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  2. Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    Anti-nuclear protest after the Chernobyl disaster on May Day, 1986 in West Berlin. Because of the distrust many had in the Soviet authorities, who engaged in a cover-up, a great deal of debate about the situation occurred in the First World during the early days of the event. Journalists mistrusted many professionals, and in turn encouraged the ...

  3. Effects of the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    Research has shown after the Chernobyl disaster the level of thyroid cancer, particularly in children near the radiation exposure, increased. [9] Although iodine-131 has a short half-life compared to other radioactive isotopes, iodine-131 made its way through the food chain through a milk-to-consumer pathway. 95% of iodine-131 was ingested ...

  4. Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents - Wikipedia

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    The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is in the background. The world's first nuclear reactor meltdown was the NRX reactor at Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario, Canada in 1952. [22] The worst nuclear accident to date is the Chernobyl disaster which occurred in 1986 in the Ukrainian SSR, now Ukraine.

  5. Closings and cancellations following the September 11 attacks

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    In an atmosphere reminiscent of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, everyday life in many places around the world came to a standstill in the days after the September 11 attacks. For this reason, as well as for reasons of perceived threat associated with large gatherings, many events were postponed or cancelled.

  6. What really happened at Chernobyl? How the world’s worst ...

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  7. Timeline for September following the September 11 attacks

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    [7] [8] [9] 12:30 p.m. (approximately), Genelle Guzman-McMillan is pulled from the rubble of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, and is the last person recovered alive from the buildings' collapse zones. [10] 1:10 p.m. (approximately): armed FBI agents storm the Westin Hotel in Boston to investigate a room rented by a passenger on one ...

  8. Investigations into the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear disaster that occurred in the early hours of 26 April 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine.The accident occurred when Reactor Number 4 exploded and destroyed most of the reactor building, spreading debris and radioactive material across the surrounding area, and over the following days and weeks, most of mainland Europe ...

  9. Comparison of Chernobyl and other radioactivity releases

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    Far fewer people died as an immediate result of the Chernobyl event than the immediate deaths from radiation at Hiroshima.Chernobyl is eventually predicted to result in up to 4,000 total deaths from cancer, sometime in the future, according to the WHO and create around 41,000 excess cancer according to the International Journal of Cancer, with, depending on treatment, not all cancers resulting ...