Jeremiad for Belarus. Hope Burwell.
by Burwell, Hope; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 53Environment. Publisher: Orion, 2004ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Belarus -- Environmental conditions | Cesium | Chernobyl nuclear disaster (1986) | Environmental degradation -- Belarus | Environmental health | Nuclear power plants -- Accidents | Plutonium | Radiation injuries | Radioactive pollutionDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Twenty-three percent of Belarus was contaminated with Chernobyl's fallout, 32,592 square miles...But it isn't a solid swath of land, nor neat concentric circles emanating from Ukraine. On maps the contamination looks like rusty puddles and large tannin-stained lakes. Color variations denote concentration levels of the radioactive isotope mapped most clearly, cesium-137." (ORION) This article examines Chernobyl's impact on Belarus and relays that "eighty-eight percent of contaminated Belarus is 111 to 370 times" the safe limits set by the International Atomic Energy Agency.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Jeremiad for Belarus, March/April 2004; pp. 26-35.
"Twenty-three percent of Belarus was contaminated with Chernobyl's fallout, 32,592 square miles...But it isn't a solid swath of land, nor neat concentric circles emanating from Ukraine. On maps the contamination looks like rusty puddles and large tannin-stained lakes. Color variations denote concentration levels of the radioactive isotope mapped most clearly, cesium-137." (ORION) This article examines Chernobyl's impact on Belarus and relays that "eighty-eight percent of contaminated Belarus is 111 to 370 times" the safe limits set by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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