Atoms and ashes : a global history of nuclear disasters

"A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today, there are 440 nuclear reactors...

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Prif Awdur: Plokhy, Serhii (Awdur)
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New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2022
Rhifyn:First edition..
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • White ashes : Bikini Atoll
  • Northern lights : Kyshtym
  • A very English fire : Windscale
  • Atoms for peace : Three Mile Island
  • The star of apocalypse : Chernobyl
  • Nuclear Tsunami : Fukushima.