Dose Estimates from the Chernobyl Accident

Dose Assessment for Inhabitants Evacuated from the 30-km Zone Soon after the Chernobyl Accident

Introduction The first detailed report about the consequences of the Chernobyl accident was presented to IAEA from the USSR government in August 1986, about 4 months later since the beginning of the accident [1]. According to this report, more than two hundred cases of acute radiation syndrome (ARS) occurred as a result of the accident, among which 29 persons died (besides, two persons died on ...

Lessons from Chernobyl post-accident management

Although severe nuclear accidents rarely happen, the world is now facing a second one with the accident of Fukushima after the one of Chernobyl. Such accidents show that the long-term management of their consequences is not straightforward. Compared to the situation prevailing before the accident, the new situation is much more complex. It is characterised by key issues which have to be taken i...

the effect of traffic density on the accident externality from driving the case study of tehran

در این پژوهش به بررسی اثر افزایش ترافیک بر روی تعداد تصادفات پرداخته شده است. به این منظور 30 تقاطع در شهر تهران بطور تصادفی انتخاب گردید و تعداد تصادفات ماهیانه در این تقاطعات در طول سالهای 89-90 از سازمان کنترل ترافیک شهر تهران استخراج گردید و با استفاده از مدل داده های تابلویی و نرم افزار eviews مدل خطی و درجه دوم تخمین زده شد و در نهایت این نتیجه حاصل شد که تقاطعات پر ترافیک تر تعداد تصادفا...

The silver anniversary of the Chernobyl accident

Chernobyl Accident: Exposures and Effects

Burton Bennett, André Bouville, Per Hall, Mikhail Savkin, Hans Storm 1 United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, Vienna International Centre, P.O. Box 500, A-1400 Vienna, Austria 2 National Cancer Institute, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, EPS-7094, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA 3 Department of Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institute, S-17177 Stockholm, Sweden 4 State ...