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The Institute of Radiation Safety “BELRAD” website, “General Overview” ( www.belrad-institute.org/UK/doku.php).

A. Yablokov, V. Nesterenko, and A. Nesterenko, “Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment,” in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences vol. 1181 (Boston: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009), viii, 42.

United Nations Development Program, Belarus: Choices for the Future (Minsk: National Human Development Report, 2000), 32, http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/belarus_2000_en.pdf.

J. Vidal, “UN Accused of Ignoring 500,000 Chernobyl Deaths,” The Guardian , March 24, 2006.

Ibid.

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, “Health Effects of Chernobyl: 25 Years After the Reactor Catastrophe,” April 2011.

Ibid.

Nuclear power plants produce electricity using the same principle as coal- and gas-fired power plants. They produce large amounts of heat in order to boil water and produce steam, which then is used to power the turbines that generate electricity. Nuclear power plants were not invented to make electricity. They were designed to produce plutonium to be used in nuclear weapons. Every thousand-megawatt commercial nuclear plant that uses uranium for fuel produces enough plutonium every year to build about forty nuclear weapons.

A unit of absorbed radiation equivalent to one joule of energy per kilogram of matter.