Chernobyl

Volume 38, Number 3
Front Cover: Just over ten years after the world's tragic nuclear plant accident at Chernobyl, how much have we learned about its actual consequences? The scientific and technical answers are many and cover much ground and an array of complex topics. Fortunately, as the accident's true effects, and the needs of its victims. While open issues still must be resolved, a factual framework was set in April 1996 at the International Chernobyl Conference in Vienna to support decisions - especially those affecting the millions of men, women, and children living in the towns, villages, and farms most in need of assistance.

(Cover design: Ms. Hannelore Wilczek, IAEA; Stefan Brodek, Vienna)

Contents

Features

Chernobyl - Ten years after
by Abel J. González / 2

One decade after Chernobyl: The basis for decisions
Highlights of the International Chernobyl Conference and its results / 14

Special Reports

Post-Chernobyl scientific perspectives: Social, health, and environmental effects
Environmental consequences, report by Mona Dreicer and Rudolf Alexakhin / 24

Social/psychological effects,
report by Britt-Marie Drottz-Sjöberg, G.M. Rumyantseva, A.I. Nyagu, and L.A. Ageeva / 27

Clinically observed effects,
report by Gerard Wagemaker, Angelina K. Guskova, Vladimir G. Bebeshko, and Nina M. Griffiths / 29

Thyroid effects,
report by E.D. Williams, A. Pinchera, D. Becker, E.P. Demidchik, S. Nagataki, and N.D. Tronko / 31

Health effects,
report by Fred A. Mettler / 33

Long-term health effects,
report by E. Cardis, A.E. Okeanov, V.K. Ivanov, and A. Prisyazhniuk / 36

Agricultural countermeasures,
report by John I. Richards and Raymond J. Hance / 38

Nuclear safety aspects,
report by Luis Lederman / 44

Bulletin Update

Inside Technical Cooperation: Nuclear Energy for the Environment / Insert

Departments

International Newsbriefs/Datafile / 48
Posts announced by the IAEA / 56
Keep abreast with IAEA publications / 58
Authors and Contributors to IAEA Bulletin / 60
Databases on line / 62
IAEA conferences and seminars/Coordinated research programmes / 64