how many countries were affected by chernobyl?
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The NRCRM estimate around five million citizens of the former USSR, including three million in Ukraine, have suffered as a result of Chernobyl, while in Belarus around 800,000 people were registered as being affected by radiation following the disaster.
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It resulted in massive loss of life, environmental devastation and infrastructural damage. The disaster also damaged several nuclear power plants, leading to serious risks of contamination from radioactive releases.
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On April 26, 1986, the number four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine exploded. Today, over 1.6 million people live and seem to be thriving in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, yet the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a 30 square kilometer area surrounding the plant, remains relatively uninhabited.
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Since the first nuclear test explosion on July 16, 1945, at least eight nations have detonated 2,056 nuclear test explosions at dozens of test sites from Lop Nor in China, to the atolls of the Pacific, to Nevada, to Algeria where France conducted its first nuclear device, to western Australia where the U.K. exploded ...
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The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel. The resulting steam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reactor core into the environment, with the deposition of radioactive materials in many parts of Europe.
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The disaster produced the “largest uncontrolled radioactive release into the environment ever recorded” and mostly had an immediate impact on Ukraine, Belarus and West Russia.
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Both Chernobyl and Pripyat have been deemed safe for tourists to visit since 2010. However, tourists have to be screened before they visit and checked for radioactive particles after they leave. Tourists are also told not to touch objects that have been cordoned off and not to sit down anywhere.
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Since the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, an area of more than 4,000 square kilometres has been abandoned. That could be about to change, as Victoria Gill discovered during a week-long trip to the exclusion zone. "This place is more than half of my life," says Gennady Laptev.
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1348 Europe suffered the most. By the end of 1348, Germany, France, England, Italy, and the low countries had all felt the plague. Norway was infected in 1349, and Eastern European countries began to fall victim during the early 1350s. Russia felt the effects later in 1351.
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However, the psychological effects of Chernobyl remain widespread and profound resulting in suicides, alcohol abuse and apathy. Most emergency workers and people living in contaminated areas received relatively low whole-body radiation doses, according to a United Nations study published in 2008.
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Landmines still exist in 58 countries and four states, and they have devastating effects. Each and every day, nine people become casualties of landmines and explosive remnants of war.
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Fukushima Daiichi Accident. Following a major earthquake, a 15-metre tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors, causing a nuclear accident on 11 March 2011. All three cores largely melted in the first three days.
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Psychological or mental health problems. According to several international studies, people exposed to radiation from Chernobyl have high anxiety levels and are more likely to report unexplained physical symptoms and poor health.
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A lethal dose of radiation is in the vicinity of three to five sieverts in an hour. During a Chernobyl tour the levels of exposure can range from 130 to 2,610 microsieverts per hour - that's 0.00261 of one whole sievert (i.e. at least 1000 times less than the potentially lethal level).
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While humans are strictly prohibited from living in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, many other species have settled there. Brown bears, wolves, lynx, bison, deer, moose, beavers, foxes, badgers, wild boar, raccoon dogs, and more than 200 species of birds have formed their own ecosystem within the Chernobyl disaster area.
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['1) United States — 76,430,000.', '2) China — 53,100,000.', '3) Russia — 12,700,000.', '4) Brazil — 12,466,000.', '5) France — 9,600,000.', '6) Italy — 9,400,000.', '7) United Kingdom — 7,700,000.', '8) Ukraine — 7,350,000.']
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HBO's Chernobyl, the five-episode miniseries which came to a finale on June 3, chronicled the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster of 1986 when a massive explosion, caused by a failed nuclear reactor, spread radioactive material across Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, and as far as Scandinavia and western Europe.