Polesie State Radiation and Ecological Reserve in Belarus

Belarus. Gomel region. Dosimetrist Iosif Shkut during radiation level measurement at the meteorological site of the Masany research station in the Khoiniki district of the Polesie State Radiation and Ecological Reserve. The reserve was created on the territory of three districts that were subjected to the greatest radiation contamination after the nuclear accident at the fourth power unit of the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986. Scientists working on a rotational basis monitor the radiation situation, study the effect of radiation on flora and fauna, and on the accumulation and movement of radionuclides in the soil. Viktor Tolochko/TASS