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Midnight in Chernobyl : the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster / Adam Higginbotham.

by Higginbotham, Adam.

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Simon & Schuster, 2019.

363.1799094 H635m

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction.

Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986.

Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Ukraine.

9781501134616 (hc.)

xx, 538 p. : ill., maps, ports, facsimile, photo. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-517) and index.

Birth Of A City : The Soviet prometheus -- Alpha, beta, and gamma -- Friday, April 25, 5:00 p.m., Pripyat -- Secrets of the peaceful atom -- Friday, April 25, 11:55 p.m., Unit control room number four -- Saturday, April 26, 1:28 a.m., paramilitary fire station number two -- Saturday, 1:30 a.m., Kiev -- Saturday, 6:15 a.m., Pripyat -- Sunday, April 27, Pripyat. Death Of An Empire : The cloud -- The China Syndrome -- The battle of Chernobyl -- Inside hospital number six -- The liquidators -- The investigation -- The sarcophagus -- The forbidden zone -- The trial -- The elephant's foot -- A tomb for Valery Khodemchuk.

Draws on twenty years of research, recently declassified files, and interviews with survivors in an account of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster that also reveals how propaganda and secrets have created additional dangers.

Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction, 2020.

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