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Title: Chernobyl accident: A comprehensive risk assessment

Abstract

The authors, all of whom are Ukrainian and Russian scientists involved with Chernobyl nuclear power plant since the April 1986 accident, present a comprehensive review of the accident. In addition, they present a risk assessment of the remains of the destroyed reactor and its surrounding shelter, Chernobyl radioactive waste storage and disposal sites, and environmental contamination in the region. The authors explore such questions as the risks posed by a collapse of the shelter, radionuclide migration from storage and disposal facilities in the exclusion zone, and transfer from soil to vegetation and its potential regional impact. The answers to these questions provide a scientific basis for the development of countermeasures against the Chernobyl accident in particular and the mitigation of environmental radioactive contamination in general. They also provide an important basis for understanding the human health and ecological risks posed by the accident.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Battelle, Columbus, OH (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
6247012
Report Number(s):
BATT-0133/XAB
ISBN: 1-57477-082-9
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; CHERNOBYLSK-4 REACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; RADIATION DOSES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UKRAINE; ACCIDENTS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; DOSES; EASTERN EUROPE; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; EUROPE; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; LWGR TYPE REACTORS; MANAGEMENT; MASS TRANSFER; MONITORING; POWER REACTORS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; REACTORS; STORAGE; THERMAL REACTORS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE STORAGE; WATER COOLED REACTORS; 290300* - Energy Planning & Policy- Environment, Health, & Safety; 220900 - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Reactor Safety; 210300 - Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Graphite Moderated; 570100 - Health & Safety- Real Accidents- (1992-)

Citation Formats

Vargo, G J, Poyarkov, V, Baryakhtar, V, Kukhar, V, and Los, I. Chernobyl accident: A comprehensive risk assessment. United States: N. p., 1999. Web.
Vargo, G J, Poyarkov, V, Baryakhtar, V, Kukhar, V, & Los, I. Chernobyl accident: A comprehensive risk assessment. United States.
Vargo, G J, Poyarkov, V, Baryakhtar, V, Kukhar, V, and Los, I. 1999. "Chernobyl accident: A comprehensive risk assessment". United States.
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abstractNote = {The authors, all of whom are Ukrainian and Russian scientists involved with Chernobyl nuclear power plant since the April 1986 accident, present a comprehensive review of the accident. In addition, they present a risk assessment of the remains of the destroyed reactor and its surrounding shelter, Chernobyl radioactive waste storage and disposal sites, and environmental contamination in the region. The authors explore such questions as the risks posed by a collapse of the shelter, radionuclide migration from storage and disposal facilities in the exclusion zone, and transfer from soil to vegetation and its potential regional impact. The answers to these questions provide a scientific basis for the development of countermeasures against the Chernobyl accident in particular and the mitigation of environmental radioactive contamination in general. They also provide an important basis for understanding the human health and ecological risks posed by the accident.},
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