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  1. predicting nuclear and other technological disasters by LAMPTON, 1989
  2. in time of emergency a citizen's handbook on nuclear attack natural disasters by department of defense, 1968
  3. In Time of Emergency a Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack Natural Disasters by Department of Defense, 1968
  4. Nuclear and Other Technological Disasters by Christopher Lampton, 1989
  5. In Time of Emergency (A Citizen's Handbook on ...Nuclear Attack...Natural Disasters) by Department of Defense, 1968
  6. Surviving Nuclear Disaster by Cresson Kearny, 1990-02
  7. Survival Techniques: Quick Response Solutions During Nuclear Disasters by David Scott, 2001-12-01
  8. Chernobyl: The Ongoing Story of the World's Deadliest Nuclear Disaster by Glenn Alan Cheney, 1993
  9. Baneberry: A nuclear disaster by Paul Duckworth, 1976
  10. Sociopsychological aspects of evacutating [sic] or sheltering health care facilities in the event of a nuclear power plant accident (Preliminary paper ... of Delaware, Disaster Research Center) by E. L Quarantelli, 1992
  11. Assumptions about individual and social effects of peacetime and wartime nuclear disasters by Gary A Kreps, 1981
  12. How to survive natural & nuclear disasters in an earth sheltered home by Terry A Johnson, 1981
  13. Nuclear Disaster
  14. The Chornobyl nuclear disaster: (an East European view) by Constantine Zelenko, 1986

81. Chernobyl Children's Project, Chernoybl Nuclear Disaster Charity, Adi Roche, Hum
The Chernobyl Children s Project aims to restore hope to the people of theChernobylaffected region.
http://www.chernobyl-international.com/aboutthefounder/message.asp
Message From Adi
Catastrophe Continues to Deny Children Their Future Scientists working in the area told how the zone is expanding, not contracting as expected, by about 10km each year, eating into the land around it. This simple example reminds me just how insidious Chernobyl is. The poison has crept into the very being of so many thousands of people from the very young to the very old. A complete generation has grown up since that fateful accident 17 years ago this week and there are no signs of its abatement. Scientists say that these are still early days even to try and assess the full impact of huge radioactive fall-out, the consequences will last to infinity. Nothing in life is more precious than life itself and every child deserves that life. Chernobyl has resulted in a worldwide realisation of the fact that the earth is our common home, a beautiful grain of life in the depths of the universe, having become so fragile in the hands of man who harnessed the atom. All of us need to understand that only together can we withstand technology related disasters on a global scale. As radiation knows no territorial boundaries we can no longer remain indifferent to its consequences.

82. Chernobyl Children's Project, Chernoybl Nuclear Disaster Charity, Adi Roche, Hum
The Chernobyl Children s Project aims to restore hope to the people of theChernobylaffected region.
http://www.chernobyl-international.com/abouttheproject/linkswiththeUN.asp
Adi Roche with former UN envoy to the Chernobyl-affected regions, the recently deceased Mr Sergio Vieira di Melo.
Links with the UN
Launch of ICRIN - June 2003 Adi Roche and former Irish Minister for Overseas Development, Deputy Liz O'Donnell pictured at the opening of the Black Wind/White Land-Living
With Chernobyl exhibition at the UN Plaza, New York. Also included in the picture are Anna Gabriel, Raisa Carolan and Alexei Barrett. UNESCO Conference 1994 liquidators UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Chernobyl and Beyond: International Humanitarian Assistance For Victims Of Technological Disasters Providing a Model for International Aid Remembering the Victims and Survivors of Chernobyl , was officially opened in the UN Plaza in New York.

