These P-generation individuals were directly exposed to all of the radioactive materials from the explosion of the NPP when they were larvae, which could have resulted in genetic damage.
The map of the radioactive plume from the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear power plant shows that rather than contaminate the area surrounding the plant, where evacuations occurred, the plume followed the wind and contaminated areas as far as 25 kilometers away, where people remained in their homes.
The space agency used its Integral observatory to detect gamma rays from the radioactive elements created during the explosion.
"Few people know that 70% of the radioactive fallout of the 1986 explosion landed on the territory of Belarus," Sannikov points out.
Expedient shelters are not intended to be lived in for much longer than a few days, but, if assembled correctly, one could shield its inhabitants from the radioactive fallout of a nuclear explosion.
Its latest reading more accurately reflects the radioactive material spewed after hydrogen explosions at Reactors 2 and 3, the agency said.
The year following the explosion, radioactive decay of cobalt to iron will dominate emission from the supernova remnant, and the resulting gamma rays will be blocked by the expanding envelope of hydrogen.
Turning this device into a terrorist weapon would require cutting off the coolant so the atomic furnace rages out of control and, equally important, getting the radioactive matter to disperse by an explosion or fire.
After the explosion, much of the radioactive fuel from the damaged reactor flowed like lava into the rooms below the reactor chamber, where it solidified.
"Some of this is cleared with controlled explosions and so the radioactive and toxic material spreads again," he said.
