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Chernobyl at 40 years: Looking back at Nuclear News
Sunday, April 26, at 1:23 a.m. local time will mark 40 years since the most severe nuclear accident in history: the meltdown of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
In the ensuing four decades, countless books, documentaries, articles, and conference sessions have examined Chernobyl’s history and impact from various angles. There is a similar abundance of outlooks in the archives of Nuclear News, where hundreds of scientists, advocates, critics, and politicians have shared their thoughts on Chernobyl over the years. Today, we will take a look at some highlights from the pages of NN to see how the story of Chernobyl evolved over the decades.
Jun Koarashi, Takao Iida, Mariko Atarashi-Andoh, Hiromi Yamazawa, Hikaru Amano
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 464-469
Environment | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22632
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Numerical models for simulating tritiated water (HTO) transport in unsaturated soil were developed to assess the migration of HTO from contaminated groundwater to terrestrial biosphere. Column experiments using sandy soil and deuterated water (D2O) were performed and a scenario of HTO transport from contaminated aquifer to atmosphere through an unsaturated soil zone was investigated. The results obtained by both model calculations and column experiments indicated that hydraulic conductivity of soil is an important soil parameter characterizing D2O transport speed and that dispersion and advection are dominant elemental transport processes in unsaturated soil.
