Radiation Hotspots Resulting From the Chornobyl' Nuclear Power Plant Accident
Title
Radiation Hotspots Resulting From the Chornobyl' Nuclear Power Plant Accident
Subject
Chernobyl disaster
Description
Map of concentrations of cesium-137 in the areas surrounding Chernobyl. This information wasn't released until three years after the event, meaning that there were whole swaths of people in Russia un aware they were in danger at all, as well as people in Ukraine and Belarus who had been unknowingly living in areas with higher concentrations of cesium-137 than the 30km danger zone.
Source
Handbook of International Economic Statistics 1996
Date
1996
Type
map
Files
Citation
“Radiation Hotspots Resulting From the Chornobyl' Nuclear Power Plant Accident,” Mapping Cultural Space Across Eurasia, accessed November 28, 2023, https://eurasia.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/items/show/929.
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