Chernobly prompts U of A Historian
20 May 2020
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 , a new book he co-edited with his wife and colleague, . “I was probably the only academic in North America who knew much about the nuclear plant and its background.”
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