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The Chernobyl Disaster: The History and Legacy of the World's Worst Nuclear Meltdown
- Narrated by: Dennis E. Morris
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Categories: History, World
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Publisher's Summary
Includes accounts from workers and residents
Includes a bibliography for further reading
"The risk projections suggest that by now Chernobyl may have caused about 1,000 cases of thyroid cancer and 4,000 cases of other cancers in Europe, representing about 0.01 percent of all incident cancers since the accident. Models predict that by 2065 about 16,000 cases of thyroid cancer and 25,000 cases of other cancers may be expected due to radiation from the accident, whereas several hundred million cancer cases are expected from other causes." (Findings in an article published in the International Journal of Cancer in 2006)
Uranium is best known for the destructive power of the atom bombs, which ushered in the nuclear era at the end of World War II, but given the effectiveness of nuclear power, nuclear power plants were constructed around the developed world during the second half of the 20th century. While nuclear power plants were previously not an option and thus opened the door to new, more efficient, and more affordable forms of energy for domestic consumption, the use of nuclear energy understandably unnerved people living during the Cold War and amid ongoing nuclear detonations. After all, the damage wrought on Hiroshima and Nagasaki made clear to everyone what nuclear energy was capable of inflicting, and the health problems encountered by people exposed to the radiation also demonstrated the horrific side effects that could come with the use of nuclear weapons or the inability to harness the technology properly.
The first major accident at a nuclear power plant took place at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979, which took nearly 15 years and $1 billion to fully clean up, but Three Mile Island paled in comparison to Chernobyl, which to this day remains the most notorious nuclear accident in history.
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- S.C. James
- 11-29-17
zero mention of the cause of the disaster
don't waste your time, not informative. just discussion. of people dealing with the disaster. there are much better options for learning about Chernobyl.
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- Andreas Gosberg
- 11-07-17
Almost comical
This being a digest version of the story, my expectations were low. The book does a decent enough job of essentially summarizing Grigori Medvedev’s “The truth about Chernobyl”, adding some accounts of eye witnesses excerpted from “Voices from Chernobyl “. What is peculiar is having someone perform the narration with a southern drawl and butchering every name beyond recognition. Example: Sergei sound almost like sergeant. Not to mention how he pronounces the arguably weird names of government bureaucracies, such as “Soyuzelektromontazh”. You’d think you could get someone who’d put in perhaps a little effort to pronounce Russian names correctly, given this happened in the USSR.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-15-19
who picked this reader for this book? lol
de-ot-laav ho-dem-chuck fo-mean so many mispronounced names. I can't take it seriously with a southern drawl.
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- D. Hesser
- 07-09-18
Stay away from this awful “book”
I downloaded this book hoping to learn more about the Chernobyl accident and instead was treated to an amateurish book report with no insights and just a bunch of disjointed facts. This wouldn’t even have been good enough for a cliff notes version of the event. Add to this a horrible narrator and you have complete disappointment. On the good side, at least the book was short!
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- cuse165
- 07-12-17
Interesting Story.
The story was interesting but I feel this book was a quick book. Feel like it could of been better in the story to details
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- James
- 04-13-16
Good book - just a little too short
Great book but it feels like it's a summary. There was so much more depth they could have gone into but just didn't. Shame really, but worth the listen