Chernobyl Research Becomes International Growth Industry

摘要

Ten years after the accident at Chernobyl, the social and psychological effects of the mass evacuations and cleanups are still being felt in the contaminated regions of Belarus, Ukraine, and western Russia. Some 270,000 people continue to live in areas with levels of residual radioactivity high enough to require expensive and disruptive measures to monitor and control foodstuffs. In addition, efforts are being made to monitor an estimated 800,000 people from all over the former Soviet Union, the "liquidators" involved in the cleanup, after they received substantial radiation doses.z