chernobyl disaster
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Nuclear Weapons Partly Responsible for Radioactive Wild Boars, Researchers Say
You read that correctly. A team of scientists just tested wild boar meat from Southern Germany and found that radioactivity in the boars stemmed from nuclear weapons testing, rather than the Chernobyl power plant disaster of 1986. The Chernobyl disaster occurred due to a power plant meltdown in Pripyat, Ukraine, which resulted in a huge…
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Chernobyl Survivors Didn’t Pass on Harmful Mutations to Their Children, Study Finds
Two new papers out Thursday highlight the aftereffects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident that occurred over 30 years ago. One study might help explain why survivors are more likely to develop thyroid cancer, while another found evidence that these survivors don’t seem to have passed on potentially harmful mutations to their children.
