Chernobyl 01: 23:40: The incredible true story of the world's worst nuclear disaster

Name: Chernobyl 01: 23:40: The incredible true story of the world's worst nuclear disaster
Brand: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC
SKU: 9780993597503-V
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By Andrew Leatherbarrow

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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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 256
Release Date:: 2016-04-16
Publication Date:: 2016-04-26
Publisher:: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0993597505
ISBN13:: 9780993597503
Weight:: 376 g
Height:: 15.2 cm
Width:: 22.9 cm
Thickness:: 1.3 cm

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