Download or read book Life Exposed written by Adriana Petryna and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone are still suffering the effects. This text examines the political, scientific and social circumstances that followed the disaster.