
„Chernobyl disaster is a huge tragedy, but also a potential lesson,“ says Harvard professor Serhii Plokhy
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„Those in the exclusion zone compared their battle against radiation to a war, the major difference being that they could not see the enemy,“ wrote Serhii Plokhy, professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University in his book Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy.
- Who was responsible for the distaster?
- What did Soviets managers try to avoid the most?
- Those affected in the first hours and days, tried to warn their families.
- It was not just the radiation. Silence was killing too.
- In Chernobyl, nobody could believe what happened. For them explosion of a reactor was never an option.
- What would be concequences if other three reactor exploded too?
- People in Czechoslovakia learnt about the disasater 4 days after the exploation. There was a short article on page 7 in Rudé právo.
- Nowadays - unfortunally - nuclear power plants are targeted by Russian in war in Ukraine.
- And how did he personally feel in 1986, when he was in Ukraine?
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