Chernobyl Effects Linger On:
1. This article was published on 10 May, 2000.
2. Restrictions on some food will continue in the UK and the Soviet Union for the next 50 years because the environment isn’t cleaning itself as fast as they thought it would.
3. Levels of caesium were detected in fish in Norway and Cambria, and also in terrestrial vegetation.
4. The radioactive caesium’s concentration in food and water decreased in the first 5 years after Chernobyl.
5. The caesium is immobilized in the soil and can be re-released into the environment.
6. Diffusion happens because of a concentration gradient, which leads to a balance in the radioactivity.
7. The sheep will remain out of the food chain for 10-15 years.
8. In the Soviet Union, forest berries, fungi, and fish will remain out of the food chain for half a century.
Chernobyl Children Show DNA Changes:
1. These children were born to parents who cleaned the nuclear reactor.
2. Liquidators are cleanup team members who were sent into the reactor. They received the highest combination of radiation.
3. Scientists are studying the children looking for new fragments using multi-site DNA fingerprinting.
4. The siblings who were conceived before exposure served as control.
5. Scientists found multiple changes in the children’s DNA.
6. The DNA changes could have been caused in the children themselves, not the parents.
Nuclear Health Agency: Health Impact:
1. At low doses the radiation cell death can be accommodated, the cells in DNA can repair the damage, and organs can heal themselves. Low doses do not produce acute early affects. High doses cause cells to die rapidly, the DNA cells can die also, and organs are more likely to contract cancer.
2. The acute affects in Chernobyl were burns, coronary thrombosis, and radiation sickness.
3. The late/chronic affects of the Chernobyl disaster were cancer, leukemia, and thyroid tumors.
1. This article was published on 10 May, 2000.
2. Restrictions on some food will continue in the UK and the Soviet Union for the next 50 years because the environment isn’t cleaning itself as fast as they thought it would.
3. Levels of caesium were detected in fish in Norway and Cambria, and also in terrestrial vegetation.
4. The radioactive caesium’s concentration in food and water decreased in the first 5 years after Chernobyl.
5. The caesium is immobilized in the soil and can be re-released into the environment.
6. Diffusion happens because of a concentration gradient, which leads to a balance in the radioactivity.
7. The sheep will remain out of the food chain for 10-15 years.
8. In the Soviet Union, forest berries, fungi, and fish will remain out of the food chain for half a century.
Chernobyl Children Show DNA Changes:
1. These children were born to parents who cleaned the nuclear reactor.
2. Liquidators are cleanup team members who were sent into the reactor. They received the highest combination of radiation.
3. Scientists are studying the children looking for new fragments using multi-site DNA fingerprinting.
4. The siblings who were conceived before exposure served as control.
5. Scientists found multiple changes in the children’s DNA.
6. The DNA changes could have been caused in the children themselves, not the parents.
Nuclear Health Agency: Health Impact:
1. At low doses the radiation cell death can be accommodated, the cells in DNA can repair the damage, and organs can heal themselves. Low doses do not produce acute early affects. High doses cause cells to die rapidly, the DNA cells can die also, and organs are more likely to contract cancer.
2. The acute affects in Chernobyl were burns, coronary thrombosis, and radiation sickness.
3. The late/chronic affects of the Chernobyl disaster were cancer, leukemia, and thyroid tumors.
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