Guidelines for Agricultural Countermeasures Following an Accidental Release of Radionuclides

This report is a collation of information and experience gained from the Chernobyl accident in 1986 concerning the transfer of radionuclides, especially 137Cs and 90Sr, through food chains to humans and the ways to effectively reduce them. Accounts of measures taken in various countries following the Chernobyl accident, which at the time caused significant radioactive contamination of the environment over widely separated areas, some relatively remote from the site, are included