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1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 53 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Christina Delaine. |
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Dear Comrades! Since the accident at the Chernobyl power plant, there has been a detailed analysis of the radioactivity of the food and territory of your population point. The results show that living and working in your village will cause no harm to adults or children. So began a pamphlet issued by the Ukrainian Ministry of Health-which, despite its optimistic beginnings, went on to warn its readers against consuming local milk, berries, or mushrooms, or going into the surrounding forest. This was only one of many misleading bureaucratic manuals that, with apparent good intentions, seriously underestimated the far-reaching consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. After 1991, international organizations from the Red Cross to Greenpeace sought to help the victims, yet found themselves stymied by post-Soviet political circumstances they did not understand. International diplomats and scientists allied to the nuclear industry evaded or denied the fact of a wide-scale public health disaster caused by radiation exposure. Efforts to spin the story about Chernobyl were largely successful; the official death toll ranges between thirty-one and fifty-four people. In reality, radiation exposure from the disaster caused between 35,000 and 150,000 deaths in Ukraine alone. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Radioactive fallout -- Health aspects.
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Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Health aspects.
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Radioactive fallout survival.
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Nuclear accidents -- Environmental aspects.
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Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Environmental aspects.
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Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Environmental aspects.
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Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Political aspects.
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Ionizing radiation -- Health aspects.
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Radioactive pollution -- Ukraine.
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Delaine, Christina.
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hoopla digital.
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| Other Title |
Chernobyl guide to the future |
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Chernobyl guide to the future |
| ISBN |
9781684419241 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1684419247 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT12350029 |
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