The Chernobyl disaster has become one of the most divisive and controversial topics in Ukrainian society. Although it took place in April 1986, only one year after Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the cpsu Central Committee, its effects have been far-reaching. The first medical ...
A 25 Year Retrospective Review of the Psychological Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident The Chernobyl Forum Report from the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster concluded that mental health effects were the most signi... E.J. Bromet and J.M. Havenaar and L.T. Guey...
Learn about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in 1986, as well as the exclusion zone. Discover one of the worst nuclear catastrophes in...
Toxic waste, chemical waste material capable of causing death or injury to life. Waste is considered toxic if it is poisonous, radioactive, explosive, or bioaccumulative (that is, increasing in concentration at the higher ends of food chains) or if it ca
Although my memory of that time is incomplete, I recall being in the hospital, wondering if I was going to survive to adulthood. Just a few years after the Chernobyl disaster, a lot of young people started getting cancer and dying shortly after. My best friend’s mom was one of these...
Exactly 33 years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, the name "Chernobyl" is still synonymous with disaster. And still, people are fascinated by the mystery of what exactly happened that day—and the days following. How could this have happened? Why wasn't it prevented? Who's ...
In two landmark studies, researchers have used cutting-edge genomic tools to investigate the potential health effects of exposure to ionizing radiation, a known carcinogen, from the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine.
When a disaster occurs, radioactivity 200 times the combined activity of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombs can be unleashed, as in Chernobyl (1986). The blast and fires created a cloud of gases which spread widely across Europe; with 350,000 people having to be evacuated.43 The contaminat...
Debate over health effects of Chernobyl re-ignited 来自 掌桥科研 喜欢 0 阅读量: 11 作者: Ed Holt 摘要: Holt E. 关键词: blunt chest trauma tricuspid valve injury tricuspid regurgitation DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60605-8 被引量: 9 年份: 2010 ...
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated containment measures have massively changed the daily lives of billions of children and adolescents worldwide. To inve