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Question
What harm did radioactive pollution do in the Chernobyl disaster?
Solution
After the disaster, four square kilometers of pine forest near the reactor turned reddish-brown and died. Horses also died 6 km. away by thyroid damage the whole of western USSR and other European countries are contaminated by gamma emitters deposited on the soil. Meat and dairy products were contaminated with Caesium-137. About 7,00,000 people became exposed to Chernobyl radiation, expecting bad health problems.
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