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IUR sponsors training of Canadian students on case studies at Chernobyl
2009-09-13 >> Radioactivity

The Department of Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences of the McMaster University, (Ontario, Canada) provides a Graduate course "CHERNOBYL 777" which will be held around the Chernobyl Zone from 18 to 29 May 2009, sponsored in part by IUR.

See the agenda of graduate Course CHERNOBYL 777.

The students who will take part in this course are expected to interact extensively with the Belorussian and Ukrainian scientists and others they will meet during the trip. They should write about this experience from different backgrounds and produce three deliverable works pertaining to their chosen topic: an essay, a case study and a presentation at a symposium.

Some topics for the case study:    

1. The environmental and health consequences of the evacuation after the Chernobyl accident.
2. Women's issues after the Chernobyl accident.
3. Impact of the Chernobyl disaster on the terrestrial environment.
4. Impact of the Chernobyl accident on the aquatic environment.
5. National and International issues of transnational pollution using the Chernobyl accident as a case study.
6. The impact of the Chernobyl accident on the reindeer herders and other Arctic communities.
7. The health consequences in the liquidators.
8. Why do estimates of cancer deaths attributable to the Chernobyl accident vary from 40 - 90,000? 20 years after the accident.
9. An ethics study of the "Children of Chernobyl" charity.
10. Long-term environmental health effects of the Chernobyl accident.
11. Assessment of the Chernobyl Forum Report and the Torch report.
12. Dosimetric challenges after the Chernobyl accident - with emphasis on environmental aspects.
13. What were the causes of the Chernobyl explosion?

More information about the Chernobyl Experience course 777, see the dailynew on McMaster University

Contact Carmel Mothersill at McMaster University.

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