English-Dutch translations for fallout

• fall-out
  De nucleaire fall-out van Tsjernobyl heeft ook staten van de EU getroffen. Also nuclear fallout from Chernobyl affected EU states.
  Ik ben van mening dat we op het gebied van de gevolgen van de fall-out voor de gezondheid nog steeds met blinde vlekken te kampen hebben. In my opinion, there are still some major gaps that need to be filled in the area of the health issues arising from the fallout.
  De bodem werd ook besmet door radioactieve fall-out, wat leidde tot een toename van de radioactiviteit van de land- en bosbouwproducten die in de besmette gebieden waren geoogst. Fields were also contaminated with radioactive fallout, which increased the radioactivity of forest and agricultural foodstuffs from the affected areas.

Definition of fallout

• The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc
• The particles themselves
• A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence
• A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed
• An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no show or who has cancelled last minute

Examples

• On 26 April 1986 the reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located in the Soviet Union near Pripyat in Ukraine exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area.
• Psychological fallout in the shadow of terrorism, title of an article by Dr. Abraham Twerski, M.D. in [http://www.jewishworldreview.com]

Related words

• fallout shelter
• radioactive fallout
• nuclear fallout shelter