Impact of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Tests on the Natural Environment and Population in Western Siberia during the “Cold War”
I.M. Savitskiy
Keywords: испытание ядерного оружия, природные условия, ядерные следы, радиационная обстановка, загрязнение территорий, населенных пунктов, их изучение, nuclear tests, natural environment, nuclear fallout, radiation environment, territory contamination, contamination of settlements, contamination analysis
Abstract
The paper evaluates impact of numerous and various nuclear tests of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site on the natural environment and population of Western Siberia in the late 1940s – late 1980s. It characterizes radiation environment and its correlation with cancer morbidity in the Altai and Novosibirsk Regions.
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