Environmental impact of radionuclide release during the Kyshtym, Windscale, and Chernobyl accidents

• Title: Environmental impact of radionuclide release during the Kyshtym, Windscale, and Chernobyl accidents

Author: Trabalka, J.R.

Reference: Oct 1990

doi: 10.2172/6346264

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Abstract: The traveler attended the conference, Comparative Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Radionuclides Released During Three Major Nuclear Accidents: Kyshtym, Windscale, and Chernobyl and presented an invited paper giving a western perspective of the Kyshtym (Chelyabinsk-40) high-level waste explosion that took place in 1957. Papers of interest to several ORNL and DOE programs were presented. These covered the topics of accident source terms, atmospheric dispersion, resuspension, chemical and physical forms of contamination (e.g., hot” particles), environmental contamination and transfer, radiological effects on humans and the environment, and countermeasures.

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