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English
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"Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. 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,...
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Looks at the events of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident in the Ukraine, describing how scientists are monitoring the effects of radiation on the wildlife that continue to live there and what this means for the human population surrounding the area.
Author
Series
Worldwatch paper volume 75
Publisher
Worldwatch Institute
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
11) Chernobyl
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Examines the Chernobyl nuclear accident in its historical, cultural, political, and human contexts.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, independent Publishers Since 1923
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A chilling exposé of the international effort to minimize the health and environmental consequences of nuclear radiation in the wake of Chernobyl. Governments and journalists tell us that though Chernobyl was "the worst nuclear disaster in history," a reassuringly small number of people died (44), and nature recovered. Yet, drawing on a decade of fine-grained archival research and interviews in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, Kate Brown uncovers...
13) Chernobyl
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes, but brave men and women made incredible sacrifices to save Europe from unimaginable disaster. Dramatized from true events.
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Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about Pripyat. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
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Series
Publisher
Artesian Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was the hope of Russia for energy in the region. After a 1986 explosion and fire in one of the reactors, Ukraine is still feeling the effects of the radiation. And the rest of the world is still learning the full truth of the accident.