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Focus on Chernobyl
26 April 1986 was nuclear power's darkest day.
Twenty years after the Chernobyl accident,
Nuclear Engineering International has
prepared this collection of information on the event
and its consequences. Most items are drawn from
past issues of NEI, particularly March 2006,
which was used to mark the anniversary, but also
issues from the years immediately following the
accident in which the truth of that day began to
emerge.
NEI ARCHIVE FEATURES
Chernobyl, 26 April 1986 describes the accident sequence and its the underlying causes. This article is adapted from David Mosey's book Reactor Accidents (2nd edition) published by Nuclear Engineering International.
Consequences for health discusses the findings of the International Atomic Energy Agency and World Health Organization report on the health effects of the accident
Consequences for agriculture is based on the corresponding IAEA/WHO report on the environmental consequences and their remediation
New safe century describes the New Safe Confinement structure to be built over the existing 'sarcophagus'.
Valery Legasov, the man who led the Soviet delegation to the IAEA's post-accident meeting, took his own life almost exactly two years after the accident:
Legasov suicide leaves unanswered questions.
Why INSAG has still got it wrong gives the response of Anatoly Dyatlov (former deputy engineer for operations at Chernobyl) to the IAEA's revised report on the causes of the accident.
In
How it was: an operator's perspective Dyatlov, the man in charge on the night of the accident and who subsequently suffered four years' imprisonment, gives his side of the story. He believes the accident was down to design failures and that his fellow operators have been unfairly blamed.
In
View over the Baltic, Frigyes Reisch remembers how Sweden was the first country outside the Soviet Union to get wind of the accident at Chernobyl.
Hearts and Minds by Paul Lorenzini examines the misinformation in the award-winning documentary Chernobyl Heart.
WEBSITES
In Focus: Chernobyl (on the IAEA website)
Wormwood Forest: a natural history of Chernobyl
Greenpeace Chernobyl anniversary website
Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) webpage on Chernobyl
FILES
NucNet's Chernobyl Fact File
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