A black triangle is assigned to any new medicine when approved for the first time if it contains a new active substance, or is a biological medicinal product such as plasma derived medicines, vaccines or biosimilars.

Abstract. The “Black Triangle” area (covering northern Bohemia, southern Saxony and part of lower Silesia) has been one of the most polluted areas in Central Europe. The area was named mainly because of high emissions of sulfur and dust.

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The Black Triangle became a source of acid rain when… factories burn lignite, a inexpensive coal, which releases sulfuric dioxide and nitrogen oxides. These then combine with rain in the clouds and becomes acidic and falls to Earth corroding buildings and hurting organisms.

The Black Triangle (German Schwarzes Dreieck) is a border region shared by Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, long characterized by extremely high levels of pollution. The term was coined in the 1980s.

On April 26, 1986, a sudden surge of power during a reactor systems test destroyed Unit 4 of the nuclear power station at Chernobyl, Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union. The accident and the fire that followed released massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment.

The accident destroyed the Chernobyl 4 reactor, killing 30 operators and firemen within three months and several further deaths later. One person was killed immediately and a second died in hospital soon after as a result of injuries received.

According to Vyacheslav Grishin of the Chernobyl Union, the main organization of liquidators, “25,000 of the Russian liquidators are dead and 70,000 disabled, about the same in Ukraine, and 10,000 dead in Belarus and 25,000 disabled”, which makes a total of 60,000 dead (10% of the 600,000 liquidators) and 165,000 …

The design of the sarcophagus started on 20 May 1986, 24 days after the disaster. Coal miners were called up to dig the necessary tunnel below the reactor and by 24 June 1986, four hundred coal miners had dug the 168-metre (551 ft) long tunnel.

The process will involve vacuuming radioactive particles and clearing out the “lava” mixture that formed when Soviet workers dumped sand, lead, and boron into the burning reactor. These efforts are expected to last through 2065.

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Some of this radioactivity, predominantly radiocaesium-137, was deposited on certain upland areas of the UK, where sheep-farming is the primary land-use. 369 farms and 190,000 sheep are still affected, a reduction of 95% since 1986, when 9,700 farms and 4,225,000 sheep were under restriction across the United Kingdom.

The parents’ guide to what’s in this TV show. There’s little person-to-person violence, but effects of radiation are often shocking and gory. A suicide (not shown on-screen) takes place in the opening minutes of the show. No sexual content. There is, however, nonsexual full-frontal male nudity in one episode.

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On the most basic level, Chernobyl was merely one of the best true-story miniseries ever made, capitalising on the curious fact that most people know hardly anything about the meltdown of a nuclear reactor in Pripyat, Ukraine, in April 1986, despite the incident’s global infamy.

It focuses sustained attention on the intricacies of Soviet bureaucracy, the nature of fission, and the gruesome results of radiation poisoning. And yet the series, written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck, has attracted more than nine million cumulative viewers to date, according to HBO.

Chernobyl has overtaken a number of the most acclaimed shows in history to become the highest-rated TV show of all time. The show, which has just ended with its fifth episode, currently sits at the top of IMDB’s poll compiling the greatest TV shows, with a staggering score of 9.7 out of ten.

‘Chernobyl’ Creator Craig Mazin Confirms There Will Be No Season 2 Despite Big Emmy Win.

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

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It is concluded that the Chernobyl accident could have been much worse with 200 to 400 times the radiation consequences.