Isbn

364276455X

Published

201112

Edition

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991,

Pages

392

Dimensions

Weight 591g

Language

English

Review

Physicist Vladimir Chernousenko is eminently qualified to write on this topic: In 1986 he was appointed representative of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Chernobyl and the "Zone"

Well written and well researched. Language and style is both personal and yet one can see the methodology of a skilled scientist. Chapters about the accident it self, the reactor design, the immediate and long term consequences, as well as quite some research about the health effects of people in both Ukraine and Belarus.

Strikingly insightful description about the system the reactor was born from, all the way from bad reactor design to the constant neglect of rules and regulations, both at the power plant and in the higher levels of the Soviet nuclear industry.

Isbn

0393308146

Published

199202

Edition

199202

Pages

378

Dimensions

Weight 476g

Language

English

Review

First book I read about the accident after the photo book by Kostin. More or less a must read. Detailed and enthralling description of the accident. Surprisingly critical against the Soviet system given its publication date.

Isbn

0851248039

Published

201108

Edition

Second edition, softvcover

Pages

360

Dimensions

Weight 616g

Language

English

Review

Basically the same content as the previous edition, with the addition of one chapter about the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

Isbn

0465087752

Published

April 1991

Edition

softcover

Pages

288

Dimensions

Weight 544g

Language

English

Review

This is a first hand description of the accident and a lots of detail surrounding it. A detailed technical description of the plant as well as personal description of the staff working at there.

A brilliant book with a minute by minute description of the events unfolding at the plant at the time of the accident. The author depicts the events in a way it feels you are at the site.

Published

1989

Edition

Available online

Pages

131

Language

English

Review

Grigori Medvedev first wrote his ”CHERNOBYL NOTEBOOK" quite soon after or even during the accident and it's aftermath. This notebook was later rewritten into the book The Truth About Chernobyl.

After extensive searching I found this notebook reproduced by U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION SERVICE. Great details of the all the event unfolding. Only minor differences from the book "The Truth About Chernobyl" which could be a result of differing translations or more polished text.

Isbn

075030670X

Published

May 2000

Edition

Hardcover

Pages

402

Dimensions

Weight 839g

Language

English

Review

This is not a Definitive History. First of all the history has just recently started and Dr. Mould cannot possible neither see into the future nor get old enough to experience it.

Hard to read, or at least the last parts of it, mainly because the author fails to create a personal connection to the accident. As a reader I got lost in dozens of lists, diagram and graphics as the author falls short of bringing all the data together in a way that move the story forward. It simply feels like a bunch of data stacked on top of each other. This could work as in "Chernobyl Insight from the Inside" but Mould fails on this part. I also found the tone pro nuclear in the way he downplays the consequences.

Isbn

1884167578

Published

200610

Edition

Hardcover

Pages

240

Dimensions

Weight 1066g

Language

English

Review

Photo book by now legendary Igor Kostin, who despite the claims, actually wasn't the first photographer on site.
Great photographs from both the accident site and the zone throughout the liquidation process.

Published

Independently published on Blurb

Pages

240

Language

German

Review

Photo book available through blurb. Some captions / text in German.

Isbn

1904563589

Published

Aprli 2007

Edition

Hardcover

Pages

240

Dimensions

635

Language

English

Review

Photo book with great pictures from both Ukraine and Belarus together with interesting text which shows some different points of view that's not usually found in common media and press.

Isbn

1439220174

Published

January 20, 2009

Edition

Softcover

Pages

64

Dimensions

Weight 59g

Language

English

Review

Short but really interesting description of some of the biggest shortcomings, not only of the RBMK but all nuclear reactors.

Isbn

0312425848

Published

200604

Edition

softcover

Pages

236

Dimensions

Weight 236g

Language

English

Review

A collection of stories told by both people involved in the clean-up operation and their relatives. Written in a poetic language still yet a chilling description of consequences. These descriptions offer a deep dive in the the minds and feelings of those affected by the accident.

Isbn

3901753664

Published

201406

Edition

Hardcover in box

Pages

252

Dimensions

Weight 2 985g

Language

English, German

Review

Huge photo book National Geographic photographer Gerd Ludwig. Great photos accompanied by some descriptive texts.

Published

April 2011

Edition

PDF file available one online

Pages

67

Review

Great article that gives a bit more nuanced description of the health effects than usual. The part about IAEA and WHO is particular interesting.

Available on-line here

Edition

PDF file available one online

Pages

207

Review

200 pages of reactor design details. It doesn't get any better than this! This is about the Ignalina, a RBMK-1500. Although not the same as the ones in Chernobyl they are in basically the same.

Edition

PDF file available one online

Pages

17

Review

A detailed description of the design flaws of the RBMK-1000.

