The Chernobyl Accident and its Implications for the United Kingdom: Watt Committee: report no 19 (Watt Committee Report No 19)

Edited By Norman Worley And Jeffery Lewins. This Report Has Been Compiled By The Working Group On The Chernobyl Accident And Its Implications For The United Kingdom. Published On Behalf Of The Watt Committee On Energy By Elsevier Applied Science Publishers. Includes Bibliographies And Index. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of the Chernobyl accident Working Group members . .......Page 3 Foreword......Page 6 Background......Page 10 Introduction......Page 14 The design of the Chernobyl Unit 4 reactor......Page 22 Description of the Chernobyl accident......Page 32 The radioactive release from Chernobyl and its effects......Page 38 Accident management in the USSR and the United Kingdom......Page 48 United Kingdom and USSR reactor types......Page 60 Reactor operation and operator training in the United Kingdom......Page 74 International dimensions of the implications of the Chernobyl accident for the United Kingdom......Page 84 Comments, recommendations and conclusions . . . . . . . . .......Page 102 Glossary of terms . . . . . .......Page 114 Units of measurement . . . . .......Page 117 Summary of significant dates and timing relevant to the Chernobyl accident . .......Page 118 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) . . . . . .......Page 123 Chemical reaction aspects of the Chernobyl accident;Gilbert Walton, Jeffery Lewins and Norman Worley . . . . .......Page 125 The Chernobyl accident trial An article published in The Independent on 30 July 1987;Anthony Barber of Reuters......Page 127 Continuing radiation leakage from Chernobyl An article released by Reuters, Moscow, 4 December 1987 . . . . . .......Page 129 International aspects;Norman Worley . . . . . .......Page 130 The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate . .......Page 134 Energy casualties . . . . . .......Page 136 The Watt Committee on Energy: Objectives, Historical Background and Current Programme . . . .......Page 152 Member Institutions of The Watt Committee on Energy . . . . . . . . . . . .......Page 154 Watt Committee Reports . . . . . . .......Page 155 Index . . . . . . . . . . . .......Page 156