Add this copy of Nuclear Disaster in the Urals (English and Russian to cart. $3.29, fair condition, Sold by Jenson Books Inc rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Logan, UT, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by W. W. Norton & Company.
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This item is fairly worn, but continues to work perfectly. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn corners, bends, tears, small stains, and partial water damage. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing, if applicable. Pages may include excessive notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Add this copy of Nuclear Disaster in the Urals to cart. $22.50, very good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by Norton.
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Very good(+) in very good(+) jacket. Illustrated in black and white. vii, 214 pages. 8vo, orange cloth with black lettering, d.w. (chipped at front). New York: Norton, (1979). Very good(+) in a very good(+) dust wrapper. After years of suppression by the USSR and the CIA, here at last is the story of the terrible explosion of a Soviet nuclear-waste disposal area and the massive contamination which resulted. Translated by George Saunders.
Add this copy of Nuclear Disaster in the Urals to cart. $25.00, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by W. W. Norton & Company.
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Good, ex-lib., good. 214, glossary, bibliography and notes, index, few library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ pasted to bds, rear lib pocket removed. The terrifying true story of how an explosion of buried atomic waste in the Soviet Union in the winter of 1957-58 devastated an area the size of Rhode Island which is still uninhabitable, and of how the Soviet authorities and British and American Atomic Energy Commissions tried for years to keep the information from reaching the public.
Add this copy of Nuclear Disaster in the Urals (English and Russian to cart. $27.00, very good condition, Sold by Dorothy Meyer-Bookseller rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Batavia, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by W W Norton & Co Inc.
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Near fine in very good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; NOT an ex library book. 214 pages including the index. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.
Add this copy of (First Edition) 1979 Hc Nuclear Disaster in the Urals to cart. $35.99, good condition, Sold by Miki Store rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from SAN JOSE, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by W W Norton & Co Inc.
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Good. DUST JACKET. Size: 8x5x1; First Edition. This book has some underline but still in good condition in general, no lost page, no tear. ex-library book with normal library stamps & stickers.
Add this copy of Nuclear Disaster in the Urals to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by W. W. Norton & Company.
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Very good in Good jacket. vii, [1], 214, [2] pages. Translator's Note on Russian Spelling. Glossary. Documents Section. Bibliography and Notes, Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. DJ front flap clipped at bottom. Stamp on fep. Pencil writing on fep. Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (born 14 November 1925 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Russian biologist, historian and dissident. His twin brother is the historian Roy Medvedev. Zhores Medvedev is famous for exposing the Kyshtym nuclear disaster, which occurred at Mayak near Kyshtym, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast in the Urals in 1957. He published the book The Nuclear Disaster in the Urals in 1979 (W.W. Norton, New York). Medvedev was an early victim of official attempts to stifle opposition by detaining dissidents in mental institutions. In London, Medvedev continued to edit the samizdat journal XX Century jointly with his brother Roy. The terrifying true story of how an explosion of buried atomic waste in the Soviet Union in the winter of 1957-58 devastated an area the size of Rhode Island which is still uninhabitable, and of how the Soviet authorities and British and American Atomic Energy Commissions tried for years to keep the information from reaching the public. The Kyshtym disaster was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium production site for nuclear weapons and nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the Soviet Union. It measured as a Level 6 disaster on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES), making it the third most serious nuclear accident ever recorded, behind the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and the Chernobyl disaster (both Level 7 on the INES). The event occurred in the town of Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, a closed city built around the Mayak plant, and spread hot particles over more than 20, 000 square miles where at least 270, 000 people lived, with 300 immediate deaths among the villagers nearby. Since Ozyorsk/Mayak (named Chelyabinsk-40, then Chelyabinsk-65, until 1994) was not marked on maps, the disaster was named after Kyshtym, the nearest known town. After World War II, the Soviet Union lagged behind the US in development of nuclear weapons, so it started a rapid research and development program to produce a sufficient amount of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium. The Mayak plant was built in haste between 1945 and 1948. Gaps in Soviet physicists' knowledge about nuclear physics at the time made it difficult to judge the safety of many decisions. Environmental concerns were not taken seriously during the early development stage. Initially Mayak was dumping high-level radioactive waste into a nearby river, which flowed to the river Ob, flowing further down to the Arctic Ocean. All six reactors were on Lake Kyzyltash and used an open cycle cooling system, discharging contaminated water directly back into the lake. When Lake Kyzyltash quickly became contaminated, Lake Karachay was used for open-air storage, keeping the contamination a slight distance from the reactors but soon making Lake Karachay the "most polluted spot on Earth". A storage facility for liquid nuclear waste was added around 1953. It consisted of steel tanks mounted in a concrete base, 8.2 meters underground. Because of the high level of radioactivity, the waste was heating itself through decay heat (though a chain reaction was not possible). For that reason, a cooler was built around each bank containing 20 tanks. Facilities for monitoring operation of the coolers and the content of the tanks were inadequate. In 1957 the cooling system in one of the tanks containing about 70-80 tons of liquid radioactive waste failed and was not repaired. The temperature in it started to rise, resulting in evaporation and a chemical explosion of the dried waste, consisting mainly of ammonium nitrate and acetates (see ammonium nitrate/fuel oil bomb). The explosion, on 29 September, 1957, estimated to have a force of about 70-100 tons of TNT, [citation...
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