Chernobyl’s Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts and Recommendations to theGovernments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine
The Chernobyl Forum: 2003–2005, second revised version
Overview
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 was the most severe in the history of the nuclear power industry, causing a huge release of radionuclides over large areas of Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation and affecting lives of millions.
In 2003-2006, eight UN Agencies and representatives of the governments of Belarus, The Russian Federation, and Ukraine formed Chernobyl Forum, a platform to review and summarize the results of two decades of mitigation efforts and research programmes on health, environmental and socio-economic consequences of the accident. Under the Forum’s umbrella, two separate technical reports on environmental and on health consequences were developed independently by the IAEA and WHO, respectively.
Current publication contains a digest with summaries of the two technical reports mentioned above, completed by a report of the UNDP with the focus on socio-economic consequences.