In the following months, massive efforts were made to decontaminate the area while increased radiation levels were detected across much of Europe. Fallout from the disaster continues to this day, decades later, and long-term effects such as cancers are still being investigated. Estimates of the nu...
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requires that its licensees limit human-made radiation exposure for individual members of the public to 1mSv per year, and limit occupational radiation exposure to adults working with radioactive material to 50mSv per year (3-25 uSv/hr). EventRadia...
The accident at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine shocked the world, permanently altered a region, and leaves many questions unanswered.
In the following months, massive efforts were made to decontaminate the area while increased radiation levels were detected across much of Europe. Fallout from the disaster continues to this day, decades later, and long-term effects such as cancers are still being investigated. Estimates of the nu...
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Noun1.Chernobyl- a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986) Ukraine,Ukrayina- a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century ...
1986 nuclear disaster may have fundamentally altered the genetics of dog populations, according to a study published Friday inScience Advances. Furthermore, the genetics within dog populations that have been exposed to differing levels of radiation are also distinct...
Fifteen feet away, oblivious to the elevated radiation levels, was the old woman who had farmed this land for six years after the Chernobyl disaster, until the government realized she lived in a hotspot and that she'd been ingesting radioactive Caesium through the milk she harvested from her ...
worrying how radiation may have affected their genes. While some in the scientific community question that birth defects and retardation are directly attributable to the disaster, noted scientist Alexei Okeanov has described the health effects of the accident as ‘a fire that can’t ...
1:23:45: Directed by Johan Renck. With Jared Harris, Michael Shaeffer, Jessie Buckley, Adam Nagaitis. Plant workers and firefighters put their lives on the line to control a catastrophic April 1986 explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.