The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 209, Issues 4-6National Geographic Society., 2006 - Geography |
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... radiation . Her father , an engineer , returned that day from Moscow , where he had passed a doctoral exam . His thesis , ironically , was on the odds of a catastrophe at a nuclear power station . On his way home , he told Olesya later ...
... radiation . Her father , an engineer , returned that day from Moscow , where he had passed a doctoral exam . His thesis , ironically , was on the odds of a catastrophe at a nuclear power station . On his way home , he told Olesya later ...
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... radiation dose in seconds . On May 6 the fires in the mangled reactor were finally extinguished , and an army of liquidators went to work building the sarcophagus and con- solidating radioactive waste at several hundred dumps near ...
... radiation dose in seconds . On May 6 the fires in the mangled reactor were finally extinguished , and an army of liquidators went to work building the sarcophagus and con- solidating radioactive waste at several hundred dumps near ...
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... Radiation Protection of Belarus , notes that it took 20 to 25 years for some radiation - induced can- cers to appear in the atom - bomb survivors . " We can say that we're on the beginning of the road . " The millions of ordinary people ...
... Radiation Protection of Belarus , notes that it took 20 to 25 years for some radiation - induced can- cers to appear in the atom - bomb survivors . " We can say that we're on the beginning of the road . " The millions of ordinary people ...
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Inside Chernobyl 32 Twenty years after a nuclear reactor exploded blanketing | 36 |
Glen Canyon Revealed 64 A sustained drought has shriveled Lake Powell in the Southwest | 72 |
COVER U S soldiers patrol devastated Market Street in San Francisco | 120 |
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