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Avril 2007 / New Scientist

Chernobyl alert over birth defects



Chernobyl alert over birth defects

* 23 April 2007

* From New Scientist Print Edition.

Radiation or relocation ? A study of birds around Chernobyl suggests that nuclear fallout, rather than stress and deteriorating living conditions, may be responsible for human birth defects in the region.

People living around the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine have unusually high levels of physical abnormalities and birth defects. The International Atomic Energy Agency has (...)