Chernobyl disaster long-term impact on their lives. "The Front Veranda" (1986), a lithograph by Susan Dorothea White in the National Gallery of Australia, exemplifies worldwide awareness of the event. "Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl" was released by Seventh Art in 2006 to commemorate the disaster through poetry and first-hand accounts. The film secured the Best Short Documentary at Cinequest Film Festival as well as the Rhode Island "best score" award along with a screening at Tate Modern. Chernobyl Way is an annual rally run on 26 April by the opposition in Belarus as a remembrance of the Chernobyl disaster. The Chernobyl
Effects of the Chernobyl disaster and slowed in 2005. The large increase in incidence of thyroid cancer happened amongst individuals who were adolescents and young children living during the time of the accident, and residing in the most contaminated areas of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. High levels of radioactive iodine were released in the environment from the Chernobyl reactor after the accident, and accumulated in pastures which were eaten by cows. The milk was later consumed by children who already had an iodine deficient diet, therefore causing more of the radioactive iodine to be accumulated. Radioactive iodine has a short half-life, 8.02 days,