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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Main Author: Plokhy, Serhii (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: : , .
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2022
Edition:First edition..
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.