Kramatorsk, city, eastern Ukraine. It lies on the bank of the Kazenny Torets, which is a tributary of the north Donets River. The city developed from the end of the 19th century with the growth of its metallurgical industry, particularly the production o
Government behaviour after the Bhopal gas tragedy does not inspire confidence about Indian responses to a Three Mile Island/Chernobyl kind of catastrophic meltdown. That being said, the central question remains why India or anyone else needs to be nuclear-armed at all. With Britain, France or ...
The content of radionuclides in the soil samples analyzed in this work can also be compared to soil samples collected in the vicinity of coal-fired power plants in Serbia. The deposition of fly ash particles, as a by-product in the combustion process of coal in power plants, can cause an...
After the Chernobyl accident, long-term radiological monitoring on riverine radiocesium contamination were conducted for five years or more in Ukraine [20–22], five rivers in Finland [23], and one river in Italy [24] and other European countries. Minami-Soma City is located approximately 10–...
It is likely that wild boars were consuming a variety of foods, including plants, mushrooms, and small animals from contaminated areas. A study measuring radioactivity in wild boar meat at different locations around Chernobyl from 2002 to 2011 also found that one of the surveyed areas exceeded ...