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The Global Impact of the Chernobyl Reactor Accident
Abstract
Radioactive material was deposited throughout the Northern Hemisphere as a result of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station on 26 April 1986. On the basis of a large amount of environmental data and new integrated dose assessment and risk models, the collective dose commitment to the ∼3 billion inhabitants is calculated to be 930,000 person-gray, with 97% in the western Soviet Union and Europe. The best estimates for the lifetime expectation of fatal radiogenic cancer would increase the risk from 0 to 0.02% in Europe and 0 to 0.003% in the Northern Hemisphere. By means of an integration of the environmental data, it is estimated that ∼100 petabecquerels of cesium-137 (1 PBq = 10 15 Bq) were released during and subsequent to the accident.
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- Authors
- Anspaugh, L. R., Catlin, R. J., & Goldman, M.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1988-12-16
- Volume
- 242
- Issue
- 4885
- Pages
- 1513-1519
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2037131734
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- 252
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- 8.14
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- en
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