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The environmental impact of Chernobyl in the soviet union

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The author describes events subsequent to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident and something of their environmental impact as it affects the Soviet Union. He is somewhat adversely critical of the lack of information currently being released by the Soviet authorities.

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  1. National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, NW7 1AA, London, UK

    Zhores A. Medvedev

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Dr Zhores Medvedev was born in Tbilisi, and trained firstly as a plant biochemist and subsequently as a molecular biologist in the USSR. He studied the ecological effects of the 1958 Kyshtym nuclear accident in the USSR and published his findings in a bookNuclear Disaster in the Urals in 1979. He is currently a research scientist at the National Institute of Medical Research in London. A comprehensive analysis ofSoviet Agriculture is about to appear in a book of that title under Dr. Medvedev's authorship.

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Medvedev, Z.A. The environmental impact of Chernobyl in the soviet union. Environmentalist 7, 201–209 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02233593

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