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One Decade After Chernobyl. Summing up the consequences (1996)
| Author | IAEA |
| Date | April 1996 |
| Classification | 2.34.8.10/42 (CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT - CONSEQUENCES SURROUNDINGS - GENERAL) |
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FOREWORD The consequences attributed to the disastrous accident that occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986 have been subjected to extensive scientific examination; however, they are still viewed with widely differing perspectives. It is fitting then that, ten years after the accident, the European Commission (EC), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) should jointly sponsor an international conference to review the consequences of the accident and to seek a common and conclusive understanding of their nature and magnitude. The International Conference on One Decade after Chernobyl: Summing up the Consequences of the Accident was held at the Austria Center, Vienna, on 8-12 April 1996. Five other organizations of the United Nations system - the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs (UNDHA), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - together with the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD/NEA), co-operated in the organization of the Conference, demonstrating a community of interests internationally. The Conference recapitulated the International Chernobyl Project of 1990 and took particular account of the findings of two related conferences. These were: the WHO International Conference on the Health Consequences of the Chernobyl and other Radiological Accidents, held in Geneva, 20-23 November 1995, and the First International Conference of the European Commission, Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine on the Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident, held in Minsk, 18-22 March 1996. The Conference also considered the results of an International Forum on One Decade after Chernobyl: Nuclear Safety Aspects, jointly sponsored by the IAEA and UNDHA. The Forum was held at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna on 1-3 April1996 and addressed a number of nuclear safety issues, including the measures taken since the accident to improve the safety of Chernobyl type RBMK reactors and the safety of the containment structure (the so-called sarcophagus) built around the destroyed reactor and that of the site itself. To facilitate the discussions of the Conference, background papers were prepared for the Technical Symposium by teams of scientists from around the world, who collaborated over a period of months to ascertain, consolidate and present the current state of knowledge in six key areas: clinically observed effects; thyroid effects; long term health effects; other health related effects; consequences for the environment; and the consequences in perspective: prognosis for the future. A background paper on the social, economic, institutional and political impact of the accident was prepared by Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
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