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17 Dynamics of Radioactive Pollution of Primorye Territory and the Northern Shelf of the Sea of Japan
Pages 133-136

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... Radiation contamination seems to be an acute problem in the Asia-Pacific region for three main reasons: · From almost the first years of the Soviet Union, this region has been completely closed to civilian organizations and individual researchers, inasmuch as intensive construction and development of military bases continued there for decades both before and after the Second World War. · The regional problem has caused public concern in the Russian Federation, Japan, Korea, the United States, and other states that have vital interests (fishery, aquaculture, recreation)
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From page 134...
... The spontaneous chain reaction on a submarine in Bolshaya Chazhma in August 1985 has remained the most severe nuclear incident. It preceded the accident at Chernobyl and belongs to the following class of incidents: · Uncontrolled reactor regime involving destruction of the active zone.
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From page 135...
... The inhabitants who were up to 150 meters distant from the explosion along the trace axis received significant doses of external gamma-irradiation and external beta-irradiation of the skin. The analysis of bottom samples from Chazhma Bay has shown that the distribution of radioactivity, which depends more than 95 percent on 60Co, is non-uniform over the area and along the vertical.
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