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Higginbotham, Adam

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Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.17 HIG

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.17 HIG

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ Higginbotham

Woods, Michael

Summary: Describes environmental disasters, including oil spills, chemical leaks, toxic pollution, and nuclear accidents, and discusses how they impact people, wildlife, and the environment.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.702 WOO

Lüsted, Marcia Amidon.

Summary: Describes the events of what scientists accept as the worst nuclear disaster in history, with emphasis on the environmental effects on the immediate area and the world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2011

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Walker, J. Samuel.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.1799 WAL

Plokhy, Serhii

Summary: An in depth look at the stories of firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who worked to extinguish the nuclear inferno of Chernobyl identifies the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.1 PLO

Bortz, Alfred B.

Summary: Recounts the Tohoku earthquake, subsequent tsunami, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.1799 BOR

Fuller, John G. (John Grant)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Press ; distributed by Crowell 1975

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.483 FUL

Lochbaum, David A.

Summary: "In the first definitive account of the Fukushima disaster, two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists ... team up with journalist Susan Q. Stranahan ... to tell this harrowing story, [which] combines [an] ... account of the tsunami and the nuclear emergency it created with an explanation of the science and technology behind the meltdown as it unfolded in real time"--Amazon.com.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.17 LOC

Benoit, Peter

Summary: Describes how nuclear power developed, how it works, and the serious health and environmental problems that ensue when the process malfunctions.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363 BEN

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