Chernobyl authority and MIT Professor Chernobyl Kate Brown will speak Sept. 9 at the Plymouth Public Library.

PLYMOUTH - Chernobyl authority and MIT Professor Chernobyl Kate Brown will speak at 6 p.m. Sept. 9 at the Plymouth Public Library’s Otto Fehlows Room.

“Chernobyl: A Public Health Disaster” is the title of a talk by Brown, a professor of Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Brown has conducted extensive research on the health and social impacts of the 1987 nuclear meltdown in Chernobyl, Russia. Her recent publication is the acclaimed “Manual for Survival, a Chernobyl Guide to the Future.”