83. Chernobyl
Overviews of the worst nuclear disaster in history at the nuclear power plant inChernobyl. Health Environmental Effects The radiation from the Chernobyl
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Guide picks On April 25-26, 1986 there was a nuclear meltdown at the nuclear power plant near Chernobyl, Ukraine. Thirty-two people died immediately and dozens more died of radiation sickness. Here are some resources to learn more about this terrible disaster.
The Accident / Overview

Overviews of the worst nuclear disaster in history at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl.
The radiation from the Chernobyl accident has caused a large number of health problems, including various cancers, in people who lived near the accident and who helped clean it up. There have been additional studies that show short and long-term effects on the environment. Find out more about the health and environmental effects of the accident through these resources. Organizations that Give Aid
The horrors of Chernobyl have not ended. You can help the children who are victims of the Chernobyl disaster by hosting a child or giving a donation.

84. Bills Of Special Law Of Emergency Preparedness For Nuclear Disaster And Amendmen
Bills of Special Law of Emergency Preparedness for nuclear Disaster and Amendmentof nuclear Reactor Control Law Submitted to the Diet
http://www.mext.go.jp/english/news/1999/12/g991202.htm
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Press Releases Bills of Special Law of Emergency Preparedness for Nuclear Disaster and Amendment of Nuclear Reactor Control Law Submitted to the Diet @On September 30, Japan's first criticality accident occurred at a nuclear fuel processing plant in Tokai Village. Based on the lessons from this accident, under the cooperation of ministries and agencies including the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the Science and Technology Agency (STA) drafted the bills of Special Law of Emergency Preparedness for Nuclear Disaster and Amendment of Nuclear Reactor Control Law, and submitted them to the Diet through the decision of the cabinet meeting on November 12. Each intend to strengthen the safety regulations for the nuclear facilities and improve the efficiency of nuclear-disaster preparedness structure. Major contents of the bills are as follows.
1. Bill of Amendment of Nuclear Reactor Control Law

85. The First Nuclear Disaster Prevention Training Based On Special Law Of Emergency
The First nuclear Disaster Prevention Training Based on Special Law of EmergencyPreparedness for nuclear Disaster Has Been Executed in Tsuruga City
http://www.mext.go.jp/english/news/2000/03/g000306.htm
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Press Releases The First Nuclear Disaster Prevention Training Based on Special Law of Emergency Preparedness for Nuclear Disaster Has Been Executed in Tsuruga City The first nuclear disasters prevention training under special law enforced in June was done at The Japan Atomic Power Co. TSURUGA-2 in co-sponsoring the government, Fukui Prefecture, Tsuruga City, Mihama-chou, and Kohno Village on March 23.
About 1900 people such as police, fireman, the Self Defense Forces, and residents around the power station participated. The training was executed from 5:30 to 14:45.
Some points of new law is at first the obligation concerning the prevention of the nuclear disaster to nuclear business person, secondly, and the role of the government of directing the prefecture formerly limited only to advising.
In the recent training, such as communication report in emergency, disaster countermeasure headquarters installation and management, offsite-center management (Videoconferencing has been executed with the Fukui Prefecture countermeasure headquarters. ), disaster dispatch and operation of the Self Defense Forces, monitoring, medical treatment measures, residents shelter and save, and traffic measure etc., 9 types of trainings were executed.

86. Nuclear Plant Terrorism
a vacation called their neighbors to see if it was safe to come home.Something as frightening as a nuclear disaster can vex the soul for a long time.
http://www.tmia.com/security/
Three Mile Island Alert, 4100 Hillsdale Rd, Harrisburg PA 17112 ~~ 717-541-1101 ~~
Nuclear Plant Terrorism
Securing Reactors from Sabotage and Terrorism
Security problems at US nuclear plants were first
uncovered in 1975, right here at Three Mile Island
This site describes the threat of sabotage and terrorism to nuclear power plants with a special focus on securing Three Mile Island.
In 2002, the NRC was requested by the Department of Homeland Security to provide a list of nuclear plants which are most vulnerable to terrorist attack The NRC did not respond in time, so the Department of Homeland Security made their own list of 30 plants. TMI is on the list.
Three Mile Island Alert has been concerned about security issues since 1977.
GOOD NEWS!! Three Mile Island and other plants will install guard towers and make other improvements to counter the truck bomb and commando threat. Three Mile Island Alert recommended installing guard towers in 1993 in our testimony to the NRC and the US Senate. see story
Considering the fact that a nuclear plant houses more than a thousand times the radiation as released in an atomic bomb blast

