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James Smith / Disputed Disaster

Part 3 of Rethinking Chernobyl, featuring James Smith, professor in the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K. He was interviewed for and has written a review of “Manual for Survival,” which he argues conveys a distorted account of the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.

Rethinking Chernobyl:
Part 1: Adam Higginbotham / Inevitable Disaster
Part 2: Kate Brown / Deeper Disaster
Part 3: James Smith / Disputed Disaster
Part 4: Ted Nordhaus / Nuclear Solution

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