Editing Gomel (section)

===Chernobyl disaster===
As a result of the [[Chernobyl disaster|disaster]] at the [[Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] on 26 April 1986, Gomel suffered [[radioactive contamination]]. At the beginning of the 21st century, a research centre for radiation medicine and human ecology was built in Gomel to overcome and study the consequences of the catastrophe at Chernobyl.<ref name="rcrm">{{cite web |title=The Republican Research Centre for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology |url=http://rcrm.by/english/center_eng.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201114602/http://rcrm.by/english/center_eng.html|archive-date=1 February 2009}}</ref>

The development of radiological dose values varies between individual villages in severely contaminated regions, depending on the surroundings and the economic orientation. In general, living is possible in these areas today, even in formerly closed-off zones, if appropriate dietary rules are observed.{{explain|date=November 2023}}<ref>Petro Zoriy, Herbert Dederichs, Jürgen Pillath, Burkhard Heuel-Fabianek, Peter Hill, Reinhard Lennartz: [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Burkhard_Heuel-Fabianek/publication/311846655_Long-Term_Measurements_of_the_Radiation_Exposure_of_the_Inhabitants_of_Radioactively_Contaminated_Regions_of_Belarus_-_The_Korma_Report_II_1998_-_2015/links/585d2ecd08ae329d61f68de7.pdf ''Long-Term Measurements of the Radiation Exposure of the Inhabitants of Radioactively Contaminated Regions of Belarus – The Korma Report II (1998 – 2015)''] Verlag [[Forschungszentrum Jülich]] 2016, {{ISBN|978-3-95806-181-1}}. PDF, 10,6 MB</ref>