Context: A disaster is indiscriminate in whom it affects. Limited research has shown that the
poor and medically underserved, especially in rural areas, bear an inequitable amount of …

Abstract Knowledge about dose levels in radiation protection is an important step for risk
assessment. However, in most cases of real or suspected accidental exposures to ionizing …

The official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl accident,'the worst nuclear disaster in history', is
only 54, and stories today commonly suggest that nature is thriving there. Yet award-winning …

This paper assesses the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on
welfare, well-being and mental health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl …

Since 2011, the scientific community has worked to identify the exact transport and
deposition patterns of radionuclides released from the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi …

In April 2012 we carried out a 1-year hematological study on a population of wild Japanese
monkeys inhabiting the forest area of Fukushima City. This area is located 70 km from the …

Concerns about the impacts on public health and on the natural environment have been
raised regarding the full range of operational activities related to uranium mining and the …

Background After the Chernobyl accident in 1986, children of the contaminated
Narodichesky region of Ukraine were obliged to participate in a yearly medical screening …

Background We implemented a community based interventional health screening for
individuals located within one mile of a 54 metric tons release of liquid chlorine following a …

Background: Environmental public health disasters involving hazardous contaminants may
have devastating effects. While much is known about their immediate devastation, far less is …