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Sto caricando le informazioni... Chernobyldi Michael Kerrigan
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On 26 April 1986, the unthinkable happened near the Ukrainian town of Pripyat: two massive steam explosions ruptured No. 4 Reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, immediately killing 30 people and setting off the worst nuclear accident in history. The explosions were followed by an open-air reactor core fire that released huge amounts of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere for the next nine days, spreading across the Soviet Union, parts of Europe, and especially neighbouring Belarus, where around 70% of the waste landed. The following clean-up operation involved more than half a million personnel at a cost of $68 billion, and a further 4,000 people were estimated to have died from disaster-related illnesses in the following 20 years. Some 350,000 people were evacuated as a result of the accident (including 95 villages in Belarus), and much of the area returned to the wild, with the nearby city of Pripyat now a ghost town. Chernobyl provides a photographic exploration of the catastrophe and its aftermath in 180 authentic photos. See the twisted wreckage of No. 4 Reactor, the cause of the nuclear disaster; marvel at historic photos of the clean-up operation, with helicopters spraying decontamination liquid and liquidators manually clearing radioactive debris; see the huge cooling pond used to cool the reactors, and which today is home to abundant wildlife, despite the radiation; explore the ghost town of Pripyat, with its decaying apartment blocks, empty basketball courts, abandoned amusement park, wrecked schools, and deserted streets. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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It is always easy to criticize a book for what it never tried to be. While researched and written as an overview of the life cycle of plant 4, this is not meant to be an exhaustive and comprehensive account of the details. This is meant to offer enough context for the photographs to tell their own stories. In this the book succeeds. If you want more detail and something closer to a thriller narrative I'd recommend Midnight in Chernobyl. In fact, having read that book first made these photographs that much more chilling for me. But Kerrigan is not trying to do here what Higginbotham did in Midnight, so to criticize a book for what it isn't meant to be is disingenuous at best.
The context provided here is actually wonderful for its purpose. We read enough to then look at the photographs and think about the people in them or, even more disturbing, the people not in them. Minute details would bog this book down, this isn't told as an exciting narrative story but as an overview to set up the main elements of the book: the powerful photographs.
I would recommend this to those with little knowledge of the details but who want to see the devastation for themselves as well as those who have read one of the more detailed accounts and want more visuals to accompany what they know. In fact, I think this book couples very well with Midnight in Chernobyl for those who want a well-rounded account.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. (