Information on the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station and its consequences prepared for IAEA

On August 25-29, 1986, a conference of experts was held at the IAEA in Vienna, at which the Soviet delegation (Head Academician V.A. Legasov) presented information on the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station and its consequences. The experts prepared the information from material provided by the following organizations: the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, the Power Engineering Research and Development Institute, the Khlopin Radium Institute, the Zhuk Gidroproekt Institute, the Khlopin Radium Institute, the Zhuk Gidroproekt Institute, the Institute of Biophysics, the Institute of Applied Geophysics, the State Commission on Atomic Energy of the USSR, the State Hydrometeorological Commission of the USSR, the USSR Ministry of Health, the State Atomic Energy Inspectorate of the USSR, the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, the main board on fire protection of the Ministry of the Water Economy of the USSR, and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The authors give a brief summary of the information presented by the Soviet experts to IAEA