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The social impact of the Chernobyl disaster
| Author | David R.Marples |
| Date | 1988 |
| Classification | 2.34.8.10/45 (CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT - CONSEQUENCES SURROUNDINGS - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
What happened to the people who were evacuated after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant? How many people died during the accident and how many will die of cancer in the future? How safe is the area around the plant today? What will be the future of the station and of nuclear energy in the Soviet Union? Who were the clean-up workers and how did they react to work in a high radiation zone? Where are the employees of the Chernobyl station living today? In answering these questions, the author presents a detailed examination of the aftermath of the world's worst nuclear accident, using information culled from a fact-finding visit to the USSR in 1987, and from a wide variety of Soviet source materials. The result is an in-depth look at the lives of the people involved in the tragedy that questions many accepted opinions about the post-accident events. He shows how the accident and the current era of glasnost have led to a fully-fledged debate about the future of nuclear power in the Soviet Union. David R. Marples is Adjunct Professor of Slavic and East European Studies and a Research Associate with the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. He is the author of Chernobyl and Nuclear Power in the USSR, and his articles of Soviet energy questions have appeared in Problems of Communism, Current History, Canadian Slavonic Papers and East-West Papers. Dr. Marples is also joint author of The Chernobyl Commission Report (1987). An expert on Soviet Ukraine, he is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Ukrainian Studies.
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