![]() ![]() Subsequent analysis found that the tanks were already mostly empty, and the interaction of the melting fuel with the water might even have helped cool it. The three heroic men who worked to drain the tanks of water below the primary containment chamber to prevent nuclear fuel coming into contact with water which was believed would cause an explosion did so in vain. In any case, such an explosion wouldn’t have destroyed Minsk, nor would it have made Europe uninhabitable. Nuclear power stations don’t explode like nuclear bombs – and certainly not thermonuclear ones in the megatonne range. The fears of a nuclear explosion in the two to four-megatonne range due to reactor core meltdown, which, it was claimed, would destroy the nearby city of Kiev and make large areas of Europe uninhabitable, turned out to be wrong. The inscription reads ‘To those who saved the world’. The Monument to the Liquidators in Chernobyl, erected to commemorate the clean-up crew and, here, the firefighters who responded to the disaster. Studies after Chernobyl have found no convincing evidence that pregnancy outcomes were affected by radiation exposures. A US doctor who helped treat the plant workers and firefighters says that the patients didn’t present a significant radiation risk to staff and visitors. But the drama implies that the baby absorbed such high doses of radiation from the husband that it subsequently died. This happened, and is one of numerous first-hand accounts the series draws from Voices from Chernobyl by the Belarussian journalist and Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. In highly emotional scenes we see the pregnant wife of a firefighter visiting her husband suffering from acute radiation syndrome in Moscow Hospital Number Six. ‘You’re sitting next to a nuclear reactor’ There is a scene in the local hospital that appears to show children suffering from radiation sickness: experts confirmed 134 cases of radiation sickness among the firemen and plant operators, but none among the population of Pripyat. "Curl up on the sofa with this book and dream.In fact, on average, residents of Pripyat received an average dose of around 30 millisieverts (mSv) – about the same as three whole-body CT scans - due to the late warning about the danger. "Effortlessly lovable, warm and fun" Closer ![]() ![]() "Delicious - gorgeous humour and the lightest of touches" Sunday Times "Top-drawer romantic escapism" Daily Mail The whole world loves Katie Fforde's work: The timing is terrible and even more alarming is that the more Rory pursues Thea, the more maddeningly attractive she finds Ben. The arrival of Molly, her bossy friend, demanding to see Rory's stunning paintings (and to find out what Thea is up to) is bad enough, but why did she have to bring Petal, Thea's most annoying lodger, along for the ride?Īnd worst of all, Petal is accompanied by her uncle, the enigmatic Ben, a man Thea has sworn never to like. Leaving behind a house full of students she looks after, Thea throws caution to the wind and takes off to Ireland with Rory, a charming artist.īut Thea's old life isn't so easily cut off. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French Affair and The Perfect Match. A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. There's an art to choosing men, but Thea's just discovering it. She really is the queen of uplifting, feel good romance.' AJ PEARCE 'Thank goodness for Katie Fforde, the perfect author to bring comfort in difficult times. ![]()
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