Chernobyl
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Chernobyl: The very name conjures the catastrophe that the world feared could happen someday at a nuclear power plant. On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused the core of one of the reactors to explode, spewing a cloud of radioactive steam into the air. More than four thousand people died, as many as a half-million suffered potentially cancer-causing exposure, and the city around the plant became a toxic wasteland in which nothing could live. Before...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0765375966
ISBN13:9780765375964
Release Date:June 2014
Publisher:St. Martins Press-3PL
Length:368 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
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Very good indeed
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
A totally gripping book. Written a very short time after the Chernobyl accident, this novel is a wonderful story about the people of that doomed town. I loved the way Pohl, a great SF writer, mixes the engineering details with the human drama.The political stuff in the book has been overshadowed by the unrealness what *really* happened in Russia after it has been written; but it's still a must-read, in my opinion.
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