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  • Chernobyl
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    CHERNOBYL chirno byel, Ukr. Chornobyl...town of Pripyat, is the Chernobyl nuclear power station...the worst nuclear reactor disaster in history. On Apr. 25...radiation sickness. Pripyat, Chernobyl, and nearby towns were...
     
  • Kola Peninsula
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...coasts and in the mining centers, the population is primarily Russian; in the interior are Lapps, who until the Chernobyl disaster subsisted largely on reindeer raising. Since the 1960s the peninsula has suffered severe ecological degradation...
     
  • Cancer , in Medicine
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the increased incidence of thyroid cancer after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster give evidence of this. Exposure to the ultraviolet radiation of sunlight is the leading cause of skin cancer...
     
  • Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...liberalization under the slogans of glasnost ("openness") and perestroika ("restructuring"). The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl (1986) forced Gorbachev to allow even greater freedom of expression. The government released political prisoners...
     
  • Pollution
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...they have industrialized. The potential for environmental disaster has been dramatically underscored by such events as the evacuation...the nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island (1979) and at Chernobyl in Ukraine (1986). Control and Abatement The cost of substantially...
     

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