Environmental consequences of the chernobyl accident and their remediation: twenty years of experience. Report of the chernobyl forum expert group ‘environment’

The International Atomic Energy Agency, established in 1954, is a specialised and autonomous agency of the United Nations. In addition to its role as an intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical co-operation in the peaceful use of nuclear technology it also establishes and publishes safety standards. Most familiar of these may be the IAEA Safety Standards Series. However, the IAEA also issues other safety-related publications, such as the Radiological Assessment Report Series, the most recent product which is reviewed here. The book contains 7 chapters and ∼100 figures. It presents an in depth examination of the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident, with particular focus on the distribution of radionuclides in both the near and far-field environment. The work represents a consensus of members of the Chernobyl Forum—experts from 12 countries including Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, France, the United States, the UK, Sweden and international organisations such as the...