Environmental Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident and their Remediation: Twenty Years of Experience
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Author(s): Chernobyl Forum Expert Group 'Environment'
Publisher: IAEA
ISBN: 9201147058
Format: softback
166pp
Price: €40
Review Date: 11 May 2006
Review: This report gives and evaluation of the environmental effects of the accident at Chernobyl on April 26th 1986. It looks at the radioactive contamination of the environment, the countermeasures and remediation that have been put into place since then, the human exposure levels since then, the radiation-induced effects on plants and animals, and the environmental and radioactive waste management aspects of the dismantling of the Chernobyl shelter. The Forum provides ‘authoritative consensual statements’ on the effects and consequences of the accident and gives advice and suggestions.