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The initial evidence that a major release of radioactive material was affecting other countries came from Sweden, where on the morning of 28 April workers at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant approximately 1,100 km (680 mi) from the Chernobyl were found to have radioactive particles on their c...
Related to Cerenkov radiation:Chernobyl,Tachyons Cherenkov radiation Cherenkov radiationorCerenkov radiation[for P. A.Cherenkov], light emitted by a transparent medium when charged particles pass through it at a speed greater than the speed of light in the medium. The effect, discovered by Cherenkov...
Chernobyl accident0.002bIn 1986, the average dose to more than 300,000 recovery workers was nearly 150 mSv; and more than 350,000 other individuals received doses greater than 10mSvThe average in the northern hemisphere has decreased from a maximum of 0.04mSv in 1986. Thyroid doses were much...
Today, Chernobyl is still a death zone. New pictures emerge from the inside of the sarcophagus. The reactor core has melted into a radiating lump. The radiation levels are still fatal. And the sarcophagus is falling apart. Radiation is escaping at many places. It was the worst nuclear ...
Accompany Aram Balakjian on a beautifully-photographed expedition through the forbidden area: “Into the Zone: 4 days inside Chernobyl’s secretive ‘stalker’ culture.” * Uzbek proverb ### As we take the tour, we might recall that it was on this date in 2000, via an announcement by the...
such as cancer induction. For this to occur, there is no threshold dose observed, and the risk manifolds in a linear-quadratic manner of the dose. Childhood cancers are primarily the result of the stochastic effect, as seen in the post-Chernobyl disaster with the increased thyroid cancer occur...
Radioactive fallout seems like the obvious culprit behind the negative medical consequences that arose after the explosion at Chernobyl, but it's hard to measure even the dosage those contaminated received, let alone link it to medical problems
Radiation Exposures Due to the Chernobyl Accident. in Encyclopedia of Environmental Health 2011; 709-720.Balonov, M. and Bouville, A. (2011) Radiation Exposures Due to the Chernobyl Accident. Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, pp. 709–720....
Hi Rob, I don't mind if I risk you calling me silly but I am sure that many of the facts that we take for granted today are not at all true and will find it out in the future as we have found out about many other things. I prefer to keep an open mind which often helps me...