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Map showing how a cloud of radiation engulfed Europe, during the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

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Spread of the radioactive cloud after the Chernobyl Disaster in 1986.

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1986 Chernobyl radioactive cloud over Europe.

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Radiation from Chernobyl around the world.

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Radioactive caesium from Chernobyl all across Europe.

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Nuclear contamination of Europe by the Chernobyl Disaster.

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Chernobyl disaster: Radioactive cloud’s movement.

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I have an article out today on the New Yorker’s Elements Blog, on the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster: The Battles of Chernobyl
Above is an image I have been working on in Photoshop — an impressionistic watercolor of Cesium-137 contamination in Europe as a result of Chernobyl. Based on Plate 1 from “The Atlas of Caesium-137 Contamination of Europe after the Chernobyl Accident.”

Radioactive fallout from Chernobyl disaster in curie/km2

Radioactive fallout from Chernobyl disaster in curie/km²

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