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Ethics

Chernobyl’s hidden legacy

01 Apr 2017
Taken from the 2017 issue of Physics World Focus on Nuclear Energy

Historian Kate Brown argues that scientists should re-examine Soviet-era evidence of health effects from low doses of radiation

Photo of radiation monitoring at a school in Babchin, Belarus
Watchful eye Radiation monitoring at a school in Babchin, Belarus, which lies within a restricted zone created around Chernobyl following the disaster. (Sputnik/Science Photo Library)
In June 1980 a doctor with the Oak Ridge Associated Universities in the US wrote a letter to a colle

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Kate Brown is a historian at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, US, e-mail kbrown@umbc.edu
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