Chernobyl
357 pages
|Published: 1 Aug 1987
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ISBN: 9780553271935
Format: Mass market paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Bantam Spectra
Publication date: 1 March 1988
Description
This novel adds a human dimension to the familiar story of Chernobyl, site of the world's worst nuclear accident that sent a wave of fear through Europe, forced the evacuation of 135,000 Soviet citizens and left an undetermined number with potentially life-shortening doses of radiation.The story is told through fictitious characters—primarily officials and workers at the ill-fated plant—but closely traces events as documented in the Soviet press and Moscow's unusually candid report to the International Atomic Energy Agency in September, 1986.