Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster - a book about the Chernobyl disaster by the Belarusian Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich.
At the time of the disaster, Alexievich was a journalist living in Minsk, the capital of what was then the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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Originally published: 1997
Original title: Чернобыльская молитва
Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
Genres: Biography, Personal narrative
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Review by
vivian ogbonna
2 weeks ago
It's an awesome book. The stories are shocking, gut wrenching, moving, and heartwarming, all in one breath.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A prayer for life and truth. This should be required reading for all supporters of nuclear power. The true cost is never calculated. Chernobyl is in Ukraine, but Belarus bore the brunt.
Chernobyl
Svetlana Aleksiyevich
First Published January 1, 1998
Research Article
https://doi.org/10.1080/03064229808536300
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Abstract
On 26 April 1986, at 01.23 hours and 58 seconds, a series of explosions destroyed the nuclear reactor and building of the fourth power generator unit of Chernobyl atomic power station.
During World War II, the German fascists destroyed 619 Belarusian villages along with their inhabitants. As a result of the Chernobyl disaster, the country lost 485 villages and hamlets. During the war, one in four Belarusians lost their lives. After Chernobyl, one in five Belarusians, 2.1 million people, are living in contaminated territory. Seven hundred thousand of these are children.
Ongoing low level radiation results in a year on year increase in the number of Belarusans suffering from cancers, mental debility, neuro-psychological disorders,and genetic mutations.
'Chernobyl' volume of the Belarusian Encyclopaedia, Minsk, 1996.
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