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Chernobyl as Technoscience [PDF]

Technology and Culture, 2020
This essay considers the TV miniseries Chernobyl (HBO, 2019) to engage in a wider debate on the social and institutional production of techno-science. It explores whether the series resonates with the existing narratives and interpretations of Soviet technoscience in scholarly historiography.
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External Cesium-137 doses to humans from soil influenced by the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear power plants accidents: a comparative study

Scientific Reports, 2020
External exposure to gamma-photon irradiation from soil contamination due to nuclear power plant (NPP) accidents has significant contribution to human radiation exposure in the proximity of the NPP.
K. Wai, D. Krstić, D. Nikezic, Tang-Huang Lin, P. Yu   +4 more
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Framing Nuclearity: Online Media Discourses in Lithuania

Media and Communication, 2021
This article refers to the concept of nuclearity as a broader technopolitical phenomenon that implies a political and cultural configuration of technical and scientific matters. The nuclear media discourses become a site of tensions, struggles, and power
Natalija Mažeikienė, Judita Kasperiūnienė, Ilona Tandzegolskienė   +2 more
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Reconstruction of the Long-Term Dynamics of Particulate Concentrations and Solid–Liquid Distribution of Radiocesium in Three Severely Contaminated Water Bodies of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Based on Current Depth Distribution in Bottom Sediments

Land, 2021
Given the importance of understanding long-term dynamics of radionuclides in the environment in general, and major gaps in the knowledge of 137Cs particulate forms in Chernobyl exclusion zone water bodies, three heavily contaminated water bodies (Lakes ...
Alexei Konoplev, Gennady Laptev, Yasunori Igarashi, Hrigoryi Derkach, Valentin Protsak, Hlib Lisovyi, Kyrylo Korychenskyi, Serhii Kirieiev, Dmitry Samoilov, Kenji Nanba   +9 more
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Mid- to long-term radiocesium wash-off from contaminated catchments at Chernobyl and Fukushima.

Water Research, 2020
We analyzed mid- to long-term 137Cs wash-off from the catchments contaminated due to the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in 2011.
Аlexei Konoplev, V. Kanivets, О. Zhukova, Мaria Germenchuk, Hrigoryi Derkach   +4 more
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Investigation of the regularities of temperature regime of fire in cable tunnels depending on its parameters

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
Simulation, as a method of scientific research, makes it possible, without performing costly and labor-intensive field experiments on models, to carry out all necessary experiments to determine the temperature modes of fire in cable tunnels.
Nuianzin Oleksandr, Kryshtal Mykola, Nesterenko Artem, Kryshtal Dmytro, Samchenko Taras   +4 more
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Spatial radionuclide deposition data from the 60 km radial area around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant: results from a sampling survey in 1987

Earth System Science Data, 2020
. The data set “Spatial radionuclide deposition data from the 60 radial km area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant: results from a sampling survey in 1987” is the latest in a series of data to be published by the Environmental Information Data ...
V. Kashparov, S. Levchuk, M. Zhurba, V. Protsak, N. Beresford, J. Chaplow   +5 more
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The research of bearing capacity of reinforced concrete beam with use combined experimental-computational method

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017
The article shows results of behavior research of reinforced concrete beam exposed to fire using standard “time-temperature” curve. Practice of fire resistance estimating for reinforced concrete beams based on experimental and calculation method was ...
Nekora Olga, Slovynsky Vitaliy, Pozdieiev Serhii   +2 more
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Solid-liquid distribution coefficients (Kd-s) of geological deposits at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant site with respect to Sr, Cs and Pu radionuclides: A short review.

Chemosphere, 2020
A review is presented of data on solid-liquid distribution coefficients (Kd-s) of the main radiologically important radionuclides of the Chernobyl release within geological deposits at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) Site. The Kd values for Sr,
D. Bugai, Jim T. Smith, M. Hoque
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Unusual evolution of tree frog populations in the Chernobyl exclusion zone

bioRxiv, 2020
Despite the ubiquity of pollutants in the environment, their long-term ecological consequences are not always clear and still poorly studied. This is the case concerning the radioactive contamination of the environment following the major nuclear ...
C. Car, A. Gilles, O. Armant, Pablo Burraco, K. Beaugelin-Seiller, S. Gashchak, V. Camilleri, I. Cavalié, P. Laloi, C. Adam-Guillermin, G. Orizaola, J. Bonzom   +11 more
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