Isbn

0803299109

Published

August 1, 1995

Edition

softcover

Pages

136

Dimensions

Weight 227g

Language

English

Review

Ukarinan Journalist Alla Yaroshinskaya writes about here encounter with residents of highly contaminated areas but yet not evacuated and about here struggle to make this injustice know to the general public.

The book is a gripping account oh the hardship many of the rural villagers had to endure the years after the accident, before their farm land, several years after the accident, where finally declared uninhabitable.

The story is also a contemporary account of the hardship Ukraine as a country went through.

Language wise the book is a bit odd. It seems it has been first translated to french and then english, leaving some strange translation artifacts.

Isbn

Alla A. Yaroshinskaya

Published

201107

Edition

Hardcover

Pages

388

Dimensions

Weight 726g

Language

English

Review

To be read.

Isbn

1573317578

Published

201001

Edition

Softcover

Pages

327

Dimensions

Weight 327g

Language

English

Review

To be read.

Isbn

0920862659

Published

1989

Pages

168

Dimensions

20mm x 140mm x 216mm, 0,2 Kg

Language

English

Review

The writer shares both his personal experiences and those from other's. Throughout the interviews of former citizens of Pripyat he takes the reader through their memories. The first hand account of city during the evacuation and the days thereafter is especially interesting for those familiar with all the different parts of the town.

The chapter when he interviews Dr. Gale could best described as adulation – in a bad meaning. This part doesn't add anything to the book and could easily be skipped.

Isbn

0262028271

Published

February 6, 2015

Edition

First Edition edition

Pages

400

Dimensions

680 gram

Language

English

Review

Producing Power is like no other book on this topic!

Sonja Schmid is incredibly well informed in the history of producing power in the Soviet Union. There are no technical details about the accident, the reactor or fission in general. The author do however immerses the reader in the political structures in general and the ones concerning power production in particular. To understand the Chernobyl accident one cannot only look into the actions of the operators or the flawed reactor design. One have to understand the context in which all this happened. This book is an exceptional good start for a better understanding of producing power in the Soviet Union. Very interesting, well written and with extremely well done research – that only a native speaker is able to do.

Isbn

3540238662

Published

September 27, 2005

Pages

310

Language

Enlish

Review

To be read.

Isbn

0931933390

Published

1987

Edition

First

Pages

200

Language

Enlish

Review

To be read.

Isbn

0446514098

Published

April 1988

Edition

first

Pages

230

Language

Enlish

Review

To be read.

Isbn

002718305X

Published

October 1993

Pages

128

Dimensions

Language

Enlish

Review

To be read.

Isbn

0679408193

Published

April 19, 1993

Edition

1st edition

Pages

362

Language

Enlish

Review

A great book! The author gives a detailed picture of the events during the action accident and it's aftermath. What really makes this book stand out is to what extent the author goes to describe the Soviet union at the time. It's a very detailed and informative description of politics at play as well as personal portraitures of statesmen, scieniticsts and bureaucrats.

Isbn

0444828001

Published

Dec 1997

Pages

634

Language

Enlish

Review

A complication of five years of thyroid cancer studies among children in different regions of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. More of a encyclopedia than a book to read from cover to cover.

Isbn

0333441982

Published

2 Mar. 1987

Edition

1986 edition

Pages

244

Dimensions

Language

Enlish

Review

To be read.

Isbn

0160359708

Published

1993

Edition

First Edition

Pages

153

Language

Enlish

Review

Isbn

0691151660

Published

February 24, 2013

Pages

304

Review

Isbn

0993597505

Published

April 16, 2016

Edition

edition 1

Pages

256

Language

Enlish

Review

As of my understanding this is a book that came abut after a young man's visit to the zone. The book consists of two interwoven stories separated by 30 years of time. One is about the accident, the other about a young mans trip to the zone. Although they meet and blend in a nice way I personally is more interested in the old story than the modern one.

Nuclear physics is complicated and the author's struggle to get his head around the topic obvious. Unfortunately this gives room for several error in the text. Although the book is entertaining I would not recommend it to a first-time-reader, however tempting the easy going language is. This is a book for someone well familiar with the complex subjet, able to se though the authors shortcomings.

Isbn

978-1541617094

Published

2018-05

Pages

432

Language

English

Review

A book that goes in to great detail picturing the political history och the USSR and Ukrine surrounding the accident, rather than being a detailed description of the accident it self. What’s really interesting is the chapters describing the green movement in Ukraine and it’s role in creating a independent state. There is however some minor errors in technical descriptions, square meters is for instance mixed up with cubic meters. There’s also an error about thickness of the zirconium cladding in the fuel rods. Small, but for a geek as men, noticeable error that unfortunately leaves me with a question if there’s more error in the fields I don not have god knowledge.