Lightning increase after Chernobyl.Lightning increase after Chernobyl As a legacy of the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, certain areas of Sweden suffered high levels of radioactive fallout in the month that followed the accident. It was immediately apparent that this fallout could harm animals and humans, but Swedish researchers are now reporting that the accident also affected the frequency of lighting flashes. "In areas with high radioactive fallout,' say researchers from Uppsala University Uppsala University (Swedish Uppsala universitet) is a public university in Uppsala, Sweden, 64 kilometres (40 miles) north-northwest of Stockholm.[1] Founded in 1477, it claims to be the oldest university in Scandinavia, outdating the University of Copenhagen in Sweden, "an increase in the amount of lightning flashes was observed during the 1986 thunderstorm thunderstorm, violent, local atmospheric disturbance accompanied by lightning, thunder, and heavy rain, often by strong gusts of wind, and sometimes by hail. season.' In the Sept. 20 JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH Journal of Geophysical Research is a publication of the American Geophysical Union. JGR was formerly titled Terrestrial Magnetism from its founding by the AGU's president Louis A. , the researchers suggest that the radioactivity radioactivity, spontaneous disintegration or decay of the nucleus of an atom by emission of particles, usually accompanied by electromagnetic radiation. The energy produced by radioactivity has important military and industrial applications. affected the flash frequency by increasing the conductivity of the atmosphere. |
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