ISSUES OF PREDICTINGTHE IMPACT OF NUCLEAR POWER FACILITIES ACCIDENTS’ RADIATION CONSEQUENCES

The medical consequences of radiation accidents and nuclear war. Health Policy Committee, American College of Physicians.

THE EXISTENCE OF fissionable materials raises the specter of radiation accidents. Partial nuclear reactor core meltdowns have occurred already; the accident at Three Mile Island in 1979 was the fourth such episode to have occurred in America since 1952. Further, “significant release” episodes have taken place in five states, and the potential exists for radiation accidents during storage, trans...

Comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants Accidents and their Consequences

This work compares the radioactive consequences due to the Chernobyl and Fukushima NPP accidents. Due to non-homogeneous features of the fallouts of radioactive isotopes in the both cases the comparison of radioactive contamination density was compared for similar administrative units – in Russia (Bryansk region, Novozibkov subregion) and in Japan (Fukushima prefecture, Namie municipality). We ...

Conservation consequences of Chernobyl and other nuclear accidents

The explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986 released vast amounts of radioactive material over an area of 200,000 km in eastern and central Europe, affecting all living organisms. The biological impacts including the conservation consequences of this event are still poorly known even 25 years after the disaster. Here we assess the effects of this environmental disaster f...

Alternative evacuation strategies for nuclear power accidents

In the U.S., current protective-action strategies to safeguard the public following a nuclear power accident have remained largely unchanged since their implementation in the early 1980s. In the past thirty years, new technologies have been introduced, allowing faster computations, better modeling of predicted radiological consequences, and improved accident mapping using geographic information...

Accidents in a nuclear power reactor operation.