87. Radiation Leak
Ironically, this startling nuclear disaster comes at the beginning of October,which is Energy Awareness Month. In this lesson you will learn more about the
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Residents living near Tokaimura, Japan, were reminded of the potential hazards of nuclear energy when an inexperienced worker at the Tokai uranium processing plant caused an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction. Several workers were exposed to extremely high levels of radiation, and emergency crews were exposed to higher-than-normal levels of radiation. Anxious residents nearby were urged to remain indoors while crews worked to contain the reaction. Read more about the accident in this CNN report , and view Images of Japan's Nuclear Emergency On the other hand, Japan is painfully aware of the catastrophic power of nuclear energy. As the only country in the world to have nuclear weapons used against them (at the close of World War II), Japan has a deeply rooted pacifist, anti-nuclear culture, and allow no nuclear arms on its soil. Modern demands for more energy, however, have led Japan to develop the most accelerated nuclear program in the world. Ironically, this startling nuclear disaster comes at the beginning of October, which is Energy Awareness Month. In this lesson you will learn more about the science of nuclear energy, how many countries are using nuclear science to generate power, and how nuclear energy carries with it real dangers and dramatic environmental consequences.

88. UNICEF - Search Results
The impact of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster continues to be felt in Belarus, nuclear disaster continue to seriously affect the lives of children.
http://www.unicef.org/search.php?q=chernobyl

89. Symposium Proceedings No. 1
Types of nuclear Disaster and their Radiation Environment, Lewis V. Spencer.Assumptions About Individual and Social Effects of Peacetime and Wartime
http://www.ncrponline.org/1sympos.html
The Control of Exposure of the Public to Ionizing Radiation in the Event of Accident or Attack
April 27-29, 1981
Introductory Session Welcome and Introduction of Symposium Chairman Hymer L. Friedell
Vice President , NCRP Purpose of the Symposium Lewis V. Spencer
Symposium Chairman Types of Nuclear Disaster and their Radiation Environment Lewis V. Spencer Assumptions About Individual and Social Effects of Peacetime and Wartime Nuclear Disasters Gary A. Kreps
College of William and Mary Radiobiological Basis for Establishing Criteria for the Population Introductory Remarks Victor P. Bond
Session Chairman The Effects of Dose, Dose Rate, and Depth Dose Upon Radiation Mortality Eugene P. Cronkite
Brookhaven National Laboratory Health Effects from Internally Deposited Radionuclides Released in Nuclear Disasters Roger O. McClellan
Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute The Relevance of Long-Term Carcinogenic and Genetic Hazards to Emergency Control R.J. Michael Fry
Oak Ridge National Laboratory The Impact of Estimates of Human Radiation Tolerance upon Radiation Emergency Management Clarence C. Lushbaugh

