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.
Discover a plethora of topics such asBackground of the chernobyl disasterApril 25–26: the failed safety testApril 26–27: the crisis unfoldsClean up and remediationThe world respondsInvestigations into the chernobyl disasterAnd much more!The public health repercussions of the accident made it impossible for the people to forget the disaster, even if they wished for it.Tracing the story of family that survives the most horrific man-made nuclear disaster the world has ever witnessed, the book documents stories of pain, loss, trauma and survival. A heart felt account of the biggest man-made nuclear disaster that changed the world.
