The Legacy of Chernobyl

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W. W. Norton & Company, 17 feb 1992 - 378 páginas

"A damning history of the Chernobyl affair, from its origins in the plant's primitive design and careless management to the economic and political crisis the accident precipitated." —Clenn Garelik, New York Times Book Review

On the morning of April 26, 1986, a Soviet nuclear plant at Chernobyl (near Kiev) exploded, pouring radioactivity into the environment and setting off the worst disaster in the history of nuclear energy. Now a former Soviet scientist gives a comprehensive account of the catastrophe.
 

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The Chernobyl RBMKIooo reactor
8
The catastrophe 2 6
21
Radioactive Volcano
40
The second meltdown of the core
55
Conclusion
72
Environmental and ecological effects of the
89
The Impact on Agriculture
104
The Health Impact in the Soviet Union 12 9
129
Central and Eastern Europe 2 01
201
The rest of the world 2 2 0
220
pressurizedwater reactors 2 40
240
60
260
A History of Nuclear Accidents in the Soviet Union
263
Nuclear Power after Chernobyl 2 89
289
The energy crisis after Chernobyl
303
Conclusion
312

The exclusion zone and the second phase of evacuation
150
The longterm health effects
165
Conclusion
187
Notes and References 32 2
329
Index
345
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Zhores Medvedev (1925—2018) was a Russian agronomist, biologist, historian, and dissident. He was the author of numerous books including Nuclear Disaster in the Urals, Legacy of Chernobyl, and Khrushchev: The Years in Power.

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