{"id":685,"date":"2024-12-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=685"},"modified":"2024-12-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T12:00:00","slug":"93-biological-impacts-of-chernobyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"93- Biological Impacts of Chernobyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-685-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/87735214\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-5-7%2Fc2eb27bd-f243-cab9-bb21-a16b2cc58313.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/87735214\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-5-7%2Fc2eb27bd-f243-cab9-bb21-a16b2cc58313.mp3\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/87735214\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-5-7%2Fc2eb27bd-f243-cab9-bb21-a16b2cc58313.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>In 1986, the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl- then in the USSR, now in Ukraine- experienced meltdown. This disaster is one of the worst in nuclear history. However, there are some biological consequences we should explore.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica (2020), Chernobyl accident summary (online) (Accessed 29\/05\/2024).<\/li>\n<li>The Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica (2024), Half-life (online) (Accessed 31\/05\/2024).<\/li>\n<li>Ellegren, H., Lingren, G., Primmer, C. R. and M\u00f8ller, A. P. (1997), Fitness loss and germline mutations in barn swallows breeding in Chernobyl. Nature 389: 593-596.<\/li>\n<li>Hine, R. S. (2019), Oxford Dictionary of Biology (8th edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<li>M\u00f8ller, A. P. and Mousseau, T. A. (2015), Strong effects of ionizing radiation from Chernobyl on mutation rates. Nature Scientific Reports 5: 8363.<\/li>\n<li>Weinberg, H. Sh., Korol, A. B., Kirzhner, V. M., Avivi, A., Fahima, T., Nevo, E., Shapiro, S., Rennert, G., Piatak, O., Stepanova, E. I. and Skvarskaja, E. (2001), Very high mutation rate in offspring of Chernobyl accident liquidators. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 268: 1001-1005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1986, the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl- then in the USSR, now in Ukraine- experienced meltdown. This disaster is one of the worst in nuclear history. However, there are some biological consequences we should explore. Sources for this episode: The Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica (2020), Chernobyl accident summary (online) (Accessed 29\/05\/2024). The Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=685\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;93- Biological Impacts of Chernobyl&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}