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Hard Rain Falls on Yugoslavia
Drakulich, Slavenka | February 14, 1987 issue

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The article highlights the harmful effects of the radioactive cloud released by the meltdown at the Soviet nuclear plant in Chornobyl, Ukraine on April 26, 1986 on water, soil, plants and human beings. The first stories in the press, on May 2, bore headlines like "No Danger to Health" and "No Need for Protective Measures." Children and pregnant women were not told to stay indoors, as in other European nations. Yugoslavs were advised merely to wash vegetables before using them in a salad, at a time when concentrations of radioactive isotopes in the atmosphere were many times higher than the normal level.

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CHERNOBYL Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986; HEALTH risk assessment; RADIOISOTOPES; YUGOSLAVIA; CHORNOBYL (Ukraine); UKRAINE
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