Abstract

The Chernobyl accident has become one of the largest man-made disasters with catastrophic radioecological, biomedical, socio-economic consequences. The article analyzes radioecological features of the Chernobyl accident, such as the dynamics of radioactive emissions, the composition and activity of radionuclides released into the environment, the ratio of radiocesium and radiostrontium, the forms and composition of radioactive emissions, the influence of weather conditions on the radioactive cloud spread, pollution of the 30-km zone and its transformation into an exclusion zone, auto-rehabilitation processes and rehabilitation measures for the return of alienated lands, the problem of plutonium and americium of Chernobyl origin.

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