Chernobyl: Assessment of Radiological and Health Impacts
Subtitle: 2002 Update of Chernobyl: Ten Years On
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Nuclear Energy Agency
Contributors: Nuclear Energy Agency
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9789264184879
Subjects: Nuclear energy
Description: The international radiological protection community performed a major status review of the situation around the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 10-year anniversary of the accident. Since then, studies of the accident site and the contaminated territories continue to be undertaken, which have yielded new scientific results and highlighted important social and health aspects. This report is a complete update of the NEA’s earlier publication, Chernobyl: Ten Years On. In particular, it offers the reader the most recent information on the significant new experience gained in the areas of emergency management, long-term environmental behaviour of radioactive materials and health effects.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Executive summary; title: Chapter I. The site and accident sequence; title: Chapter II. The release, dispersion, deposition and behaviour of radionuclides; title: Chapter III. Reactions of national authorities; title: Chapter IV. Dose estimates; title: Chapter V. Health impact; title: Chapter VI. Agricultural and environmental impacts; title: Chapter VII. Potential residual risks; title: Chapter VIII. Shutdown of the Chernobyl plant; title: Chapter IX. Lessons learned The INEX programme; title: Explanation of terms; title: List of acronyms; title: References