Human Exposure To Radiation
According to a 2008 United Nations (UNSCEAR) report, the Chernobyl accident had by 2005 caused 0.065 million man-Sieverts (Sv) of radiation exposure to recovery workers and evacuees, 0.18 million man-Sv to the populace of the Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, and a dose to most of the more distant European countries amounting to 0.13 million man-Sv. The same report estimated a further 25% more exposure would be received from residual radiosotopes after 2005. The total global collective dose from Chernobyl was earlier estimated by UNSCEAR in 1988 to be "600,000 man Sv, equivalent on average to 21 additional days of world exposure to natural background radiation."
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