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The editorial group Nuclear Accidents, Radiation, and Health was formed within the journal Pollution & Diseases to examine the environmental and public health implications of nuclear accidents and radiological exposure.
Nuclear technologies have led to significant and lasting environmental challenges in modern history. Incidents at nuclear power facilities, substantial radiological discharges, and historical contamination sites continue to affect ecosystems and human health over extended durations. The effects are characterized by latency, uncertainty, and complex exposure pathways that present challenges to conventional scientific frameworks.
This editorial group examines radiation as a unique environmental stressor that has enduring biological, ecological, and epidemiological implications. This platform offers an academic environment for a variety of scientific methodologies, encompassing environmental sciences, radiobiology, epidemiology, infectious ecology, ecology, toxicology, and public health, while ensuring that no single approach is favored over others.
Historical and contemporary cases, including nuclear power plant accidents and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are examined within a unified framework, regarded not as isolated events but as significant sources of empirical insight into radiation-related environmental and health processes.
The editorial team focused on Nuclear Accidents, Radiation, and Health compiles research that meets rigorous standards of methodology, ethics, and analytical precision, thereby advancing the scientific understanding of radiation-related risks and their lasting impacts on environments and communities.