Considered history’s worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986 killed 31 people directly, many due to radiation poisoning during the cleanup. The area around the plant remains so contaminated that it’s officially closed off to human habitation. The Elephants Foot of the ...
nuclear plants,even though more people die from coal pollution in a single year than have died in all nuclear accidents combined.3/ Our laws and regulations are so outdated.One problem is that many of the environmental laws and regulations in place today weren’t designed with climate change i...
Quote:“The total number of people that could have died or could die in the future due to Chernobyl originated exposure over the lifetime of emergency workers and residents of most contaminated areas is estimated to be around 4 000. This total includes some 50 emergency workers who died of ...
While both acute short-term radiation exposure and long-term radiation exposure can lead to cancer due to DNA damage, cancer caused by radiation is not radiation sickness. If all this talk of the horrors of radiation has you in a panic, here's something reassuring: Most types of radiation ...
As the fire quickly spread downstairs, hundreds of guests were trapped on the floors above. Due to the delay in activating the manual fire alarm, many guests didn't realize they would need to get out until it was too late to go downstairs. Even after the evacuation had begun...
Paul Getty just six weeks before the film was due to be released. Trisha Noble Watson/Getty Images Actress and singer Trisha Noble, who played the mother of Natalie Portman's Padmé Amidala in the "Star Wars" universe, died in January 2021. The Australian died "after an 18-month battle...
At 1:23 A.M. on Saturday, April 26, 1986, the reactor blew at nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, ripping open the core, blowing the roof off the building, starting more than 30 fires, and allowing radioactive material to leak into the air. Some 31 people were killed and 200 people we...
While carbon-14 is commonly used for dating, the principle applies to other isotopes as well, such as potassium-40 and uranium-235, but the accuracy of radioisotope dating may be compromised for anything that dies after the 1940s due to changes in carbon ratios from nuclear activities and fos...
It was February 1986, and I was driving north on a rainy night for a weekend of skiing. The price of gas was 86 cents a gallon, and it was about two months before the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl would explode. The radio and the drumbeat of the windshield wipers kept me entertained—...
who hanged himself, in hbo’s 2019 limited series chernobyl. the soviet inorganic chemist was gravely ill with radiation poisoning when he died, as depicted in the emmy-winning show—an act, as harris told vanity fair when he received an emmy nomination for the part, that was meant to “...