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THIS IS A MAP OF THE WIDE SPREAD RADIATION THROUGH OUT THE WORLD	THE AFFECTS OF RADIATION ALL OVER THE WORLDOne major result of the Chernobyl accident that would cause as much agony to the incident was the spread of radiation. A definite effect of the spread of the radiation was the damage it had on the Eastern European agriculture. The EC (European Community) immediately put a 90 day ban on agricultural goods from Eastern Europe. This was initially thought of as political strategy from the US as well as other Western countries. This caused the Soviet Union to take the responsibility to pay for all the damage done to the Eastern European agriculture.
Altogether, fallout from Chernobyl was registered in all of the Northern Hemisphere. The only places that were affected enough to affect human health was in Europe and the Soviet Union. The US, Canada, and Japan all set up monitoring services to check Students and Tourists from USSR and Western and Eastern Europe. The Chernobyl accident, combined with the effects of the Three Mile Island incident, put an end to the development of nuclear power plants. Since 1979 no new nuclear power plants have been built, causing the eventual diminishing of nuclear power.	send an email
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LOCAL PEOPLE OF CHERNOBYL Chernobyl affected the health of many people throughout Russia. Altogether the total number of fatalities caused by Chernobyl stands at 31 officially. Around 600,000 however were classified as being "significantly exposed" and will have their health monitored their whole lives. Twenty-four people were disabled by the accident, some so severely they were left as invalids for the rest of there lives. Two-hundred thiry-eight people have suffered acute radiation syndrome. This was updated later in 1988 at a conference in Kiev . At the conference the estimates were updated and around 50,000 people had received 50 rad (0.5 Gy) and about 2,000 people have received around 200 rad (2 Gy). Note that an exposure of about 100 rad will cause symptoms of radiation sickness. The total number of people that were in this classification is somewhere around 10,000. The official report on the number of cancer effects is as follows as prescribed by the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group (INSAG) of the IAEA: "The spontaneous incidence of all cancers (for 135,000 evacuees) would not be likely to increased by more than about 0.6%. The corresponding figure for the remaining population in most regions of the European part of the Soviet Union is not expected to exceed 0.15% but is likely to be lower, of the order of 0.03%. The relative increase in the mortality due to thyroid cancer could reach 1%. The number of cases of impairment of health due to genetic effects may be judged not to exceed 20-40% of the excess cancer doses."