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More Known Unknowns: Mapping Environmental Damage from the Chernobyl Disaster
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Karta radiat︠s︡ionnoĭ obstanovki na territorii evropeĭskoĭ chasti SSSR po sostoi︠a︡nii︠u︡ na dekabrʹ 1990 goda : plotnostʹ zagri︠a︡znenii︠a︡ mestnosti stront︠s︡iem-90 : masshtab 1:500 000 (part 1: Gomel')
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This map shows the spread of Strontium-90 contamination in the area of eastern Belarus and western Russia surrounding Gomel' in December 1990. It is one of a set of four Soviet-produced maps showing strontium contamination from the same point in time. They were produced by the State Committee for Hydrometrology and Control of Natural Resources of the Soviet Union, which was in charge of producing contamination maps twice a year.
An earlier version of the map served as the basis for the IAEA's map, in terms of contamination data. However, the two maps are very different in their portrayals of natural features, roads, and other basic elements of the map. In the process of verifying Soviet environmental monitoring data, the IAEA scientists instead often were faced with the task of reconciling two (or more) different basic accounts of the territory itself, and the level of contamination it contained.
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Institut prikladnoĭ geofiziki imeni akademika E.K. Fedorova
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GUGK SSSR
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1991
2056
Belarus
Cesium-137
contamination
radiation
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More Known Unknowns: Mapping Environmental Damage from the Chernobyl Disaster
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Chernobyl Radiation Map CS-137 Today
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Chernobyl Foundation
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This map portrays soil contamination on the territory of Ukraine with cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, as of April 2011. Cesium-137 has a half-life of approximately 30 years (which means that 30 years after its release, half of it will have degraded and become non-radioactive). While it is not the source of the most enduring threat from the accident (other isotopes have half-lives of up to a quarter of a million years), it is one of the main contaminants affecting humans.
While my project focuses on the use of environmental monitoring data to define the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a 30-km radius around the accident site, the additional information provided by this map is valuable in that it shows the compromise inherent in the construction of the Zone, and the generalizations about risk that it implies. The map makes it clear that the bulk of the contamination lies closest to the accident site, but it is also made clear that other regions are by no means exempt from the threat of contamination.
Additionally, by providing no information about contamination outside Ukraine, it defines the environmental burden of the accident's aftermath as a Ukrainian issue.
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Chernobyl Foundation
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2011
2011
Cesium-137
Chernobyl
contamination
radiation
Ukraine