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In 2011 a 43foothigh tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima Japan In the following days explosions would rip buildings apart three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water It is now considered one of the costliest nuclear disasters ever But Fukushima was not the first and it was not the worst

In Atoms and Ashes acclaimed historian Serhii Plokhy tells the tale of the six nuclear disasters that shook the world Bikini Atoll Kyshtym Windscale Three Mile Island Chernobyl and Fukushima Based on wideranging research and witness testimony Plokhy traces the arc of each crisis exploring in depth the confused decisionmaking on the ground and the panicked responses of governments to contain the crises and often cover up the scale of the catastrophe

As the world increasingly looks to renewable and alternative sources of energy Plokhy lucidly argues that the atomic risk must be understood in explicit terms but also that these calamities reveal a fundamental truth about our relationship with nuclear technology that the thirst for power and energy has always trumped safety and the cost for future generations

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