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Kate Brown

Historian of environmental and nuclear energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author of Dispatches from Dystopia (2015), Plutopia (2013) and A Biography of No Place (2004)
Climate & Ecology

Enduring the Chernobyl Disaster

An interview with Kate Brown

April 7, 2020 • by Damian Roos and Kate Brown
Damien Roos [DR]: This is your second book centered on the topic of nuclear energy. Did you set out with a suspicion that the impact of the Chernobyl disaster had been underreported? Kate Brown [KB]: I did, yes. In some ways, this book is a sequel to this first book I ...
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