Chernobly prompts U of A Historian

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 2019, showing the massive domed structure called the "sarcophagus" that was built over the exploded No. 4 reactor to seal in radioactive waste for 100 years. (Photo: Getty Images)

New Interest in Chernobyl prompts U of A historian to reflect on 1986 nuclear disaster.

“Every single major news outlet was phoning up Edmonton,” said David Marples, a U of A historian who revisits Chernobyl’s legacy in a memoir essay in Hiroshima-75, a new book he co-edited with his wife and colleague, Aya Fujiwara. “I was probably the only academic in North America who knew much about the nuclear plant and its background.” 

Link to folio article: https://www.folio.ca/chernobyls-legacy-led-to-fall-of-soviet-union-improved-safety/