The NEA Committee on Radiological Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) through its Expert Group on Recovery Management (EGRM) invited all interested stakeholders to a workshop Preparedness for post-n...
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) held an online event to launch its new report Building a Framework for Post Nuclear Accident Recovery Preparedness: National-Level Guidance.
This report was produced b...
Information note on nuclear power installations in Ukraine, updated periodically.
Figure 1: The site of the Chernobyl nuclear power complex (modified from IA91)
Figure 2: The RBMK reactor
European countries of the OECD have been affected by the widespread dissemination of the radioactive material released from the Chernobyl reactor accident in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, ...
Around 90 radiological protection professionals and researchers, representing regulators, research institutions and government entities from NEA member countries and beyond, joined Preparedness for P...
Figure 7. Possible groundwater flow directions in the Dniepr basin
As the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) accident illustrates, many challenges have to be faced in maintaining safety over the long term in a damaged NPP following a severe accident. These ...
This book describes the legal regime established to deal with the aftermath of a nuclear accident and the reappraisal of that regime following the Chernobyl disaster. It focuses particularly on the i...
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 heightened awareness of the need to improve the international legal framework governing the safe and peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Numerou...
Figure 5: Deposition of Caesium-137 in Ukraine
Figure 4: Deposition of Caesium-137 in Belarus
Figure 3. Daily release rate of radioactive substances into the atmosphere (modif. from IA86a)
Figure 8. Contributions of radionuclides to the absorbed dose rate in air in a contaminated area of the Russian Federation during the first several months after the Chernobyl accident
The international radiological protection community performed a major status review of the situation around the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 10-year anniversary of the accident. Since then, studi...
More than ten years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, many lessons have been learnt that have helped improve preparedness for nuclear emergencies and awareness of the global r...
Figure 6. Areas covered by the main body of the radioactive cloud on various days during the release