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Hyde Park Civilizace

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„Chernobyl disaster is a huge tragedy, but also a potential lesson,“ says Harvard professor Serhii Plokhy

25. 4. 2026 · 56 min

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„Those in the exclusion zone compared their battle against radiation to a war, the major difference being that they could not see the enemy,“ wrote Serhii Plokhy, professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University in his book Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy.

- Who was responsible for the distaster?

- What did Soviets managers try to avoid the most?

- Those affected in the first hours and days, tried to warn their families.

- It was not just the radiation. Silence was killing too.

- In Chernobyl, nobody could believe what happened. For them explosion of a reactor was never an option.

- What would be concequences if other three reactor exploded too?

- People in Czechoslovakia learnt about the disasater 4 days after the exploation. There was a short article on page 7 in Rudé právo.

- Nowadays - unfortunally - nuclear power plants are targeted by Russian in war in Ukraine.

- And how did he personally feel in 1986, when he was in Ukraine?

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