Chernobyl: The Hidden Legacy - Softcover

Pierpaolo Mittica; Naomi Rosenblum; Rosalie Bertell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904563589 ISBN 13: 9781904563587

Publisher: Trolley Books, 2007

Synopsis

On April 26, 1986, at 1:24 a.m, the world's worst ever man-made disaster took place. Reactor 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, three kilometres from Pripyat in the then Soviet Republic of Ukraine, was beset by a series of explosions that rose deep from its radioactive depths and blasted itself high into the atmosphere, eventually seeping its way into the far corners of the globe. Chernobyl - The Hidden Legacy shows the region over a period of three years by Pierpaolo Mittica, who returned several times to document the people and the contaminated landscape they still inhabit. Our world today demands nuclear energy as the answer to its energy crisis, and the legacy of Chernobyl remains shrouded. Time is running out, as the sarcophagus built to contain the reactor and its radioactive contents begins to crumble away. No one has the answers and no one is asking the questions - but can the world afford another Chernobyl?

About this title

About the Author:

Pierpaolo Mittica, a dentist by profession, completed his first project of social reportage in Sarajevo in 1997, and since then went on to produce his first published work on Kosovo in 1999. From 2002-4 he visited Belarus and the Ukraine several times to document the heritage left by Chernobyl. Dr Rosalie Bertell was recently selected to be one of the 1000 Peace Women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, 2005. Biometrician and environmental epidemiologist, she works for the victims or potential victims of industrial, technological and military pollution.

About this edition

• Publisher: Trolley Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1904563589
• ISBN 13: 9781904563587
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240