At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986; Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl’s fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city; killed thousands and crippled the Soviet Union. The event spawned decades of conflicting; exaggerated and inaccurate stories. This book; the result of five years of research; presents an accessible but comprehensive account of what really happened. From the desperate fight to prevent a burning reactor core from irradiating eastern Europe; to the self-sacrifice of the heroic men who entered fields of radiation so strong that machines wouldn’t work; to the surprising truth about the legendary ‘Chernobyl divers’; all the way through to the USSR’s final show-trial. The historical narrative is interwoven with a story of the author’s own spontaneous journey to Ukraine’s still-abandoned city of Pripyat and the wider Chernobyl Zone. Complete with over 45 pages of photographs of modern-day Pripyat and technical diagrams of the power station; Chernobyl 01:23:40 is a fascinating new account of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. Amazon edition revised to remove typos.
#658906 in Books James Still 2015-12-14Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 7.99 x .45 x 5.00l; .47 #File Name: 0988873168194 pagesEarly Recollections and Life of James Still
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