Word: accidentally
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Whose Life is it Anyway? relates the story of Ken Harrison (Tom Chick), a sculptor who has become paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident. Harrison's realization that he will never recover leads him to prefer dying to continuing to live as a creative mind trapped in...
The full story of the Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath may never be known. Soviet officials have managed to keep most of the details secret. But in The Truth About Chernobyl, nuclear physicist and former Chernobyl chief engineer Grigori Medvedev gives a searing account of the accident. His book, published...
Medvedev, who helped investigate the disaster, interviewed dozens of plant officials and workers, many of whom later died of radiation poisoning. One sobering conclusion: it could easily happen again (the Soviet Union has 16 other reactors of the Chernobyl design). And in the U.S.? Because America has no such reactors...
Many key plant managers and technicians at Chernobyl knew nothing about nuclear technology. Patronage held sway over professionalism when it came to filling top jobs that carried prestige and good pay. The accident, ironically, occurred during a safety exercise, when incompetent managers exposed the core, depriving it of vital cooling...
What Medvedev calls the "conspiracy of silence" that had cloaked the Soviet nuclear power program in secrecy and lies for 35 years added to the human and environmental cost. In a country where nuclear accidents had never been reported, the pressure to cover up the monumental disaster at Chernobyl was...