The phrase "a consequence of the Chernobyl" is not correct in English.
It should be "a consequence of Chernobyl" or "a consequence of the Chernobyl disaster." You can use it when discussing the effects or outcomes resulting from the Chernobyl incident.
Example: "The increase in thyroid cancer cases in the surrounding areas was a consequence of Chernobyl."
Alternatives: "an outcome of Chernobyl" or "a result of the Chernobyl disaster."
Indeed Yablokov et al. [23] summarized an extensive literature on the effects of radiation on cognitive performance as a consequence of the Chernobyl disaster.
Radiation-associated thyroid tumours were also observed in children contaminated in Ukraine and Belarus as a consequence of the Chernobyl accident (Kazakov et al, 1992).
For example, transgenerational developmental responses to radiation have been documented in grasshoppers in Chernobyl [ 20], and possible adaptation to oxidative stress in birds as a consequence of the Chernobyl accident has been reported recently [ 21].
Downregulation of LMO3 in radiation-related thyroid carcinomas in comparison to matched normal thyroid samples has been detected in a microarray/RT-PCR study conducted on individuals who received iodine-131 doses as a consequence of the Chernobyl accident [ 57].
But major environmental organizations have accused the report of whitewashing Chernobyl's impact and state that more than 100,000 people have already died as a consequence of the disaster.
Thyroid cancers have been the main medical consequence of the Chernobyl accident.
The first was a result of the Chernobyl disaster.
In 1997 she published Chernobylskaya molitva: khronika budushchego (Voices from Chernobyl: Chronicle of the Future; also translated as Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster), which confronted the devastating consequences of the Chernobyl disaster as told by witnesses and victims of the catastrophic nuclear power station accident.
Now a report from the United Nations on the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 15 years after the event comes to a very different conclusion.
The continuing disputes over the consequences of the Chernobyl accident make it essential that a major international organization be created to support authoritative studies of the long-term effects of the world's biggest nuclear accident.
However, the writers imply that there have been catastrophic consequences of the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents.
