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Record W2100096244 · doi:10.1093/ije/dyl123

Legacy: inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone

2006· article· en· W2100096244 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
John Darwell

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Epidemiology · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicNuclear Issues and Defense
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPopulationNoticeNuclear power plantInternational agencyRadioactive contaminationGeographyQuarter (Canadian coin)HistoryArchaeologyDemographyPolitical scienceLawSociologyMedicineCancerPhysics

Abstract

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The images shown here1 explore inside the 30 km exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl Power Plant. Evacuated with 24 hours notice after the 1986 melt down of one of its three nuclear reactors, the zone now stands as a symbol of the dangers inherent within the nuclear process. Empty villages strewn with the reminders of their former populations are scattered throughout the zone and at its centre is the city of Pripyat, formerly a symbol of the Ukraine's bright new future and now too radioactive to even demolish, its buildings crumbling and littered with the detritus of a fleeing population. Yet amongst this devastation a few, mostly old, people have returned to their homes in the zone (they were initially removed to the outskirts of Kiev). Without any other, or safer, place to go, they make a living from this radioactive and most notorious of locations. A report by Greenpeace (2006) published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the disaster estimates that the consequences could surpass a quarter of a million cancer cases and 100 000 deaths from cancer.2 This report challenges the UN International Atomic Energy Agency Chernobyl Forum report that predicted only 4000 deaths attributable to the accident. Ukraine finally shut down the Chernobyl power plant in 2000. Further examples of Legacy can be seen at www.johndarwell.com > Projects/Images 30 km exclusion zone entry point Looking into the zone Karagod abandoned Karagod Illegal settlers, Opachichi Nicholai and Anastasia Rassohka, irradiated helicopters Buryakovka, landfill site Pripyat, the most radioactive city Pripyat fun fair Pripyat kindergarten Pripyat, radiation poster Kindergarten #a

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.057
Threshold uncertainty score0.113

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.002
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0320.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.054
GPT teacher head0.382
Teacher spread0.328 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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