Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World’s Worst Nuclear Disaster

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At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl’s fourth nuclear reactor. It used to be an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city, killed thousands and crippled the Soviet Union. The event spawned decades of conflicting, exaggerated and inaccurate stories. This book, the results of five years of research, presents an accessible but comprehensive account of what actually happened. From the desperate fight to prevent a burning reactor core from irradiating eastern Europe, to the self-sacrifice of the heroic men who entered fields of radiation so strong that machines wouldn’t work, to the surprising truth in regards to the legendary ‘Chernobyl divers’, all over to the us’s final show-trial. The historical narrative is interwoven with a story of the writer’s own spontaneous journey to Ukraine’s still-abandoned city of Pripyat and the wider Chernobyl Zone. Complete with over 45 pages of photographs of brand new-day Pripyat and technical diagrams of the power station, Chernobyl 01:23:40 is an engaging new account of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. Amazon edition revised to take away typos.

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