Twenty years' application of agricultural countermeasures following the Chernobyl accident: lessons learned
Fesenko, S. V.; Alexakhhin, R. M.; Balonov, M. I.; Bogdevich, I. M.; Howard, B. J.; Kashparov, V. A.; Sanzharova, N. I.; Panov, A. V.; Voight, G.; Zhuchenka, Yu M.. 2006 Twenty years' application of agricultural countermeasures following the Chernobyl accident: lessons learned. Journal of Radiological Protection, 26. 351-359. 10.1088/0952-4746/26/4/R01Full text not available from this repository.
The accident at the Chernobyl NPP (nuclear power plant) was the most serious ever to have occurred in the history of nuclear energy. The consumption of contaminated foodstuffs in affected areas was a significant source of irradiation for the population. A wide range of different countermeasures have been used to reduce exposure of people and to mitigate the consequences of the Chernobyl accident for agriculture in affected regions in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. This paper for the first time summarises key data on countermeasure application over twenty years for all three countries and describes key lessons learnt from this experience.
|Item Type:||Publication - Article|
|Digital Object Identifier (DOI):||10.1088/0952-4746/26/4/R01|
|Programmes:||CEH Programmes pre-2009 publications > Biogeochemistry > SE01B Sustainable Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Management of Chemicals|
|CEH Sections:||_ Environmental Chemistry & Pollution|
|NORA Subject Terms:||Agriculture and Soil Science
Ecology and Environment
|Date made live:||30 Apr 2008 07:50|
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