Microsoft Word – Malko2009English.doc History of radiation and nuclear disasters in the former USSR
Title: Microsoft Word – Malko2009English.doc History of radiation and nuclear disasters in the former USSR
Author: M.V.Malko
Reference: [PDF-198K]Feb 2011
Keywords:
Abstract: The report describes the history of radiation and nuclear accidents in the former USSR. These accidents accompanied development of military and civilian use of nuclear energy. Some of them as testing of the first Soviet nuclear, Kyshtym radiation accident, radiation contamination of the Karachai lake and the Techa river, nuclear accidents at the Soviet submarine on August 10, 1985 in the Chazhma Bay (near Vladivostok) as well as nuclear accidents on April 26, 1986 at the Chernobyl NPP were of large scale causing significant radiological problems for many hundreds thousands of people. There were a number of important reasons of these and other accidents. The most important among them were time pressure by development of nuclear weapon, an absence of required financial and material means for adequate management of problems of nuclear and radiation safety, and inadequate understanding of harmful interaction of ionizing radiation on organism as well as a hypersecrecy by realization of projects of military and civilian use of nuclear energy in the former USSR.
URL: http://www.rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NSRG/en/Malko2009English.pdf
コメント