Chernobyl disaster fallout effects in UK?

Question

DOes anyone know where the fallout hit in the uk, which areas were affected the most?
Also if anyone has any links on this topic I would be grateful.

Answer 1

The debate over the health effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Britain reopens today with research which suggests that infant deaths were higher in areas where rain fell as the plume of fallout passed overhead. Go to the link for full text. Quite interesting! http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article353007.ece

John Urquhart, a researcher based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in north eastern England, estimated that at least 200 more children than normal died during those three years. Urquhart calculated that in England and Wales the fallout may have caused more than 600 extra cases of Down's Syndrome, spina bifida, cleft palate and other abnormalities in these years.

After studying deaths and birth defects in children born in 15 health regions of England and Wales between 1983 and 1992, he found that most of the increased deaths and deformities occurred in just five regions, spread throughout the two countries.

http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/16590/story.htm

Some areas of Europe, such as hilltop sheep farms of North Wales, are still feeling the effects of radioactive contamination 20 years after it fell from the sky.
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article360126.ece

While the Ukraine , Belarus and Russia bore the brunt of the emissions, radiation also spread over large parts of Scandinavia , central Europe and the UK . Due to meat contamination levels exceeding safety limits, almost 9,000 farms in the UK had restrictions placed on the movement and sale of sheep. Although officials stated that these restrictions would only last a matter of weeks, 359 farms and 176,000 sheep in Wales are still subject to the restrictions twenty years later.

http://www.foe.co.uk/cymru/english/press_releases/2006/chernobyl_anniversary.html

Only limited areas of Cumbria, South Western Scotland and Northern Wales are still covered by restrictions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

This last link provides an animated hour by hour, day by day map of the spread and fallout out of Caesium 137 from Chernobyl.

http://www.irsn.org/index.php?position=lecons_tchernobyl_panache_radioactif_anim_flash

Answer 2

Chernobyl Uk

Answer 3

The areas worst affected where the lake district, parts of Southern Scotland, the Isle of Man and North Wales. There are still restrictions on some of the hills in North Wales over twenty years after the accident.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0314-10.htm

http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=53809

http://www.guardian.co.uk/country/article/0,,1752683,00.html

Answer 4

I read alot about the incident - and the fallout plume never made it that far west.

It got about as west as the eastern border of France and then drifted northwest into the scandanavian regions.

Answer 5

I know it effected the Lake District quite a bit but other than that I don't know much, sorry

Answer 6

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