Chernobyl

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  8/15/19
  

  National Security Archive Releases New Briefing Book on Chernobyl through the Eyes of the Soviet Politburo, KGB, and U.S. Intelligence

  Declassified documents detail highest-level reactions, cover-ups, critiques using sources never before translated into English.

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• SOURCE: Fstoppers
  7/14/19
  

  Watching 'Chernobyl': How Important Are Visuals for Understanding History?

  For those struggling to put the facts and visuals together, documentary photography accompanied with words can be a godsend. 

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• 7/14/19
  

  HBO’s Chernobyl and the Rendering of History

  by Walter G. Moss

  The value of HBO’s Chernobyl is not just what it tells us about the failings of the Soviet system. It offers much more.

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• SOURCE: Power Technology
  6/10/19
  

  How Accurate is HBO's Chernobyl? Experts Weigh In

  Chernobyl has been a critical success on HBO, we spoke to experts in the nuclear industry about how accurate the show actually was.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/3/19
  

  Photos From the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster

  Thirty-three years ago, on April 26, 1986, a series of explosions destroyed Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4, and several hundred staff and firefighters tackled a blaze that burned for 10 days and sent a plume of radiation around the world.

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• SOURCE: Undark
  4/26/19
  

  A Gripping History of the Nuclear Disaster at Chernobyl

  In “Midnight in Chernobyl,” Adam Higginbotham offers a thorough and readable account of one awful night in the Ukraine and its consequences.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  4-26-16
  

  Thirty Years After Chernobyl, Debate Rages About Nuclear Power

  For many people in the West, Chernobyl has served as a kind of referendum on nuclear power.

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• SOURCE: Nautilus
  12-4-13
  

  Chernobyl’s Hot Mess, “the Elephant’s Foot,” Is Still Lethal

  The Elephant’s Foot could be the most dangerous piece of waste in the world.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  11-26-13
  

  Chernobyl's arch: Sealing off a radioactive sarcophagus

  Work has begun on a new containment vessel for the radioactive ruins of Chernobyl's #4 reactor.

• SOURCE: Slate
  1-25-13
  

  Mark Joseph Stern: Did Chernobyl Cause the Soviet Union To Explode?

  Mark Joseph Stern is a Slate intern.At 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, following a disastrously ill-judged systems test by undertrained technicians. As surplus energy surged through the reactor, its core combusted, immediately killing nearby workers and exposing others to deadly levels of radiation. In the nearby town of Prypiat, Ukraine, people woke up to respiratory distress and nausea. Emergency response workers encased the reactor in a concrete sarcophagus and, unprepared for exposure to radioactivity, became stricken with severe symptoms of radiation poisoning. Tens of thousands of Soviet citizens filed into Chernobyl to help, considering it their patriotic duty; all were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation with no warning from the government. It took two days for the explosion to be announced, in vague terms, on the national news; not until Sweden discovered a radiation cloud that had drifted across Europe was the true extent of the Chernobyl explosion revealed.