Chernobyl

Way too many names and government agencies to keep track of [like Tom Clancy's novels]. The science is, for the most part, at a level a lay person can understand and the author does a good job of keeping the many storylines running in parallel without too much confusion. I appreciated that he did mini reintroductions [intentional or not] as that brought the person quickly back into perspective for me.

You get a sense of how much time he spent on this book when you take a look at how thick the Notes section is; looks to be almost a quarter of the book!

This book really helped me appreciate a recent tour I took of 1 nuclear plant being constructed and 1 of its neighbors that had been working for quite some time. I did have an adrenaline jolt when they said they'd done a test that morning.