90. Nuclear Anti-radiation Nuclear Terrorism Nuclear Accident, Essential Documents A
Essential nuclear disaster documents, secret documents revealed and availablefrom other countries. META httpequiv=cache-control content=no-cache META
http://pro-resources.net/offer4.htm
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91. CNIC(Citizens' Nuclear Information Center)
These bills determine the response to a nuclear disaster occurring at the 13 December 2004 The nuclear Disaster Prevention Subcommittee approved the
http://cnic.jp/english/topics/safety/terrorrespns.html
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Nuclear Energy in Japan Since 9.11
summary of responses by government and industry as at 31 March 2005 Since 9.11, under the name of 'response to terrorism', there has been increasing secrecy in regard to nuclear energy-related information and increasing security for nuclear facilities. On 15 October 2001 the Citizens' Nuclear Information Center (CNIC) released a statement saying, "Every effort should be made to eliminate the underlying causes of terrorism, such as social injustice." We pointed out that strengthening secrecy and security "will not prevent nuclear disasters, regardless of whether they are the result of terrorism or of nuclear accidents...The only thing to do is to stop using nuclear energy as soon as possible."
On 17 October CNIC held a public meeting entitled, "An aircraft crashing into a nuclear facility: is this really beyond the realms of possibility?" This meeting addressed the problems of the vulnerability of nuclear power plants and nuclear fuel cycle facilities to aircraft, as well as the danger of creating a nuclear police state. Japan's response to the threat of terror at nuclear facilities since 9.11 is outlined below.

92. CNIC(Citizens' Nuclear Information Center)
Under the newly enacted Special nuclear Disaster Countermeasures Law, 21 disaster nuclear Emergency Countermeasures. The Special nuclear Disaster
http://cnic.jp/english/topics/safety/JCO/jcoreportsetc/repo35.html
var sc_project=910451; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=7; var sc_security="32be0ef2"; Japanese Tokai JCO Criticality Accident
Report [35] Sep.30 2000
Japanese Nuclear Industry in the Aftermath of the JCO Accident
Nuclear Safety Administration Nuclear fuel facility Nuclear power plant Initial review of the application for building a power plant Science and Technology Agency (STA) Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) Second review of the application for building a power plant Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) (Following the reorganization of the ministries from January 2001, all nuclear related plants except for research facilities will be put under the control of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).) Nuclear Emergency Countermeasures The Special Nuclear Disaster Countermeasures Law passed the Diet in Dec. 1999 and was put to effect in June, 2000. Based on this law, a nuclear emergency drill was conducted in Fukui Prefecture in March 2000. Even before the JCO accident, there were some guidelines on emergency countermeasures such as the Guideline on Emergency Plans for a Nuclear Power Plant formulated by the Nuclear Safety Committee in 1980. But due to political concerns, central and local governments fell back on the assumption that nuclear accidents are unrealistic and did not prepare for possible disasters. The new law obliges nuclear business operators to equip their facilities with radiation monitors and has made nuclear disaster drills mandatory which will be carried out jointly by central and local governments, and nuclear business operators.

93. Resources For GHMA920 Australian And International Incidents
Chernobyl nuclear Disaster, Russia (1986). The Chernobyl site and accidentsequence (world nuclear Association); Chernobyl Ten Years On, radiological and
http://www-library.uow.edu.au/eresources/subjects/hbs/hbsdisaster.html
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94. Tsunami And The Bomb
But, sadly, any commitment from nuclear nations towards total disarmament has security is not the way to save lives in the event of a nuclear disaster.
http://www.pugwash.org/reports/nw/rajanews.htm
Tsunami and the Bomb
By R.Rajaraman
Professor Emeritus of Physics
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi (published in the Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 11th Jan 2005)
The Tsunami disaster has claimed well over a hundred and twenty thousand lives, and we are still counting. But a single nuclear weapon, even a modest one of 20 kiloton yield dropped on a major city, will kill more people. If the televised images of Tsunami victims laid out across half a dozen countries have shocked and horrified us all, one can imagine the scene after a nuclear attack, when all hundred thousand of them would be packed within a few square miles.
Anguished cries have been raised as to whether the Tsunami tragedy could have been averted. But the Tsunami itself is a natural phenomenon. It cannot be prevented from happening-at least not with our existing technological prowess. The best that one could have done is to lower the casualties through adequate warning and preparedness. By contrast, a nuclear attack when it happens (and it has happened twice already) will not be a natural disaster. It would be entirely man made. Unlike the Tsunami, the existence of nuclear weapons is not forced on us by immutable laws of geology. They are there because of the failure of statesmanship, imagination and courage on the part of the supposedly wise men and women who run the affairs of major nations. They have been unable to find ways of coping with international conflict without resorting to building arsenals of these extraordinarily lethal weapons.

