Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
On April 26th, 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. Nearly forty years later, we are still feeling the geopolitical, economic, and ecological effects around the world. The explosion at Chernobyl changed the face of Europe, the USSR, and North American relations. The explosion was the death nell for a unified USSR and that reverberation would be felt throughout the creation of independent counties like Ukraine. The treaties that followed allowed for the Crimean incident and Russia’s war with Ukraine to be largely ignored by the Western powers.
“The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986.”
THE IMPORTANCE OF OUR PAST
This book is an expansive history that covers more than simply what happened that night. It covers more than the nuclear reaction and where the employees at the power plant went wrong. It paints a human, and sympathetic, light on the people who were perhaps set up to fail long before April 1986. Even if you think you know the whole story, you will still learn something from this book. It is a history of the people, the countries, involved and not merely the reactor. There is much to learn from this book, from this event, than that RBMK reactors are not to be trusted.
5/5 stars
L.J.
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