Chernobyl reactor

Below the Chernobyl reactor were water pools meant to capture and condense any steam released from a pipe break or any other failure in the containment rooms. A system of relief valves and ducts led from the containment rooms to these suppression pools. RBMK s were built in pairs ... 

Selected fission products in the Chernobyl reactor core and their estimated escape into the environment... 

Table 32.16 Selected Fission Products in the Chernobyl Reactor Core, and Their Estimated Escape into the Environment... 

Anspaugh, L.R., R.J. Catlin, and M. Goldman. 1988. The global impact of the Chernobyl reactor accident. Science 242 1513-1519. 

Brittain, J.E., A. Storruste, and E. Larsen. 1991. Radiocesium in brown trout (Salmo trutta) from a subalpine lake ecosystem after the Chernobyl reactor accident. Jour. Environ. Radioactivity 14 181-191. 

Kalas, J.A., S. Bretten, I. Byrkjedal, and O. Njastad. 1994. Radiocesium (137Cs) from the Chernobyl reactor in Eurasian woodcock and earthworms in Norway. Jour. Wildl. Manage. 58 141-147. 

Experience from the 1986 Chernobyl reactor accident in the Ukraine shows the potential magnitude and impact of a terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant. The accident involved an explosion in a reactor that releases very high levels of radiation for miles surrounding the reactor site. Low levels of radiation were spread by wind currents throughout Europe and the rest of the world. According to Caldicott 2002,... 

Table I. Total atmospheric release of long-tired dose-relevant fission radioisotopes and actinides from the atomic bomb tests and the Chernobyl reactor explosion...

Besides the input of nuclear fuel material via atomic bomb detonation, reactor accidents also contributed to atmospheric release of anthropogenic radioisotopes, with the Chernobyl reactor catastrophe in the year 1986 as the major source. 

Dosimetry of residents at Chernobyl reactor accident28,29 and Techa River fuel processing plant has been reported.29,92 The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a report, Health consequences of the Chernobyl accident in which the extensive application to determine the accumulated dose of the residents up to 80-100 mGy with the accuracy of + 50 mGy. The measured dose appeared to be higher than 200 mGy.30... 

Doerfel, H. Piesch, E. (1987) Radiological consequences in the Federal Republic of Germany of the Chernobyl reactor accident. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 19, 223-34. 

Fulker, M.J. (1987) Aspects of environmental monitoring by British Nuclear Fuels pic following the Chernobyl reactor accident. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 5, 235-44. 

Short-term Behavior of Radionuclides in the Environment—Contamination from the Chernobyl Reactor Accident... 

The following section provides detailed information concerning the transport of radionuclides associated with two very different field analogues the Chernobyl reactor accident and the Oklo Natural Reactor. These examples span wide temporal and spatial scales and include the rapid geochemical and physical processes important to nuclear reactor accidents or industrial discharges as well as the slower processes important to the geologic disposal of nuclear waste. 

Uchida S., Tagami K., Riihm W., and Wirth E. (1999) Determination of Tc deposited on the ground within the 30-km zone around the Chernobyl reactor and estimation of Tc released into atmosphere by the accident. Chemosphere 39(15), 2757-2766. 

Nakajima, T., External dose to a Japanese tourist from the Chernobyl reactor accident. Health Phys., 53 (1987)405. 

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