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Radioactivity in the federal republic of Germany and in Switzerland after the reactor accident at Chernobyl (1986)
| Author | M.Winter, H.Völkle |
| Date | October 1986 |
| Classification | 2.34.8.30/05 (CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT - CONSEQUENCES EUROPE - GENERAL) |
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1. INTRODUCTION On June 19th and 20th 1986 the Arbeitskreis Umweltüberwachung, AKU (Working Group on Environmental Monitoring) of the Fachverband für Strahlenschutz e. V. (Professional Association for Radiation Protection) convened for a special meeting in Karlsruhe after the Chernobyl reactor accident. This special meeting was held to exchange experiences and results of measurements among AKU members. One week earlier the Directorate of the Fachverband für Strahlenschutz had decided to confer on AKU the task of drawing up a synopsis showing the impact of Chernobyl on the various regions of the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland as a topical contribution to the International Congress on Radiation Protection held at Salzburg from 15th to 19th September 1986. AKU members were informed of these decisions made by the Directorate during the special meeting mentioned above. In view of the fact that the summer holidays were approaching and all the colleagues in the Working Group were already overloaded with work, it was doubted whether this assignment could be completed on time. The team of authors drawn from AKU members were later to feel how justified this scepticism had been. On top of this it was clear right from the start that AKU could not be expected to provide an overall report on the effects of Chernobyl which would really cover the whole area and be equally well supported statistically for all the regions. AKU decided to take up the challenge in spite of these misgivings because, faced with the confusing mass of individual measured results, AKU members, too, felt the need for an overview in the form of a radically summarising presentation. At a special meeting at the end of June, AKU therefore decided to carry out a survey among its own members; this is a report on the structure and results of this survey. Although the facts are by now widely known, the two following chapters briefly deal with the dates of arrival of the emissions and their nuclide compositions.
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