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Consequences in Sweden of the Chernobyl accident (1986)
| Author | Statens Strälskyddsinstitut |
| Date | September 1986 |
| Classification | 2.34.8.30/22 (CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT - CONSEQUENCES EUROPE - GENERAL) |
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Consequences in Sweden of the Chernobyl accident J O Snihs National Institute of Radiation Protection Sweden IAEA General Conference, Scientific Programme for Safety, 1986-10-02--03 Emergency response In the morning of April 28 1986 workers arriving to the Forsmark nuclear power station were stopped by the normal entrance activity control because they were contaminated. Activity was also found on cars, ground and in puddles. Even if there were no technical indications of an accident at the station, actions were taken as if it were, including evacuation of workers from the station and notification to the local and central authorities responsible for emergency preparedness and countermeasures. That was the start of an operation that should rapidly increase in manpower, time, cost and efforts to unforeseen and unimaginable levels. Within about an hour after the notification from Forsmark the emergency organization was set into operation at the National Institute of Radiation Protection (SSI), Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate (SKI) and other authorities concerned. A special preplanned emergency task force was convened at the SSI headquarter in Stockholm. It was reinforced by extra personnel from other authorities up to about hundred people and it was in operation 24 hours a day during the first months. A large number of policy decisions were taken the first days on activity levels, countermeasures, restrictions etc and information was given to several ten thousands of individual members of the public, to the mass media, to local authorities and to politicians and the government. There was a great need of information reflecting the widespread concern and worry, the unfamiliarity with the situation and the shock that such an accident and it consequences could occur.
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