/CC BY-SA 2.0 It has been over 20 years since Chernobyl exploded, scattering tons of radioactive debris and requiring a sarcophagus be built to forever entomb the remains of the accident site. Chernobyl Offer New View of Radiation Exposure After the explosion, half a million workers were brought in to clean up and build the encapsulating structure that was required to control further damage from the nuclear meltdown. Such a huge number of workers were required due to constant turnover as clean-up crews reached their radiation dosage limit, sometimes after only a few hours of work. This population represents a lot of people who were exposed to radiation at moderate levels -- that is, more...
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