The Truth About Chernobyl: An Exciting Minute-by-minute Account By A Leading Soviet Nuclear Physicist Of Th - Softcover

Medvedev, Grigori

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465087760 ISBN 13: 9780465087761

Publisher: Basic Books, 1992

Synopsis

The chief engineer at the construction of the Chernobyl plant and an investigator after the accident, gives an account of the accident and its aftermath

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

From Library Journal:

Medvedev, a chief engineer at Chernobyl when it was built in 1970, graphically describes the events leading up to and following the world's worst nuclear accident. Asked to conduct an investigation less than two weeks after the explosion, he interviewed most of the major participants, including many who died within weeks from radiation sickness. In lucid detail and with an insider's understanding, Medvedev describes the human and technical failings that led to the accident and, with enormous compassion, recounts the efforts of firefighters and many of the reactor's operators who gave their lives in the struggle to contain the disaster. An authoritative primary document, this book is also an important rumination on the technological and political hubris that led to this disaster. For another Soviet account, see Zhores Medvedev's The Legacy of Chernobyl , LJ 6/15/90--Ed.
- Jennifer Scarlott, World Policy Inst., New York
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0465087760
• ISBN 13: 9780465087761
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288