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Chernobyl; The Aftermath (1986)
| Author | BEUC |
| Date | 1986 |
| Classification | 2.34.8.30/20 (CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT - CONSEQUENCES EUROPE - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
INTRODUCTION The terrifying realities or a nuclear disaster were suddenly brought very close to the European consumer by the Chernobyl accident. BEUC, as the watchdog for the consumer interest in Brussels, demanded, in an urgent message to the EEC Commissioner for consumer affairs, that steps should be taken in order to achieve a clear European response to the disaster. It is an indictment, not or the Commission, but of EEC governments, that this failed to materialize. This report is a 'post mortem' or the disaster from the European consumer point or view. It does not attempt an exhaustive analysis, but rather to try to create some kind or order out or the chaos which arose, and make sense or the muddle or information and misinformation that was thrown at the average consumer. The report is divided up into four sections : The Accident : A brief description or how the accident occurred and the types of radiation released. The Aftermath : 1. How the radiation released affected Europe : A chronological account or how the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl spread across Europe and the increases in radioactivity it caused. 2. The significance or radiation : A brief description of the dangers and effects of radiation and possible ways or reducing these. 3. How the Member States reacted : A country by country description or the measures taken by governments, information given to the public and the public's reaction to this. 4. EEC action : A summary of the steps taken by the European Community with regard to the accident.
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