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Автор Сергей Плохий
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Copyright 2018 by Serhii Plokhy
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Plokhy, Serhii, 1957- author.
Title: Chernobyl : the history of a nuclear catastrophe / Serhii Plokhy.
Description: First edition. | New York : Basic Books, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017056459 (print) | LCCN 2017059722 (ebook) | ISBN 9781541617087 (ebook) | ISBN 9781541617094 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986. | Nuclear power plants—Accidents—Ukraine—Chornobyl. | Nuclear energy—Political aspects.
Classification: LCC TK1362. U38 (ebook) | LCC TK1362. U38 P555 2018 (print) | DDC 363. 17/99094777—dc23
ISBNs: 978-1-5416-1709-4 (hardcover), 978-1-5416-1708-7 (ebook)
E3-20180331-JV-NF
CONTENTS
Prologue
I WORMWOOD
CHAPTER 1 Congress
CHAPTER 2 Road to Chernobyl
CHAPTER 3 Power Plant
II INFERNO
CHAPTER 4 Friday Night
CHAPTER 5 Explosion
CHAPTER 6 Fire
CHAPTER 7 Denial
III ATOP THE VOLCANO
CHAPTER 8 High Commission
CHAPTER 9 Exodus
CHAPTER 10 Taming the Reactor
IV INVISIBLE ENEMY
CHAPTER 11 Deadly Silence
CHAPTER 12 Exclusion Zone
CHAPTER 13 China Syndrome
CHAPTER 14 Counting Lives
V RECKONING
CHAPTER 15 War of Words
CHAPTER 16 Sarcophagus
CHAPTER 17 Crime and Punishment
VI NEW DAY
CHAPTER 18 Writers’ Block
CHAPTER 19 Nuclear Revolt
CHAPTER 20 Independent Atom
CHAPTER 21 Global Shelter
Epilogue
Navigation
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Table of Contents
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PREFACE
THERE ARE eight of us on the trip to Chernobyl, marked on my Ukrainian map as “Chornobyl. ” Besides me, there are three science and engineering students from Hong Kong who are on a tour of Russia and Eastern Europe. Then, as far as I can tell from their accent, there are four Brits—three men and one woman, all in their twenties. I soon learn that the men are indeed British, while the woman, whose name is Amanda, is proudly Irish. They are getting along quite well.
