Chernobyl
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- Evicting the damp. // Professional Engineering;01/14/98, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p5
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- Health effects in a casual sample of immigrants to Israel from areascontaminated by the Chernobyl explosion Cohen, Rachel; Poljak, Svetlana; Merkin, Ludmilla; Quastel, Michael R.; Kordysh, Ella A.; Gorodischer, Rafael; Goldsmith, John R. // Environmental Health Perspectives;Oct1995, Vol. 103 Issue 10, p936
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- Ukraine fallout debate. Marples, D.R. // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Dec1989, Vol. 45 Issue 10, p9
Examines the debate between Ukrainian journalists, environmentalists and government officials and radiation experts about the health effects of the April 1986 Chernobyl disaster. New lifetime standard for radiation exposure discussed.
- Coping with Chernobyl. Myers, Nancy // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Sep1992, Vol. 48 Issue 7, p8
States that the political repercussions of the Chernobyl accident were stronger in Kiev, Ukraine, than in either Moscow or Minsk, and that the Moscow government's botched and callous handling of its aftermath played an important role in the Ukrainian independence movement. Comments from...
- Lament for Chernobyl. // Commonweal;5/23/86, Vol. 113 Issue 10, p291
Editorial. Outside the human tragedy that has enveloped the victims of Chernobyl, two questions are most intensely asked by Americans. Can nuclear energy be safe? And, will we ever be able to trust the Soviets? Hopefully, the accident will lead to more nuclear safety measures and more candor...
- Chernobyl: Eight years after. Cheney, Glenn Alan; Wolfson, Elissa // E: The Environmental Magazine;Mar/Apr94, Vol. 5 Issue 2, p21
Focuses on the aftermath of the Chernobyl atomic power complex disaster in Ukraine in 1986. Radioactive threats posed by the accident; Susceptibility of children to radiation poisoning; Public health decline resulting from the nuclear accident.
- Forgotten Victims. Goldin, Milton // Humanist;Jul/Aug96, Vol. 56 Issue 4, p20
Focuses on the plight of the victims of the Chernobyl plant explosion in 1986. Efforts by the United States to pressure the governments of Eastern Europe to dismantle their nuclear weapons and build safer reactors; Misuse of international public- and private-sector relief funds; Depletion of...
- Radiation Risk and Ethics. Jaworowski, Zbigniew // Physics Today;Sep99, Vol. 52 Issue 9, p24
Argues that the principles and concepts of radiation protection have led to prohibitive standards and impractical recommendations. Scientists and organizations that have proposed revisions on the principles and concepts; Information on natural and man-made radiation; Issue over the...
- Consequences of the nuclear power plant accident at Chernobyl. Ginzburg, H.M.; Reis, E. // Public Health Reports;Jan/Feb91, Vol. 106 Issue 1, p32
Discusses the effects of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident on April 26, 1986. Immediate and delayed deaths of plant operators and emergency service workers; Effects of wind and rain on the radioactive nuclide fallout distribution patterns; Extent of radioactive contamination; Estimates...
- The psychological consequences of the Chernobyl accident--findings from the International Atomic... Ginzburg, Harold M. // Public Health Reports;Mar/Apr93, Vol. 108 Issue 2, p184
Presents a review of the results of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) study that evaluated the medical and psychological health of residents living in areas identified as being contaminated with radioactive fallout more than three years after the nuclear power plant accident at...
