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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Chernobyl"”.
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Painting the zone : Chernobyl and the "Art of witness"
… reside. Choosing to address the events at Chernobyl, whether directly or indirectly, both artists embark on a quasi-political trajectory, using and manipulating elements of abjection, the narrative, virus, masochism and art history in order to produce "countervisions." These countervisions …
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Chernobyl journey: process and subversion in woman’s self-reflexive animation
… in making my long form mixed media documentary Chernobyl Journey, when I attempted to evade politically loaded popular narratives that I found constraining. Despite my intentions, the film quickly became both more political and more subversive when I designated myself as the subject. Observing …
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Radioactive heritage: an autoethnographic investigation of Chernobyl as a dark heritage site
This research aims to unearth Chernobyl’s radioactive heritage through autoethnographic methodology. The autoethnographic method takes readers on a first-person tour of Chernobyl and the Exclusion Zone. In doing so, readers are given the unique first-person opportunity to experience the site, its …
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Radiation exposure of human populations in villages in Russia and Belarus affected by fallout from the Chernobyl reactor
… the catastrophe at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl. The radioactive fallout affected all the European countries and most severely the three countries of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. In the aftermath of this devastating event, the scientific knowledge on the various radiological impacts of …
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Политика Чернобыля в Беларуси в 1986-2008 годах: формирование и проявления дискурс-коалиций /
Despite the shutdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (1986) it still influences the social and political reality. Chernobyl appears in this research as the result of work of interpretation of the aftermaths of Chernobyl disaster by different actors: state bodies, political parties, NGO and …
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Leukaemia Incidence in Children and Adults in the Regions of Russia Most Highly Contaminated after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident
… may be caused by ionizing radiation. After the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident on 26 April 1986, parts of Belarus, Russia and the Ukraine were contaminated with radionuclides. To date, over 270 000 people live in such contaminated regions in Russia. This study investigates whether the …
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An Analysis of the Influence of Age and Ionizing Radiation on Cognitive Performance
… of subjects exposed to radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl, Ukraine, nuclear power plant accident. Accuracy and efficiency scores from four cognitive tests taken by 84 Ukrainian volunteers were divided into two age groups and three radiation dosage groups for analysis. The results of this study …
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On the Effects of Stress, Resistance to Stress, and Developmental Stability On Life History Characters In <em>Drosophila Melanogaster</em>
… derived from populations collected near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant where they had been chronically exposed to low-level ionizing radiation for generations, and flies exposed to ionizing radiation in the laboratory, showed some disturbances in their recombination rates, their gonadal …
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Variation-aware algorithms for cancer genome analysis
… environmental sources. In the years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, thousands of individuals in areas where radionuclides were deposited developed thyroid cancer. The excess relative risk of thyroid cancer has been estimated to be between fifteen and thirty fold higher following $^{131}I$ …
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Essence Apparatus
… on the archipelago of Svalbard; the Chernobyl accident; humans living on Mars returning to their origins on Earth, but also interpersonal relationships between a daughter and her father, two sisters, and lovers. The stories explore the hard problem of consciousness and other …
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Towards the Anthropocene : colossal naturality in disordered territories
… architecture, ecology, society and culture. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone will serve as a case study for investigating the Anthropocene condition."
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Under the Permafrost: Uncovering a Social Movement in the Soviet Union
… of the political spectrum. Perestroika and Chernobyl were two of the important politically charged factors that gave the environmental movement the lift it needed to function. Official organizations working under the direction of intellectuals and academics worked as a moderator between …
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Molecular and isotopic records of combustion inputs to the environment over the last 250 years
… a 137Cs peak was found to coincide with the 1986 Chernobyl accident.
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Molecular and isotopic records of the combustion inputs to the environment over the last 250 yrs
… a ¹³⁷Cs peak was found to coincide with the 1986 Chernobyl accident.
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The economic and political significance of Russia's RBMK reactors
… most notably resulting in the April 26th Chernobyl disaster. Despite implementing modifications to correct these problems, almost all countries permanently cancelled existing RBMK reactor operations. The sole exception to the European decommissioning effort was Russia. In Russia, RBMKs …
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Πρωτότυπος μετρητής ολοσώμου γ-ακτινοβολίας και η χρήση του στον in-vivo προσδιορισμό του ραδιενεργού καλίου και καισίου
… in Greece, following the nuclear accident in Chernobyl were estimated. This was done by in-vivo measurements of radioactivity in several groups of people. The total internal dose was determined for of each group. It was found that this dose was 0.420 mSv for men and 0.275 nSv for women, within …
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Quantifying the environmental impact on individuals' well-being in risk analysis
… such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion, exemplify how accidents that damage the environment affect society in ways that exceed human and property losses. Environmental damages caused by disasters are often continuous, influencing a broader portion …
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The Establishment and Some Consequences of the Combined Threat Reduction Programme and Associated Programmes
… Reagan and in Russia to the consequences of Chernobyl. Evidence of the Law of Unintended Consequences is present. In 1991 most Americans would have disbelieved that for the next twenty years half the electricity generated in US nuclear power plants would be fuelled by re-engineered Soviet …
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The strategic use of external threat in the shaping of Russian domestic and foreign policies
… Soviet times when the Soviet Union faced the Chernobyl catastrophe, the war in Afghanistan, the Perestroika period and the epoque of Velvet revolutions. The economy simply could not sustain these above mentioned challenges and resulted in the collapse of the USSR. Naturally, this had an …
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