pickAudio. Difficult to listen to, with technical verbiage. This was a very educational experience either way. As such, I think I learned more about the downfall of the USSR after the meltdown. What I did not know was focused upon how the government handled it afterwards. Like how the families were prosecuted. How the meltdown indirectly could be said to have caused the down fall of the Soviet Union due to the payout to the families.
pickSo this book took awhile to finish, apparently I started this in January 🤷♂️. It was just so thorough, which was both a positive and a negative. This book covers all types of nuclear accidents to include those related to research and tests, the transportation of weapons, and those at power plants. This was informative if not a bit unsettling at times with the number of close calls reported. The author‘s light tone and sense of humor helps
pickThis is part memoir and part history of Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in CO. It‘s interesting and Iverson has a lot to say about her life and the impacts of Rocky Flats. I think a map of the area and a timeline could have helped move this along. Parts were fantastic, other portions I scanned.
pickFinally I‘ve read this very important book. So much sorrow from each tale, each personal tragedy. From the inability of humanity to learn and get better. Almost 40 years passed and we are no better off.
In our world there are always untold stories things in the past we don‘t want to believe or we feel a certain about, but it‘s our world our history. This book is another like my previous post (Stamped from the Beginning) history we need to embrace the good the bad and the ugly.
Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history‘s worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning. #feedyourmindbookclub
pickExcellent look into the accident at Chernobyl. I always forget that there were multiple reactors and it was only one, reactor 4, that failed/melted down.
Of course in classic bureaucratic fashion they blamed the workers and not the shoddy construction and inadequate materials used. They also ignored the multiple safety concerns.
The devastation that this caused is unreal.
so-soUnfortunately, this book was a little dragged out. It was a little heavy on the history that seemed a little unnecessary. The story was interesting, but I don‘t think I would recommend this to anyone with any type of remedial science background, it‘s too big on details that most would remember from high school science. A wiki article of this story would‘ve sufficed.😕
