The Chernobyl nuclear disaster
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Scott Ingram
- ناشر : New York : Facts On File
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2005
- شابک / ISBN : 9780816057559
Description
Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Chapter 1 The Hidden Disaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Former Soviet Union. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Demand for Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Nuclear Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Dangers of Nuclear Radiation . . . . . . . . . 5 The Challenges of Nuclear Power . . . . . . . . . 6 Nuclear Power Plants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 The China Syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Nuclear Accidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Chapter 2 The Nuclear Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 A Job with Many Requirements . . . . . . . . . 16 “Minor Accidents”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 U.S. Government Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Test at Reactor Four. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 “What We Know Best” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Chapter 3 Fire and Confusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 The Explosions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Details of the Disaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Firefighters Respond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 “I Am Not Joking”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 “One in Ten Million” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Measurements of Radioactivity . . . . . . . . . . 39 iv The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Chapter 4 The Catastrophe Unfolds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 The Effects of Radiation Exposure . . . . . . . . 41 Keeping the Secret. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Folk Remedies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 “The Worst the World Has Ever Known” . . . . 45 Chapter 5 “A Danger We Cannot See” . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Alert in Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 A Challenge to Glasnost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Outrage in Europe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Propaganda on Soviet Television. . . . . . . . . . 58 Chaos in Kiev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Chapter 6 The Aftermath of Chernobyl. . . . . . . . . . . 60 The Sarcophagus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Death and Illness Descend. . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 How Does Radiation Damage Health? . . . . . . 65 Fight to Survive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Benefit Concert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 A Contaminated Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Distributing Blame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Chapter 7 The Legacy of Chernobyl . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Land Laid Waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 The Human Toll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Nuclear Power after Chernobyl . . . . . . . . . . 78 The Chernobyl Syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Contents v Chapter 8 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Appendixes Time Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Chronology of Nuclear Plant Accidents. . . . . 86 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Further Reading and Web Sites . . . . . . . . . . 92 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Discusses the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power station in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine.