WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018 WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2019 As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read, — Viv Groskop, Observer A riveting account of human error and state duplicity. . . rightly being hailed as a classic, — Hannah Betts, Daily Telegraph On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurr