This paper studies the long-term effect of radiation on cognitive skills. We use regional variation in nuclear fallout caused by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, which led to a permanent increase in radiation levels in most of Europe. To identify a causal effect, we exploit the fact that the...

In this paper, an overview of our findings concerning the distribution of activity within low-level radioactive wastes will be presented. This will begin in a general fashion and consider the distribution of the total activity by each of the following: waste class, waste stream, wasteform, and...

Radiation practices among the 4 Carbide Plants at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Paducah, Kentucky, were evaluated, and uniform standards and criteria for handling U, Th, Np, and Pu were developed. Values for the permissible limits of internal and external radiation exposure published in the most...

This paper studies the long-term effect of radiation on cognitive skills. We use regional variation in nuclear fallout caused by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, which led to a permanent increase in radiation levels in most of Europe. To identify a causal effect, we exploit the fact that the...

This paper studies the long-term effect of radiation on cognitive skills. We use regional variation in nuclear fallout caused by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, which led to a permanent increase in radiation levels in most of Europe. To identify a causal effect, we exploit the fact that the...

Distribution of radionuclides in the main rock types: granodiorites, biotite-gneisses, black shale and amphibolites at the locality Pezinok - Kolársky vrch was studied in samples from two boreholes. Concentrations of 238U, 232Th and 40K in the samples were analysed by gamma spectroscopy...

This note reports the extent of somecomponents of natural resources damage from theChernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, primarily lossesin producer surplus in the reindeer industry inLapland, Sweden. The damage suffered by Swedish moosehunters has been estimated earlier. The result is alower...