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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Just before the blast, Chernobyl’s workers were conducting a safety test.
Chapter 3: Incompetence and mismanagement pushed Unit 4’s reactor to the brink of catastrophe.
Chapter 4: Soviet RBMK reactors harbored a deadly design flaw.
Chapter 5: Ignorance and denial marked the initial aftermath of the explosion.
Chapter 6: Finally grasping the disaster’s magnitude, officials and scientists pursued damage limitation measures.
Chapter 7: With further danger averted, the Soviet government began a gargantuan cleanup.
Chapter 8: The social and environmental costs of Chernobyl were enormous.
Chapter 9: The Chernobyl catastrophe contributed to the downfall of the Soviet system.
Description
Chernobyl (2018) documents the 1986 nuclear meltdown that shook the Soviet Union. It is an insightful and meticulously researched work of history, drawing from newly opened archives to shed fresh light on the disaster. Piecing together the entire episode, Plokhy takes us from the fateful minutes before the disaster to the cleanup operation and, finally, the disintegration of the USSR.
Who Should Listen
- Fans of the HBO miniseries who want to dig deeper
- Those born after the disaster, trying to make sense of its consequences
- Nuclear power plant operators