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Consequences in Sweden of the Chernobyl accident (1986)

AuteurStatens Strälskyddsinstitut
Datumseptember 1986
Classificatie 2.34.8.30/22 (TSJERNOBYL - GEVOLGEN REST EUROPA - ALGEMEEN)
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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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