{"product_id":"chernobyl-book-frederik-pohl-9780553052107","title":"Chernobyl","description":"\u003cp\u003eChernobyl: The very name conjures the catastrophe that the world feared could happen someday at a nuclear power plant. On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused the core of one of the reactors to explode, spewing a cloud of radioactive steam into the air. More than four thousand people died, as many as a half-million suffered potentially cancer-causing exposure, and the city around the plant became a toxic wasteland in which nothing could live. Before the disaster at the Chernobyl plant, nuclear catastrophe had been only a fear, a threat. But when the Chernobyl plant was destroyed, those fears were suddenly all too real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrederik Pohl's novel about this disaster was written months after the tragic events. He had the cooperation of many people inside the USR with access to technical information and first-person accounts of the events of what is still the most tragic nuclear event in human history and only one of two level-7 nuclear accidents, along with the Fukushima disaster of 2011. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is fiction, but it is the most riveting, realistic account of what happened that has ever been written. It is also a cautionary tale that reminds us of the dangers of nuclear power plants and the terrible devastation they can unleash. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding a new Afterword by the author, this is an important book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49523101303057,"sku":"GOR007281005","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49788028190993,"sku":"GOR009406140","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51441598169361,"sku":"GOR014283142","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694983840017,"sku":"CIN0553052101VG","price":4.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0553052101.jpg?v=1751198988","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/chernobyl-book-frederik-pohl-9780553052107","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}