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ISBN: 1156159911 ISBN-13: 9781156159910 Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series OUR PRICE: $14.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Publisher Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Chernobyl disaster, Individual involvement in the Chernobyl disaster, Chernobyl after the disaster, 1986 USSR Federation Cup, 1986 World Ice Hockey Championships, SS Admiral Nakhimov, Jeltoqsan, 1986 Soviet Top League, MS Mikhail Lermontov, Mir Core Module, Soyuz T-15, Monologue of Love, 1986 Goodwill Games, Chernobyl Forum, Height 611 UFO incident, Soviet First League 1986, World Chess Championship 1986, Investigation held by Kolobki, Dead Man's Letters, 1986 FIBA World Championship for Women, Empire, Stimmen Verstummen, Noch, Wings, legs and tails, 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Excerpt: The Chernobyl disaster (locally, Chornobyl Catastrophe) was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (officially Ukrainian SSR), which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central Moscow's authorities. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere, which spread over much of Western USSR and Europe. It is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, and is one of only two classified as a level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale (the other being the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster). The battle to contain the contamination and avert a greater catastrophe ultimately involved over 500,000 workers and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles, crippling the Soviet economy. The disaster began during a systems test on Saturday, 26 April 1986 at reactor number four of the Chernobyl plant, which is near the city of Prypiat and within a close proximity to the administrative border with Belarus and Dnieper river. There was a sudden power output surge, and when an emergency shutdown was attempted, a more extreme spike in power output occurred, which led to a ... |