A map caption with the article referred incorrectly to the exposure to radiation from fallout.
Samples collected in areas south, west, and north of the plant were generally consistent with background from fallout.
In fact, throughout this past year, Woods has fought to shield his foundation from fallout related to his personal travails.
"We'd have no significant exposures," Mr. Buddemeier told the conference, and thus virtually no casualties from fallout.
It mattered little that, from fallout and technical information, this 1953 Russian test had an ambivalent "signature".
Ingesting potassium iodide can help prevent thyroid cancer, particularly in children, by reducing the chance that radioactive iodine from fallout will be absorbed by the thyroid gland.
Candles, facemasks and umbrellas have run out in some stores too, after government officials advised using them to protect from fallout.
Although Chernobyl is rightly synonymous with disaster, international health authorities have found the damage from fallout downwind to be far less than originally feared.
Apart from fallout from the market meltdown, economic growth in Africa has been gathering pace — over 5 percent per year in the decade ending in 2009.
The massive deposits are interpreted as the result of eruption-fed, subaqueous turbidity current deposits; whereas, the finely laminated cap likely resulted from fallout of suspended fine-grained material through a water column.
