I really enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. I like how it covered the history of nuclear power in general, as well as all the details surrounding what happened at Chornobyl. 

Following my recent trend of being too lazy to compile my notes into a real review, I am just going to copy the things I jotted down while reading below…

- There was a nuclear testing facility in Georgia?! I will need to look into this Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory in Dawsonville…
- My dad’s family is from near Harrisburg PA. I remember hearing stories about my aunt evacuating with my at the time ~1 year old cousin to go camping out of state “just in case”. I will need to ask them more about that. We still drive by the nuclear towers whenever we visit my one sister in law who now lives up that way. If I lived in that part of PA I think I might feel inspired to move after reading this… just in case. 
- This whole thing is basically just a series of unfortunate events where everything that could go wrong went wrong in the worst way possible. Why are the majority of these people so stupid?! How could they possibly think they could hide this. I’m so glad I do not live in Russia (or I guess technically the USSR) because these people clearly have no respect for the lives and wellbeing of their citizens. Sure! Let’s allow the children to play in radioactive dust. WE WOULDN’T WANT TO EMBARRASS OURSELVES LIKE THOSE STUPID AMERICANS! No one is going to notice the cloud of radioactivity spreading across Europe. They won’t be able to trace it back to us! 
- 55% I think my favorite “everything that could go wrong has gone wrong” event just happened… it was so avoidable and stupid of a mistake that it is almost humorous. THEY DROVE OVER THE HOSES THAT WERE CARRYING RADIOACTIVE WATER?! They broke the hose in 20 places. So that means that didn’t run over it just once but NUMEROUS times. WTF is wrong with these people. 
- The guys having to make expeditions into these tunnels full of radioactive water, not really knowing what is up ahead, is like something straight out of a Sci-Fi movie/book/show. The whole idea of battling this invisible poison known as radiation is sort of Sci-Fi when you think about it. 
- 77% what is wrong with these people. Just accept your losses and abandon the remaining nuclear towers! Turning any of them back on sounds like the dumbest thing they could do. 
- And now they are building a new town?! Where families will live?! In the midst of this radioactive disaster land?  WTF. Honestly. What is wrong with this country.
- I can’t believe they literally drafted people to their deaths to fight this disaster. I guess there was no other way but still… that is awful. Worse than war. 
- 88% OH YES! it is definitely improper farming methods that are causing cows to be born with no legs and pigs to be both with two heads! There is NO WAY that it could be the poisonous radiation that still impacts the land. The fact that these people are still spewing this garbage after everything that has happened so far truly disgusts me. I can’t stand liars. This people are nothing but liars on a national scale.
- And now they are selling radioactive meat?!? Serious “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair vibes…. 
- Epilogue: This guy’s explanation of why the disaster was the plant operator’s fault is complete bullshit. He says that you wouldn’t blame the makers of a car for a car crash if the driver of the vehicle turned the wheel wrong and ran into something. Sure- if that is how it really happened. BUT if they turned the wheel to the right expecting to the vehicle to turn right and the car instead went left… then you would definitely blame the makers of the car. Just like how these people responded by doing what they were told would cool the reactor, when in fact it did the opposite. 
- I can’t decide if the people who survived Chernobyl and then continued to work in nuclear energy careers are brave or just stupid…