96/06704 The skim and burial plough: A new implement for reclamation of radioactively contaminated land

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Weight: 206 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0140-6701
• DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6701(97)84075-1

✦ Synopsis

Eariv 19% saw the start uo in Ukraine and Belarus of the Gamma-l oiiot radiation early warning sy'stem, the first phase of the Gamma Curtain, a network of monitors stretching from the Black Sea to the Baltic to enable rapid detection of any future nuclear accidents. In setting up the system, the experience of monitoring around Chernobyl was invaluable, and has implications for the West as well.