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Chernobyl History of a Tragedy.nfo
General Information
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Title: Chernobyl
Author: Serhii Plokhy
Read By: Leighton Pugh
Genre: History: World
Copyright: 2019
Audiobook Copyright: 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Release date: 2019-01-31
Duration: 13 hrs and 35 mins
Media Information
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Source Format: Audible AAX
Source Sample Rate: 22050 Hz
Source Channels: 2
Source Bitrate: 63 kbits
Lossless Encode: Yes
Encoded Codec: AAC / M4B
Encoded Sample Rate: 22050 Hz
Encoded Channels: 2
Encoded Bitrate: 63 kbits
Book Description
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy, read by Leighton Pugh.
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize.
The gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an acclaimed historian and writer.
On the morning of 26 April 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at
the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine. The outburst put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation. In
the end, less than 5 percent of the reactor's fuel escaped, but that was enough to contaminate over half of Europe with
radioactive fallout.
In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy re-creates these events in all of their drama, telling the stories of the firefighters,
scientists, engineers, workers, soldiers and policemen who found themselves caught in a nuclear Armageddon and succeeded
in doing the seemingly impossible: extinguishing the nuclear inferno and putting the reactor to sleep. While it is clear
that the immediate cause of the accident was a turbine test gone wrong, Plokhy shows how the deeper roots of Chernobyl
lay in the nature of the Soviet political system and the flaws of its nuclear industry. A little more than five years
later, the Soviet Union would fall apart, destroyed from within by its unsustainable communist ideology and the
dysfunctional managerial and economic systems laid bare in the wake of the disaster.
A poignant, fast-paced account of the drama of heroes, perpetrators and victims, Chernobyl is the definitive history of
the world's worst nuclear disaster.
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