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Subject(s)

• Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 [Browse]
• Nuclear power plants—Accidents—Environmental aspects [Browse]
• Nuclear power plants—Government policy—Great Britain [Browse]

Related name

• Lewins, Jeffery [Browse]
• Worley, Norman [Browse]
• Working Group on the Chernobyl Accident and its Implications for the United Kingdom [Browse]

Series

• Watt Committee report ; no. 19. [More in this series]
• Watt Committee report ; no. 19 [More in this series]

Summary note

Published on behalf of The Watt Committee on Energy

Notes

• "Published on behalf of the Watt Committee on Energy by Elsevier Applied Science Publishers."
• "This report has been compiled by the Working Group on the Chernobyl Accident and its Implications for the United Kingdom."

Language note

English

Contents

• Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of the Chernobyl accident Working Group members . .; Foreword; Background; Introduction; The design of the Chernobyl Unit 4 reactor; Description of the Chernobyl accident; The radioactive release from Chernobyl and its effects; Accident management in the USSR and the United Kingdom; United Kingdom and USSR reactor types; Reactor operation and operator training in the United Kingdom; International dimensions of the implications of the Chernobyl accident for the United Kingdom; Comments, recommendations and conclusions . . . . . . . . .
• Glossary of terms . . . . . .Units of measurement . . . . .; Summary of significant dates and timing relevant to the Chernobyl accident . .; Nuclear safety in the Soviet Union From 'Nuclear Power in the Soviet Union' by B.A.Semenov; June 1983 International Atomic Energy Agency Bulletin (Vol. 25, No. 2) . . . . . .; Chemical reaction aspects of the Chernobyl accident; Gilbert Walton, Jeffery Lewins and Norman Worley . . . . .; The Chernobyl accident trial An article published in The Independent on 30 July 1987; Anthony Barber of Reuters
• Continuing radiation leakage from Chernobyl An article released by Reuters, Moscow, 4 December 1987 . . . . . .International aspects; Norman Worley . . . . . .; The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate . .; Energy casualties . . . . . .; The Watt Committee on Energy: Objectives, Historical Background and Current Programme . . . .; Member Institutions of The Watt Committee on Energy . . . . . . . . . . . .; Watt Committee Reports . . . . . . .; Index . . . . . . . . . . . .

ISBN

• 1-135-38291-3
• 1-135-38292-1
• 1-280-03252-9
• 0-203-21644-X

OCLC

252877928

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203216446

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