyl
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2009-11-20
List price: $39.70
ISBN-10: 073774555X
ISBN-13: 9780737745559
Author: Adriana Petryna
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: chernobyl, formation, citizens, biological, exposed, life
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 069109019X
ISBN-13: 9780691090191
On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster. Tracing the story from an initial lack of disclosure to post-Soviet democratizing attempts to compensate sufferers, Adriana Petryna uses anthropological tools to take us into a world whose social realities are far more immedia
