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  2. Effects of the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    The effects of low-level radiation on human health are not well understood, and so the models used, notably the linear no threshold model, are open to question. [105] Given these factors, studies of Chernobyl's health effects have come up with different conclusions and are sometimes the subject of scientific and political controversy.

  3. Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the ...

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    Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment is a translation of a 2007 Russian publication by Alexey V. Yablokov, Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V. Nesterenko, edited by Janette D. Sherman-Nevinger, and originally published by the New York Academy of Sciences in 2009 in their Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences series.

  4. Chernobyl groundwater contamination - Wikipedia

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    Unfortunately, hydrological and geological conditions in Chernobyl area promoted rapid radionuclide migration to subsurface water network. These factors include flat terrain, abundant precipitation and highly permeable sandy sediments [4] Main natural factors of nuclides migration in the region can be divided into four groups, including: weather and climate-related (evaporation and ...

  5. Chernobyl effects ‘overestimated’ says Blair Institute as it ...

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    The price of this slowdown is now clear: if the world had not turned away from nuclear after Chernobyl, energy-related CO 2 emissions could have been 6 per cent lower in 2023, the same as ...

  6. Forest fire around defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant put out ...

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    Environmental activists had warned on Monday that the fire, near the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, posed a radiation risk. ... Chernobyl tour operator Yaroslav Yemelianenko ...

  7. I was a first responder at Chernobyl. It should have ... - AOL

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    Today we should reflect on the lessons learned from Chernobyl and COVID-19. Governments should keep citizens informed of dangers posed by radiation exposure or a virulent virus, so that protective ...

  8. Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    The German environmental minister was given the authority over reactor safety as well, a responsibility the minister still holds today. The Chernobyl disaster is also credited with strengthening the anti-nuclear movement in Germany, which culminated in the decision to end the use of nuclear power made by the 1998–2005 Schröder government. [258]

  9. Today in History: The Chernobyl Disaster and the Old Scourge ...

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    Chernobyl. The word and the place will be forever associated with the dangers of nuclear energy. More than any other event, including America's Three Mile Island, Chernobyl slowed global.