Description: Grigoriy Medvedevs chronicle of events at Chernobyl in the tragic days of April and May 1986.
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Author: Grigoriy Medvedev Published: June 1, 1989
The author is a nuclear power specialist who worked for a time at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and knows it well, just as he is personally acquainted with all the principal participants in the events. By virtue of his official position, he has attended many of the crucial conferences concerning nuclear power plant construction. Immediately after the accident, Medvedev was sent to Chernobyl and had an opportunity to learn a great deal while the trail was still fresh and to see things with his own eyes.
Medvedev�s �Chernobyl Notebook� is a competent and dispassionately truthful account of the tragedy that occurred more than [25] years ago. This is perhaps the first time we have such a complete firsthand account in which nothing is kept back and there is no departmental �diplomacy.� The author is a nuclear power specialist who worked for a time at the Chernobyl AES and knows it well, just as he is personally acquainted with all the principal participants in the events. By virtue of his official position, he