Chernobyl: The unknown war (REVIEW OF HBO SERIES PENDING)

Citation:

Lerner KL. Chernobyl: The unknown war (REVIEW OF HBO SERIES PENDING). Taking Bearings. LMG (London, Paris, Cambridge). 2014.
Chernobyl: The unknown war (REVIEW OF HBO SERIES PENDING)

Abstract:

Chernobyl Nuclear Exclusion Zone, Ukraine-On the Ukrainian holiday commemorating victory over the Nazis in WWII, a return to the entombed, but still smoldering, reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant makes vivid another great war waged following the nuclear accident in 1986. The fight to contain the shattering explosion that exposed the nuclear core had all the hallmarks of war. It was brutal and costly, governments lied and blundered, and lives were devalued and sacrificed in a grisly calculus. A rare view of the four reactors in operation the day of the accident at Chernobyl. The New Structure Confinement (NSC dome) being built to slide over the original sarcophagus shielding Reactor #4 damaged in the 1986 Chernobyl explosion is shown far left. Reactors 5 and 6 were built out of frame to the right of the cooling pond shown were never loaded with fuel or brought online. more

 

 

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