{"product_id":"chernobyl","title":"Chernobyl","description":"\u003cp\u003eChernobyl: The very name conjures the catastrophe that the world feared could happen someday at a nuclear power plant. On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused the core of one of the reactors to explode, spewing a cloud of radioactive steam into the air. More than four thousand people died, as many as a half-million suffered potentially cancer-causing exposure, and the city around the plant became a toxic wasteland in which nothing could live. Before the disaster at the Chernobyl plant, nuclear catastrophe had been only a fear, a threat. But when the Chernobyl plant was destroyed, those fears were suddenly all too real. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrederik Pohl's novel about this disaster was written months after the tragic events. He had the cooperation of many people inside the USSR with access to technical information and first-person accounts of the events of what is still the most tragic nuclear event in human history and only one of two level-7 nuclear accidents, along with the Fukushima disaster of 2011. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is fiction, but it is the most riveting, realistic account of what happened that has ever been written. It is also a cautionary tale that reminds us of the dangers of nuclear power plants and the terrible devastation they can unleash. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluding a new Afterword by the author, this is an important book.","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943424917735,"sku":"9780765375964","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_34a8db27-2e14-4941-abc1-686bda06b6f4.jpg?v=1775322153","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/chernobyl","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}