Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Congressional Hearings Transcript

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The "Sarcophagus" facility was the most complicated technical
construction at that time. It reduced radioactive releases from the
reactor to the minimum; improved, in principle, the radiation situation
at the industrial site of the nuclear power plant, lessened
psychological tension of the population.
At the construction of the of the Shelter 10,000 workers were
employed. 360 thousand tons of concrete were used, about 500,000
metal constructions were erected.
For the population evacuated from
the ?one about 21,000 houses were built and 15,000 new apartments
provided. In 1989 the construction of a new city for Chernobyl NPP
personnel was initiated, and the city's population now is 26,000
people.
In order to provide efficient help to the victims, almost 2,500
doctors, 5,000 medical workers and 1,200 students of Ukrainian
colleges and universities were engaged in the works at the end of April
- beginning of May 1986. All of them were united into 230 urgently
organized dosimetry laboratories aiid over 400 special medical teams.
Soon there was established a sanitarj- epidemic service which was
reinforced with expert teams from other Ukrainian regions.
Network of radiation control sj'stem includes almost 2,200
laboratories, points and posts equipped with corresponding facilities
and Instruments, fint of all
spectrometers, radiometers, dosimeters etc.
Almost 3.300,000 samples of soil, atmospheric aerosols and releases,
water, foodstuffs, grass and forestry products are analyied annually.