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Chernobyl Notebook by Medvedev, Grigoriy is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Medvedevs Chernobyl Notebook is a competent and dispassionately truthful account of the tragedy that occurred more than [25] years ago. This is perhaps the first time we have such a complete firsthand account in which nothing is kept back and there is no departmental diplomacy. The author is a nuclear power specialist who worked for a time at the Chernobyl AES and knows it well, just as he is personally acquainted with all the principal participants in the events. By virtue of his official position, he has attended many of the crucial conferences concerning nuclear power plant construction. Immediately after the accident, Medvedev was sent to Chernobyl and had an opportunity to learn a great deal while the trail was still fresh and to see things with his own eyes. He presents many technical details indispensable to understanding the mechanism whereby the accident occurred, he exposes the secrets of bureaucratic relations, he tells about the oversights of scientists and designers, about the disastrous overbearing pressure in the command system, about the violations of glasnost before the accident and in the emergency situation following it that have caused enormous harm. The chronic

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Author

Medvedev, Grigoriy

Published

1987

Language

EN

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.01 / 5 (49 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13