MoldovAnn

In preparation for some presentations I made last year in the U.S., I prepared a list of websites and books about Chornobyl. I continue to add to the lists as I discover new and interesting resources.

But first, a note on spelling. “Chernobyl” and “Chornobyl” are both acceptable spellings for the same place. The former is the transliteration from the Russian spelling of the name (Чернобыль), the latter is the transliteration from the Ukrainian spelling (Чорнобиль). And “Kiev” and “Kyiv”, likewise, are the transliterations of the Russian (Киев) and Ukrainian (Київ) spellings, respectively.

With my own eyes and ears
My post about what happened at Chornobyl
My first visit to the Exclusion Zone (June 2006)
My second visit to the Exclusion Zone (June 2007)
My third visit to the Exclusion Zone (September 2007)
My Chornobyl-related photos
All my posts related to Chornobyl

Internet Resources
United Nations Development Programme’s Chornobyl Recovery and Development Programme
The United Nations and Chernobyl
International Atomic Energy Association’s Chernobyl Site
Chornobyl Nuclear Disaster Zone Administration (in Ukrainian)
The Human Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident: A Strategy for Recovery, UN Report (2002)
Chornobyl +20: Remembrance for the Future, website of the 20th anniversary conference, 23-25 April 2006, Kyiv, Ukraine
The Other Report on Chernobyl (TORCH)
Chernobyl.info
Pripyat.com (the town closest to the nuclear power station that was evacuated 36 hours after the accident)
Wormwood Forest (also a book, see below)

Suggested Books
Chernobyl: A Documentary Story, Yuri Shcherbak and David Marples
The Social Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster, David Marples and Victor Snell
Ablaze: The Stories of the Victims and Heroes of Chernobyl, Piers Paul Read
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, Svetlana Alexievich
Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl, Mary Mycio (and the book’s website)
Borderland, A Journey Through the History of Ukraine, Anna Reid - there is a short section about Chornobyl
Worse than Radiation, and 7 Odd Chernobyl Stories, Sergey Mirnyi,
Chernobyl Liquidator’s Health as a Psycho-Social Trauma, Sergey Mirny