Table of Contents 1
Cover
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Preface
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1 Classification of Civil, Industrial and Medical Nuclear Accidents
1.1. Nuclear accident or radiological accident?
1.2. Classification of nuclear accidents. Incident or accident?
1.3. Classification of radiological accidents
1.4. The typology of accidents
1.5. What are the main nuclear accidents?
1.6. Information on nuclear energy
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2 Accidents Related to Nuclear Power Production
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Accidents in the nuclear fuel cycle
2.3. Accidents in laboratories
2.4. Other accidents
2.5. Waste management incidents
2.6. Incidents in the transport of radioactive packages
2.7. Environmental consequences
2.8. Health consequences
2.9. The cost of accidents
2.11. Conclusions
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3 The Extremely Serious Nuclear Accident at Chernobyl
3.1. Introduction
3.2. The facts
3.3. Spatial and environmental consequences
3.4. Ecological consequences of the Chernobyl accident
3.5. Health consequences
3.6. Social consequences
3.7. Consequences in Europe and France
3.8. Economic consequences
3.9. Long-term management of the Chernobyl accident
3.10. Conclusion
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4 Fukushima’s Serious Nuclear Accidents
4.1. Introduction
4.2. The course of the Fukushima accidents
4.3. Actions taken by the Japanese authorities
4.4. Environmental contamination
4.5. Exposure and effects on flora and fauna
4.6. Health consequences
4.7. Economic consequences
4.8. The situation in 2016 and 2017
4.9. Conclusions
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5 Industrial and Medical Radiology Accidents
5.1 Introduction
5.2. Industrial and medical applications
5.3. Radiological criticality accidents
5.4. Radiological accidents related to the loss of radioactive sources
5.5. Radiological accidents with radioactive sources and industrial accelerators
5.6. Medical radiological accidents
5.7. Conclusions
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Conclusion
C.1. Comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents
C.2. Consequences of nuclear accidents on the physical environment
C.3. Ecological consequences of nuclear accidents
C.4. Adaptation of organisms to radiation
C.5. Health consequences of nuclear accidents
C.6. Social consequences and perceived risk of nuclear accidents
C.7. Probability of a new nuclear accident
C.8. Costs of civil nuclear accidents
C.9. Future of civil nuclear power
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Glossary
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References
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Index
List of Tables 1 Chapter 1Table 1.1. The severity levels of a nuclear event. The INESTable 1.2. The ASN-SFRO classification for radiological accidents (adapted from ...Table 1.3. Procedure for the classification of an event on the basis of exposure...Table 1.4. List of nuclear accidents in the civil field classified in order of d... 2 Chapter 2Table 2.1. The most significant accidents that have occurred in civil nuclear in...Table 2.2. Type and level of exposure of the