95. Nuclear | Greenpeace Russia
The potential possibility of major disaster at a nuclear facility with consequenceson the regional and international scale.
http://www.greenpeace.org/russia/en/campaigns/nuclear
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Sarcofag at Chernobyls' reactor Enlarge Image The goal of our work is to decrease the threat of new Chernobyl type accidents and prevent Russia from becoming an international radioactive dump. Threats created by the nuclear industry Local and regional radioactive contamination Results of scientific research of radiation effects on humans have led many scientists to conclusion about negative impact that radiation (even in small doses) causes in human organism. Radioactive influence occurs in the course of technological processes (reprocessing of nuclear fuel with dumping of low- and moderately-active wastes into the environment) and nuclear disasters. Recently there have been many debates about dangers of such influence. For example, there're some scientific schools that don't ackonowledge negative effects of radiation in small doses. Among them are some people from the staff of the Ministry of Nuclear Energy (MinAtom). The ex-minister and his co-workers believe that 29 people died and 150 were diagnosed with radiation sickness as a result of the Chernobyl disaster. And all the others hundreds of thousands "liquidators" (rescue workers) who were exposed to smaller doses of radiation are absolutely healthy and the main reason for the high mortality rate among them are... mass-media and environmentalists, who, supercharging the social situation, push to suicide and high level of health-related risks among liquidators. The similar point of view was taken by some members of The State Duma. They think that radioactive materials, like nuclear fuel, may be kept in living rooms.

96. Russia
4653; in Documents Reveal Details Of Urans nuclear Disaster, FBIS-UST-97-002,14 January 1997. 3 Rob Edwards, Russia s Toxic Shocker, New Scientist,
http://www.nti.org/db/nisprofs/russia/fissmat/pumayak/nucwaste.htm
This material is produced by the Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies What's New in the Database Russia Fissile Material Production and Disposition ... Plutonium Production Mayak Production Association Mayak Production Association (PO Mayak) Summary
PO Mayak Developments
Mayak Chemical Combine
Reactors
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Russia: Mayak Radioactive Waste Facilities
Mayak Radioactive Waste Overview

Reservoir System

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Waste Burial Sites
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Archived Radioactive Waste Developments
For major recent developments, see the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Developments file.
To return to the main Mayak file, see the Ozersk (Chelyabinsk-65) entry.
This section of the database provides information on waste facilities at Mayak Chemical Combine and lists radioactive waste developments . For more information on Mayak, radioactive waste, and environmental issues in Ozersk, see Bellona Working Paper No. 4:1995 by Nils Boehmer and Thomas Nilsen and the July 1998 Status Report by Igor Kudrik. RADIOACTIVE WASTE AT MAYAK CHEMICAL COMBINE Radioactive waste is managed at Mayak in various ways, using

97. Summary Of The Nuclear Emergency Response Plan For Nuclear Licensee Of The JAERI
Section 2 Enforcement of nuclear Disaster Prevention Measures In case of anuclear disaster, the nuclear Emergency Response Superintendent should engage
http://www.jaeri.go.jp/english/press/2002/020726/sum01.html
Summary of the Nuclear Emergency Response Plan for Nuclear Licensee of the JAERI Tokai Research Establishment
¡¡The Nuclear Emergency Response Plan for Nuclear Licensees of the JAERI Tokai Research Establishment (hereinafter the Nuclear Emergency Response Plan) has been amended in accordance with Item 1, Article 7 of the Special Measures Law for Nuclear Disasters (Law No. 156 of 1999, hereinafter the Nuclear Disasters Law). This amendment follows the amendment of the local emergency plans of the Ibaraki Prefecture. As a result, in accordance with the prescription in Item 3 of the same article, the summary of the amended plan is announced to the public as follows.
¡¡The local emergency plan (Volume "Nuclear Emergency Response Plan") by the Tokai-mura Municipality was also reviewed and amended. It is planned to incorporate amendment details in the Nuclear Emergency Response Plan.
(Outline of the amendment)
  • Amendments following the Ibaraki Prefectural local emergency plans (Volume "nuclear emergency response plan")
  • Amendment of other terms, etc.

