Selected Biography


  • Book Cover
    Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective
    by J. Samuel. Walker
    This book is the first comprehensive account of the causes, context, and consequences of the Three Mile Island crisis. In gripping prose, J. Samuel Walker captures the high human drama surrounding the accident, sets it in the context of the heated debate over nuclear power in the seventies, and analyzes the social, technical, and political issues it raised. His superb account of those frightening and confusing days will clear up misconceptions held to this day about Three Mile Island.

    Buy at Amazon.com

  • Book Cover
    Meltdown: A Race Against Nuclear Disaster at Three Mile Island
    by Wilborn Hampton
    Award-winning reporter, Wilborn Hampton offers a compelling account of his experiences covering the near meltdown at Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant. Hampton was assigned to cover the unfolding crisis. He provides an insight to the workings of a reporter on the scene (in an era before the internet and 24 hour news channels).

    Buy at Amazon.com

  • Book Cover
    Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl
    by Robert Polidori
    Declared unfit for human habitation, the Zones of Exclusion includes the towns of Pripyat and Chernobyl. In May 2001, Robert Polidori photographed what was left behind in the this dead zone. His richly detailed images move from the burned-out control room of Reactor 4, to the unfinished apartment complexes, ransacked schools and abandoned nurseries that remain as evidence of those who once called Pripyat home.

    Buy at Amazon.com

  • Book Cover
    Chernobyl Record: The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe
    by Richard F. Mould
    This book primarily concerns the medical aftereffects of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, although it also describes the accident and its environmental, cultural, and social consequences.

    Buy at Amazon.com

  • Book Cover
    Atomic Accidents
    by James Mahaffey

    Buy at Amazon.com

  • Book Cover
    Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
    by Adam Higginbotham

    Buy at Amazon.com

  • Book Cover
    Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    by Serhii Plokhy

    Buy at Amazon.com

  • Book Cover
    Voices from Chernobyl
    by Svetlana Alexievich

    Buy at Amazon.com

  • Book Cover
    Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
    by Andrew Leatherbarrow

    Buy at Amazon.com

  • Book Cover
    Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
    by David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, Susan Q. Stranahan

    Buy at Amazon.com

  • Book Cover
    Meltdown: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
    by Yoichi Funabashi

    Buy at Amazon.com