· After a few days, when more and more radioactivity was detected, Russia could not keep its secret anymore: there had been an incident at the nuclear power plant near Chernobyl, in the Ukraine. Serhii Plokhy’s account is the first comprehensive history from the explosion to the closing of the plant in December /5. · On the morning of Ap, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers Brand: Basic Books. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic development over all else/5().
Serhii Plokhy, who on Wednesday won the Baillie Gifford non-fiction prize for Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, always intended to write about the world's worst nuclear disaster, not least. Three recent books examine the origins and fallout of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion in At the center of both Higginbotham's and Plokhy's books are minute-by-minute reconstructions of the world's worst nuclear accident and its immediate aftermath. The more detailed their accounts become, the more the two histories overlap. Serhii Plokhy He is the author of numerous books, most recently, Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation and Chernobyl: The History of the Nuclear Catastrophe.
5/5: I watched the mini-series Chernobyl and wanted to learn more about this horrific event. I know some of it was Hollywoodized at times, so I wanted to read accurate information. I read the excellent book Voices from Chernobyl. I tried to read Midnight in Chernobyl and could not get into the book. I will try another time. I decided to read Serhii Plokhy's and found it was a good choice. I. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic development over all else. Serhii Plokhy provides a fast-paced, dramatic account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s construction, the mishaps leading to the accident at the plant on Ap, in northern Ukraine, then a republic of the Soviet Union, and the dark days afterward, when emergency responders headed off yet greater catastrophes.
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