Svetlana Alexievich. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. Trans. Keith Gessen. London: Dalkey Archive, 2005. vii + 240 pp. In June 2009, while walking through the Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum in Kiev, I had the unsettling f...
The present work aimed to review the currently available literature concerning the caries prevalence in children residing in radiation-contaminated areas of Ukraine, Belarus, and the Russian Federation after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. In this process, the data of nine studies (out of 58...
Despite ongoing migration and lower total dose rates absorbed than at the time of the accident, our results demonstrate that Hyla orientalis specimens living in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone are still undergoing deleterious changes, emphasizing the long-term impacts of the nuclear disaster.Background Rap...
Kawamura, H.et al. Preliminary Numerical Experiments on Oceanic Dispersion of131I and137Cs Discharged into the Ocean because of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Disaster.J. Nucl. Sci. Technol.48, 1349–1356 (2011). Morino, Y., Ohara, T. & Nishizawa, M. Atmospheric behavior, deposi...
Conclusions Despite ongoing migration and lower total dose rates absorbed than at the time of the accident, our results demonstrate thatHyla orientalisspecimens living in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone are still undergoing deleterious changes, emphasizing the long-term impacts of the nuclear disaster. ...
Nuclear disasters, in particular, have resulted in lasting impacts on human populations in the areas surrounding the disaster sites [3]. Those impacts are related to the acute radioactivity dose over a relatively short period, usually a few months, transforming into chronic exposure to decreasing ...