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  2. Effects of the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    Chernobyl fallout in Scandinavia Caesium-137 in Western European soil, from the Chernobyl disaster and its deposition through the weather. After the Chernobyl Disaster, a number of countries were reluctant to expand their nuclear programs. Italy and Switzerland tried to ban nuclear power altogether.

  3. Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015) is a documentary about three women who decided to return to the exclusion zone after the disaster. In the documentary, the Babushkas show the polluted water, their food from radioactive gardens, and explain how they manage to survive in this exclusion zone despite the radioactive levels.

  4. Nuclear fallout effects on an ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    Herbaceous vegetation was also affected by radiation fallout. [9] There were many observations of color changes in the cells, chlorophyll mutation, lack of flowering, growth depression, and vegetation death. [9] Mammals are a highly radio-sensitive class, and observations of mice in the surrounding area of Chernobyl showed a population decrease ...

  5. The True Cost of the Chernobyl Disaster Has Been ... - AOL

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    The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 26, 1986, is predicted to continue to harm the environment for at least 180 years

  6. Scientists search breakthrough on how dogs of Chernobyl ... - AOL

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    Rival packs of stray dogs scavenging for scraps around the Chernobyl fallout zone may be evolving faster than other animals to survive in one of the most hostile environments on Earth.. Scientists ...

  7. Chernobyl exclusion zone - Wikipedia

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    According to Chernobyl disaster liquidators, the radiation levels there are "well below the level across the zone", a fact that president of the Ukrainian Chernobyl Union Yury Andreyev considers miraculous. [35] The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has been accessible to interested parties such as scientists and journalists since the zone was created.

  8. Nuclear fallout - Wikipedia

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    Examples of both intermediate and long term fallout occurred after the 1986 Chernobyl accident, which contaminated over 20,000 km 2 (7,700 sq mi) of land in Ukraine and Belarus. The main fuel of the reactor was uranium , and surrounding this was graphite, both of which were vaporized by the hydrogen explosion that destroyed the reactor and ...

  9. Deaths due to the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    Initially, the Soviet Union's toll of deaths directly caused by the Chernobyl disaster included only the two Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers killed in the immediate aftermath of the explosion of the plant's reactor. However, by late 1986, Soviet officials updated the official count to 30, reflecting the deaths of 28 additional plant ...