BB&T Corp. operates as a holding company for Branch Banking & Trust Co. It conducts its business operations primarily through its commercial bank subsidiary, Branch Bank, and other non-bank subsidiaries.
Chernobyl nuclear accident: figures for deaths and cancers still in dispute. â¢ Suspected infant mortality rise difficult to prove. â¢ Predicted deaths range from 4,000 to half a million.
Deposition of radioactive caesium in Europe as a result of the Chernobyl accident. For 10 days following the April 26 explosion, the ruptured Chernobyl reactor continued to release major quantities of radioactive substances, amounting to a total of about 14 EBq.lutonium and its decay products (in particular americium-241) will remain in the environment over a longer term of hundreds to thousands of years though at low levels (see half-lives of radioisotopes emitted during the Chernobyl accident).