98. [20 Sep 1991] IHA/418 :FTODS FOR PROJECTS TO AID REGIONS AFFECTED BY DISASTER OF
The disaster had shown that nuclear accidents knew no borders. It had also shownwhat the consequences of a nuclear war could be.
http://www.un.org/russian/ha/chernobyl/iha418.htm
20 September 1991

Press Release
IHA/418
FUNDS FOR PROJECTS TO AID REGIONS AFFECTED BY CHERNOBYL DISASTER OFFERED BY DONORS AT UN PLEDGING CONFERENCE
Resources Sought for 131 Project Proposals Covering Health, Resettlement, Agriculture, Environmental Clean-up
The need for continued international cooperation to address the social and economic problems resulting from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster was stressed by many speakers this afternoon at a United Nations pledging conference to mobilize support for projects in the affected republics — Byelorussia, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. While no exact total of the pledges made today was announced, Margaret J. Anstee, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna and Coordinator for United Nations activities relating to Chernobyl, said the pledging conference should be seen as an important milestone in an ongoing process. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, opening the pledging conference, appealed for generous international help for the people affected by the disaster. A basis for today's meeting, convened at the request of the General Assembly, was a joint plan for international cooperation, prepared by the Governments of Byelorussia, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, covering 131 project proposals in the fields of health, resettlement, economic rehabilitation, socio-psychological rehabilitation, food and agriculture, environmental monitoring and clean-up and lessons to be learned from the Chernobyl experience.

99. - MAPW Australia
Doctors call for renewable energy on nuclear disaster anniversary. On theanniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Medical Association for
http://www.mapw.org.au/mapw-commentary/press-releases/2005/260405MR_Chernobyl.ht
Return to MAPW Home MEDIA RELEASE
26 April 2005
For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy."
Former Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident on 26 April 1986.
Doctors call for renewable energy on nuclear disaster anniversary On the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) has called on Brendan Nelson, the Minister for Education, Science and Technology to reconsider his call last week to explore a nuclear power option for Australia. "We must learn from the mistakes of others, not replace the greenhouse problem with another set of disasters," said Dr Sue Wareham , President of MAPW. "Dr Nelson, while professing to be keeping an 'open mind' for the government, is actually promoting a form of energy which is expensive, polluting and poses an unacceptable risk of catastrophe. The logical choice for Australia is solar and other renewable technologies." Estimates of the full health effects of the meltdown of the Chernobyl reactor vary, but there is little doubt that at least 11,000 cases of cancer can be attributed to Chernobyl, some estimates say much higher. In some areas, rates of thyroid cancer have risen over 100 times.

100. Dickinson Magazine
as the recently released nucleardisaster flick The China Syndrome. I gave the talk to the sixth-graders they talked about the nuclear disaster.
http://www.dickinson.edu/magazine/winter04/feature1.html
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President Sam Banks meets with key professors and administrators on how to handle the crisis. From left, clockwise: Prof. Lonna Malmsheimer, Prof. T. Scott Smith, Sam Banks, Prof. Priscilla Laws and Treasurer Jim Nicholson. For 25 years Dan Bechtel has hung onto this T-shirt, created during the crisis for a contest held among students who stayed on campus. Priscilla Laws briefs the campus on radiation levels. George Allan (left) joins President Sam Banks in addressing the community. Community Studies Eric Epstein (right), chairman of TMI Alert, talks with Kim Lacy Rogers (center, in rain coat) and students in the Oral History Workshop: Three Mile Island, 25 Years Later, in the spring.

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