Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

Serhii Plokhy with Сергій Плохій

404 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced

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WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018 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,...

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tense 25%
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adventurous 1%

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