Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy's gripping bestseller, Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, won the coveted Pushkin House Book Prize, having already been awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction.
Meanwhile, the UKTV series Abandoned Engineering will be visiting Pripyat – once a showpiece city meant to represent the future of the Soviet Union, which was abandoned after the explosion at Chernobyl – as one of its featured "ghost towns".
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However, years later, doctors informed him that his thyroid showed signs of having been inflamed – a symptom of radiation exposure.
The official death toll stands at 31, unchanged since 1987; more realistic estimates put it between 4,000 and 90,000. Plokhy declines to come up with a figure, maintaining that the impact on psychological health was far more substantial and thus millions were – and are – affected.
Plokhy tells me that when he started researching his book, he was heartbroken by the accounts of self-sacrifice and needed to develop a thicker skin.
"I had friends who went to the exclusion zone. The heroism was real – beautiful and wonderful, as well as horrifying and ugly".
However, the emotion evident beneath the surface of his history is what gives it its moral force. He tells us not what we must think about nuclear power, but that we must think – and that dystopian fantasies become real at the touch of a button.
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