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Chernobyl 01:23:40
- The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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Summary
At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl's fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city, killed thousands, and crippled the Soviet Union. The event spawned decades of conflicting, exaggerated, and inaccurate stories.
This book, the result of five years of research, presents an accessible but comprehensive account of what really happened - from the desperate fight to prevent a burning reactor core from irradiating eastern Europe, to the self-sacrifice of the heroic men who entered fields of radiation so strong that machines wouldn't work, to the surprising truth about the legendary "Chernobyl diver", all the way through to the USSR's final show-trial. The historical narrative is interwoven with a story of the author's own spontaneous journey to Ukraine's still-abandoned city of Pripyat and the wider Chernobyl Zone.
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- Lara
- 26-02-17
a good book
enjoyable lision well wrote learned a lot there not many books on this subject a good book
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- Catherine Warwick
- 07-02-22
I loved the science chapter, and the terminology
I loved the science chapter, and the terminology used. It was really great in the beginning.
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- S. Macken
- 22-08-19
A Chernobyl travelogue
An interesting book, part travelogue, part history of Chernobyl’s reactor 4 disaster, let down by a rather robotic and dispassionate narration reminiscent of a computer’s text to speech synthesiser.
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- Jamie
- 11-02-22
It's ok but more a mixed bag of fact and experienc
The book is a mix of relatively high level into about what happened and the experience of the author in the zone
The narration let's it down a little further at it's very dry
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- dan16murphy
- 14-04-19
A very well written and accessible listen.
A Very well written and accessible listen. A comprehensive summary without going into overly technical detail. Would recommend.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-05-19
A good summary of the incident, but....
It is a good summary of the incident and the events that occurred thereafter. However, the author also writes about their own personal visit to Ukraine/Chernobyl and this is of little interest to those that are keen to know about the incident, how it occurred and how it was (or is being) managed - in my opinion of course. The format of the book tends to be; one chapter on the incident, one chapter on the authors trip, one chapter on the incident and one chapter on their trip etc. I ended up skipping whole chapters as a result. Apart from that it's well worth a listen and those I have recommended it to also agree.
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- roxana
- 08-04-24
informative and easy to listen.
very good! A complex topic made accessible and interesting. I highly recommended. I've always been curious of what happened in Chernobyl and the lasting effect of the aftermath. This was very helpful and easy to follow.
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- Jonathan
- 24-11-17
Excellent Account of the Disaster and Aftermath
This book is just right for those with an interest in the Chernobyl Disaster but do not have a very technical background. There is plenty of detail about what happened and how it happened but no too technical that it reads like a text book or a report. I like technical detail (I'm an engineer) and this was just right.
It also gives a good insight into the people involved in many different ways and juat how far the effects stretched.
The narrative is nice as it is from a point of view of someone who is not a nuclear engineer but wants to know what happened, like many readers I imagine.
Don't let some other reviews put you off about the narrator's tone of voice. I am super fussy about narrator's and have even stopped several books due to bad narrators alone... But this one is fine. It's not a novel so doesn't require getting into character or anything. It's clear and easy listening.
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- Goronwy-Wyn
- 21-04-17
There is so much more to tell
I think this should serve as an introduction to those considering Nuclear power, the money spent on decomissioning and cleaning up the mess far outweighs that of further developing storage for renewables.
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- Brian Russell
- 05-09-23
Extremely interesting
A very good listen, I learnt so much from this book not only the accident itself but just how it affected and still affects so many people in so many countries.
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