Monday, March 24, 2014

Back to Chernobyl

http://0-link.springer.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu/book/10.1007%2F3-540-28079-0
Above is a useful source with different information on Chernobyl.
I will mainly use the Health Effects Chapter.

If the maximum radiation is exposed to a human, they will die within days/weeks. If they don't die, they can get deterministic effects.

Some examples of deterministic effects are:
  • Cataract
  • Erythema
  • Infertility
http://www.hko.gov.hk/education/dbcp/rad_health/eng/r4_1.htm

There are also stochastic effects that take sometimes decades to affect a human

Some examples are:
  • Cancer
  • Genetic effect

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