Memories of Chernobyl: Oral History of Nuclear Disaster is a book published by Jiangsu Phoenix Publishing House Co., Ltd. on February 2, 20 12. 1on April 26, 986, the reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, and the residents around Belarus lost everything. Some people died on the spot, many more people were evacuated and forced to give up all their property. Author: Belarus? Svetlana alexeyevich.

Content introduction:

Alexeyevich, a famous journalist, spent three years interviewing the survivors of the disaster: the wives of the first rescuers who arrived at the scene of the disaster, on-site photographers, teachers, doctors, farmers, government officials at that time, historians, scientists, people who were forced to evacuate, relocated people, and his wife and grandmother alexeyevich will present the amazing facts in this "poisoned" world to the world.

Anger, fear, perseverance, courage, sympathy and love are revealed in everyone's different voices. In order to collect the precious records of these first-line witnesses, alexeyevich put his health and safety behind him and painted their voices into unforgettable and indispensable works in the history of documentary literature, hoping that the same disaster would never happen again.

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The accident is considered to be the most serious nuclear power accident in history, and it is also the first catastrophic accident rated as the seventh level event by the international nuclear event classification table (so far, the second case is 20 1 1 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. 1 in the early morning of April 26th, 986123, the No.4 reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded near Pripyat, Ukraine. The explosion caused a fire, which discharged a lot of high-energy radioactive materials into the atmosphere, and radioactive dust covered a large area. The radiation dose released by the disaster is more than 400 times that of the atomic bomb exploded in Hiroshima in World War II.

Officials have two contradictory explanations for the cause of the accident, as follows:

The cause of the accident was announced in August, 1 and 1986, which completely shifted the responsibility for the accident to the nuclear power plant operator.

2. The description was published in 199 1, and it was considered that the accident was caused by the design defects of the pressure tube graphite moderated boiling water reactor (RBMK), especially the design defects of the control rods.

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Baidu encyclopedia-memories of Chernobyl

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Baidu encyclopedia-Chernobyl incident