THE ETHOS PROJECT FOR POST-ACCIDENT REHABILITATION IN THE AREA OF BELARUS CONTAMINATED BY THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER

摘要

The Chernobyl Nuclear Accident in 1986 had a significant impact locally, regionally and, indeed, globally. At each level, this took the form not only of tangible radioactive contamination of varying degrees of severity, but also of a less tangible, but no less real, breakdown in public confidence in the nuclear industry and the authorities charged with regulating it and responding to any problems. Nowhere was this more acute than in the regions of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine most directly affected by the contamination. In the context of such a breakdown in confidence the authorities here faced an unprecedented task as they sought to develop and implement rehabilitation programmes.