Chernobyl Accident and its Implications for the United Kingdom

N. Worley (Deputy Chairman of The Watt Committee on Energy Chairman of the Working Group on the Chernobyl Accident and its Implications for the United Kingdom appointed by The Watt Committee on Energy). Jeffery Lewins, (Lecturer in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Cambridge), both Working Group on the Chernobyl Accident and its Implications for the United Kingdom.

• List of the Chernobyl accident Working Group members, Foreword, Background Section 1 Introduction 1.1 General description of a nuclear power system 1.2 Fuel meltdown incidents 1.3 Energy in the Soviet Union Section 2 The design of the Chernobyl Unit 4 reactor Section 3 Description of the Chernobyl accident Section 4 The radioactive release from Chernobyl and its effects Section 5 Accident management in the USSR and the United Kingdom Section 6 United Kingdom and USSR reactor types Section 7 Reactor operation and operator training in the United Kingdom Section 8 International dimensions of the implications of the Chernobyl accident for the United Kingdom Section 9 Comments, recommendations and conclusions