How did Chernobyl affect the Ukraine food production and Europe?
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/nuclear-reaction/GP0KZX.jpg This is a complex question for a problem that requires to be described with hard data and some numbers. Radiation from the Chernobyl accident contaminated 125.000 square kilometers in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia with radio cesium levels of more than 37 kBq/m2, and another 30.000 km2 with radio strontium levels of more than 10 kBq/m2. From all this land, about a third, some 52.000 km2 corresponded to agricultural use. According to “www.iaea.org” on how the Chernobyl accident affected the Ukraine land and food production: –Quote– The deposition of Radio Iodine caused the most immediate concern. The radio iodine was rapidly absorbed into milk at a high rate leading to significant thyroid doses to people consuming milk, especially children in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. In the rest of Europe increased levels of Radio Iodine in milk were observed in some southern areas, where dairy animals were already outdoors. After the early pha
