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100 1 $aRead, Piers Paul,$d1941-
245 10 $aAblaze :$bthe story of the heroes and victims of Chernobyl /$cPiers Paul Read.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c℗♭1993.
300 $axxxi, 362 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
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500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aEarly on the morning of April 26, 1986, the nuclear reactor at the fourth unit of the V.I. Lenin power station at Chernobyl exploded. In the terror and panic that followed, an engineer grabbed a dosimetrist to ask for a radiation level and was told it was off the dial. "With a dread feeling in his heart, Sasha Yuvchenko at last realized that they were all almost certainly doomed to die ..." Piers Paul Read's enthralling account of this disaster and its aftermath is filled with acts of courage - as well as bumbling confusion, secrecy, lies and cover-ups. To chronicle the catastrophe, he interviewed the engineers and operators who were on duty during the fateful test that was being conducted on the night of April 25; talked to the director of the power station, who was serving a ten-year sentence for negligence; and visited the hitherto top-secret institutes once run by Beria's Ministry of Medium Machine Building: the Kurchatov Institute, Moscow's Hospital No. 6 and the once-closed city of Obninsk. This is the first account to take advantage of the declassification of nuclear information in the former Soviet Union and the loosening of tongues that followed the failure of the coup in 1991. The author also gained access to the transcripts of the trial of the Chernobyl reactor operators, as well as the protocol of the previously secret Medical Commission, and other confidential reports. In the years that followed the accident, the trauma of Chernobyl became a major factor in the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union. The government covered up the deficiencies in the reactor's design, deceiving Western experts in Vienna and making scapegoats of the personnel, but, because of the accident, the Russian people had lost faith in the system. Now, seven years later, despite the reassurance of some experts, others still believe that Chernobyl may ultimately claim more victims than did World War II, and relocation continues from contaminated areas in Russia, Belo-russia and the Ukraine. Ablaze: The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl is the definitive account of the greatest environmental disaster in the history of mankind.
505 0 $aMap of Chernobyl and vicinity -- Areas of contamination -- Cast of Characters. The Founders of Soviet Atomic Power. Staff of the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station at Chernobyl. Pripyat. Moscow. Kiev -- pt. 1. The New Civilization -- pt. 2. Chernobyl -- pt. 3. Radiophobia.
611 27 $aChernobyl Nuclear Accident (Chornobyl £, Ukraine :$d1986)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00853649
610 27 $aC ernobyl'skaja Atomnaja E lektrostancija$2gnd
610 27 $aSovetskaja Associacija Mez dunarodnogo Prava$2gnd
650 0 $aChernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl £, Ukraine, 1986$xEnvironmental aspects.
650 0 $aRadioactive pollution$zUkraine$zPryp'i Łat £.
650 0 $aRadiation injuries$zUkraine$zPryp'i Łat £.
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650 7 $aReaktorunfall$2gnd
650 7 $aUmweltpolitik$2gnd
650 7 $aKatastrophenmanagement$2gnd
650 7 $aStrahlenschaden$2gnd
651 7 $aTschernobyl$2gnd
651 7 $aSowjetunion.$2swd
650 2 $aRadiation Effects.
650 2 $aRadiation Injuries.
648 7 $a1986$2fast
648 4 $aGeschichte 1986.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aRead, Piers Paul, 1941-$tAblaze.$b1st ed.$dNew York : Random House, ℗♭1993$w(OCoLC)607634823
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