{"id":25900,"date":"2007-04-03T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:34:50","slug":"900-urban-air-pollution-more-dangerous-than-chernobyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/900-urban-air-pollution-more-dangerous-than-chernobyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban air pollution &#8216;more dangerous than Chernobyl &#8216;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>High levels of urban air pollution can do more to shorten life expectancy than the radiation exposure of emergency workers sent into the 30-kilometre exclusion zone around Chernobyl immediately after the nuclear accident, the report said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><\/span><span><br \/>\nJim Smith, a scientist at the UK government&#8217;s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Dorchester , assessed the health risks faced by emergency workers and people living unofficially in the exclusion zone afterwards. He then compared them with the risks of air pollution,<br \/>\nobesity and smoking.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span> Writing in the journal BMC Public Health, Smith said: &quot;Populations still living unofficially in the abandoned lands around Chernobyl may actually have a lower health risk from radiation than they would have if they were exposed to air pollution in a large city, such as nearby Kiev.&quot;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>See<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/environment.guardian.co.uk\/waste\/story\/0,,2048662,00.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> full story<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air pollution in major cities may be more damaging to health than the radiation exposure suffered by survivors of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, according to a report cited in the <em>Guardian<\/em> on 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