Back آثار كارثة تشيرنوبل Arabic Наступствы Чарнобыльскай катастрофы BE-X-OLD Efectos del accidente de Chernóbil Spanish Conséquences sanitaires de la catastrophe de Tchernobyl French チェルノブイリ原発事故の影響 Japanese
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The Chernobyl disaster of 26 April 1986 triggered the release of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere in the form of both particulate and gaseous radioisotopes. As of 2024[update], it remains the world's largest known release of radioactivity into the natural environment.[1]
The work of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) suggests that the Chernobyl disaster cannot be directly compared to atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons by simply saying that it is better or worse. This is partly because the isotopes released at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant tended to be longer-lived than those released by the detonation of atomic bombs.[2]
It is estimated that the Chernobyl disaster caused US$235 billion in economic damages.[3]
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- ^ Moul, Russell (26 June 2023). "This Is Why You Can Live In Hiroshima And Nagasaki But Not Chernobyl". IFLScience. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ "Chernobyl disaster" (PDF). April 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 January 2020.