Chernobyl's Atomic Legacy : 25 Years After Disaster

Barter, Daniel; Charlick, James (CON); Grayson, Katie (CON); Green, Jason (CON); Jagusiak, Dawid (CON)

ISBN 10: 236195043X / ISBN 13: 9782361950439

Editore: Jonglez Publishing, 2013

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• Titolo: Chernobyl's Atomic Legacy : 25 Years After Disaster
• Editore: Jonglez Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 236195043X
• ISBN 13: 9782361950439
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: As New

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Riassunto

Chernobyl's Atomic Legacy : 25 years since disaster is a collaboration of eight different photographers from all over Europe. It contains 74 poignant photos over 96 pages. The book documents the current state of Chernobyl and neighboring worker's town Pripyat which is the site of what is considered to be the worst nuclear accident in the history of mankind. The 30km Exclusion Zone set around Chernobyl is slowly but surely being reclaimed by nature. Pripyat is now a site of negative heritage, a decaying monument to the lives and memories lost by the people that once inhabited it.

The book aims to illustrate what has been left behind, the objects, rooms, schools, hospitals, and homes. It conveys both a sense of the tragedy that remains, whilst still being objective and documenting the changes the area has undergone since its near total abandonment.

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On 26 April 1986, reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. The accident released at least 100 times more radiation than the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan, and is considered to be the worst nuclear accident in the history of humanity. It is classified as a level 7 incident, the highest level on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The only other incident to be categorized at this level is the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 2011. In the days, months and years that followed, over half a million civilians and military personnel ("liquidators") were involved in the decontamination process to avert a potential second catastrophe. Pripyat was home to a population of 49,000 and today it stands abandoned, overgrown by vegetation, subjected to looting and vandalism, as a monument to the lives lost and the memories of those evacuated. Jonglez Chernobyl atomic legacy is a photographic testimony to the desolation left by the nuclear catastrophe.