International Atomic Energy Agency

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Power; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Novaya Zemlya
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.170.7439; http://www-ns.iaea.org/downloads/rw/waste-safety/north-test-site-final.pdf

During the last decade a number of publications have been issued containing information about the past nuclear weapons tests and their radiological consequences for the environment and the public. In Russia, monographs devoted to operation of the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan, and the North Test Site, located on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, were recently published as well as a monograph devoted to the peaceful underground nuclear explosions. This document contains reference materials and papers of Russian experts presented at international and national scientific meetings and public hearings devoted to operation of the North Test Site and the radiological impact of nuclear weapons testing. These materials were originally published in Russia in 1993 and the second edition in 1999 as “Nuclear Explosions in the USSR: The North Test Site, Reference material on nuclear explosions, radiology, radiation safety”. The monograph was published by the Interagency Expert Commission on assessment of radiation and seismic safety of underground nuclear tests, Scientific-Industrial Association“V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute”, Russian Nuclear Society (Section: Environmental aspects of nuclear power), and the Centre for Public Information on Nuclear