Lights Out in Chernobyl: Account of a Nuclear Meltdown - Couverture souple

Noever, David A

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1519780826 ISBN 13 : 9781519780829

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

On April 28, 1986, the explosion of Reactor Number Four dwarfed the bombs dropped a quarter century earlier at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Chernobyl's shadow looms larger than those nuclear events that ended humanity's bloodiest war. When the thinnest of Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor casings cracked, it pumped into the atmosphere thirty to forty times more radiation than both bombs put together. That hot spray continued burning unabated for three days, creating a radiating cloud which eventually circled the globe. The Swedish saw it first, then the wind reversed and easterly winds shrouded most of the northern hemisphere. The lifetime of that radiation is gauged not in days but in epochs. Its legacy will carry forward half-lives demarked in tens of thousands of years.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr. David Noever graduated from Princeton University, summa cum laude, and Oxford University as a Rhodes’ Scholar with a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics. He worked as a NASA space scientist at the George C. Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He traveled to Kiev near Chernobyl during the first year following the tragic accident at Reactor Number Four.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1519780826
• ISBN 13: 9781519780829
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 86
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