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Chernobyl
Long before the tragedy of the 2011 nuclear disasters in Japan, the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl experienced an explosion, meltdown, fire, and massive release of radioactivity. Twenty-five years later, we still know very little about the event and its aftermath. Few of the professional papers describing the aftereffects of the disaster have been translated from Russian into English or distributed in the West. This is now remedied, with the publication of this definitive volume, based on original sources, and originally published in Russian. Alla A. Yaroshinskaya describes the human side of the disaster, with firsthand accounts by those who lived through the world's worst public health crisis...
Midnight in Chernobyl
A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that reads almost like the script for a movie” (The Wall Street Journal)—a powerful investigation into Chernobyl and how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the history’s worst nuclear disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has b...
Assessment of the Scientific Information for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) was set up by Congress in 1990 to compensate people who have been diagnosed with specified cancers and chronic diseases that could have resulted from exposure to nuclear-weapons tests at various U.S. test sites. Eligible claimants include civilian onsite participants, downwinders who lived in areas currently designated by RECA, and uranium workers and ore transporters who meet specified residence or exposure criteria. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which oversees the screening, education, and referral services program for RECA populations, asked the National Academies to review its program and assess whether new scienti...
The Secret History of the War on Cancer
Why has the "War on Cancer" languished, focusing mainly on finding and treating the disease and downplaying the need to control and combat cancer's basic causes -- tobacco, the workplace, radiation, and the general environment? This war has targeted the wrong enemies with the wrong weapons, failing to address well-known cancer causes. As epidemiologist Devra Davis shows in this superbly researched expose, this is no accident. The War on Cancer has followed the commercial interests of industries that generated a host of cancer-causing materials and products. This is the gripping story of a major public health effort diverted and distorted for private gain that is being reclaimed through efforts to green health care and the environment.
Nature
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Cancer
How to prevent cancer before it starts.
BMJ
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Hellbirds
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Mitternacht in Tschernobyl
In seinem Tschernobyl-Thriller deckt Adam Higginbotham auf, was wirklich geschah. Mit großer Erzählkunst und basierend auf intensiver Recherche zeichnet er nach, wie am frühen Morgen des 26. April 1986 der Reaktor 4 des Kernkraftwerks in Tschernobyl explodierte und die schlimmste Atomkatastrophe der Geschichte auslöste. Seither gehört Tschernobyl zu den kollektiven Albträumen der Welt: eine gefährliche Technologie, die aus den Rudern läuft, die ökologische Zerbrechlichkeit und ein ebenso verlogener wie unachtsamer Staat, der nicht nur seine eigenen Bürger, sondern die gesamte Menschheit gefährdet. Wie und warum es zu der Katastrophe kam, war lange unklar. Adam Higginbotham hat zahllose Interviews mit Augenzeugen geführt, Archive durchforstet, bislang nicht veröffentlichte Briefe und Dokumente gesichtet. So bringt er Licht in die Geschichte, die bislang im Sumpf von Propaganda, Geheimhaltung und Fehlinformationen verborgen lag. Erschütternd, packend: »Wie ein Thriller.« Luke Harding
