My Chernobyl: What's Wrong with Nuclear Power and How to Fix It by Aladar Stolmar offers a blueprint for preventing future nuclear disasters

LORINCI, Hungary (MMD Newswire) February 25, 2009 --  Penned by nuclear engineer Aladar Stolmar, who lived and worked inside the Iron Curtain, My Chernobyl is a firsthand account of efforts to enforce better power plant safety standards in Russia that could have prevented the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. Designed to educate the public about historical events as well as the contemporary dangers of nuclear power, the book offers details about the tragedy and subsequent attempts to fully disclose its causes to the international community.

"The real reasons for the reactor explosion at Chernobyl have never been told," Stolmar says. "And now, 23 years after the disaster, there are plants inside the Russian Federation still operating the same unsafe reactors."

The book is intended to serve as a personal account of historic events both inside and outside the Soviet Union. Born in Hungary, Stolmar was trained as an engineer in Moscow to work on nuclear reactors in the Soviet block. Stolmar reports, while working in nuclear power production he communicated with top Soviet leaders. Stolmar documents these interactions through anecdotes interspersed throughout the book.

The author reports he was involved in the development of safety standards that helped modernize the Russian nuclear sector but were not introduced to prevent the disaster at Chernobyl. After emigrating to the United States, Stolmar participated in the U.S. Department of Energy's effort to force the Soviet Union to report to the international community about the Chernobyl disaster. My Chernobyl aims to describe these events and offers suggestions for preventing future nuclear disasters.

For more information or to request a free review copy, members of the press can contact the author at astolmar@gmail.com. My Chernobyl is available for sale online at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.

About the Author
Born in Hungary, Aladar Stolmar was trained as a nuclear engineer in Moscow. He served as a technical consultant and educator inside the Soviet block in Hungary until his emigration to the United States in 1985. Since then, Stolmar has been an advocate for international nuclear safety standards and the full disclosure of reactor incidents for the benefit or mankind.

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