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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.
M. Atarashi-Andoh, H. Amano, T. Takahashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 470-473
Environment | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22633
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ETDOSE is a simple computer code for calculating distribution patterns of tritium in the environment for acute and chronic releases of HT and HTO. It calculates tritium concentrations in air, soil, plant free water and plant organic material, and estimates dose impacts from inhalation of air and ingestion of food. ETDOSE includes two different models for calculating HTO re-emission from the soil surface for a chronic tritium release. These two models were tested in the IAEA's model validation program BIOMASS (BIOsphere Modeling and ASSessment methods)1.
