The legacy of Chernobyl [First American edition] 9780393344578, 2000006000, 4181990893, 0393344576

On the morning of April 26, 1986, a Soviet nuclear plant at Chernobyl (near Kiev) exploded, pouring radioactivity into t

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English Pages xii, 352 pages: illustrations, maps Year 1992

Table of contents :
A post-mortem of the catastrophe --
Radioactive volcano --
The environmental impact --
The impact on agriculture --
The health impact in the Soviet Union --
The global impact --
The Soviet nuclear energy programme --
A history of nuclear accidents in the Soviet Union --
Nuclear power after Chernobyl --
Glossary of scientific terms, measurements and abbreviations.

The legacy of Chernobyl [First American edition]
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