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Author:
Serhii Plokhy
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
May 17, 2022
Serhii Plokhy recounts the dramatic history of Three Mile Island and five more accidents that that have dogged the nuclear industry in its military and civil incarnations: the disastrous fallout caused by the testing of the hydrogen bomb in the Bikini Atoll in 1954; the Kyshtym nuclear disaster in the USSR, which polluted a good part of the Urals; the Windscale fire, the worst nuclear accident in the UK's history; back to the USSR with Chernobyl, the result of a flawed reactor design leading to the exodus of 350,000 people; and, most recently, Fukushima in Japan, triggered by an earthquake and a tsunami, a disaster on a par with Chernobyl and whose clean-up will not take place in our lifetime.
What The Reviewers Say
Superbly crafted but enormously frightening.
... frightening.
Timely.
The technical details in these stories matter immensely, and Plokhy excels at breaking them down.
