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Now living in exile, Medvedev reports on the devastating explosion that occurred in 1957 in the southern Urals where atomic wastes were stored, resulting in widespread radioactive contamination, and draws forbidding conclusions about the possibility of similar disasters in the rest of the world
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Nuclear Disaster in the Urals
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Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 1979
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Nuclear Disaster in the Urals
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W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1979
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Condizione: good, ex-lib., good. First Edition. First Printing. 214, glossary, bibliography and notes, index, few library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ pasted to bds, rear lib pocket removed. The terrifying true story of how an explosion of buried atomic waste in the Soviet Union in the winter of 1957-58 devastated an area the size of Rhode Island which is still uninhabitable, and of how the Soviet authorities and British and American Atomic Energy Commissions tried for years to keep the information from reaching the public. Codice articolo 44665
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Nuclear Disaster in the Urals
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Norton, New York, 1979
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hardcover. Condizione: very good(+). Condizione sovraccoperta: very good(+). First. Illustrated in black and white. vii, 214 pages. 8vo, orange cloth with black lettering, d.w. (chipped at front). New York: Norton, (1979). Very good(+) in a very good(+) dust wrapper. After years of suppression by the USSR and the CIA, here at last is the story of the terrible explosion of a Soviet nuclear-waste disposal area and the massive contamination which resulted. Translated by George Saunders. Codice articolo 319763
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Nuclear Disaster in the Urals
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W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1979
ISBN 10: 0393012190
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Da: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. First Printing. vii, [1], 214, [2] pages. Translator's Note on Russian Spelling. Glossary. Documents Section. Bibliography and Notes, Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. DJ front flap clipped at bottom. Stamp on fep. Pencil writing on fep. Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (born 14 November 1925 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Russian biologist, historian and dissident. His twin brother is the historian Roy Medvedev. Zhores Medvedev is famous for exposing the Kyshtym nuclear disaster, which occurred at Mayak near Kyshtym, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast in the Urals in 1957. He published the book The Nuclear Disaster in the Urals in 1979 (W.W. Norton, New York). Medvedev was an early victim of official attempts to stifle opposition by detaining dissidents in mental institutions. In London, Medvedev continued to edit the samizdat journal XX Century jointly with his brother Roy. The terrifying true story of how an explosion of buried atomic waste in the Soviet Union in the winter of 1957-58 devastated an area the size of Rhode Island which is still uninhabitable, and of how the Soviet authorities and British and American Atomic Energy Commissions tried for years to keep the information from reaching the public. The Kyshtym disaster was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium production site for nuclear weapons and nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the Soviet Union. It measured as a Level 6 disaster on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES), making it the third most serious nuclear accident ever recorded, behind the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and the Chernobyl disaster (both Level 7 on the INES). The event occurred in the town of Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, a closed city built around the Mayak plant, and spread hot particles over more than 20,000 square miles where at least 270,000 people lived, with 300 immediate deaths among the villagers nearby. Since Ozyorsk/Mayak (named Chelyabinsk-40, then Chelyabinsk-65, until 1994) was not marked on maps, the disaster was named after Kyshtym, the nearest known town. After World War II, the Soviet Union lagged behind the US in development of nuclear weapons, so it started a rapid research and development program to produce a sufficient amount of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium. The Mayak plant was built in haste between 1945 and 1948. Gaps in Soviet physicists' knowledge about nuclear physics at the time made it difficult to judge the safety of many decisions. Environmental concerns were not taken seriously during the early development stage. Initially Mayak was dumping high-level radioactive waste into a nearby river, which flowed to the river Ob, flowing further down to the Arctic Ocean. All six reactors were on Lake Kyzyltash and used an open cycle cooling system, discharging contaminated water directly back into the lake. When Lake Kyzyltash quickly became contaminated, Lake Karachay was used for open-air storage, keeping the contamination a slight distance from the reactors but soon making Lake Karachay the "most polluted spot on Earth". A storage facility for liquid nuclear waste was added around 1953. It consisted of steel tanks mounted in a concrete base, 8.2 meters underground. Because of the high level of radioactivity, the waste was heating itself through decay heat (though a chain reaction was not possible). For that reason, a cooler was built around each bank containing 20 tanks. Facilities for monitoring operation of the coolers and the content of the tanks were inadequate. In 1957 the cooling system in one of the tanks containing about 70-80 tons of liquid radioactive waste failed and was not repaired. The temperature in it started to rise, resulting in evaporation and a chemical explosion of the dried waste, consisting mainly of ammonium nitrate and acetates (see ammonium nitrate/fuel oil bomb). The explosion, on 29 September, 1957, estimated to have a force of about 70-100 tons of TNT,[citation needed] threw the 160-ton concrete lid into the air. There were no immediate casualties as a result of the explosion, but it released an estimated 20 MCi (800 PBq) of radioactivity. Most of this contamination settled out near the site of the accident and contributed to the pollution of the Techa River, but a plume containing 2 MCi (80 PBq) of radionuclides spread out over hundreds of kilometers. Previously contaminated areas within the affected area include the Techa river which had previously received 2.75 MCi (100 PBq) of deliberately dumped waste, and Lake Karachay which had received 120 MCi (4,000 PBq). In the next 10 to 11 hours, the radioactive cloud moved towards the northeast, reaching 300-350 kilometers from the accident. The fallout of the cloud resulted in a long-term contamination of an area of more than 800 to 20,000 square kilometers (depending on what contamination level is considered significant), primarily with caesium-137 and strontium-90. This area is usually referred to as the East-Ural Radioactive Trace (EURT). At least 22 villages were exposed to radiation from the disaster, with a total population of around 10,000 people evacuated. Some were evacuated after a week but it took almost 2 years for evacuations to occur at other sites. Codice articolo 73173
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(First Edition) 1979 HC Nuclear Disaster in the Urals (English and Russian Edition)
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W W Norton & Co Inc, 1979
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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Excellent Condition.Excels in customer satisfaction, prompt replies, and quality checks. Codice articolo Scanned0393012190
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