The international chernobyl project an overview of the book

The international chernobyl project was launched in 1990 at the request of the government of the ussr to assess the environmental and health situation in the areas of the soviet union contaminated by the chernobyl accident and to evaluate the measures taken by the authorities to safeguard the health of the population still living in these areas. Midnight in chernobyl reveals the nuclear disasters. The international chernobyl project introduction the accident at the chernobyl power plant occurred on 26 april 1986. And the job of containing the fallout has required an international cast of players. On the 26th of april 1986 chernobyl was the scene of the worlds worst nuclear disaster when an explosion at a newly built nuclear power plant unleashed 200 times more radioactivity than the hiroshima and nagasaki nuclear bombs and affected forever the lives of 7 million people. Chernobyl disaster, accident at the chernobyl nuclear power station in the soviet union in 1986, the worst disaster in nuclear power generation history. The untold story of the worlds greatest nuclear disaster is a riveting, deeply reported reconstruction of a catastrophe. Between 2 and 50 people were killed in the initial explosions, and dozens more contracted serious radiation sickness, some of whom later died. A routine test at the power plant went horribly wrong, and two massive. T hese days, european travel agencies offer trips to chernobyl for as little as 500. The lessons that could be learned from the chernobyl accident were, therefore, numerous and encompassed all areas, including reactor safety and severe accident management, intervention criteria, emergency procedures, communication, medical treatment of irradiated persons, monitoring methods, radioecological processes, land and agricultural management, public information, etc. Tourists are promised safety, comfort and the ghoulish thrill of visiting the site where, at 1.