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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Autor Principal: Plokhy, Serhii (Author)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: : , .
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2022
Edición: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.