Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Publication

Selected Health Consequences of the Chernobyl Disaster

Samet, Jonathan M.
Patel, Sonny S.
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
Online Access
Abstract
Findings from a Green Cross-backed study on the psychosocial impacts of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster have been released for the 27th anniversary of the nuclear plant meltdown that, to this day, still affects 10 million people. On April 26, 1986, a nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, contaminating areas of what are now modern day Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine in the aftermath of the widespread radiation, there concerns about risks to human health and of using contaminated land for farming.
Note(s)
Topic
Type
Preprint
Date
2013-04
Identifier
ISBN
DOI
Copyright/License
With permission of the license/copyright holder
Embedded videos