Chernobyl disaster effects

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Radiation, Risk and the “Linear No-Threshold” Model

Environment

Earlier this month I posted about the longstanding debate over the ultimate death toll from the Chernobyl accident, and a new look at the data by a Union of Concerned Scientist physicist. Lisbeth Gronlund pored through scattered and hard-to-find data on the distribution of fallout from Chernobyl, crunched the numbers based on a statistical model […]

Chernobyl Cleanup Worker: ‘We Thought We Were Saving a Country’

Fukushima likely not as bad as Chernobyl, but what does that mean?

Environment

The Living on Earth Almanac

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