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United Kingdom: Chernobyl lessons missed because research gaps
2014-11-29 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The long-term health effects of Chernobyl remain unclear 25 years after the most serious nuclear accident in history, according to a former World Health Organisation (WHO) official. A full assessment of the public health impact has been thwarted by poorly co-ordinated research on residents in areas close to the plant, and should be carried out with funding from the European commission, said Keith Baverstock, a former health and radiation adviser to the WHO. He said research had been frustrated...
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Chernobyl Costs Rising as New Structure Cap Takes Shape
2014-05-15 05:18:49| ENR.com: Headline News
?With radiation still leaking from the stricken nuclear plant, a new cap takes place amid rising political turmoil.
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Ukraine: At Chernobyl, Hints of Natures Adaption
2014-05-06 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The clicking sound from Timothy Mousseau's radiation detector slowly increased as he walked through the forest here, a few miles west of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. As he stopped to examine a spider web on a tree branch, the display on the device showed 25 microsieverts an hour. That is typical, Dr. Mousseau said, for this area not far from Novoshepelychi, one of hundreds of villages that were abandoned after radioactive fallout from the 1986 reactor explosion at the plant rendered a large...
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Ukraine: At Chernobyl, danger lurks in the trees
2013-06-24 14:36:16| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Most days Nikolay Ossienko patrols the forests surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, clearing brush and dead trees from the grid of fuel breaks that crisscross the 1,000-square-mile area. But on hot July afternoons, when black thunderheads loom on the horizon, he climbs a rusty ladder 75 feet up a rickety fire tower. When he spots smoke, he radios the six other towers to pinpoint the location, then trucks off to the blaze. If these forests burn, strontium 90, cesium 137, plutonium 238...
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