Early exposure to PFAS, a group of widely used compounds known as “forever chemicals,” was associated with a higher risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common childhood cancer, according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health.
On April 28, 1986, when a radioactive plume reached Sweden, the world discovered that there had been a huge accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power facility in Ukraine. The accident had occurred two days earlier, and the details were hidden by Soviet authorities.
