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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Plokhy, Serhii, 1957- author.     Subjects     Nuclear accidents -- History.     Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History.     Nuclear engineering -- History.     Nuclear engineering -- Government policy -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Plokhy, Serhii, 1957- author.       by title:      Atoms and ashes : a ...         MARC Display

Atoms and ashes : a global history of nuclear disasters / Serhii Plokhy. by Plokhy, Serhii, 1957- author. New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022] Subjects Nuclear accidents -- History.   Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History.   Nuclear engineering -- History.   Nuclear engineering -- Government policy -- History. ISBN:  9781324021049 (hardcover) : 1324021047 (hardcover) : Description:  xix, 345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In Atoms and Ashes, Serhii Plokhy recounts the dramatic history of Three Mile Island and five more accidents that have dogged the nuclear industry in its military and civil incarnations: the disastrous fallout caused by the testing of the hydrogen bomb in the Bikini Atoll in 1954; the Kyshtym nuclear disaster in the USSR, which polluted a good part of the Urals; the Windscale fire, the worst nuclear accident in the UKs history; back to the USSR with Chernobyl, the result of a flawed reactor design leading to the exodus of 350,000 people; and, most recently, Fukushima in Japan, triggered by an earthquake and a tsunami, a disaster on a par with Chernobyl and whose clean-up will not take place in our lifetime."-- Publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 621.4835 Pl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 621.4835 Plokhy Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 621.4835 Pl Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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