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Nuclear Disaster in the Urals

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Nuclear Disaster in the Urals Synopsis

The story of the explosion and contamination was and still is suppressed in the Soviet Union and, the author contends, by the CIA and other Western intelligence organizations fearful of public resistance to nuclear power plants. Now, after an intensive study of Soviet scientific articles (written to disguise the fact that they were about the Ural explosion) and after many interviews and reports from friends in the scientific community as well as from witnesses, the author has pieced together the story of what actually happened. He analyzes the extent and consequences of the contamination and draws forbidding conclusions about the possibility of similar disasters in the rest of the world.

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ISBN: 9780393334111
Publication date: 31st July 2008
Author: Zhores Medvedev
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 224 pages
Genres: Ecological science, the Biosphere
European history
Nuclear power and engineering