<Li> The work of photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart documents the human impact of the disaster on residents who stayed in the affected area . </Li> <Li> Bandashevsky measured levels of radioisotopes in children who had died in the Minsk area that had received Chernobyl fallout, and the cardiac findings were the same as those seen in test animals that had been administered Cs - 137 . </Li> <P> Since March 2001, 400 lawsuits have been filed in France against "X" (the French equivalent of John Doe, an unknown person or company) by the French Association of Thyroid - affected People, including 200 in April 2006 . These persons are affected by thyroid cancer or goitres, and have filed lawsuits alleging that the French government, at the time led by Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, had not adequately informed the population of the risks linked to the Chernobyl radioactive fallout . The complaint contrasts the health protection measures put in place in nearby countries (warning against consumption of green vegetables or milk by children and pregnant women) with the relatively high contamination suffered by the east of France and Corsica . Although the 2006 study by the French Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety said that no clear link could be found between Chernobyl and the increase of thyroid cancers in France, it also stated that papillary thyroid cancer had tripled in the following years . </P> <P> After the Chernobyl Disaster, many countries were reluctant to expand their own nuclear programs . Some countries, such as Italy and Switzerland tried to ban nuclear power all together . Others, such as the Dutch and Finland postponed the addition of nuclear power plants . The disaster reaffirmed policy made by Austria and Sweden to terminate use of all nuclear energy . Germany set up regulatory organizations and new policy including the Federal Ministry of Environment and Reactor Safety and a new act for precaution protection against nuclear radiation . </P>

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