Chernobyl, 10 Years After: Health Consequences
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Chernobyl, 10 years after: health consequences.
On April 26, 1986, reactor no. 4 at the Chernobyl (Ukraine) nuclear power plant exploded. Over the next 10 days, considerable quantities of radionuclides were discharged into the atmosphere (table 1). The passage of the radioactive cloud over Europe led to varying degrees of contamination according to region (figures 1 and 2); the most contaminated regions were in southern Belarus, northern Ukr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiologic Reviews
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0193-936X,1478-6729
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.epirev.a017952