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On August 25, 1986, hundreds of nuclear scientists and engineers converged on the modernistic offices of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. We (I was fortunate enough to be among them) were so numerous that we overflowed the largest meeting room the IAEA had to offer, and thus were housed in two huge rooms with closed-circuit TV to help us communicate. Why was there so much excitement? For the first time since the Chernobyl nuclear power station accident of April 26, 1986, we were to find out from the Soviets themselves what had really happened.
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USSR State Committee, “The Accident at Chernobyl”; A. Dastur, R. Osborne, D. Pendergast, D. Primeau, V. Snell and D. Torgerson, “A Quick Look at the Post-Accident Review Meeting (PARM),” Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, AECL-9327, September 1986.
V.G. Snell, “Safety of CANDU Nuclear Power stations,” Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, AECL-6329, January 1985.
see J.Q. Howieson and V.G. Snell, “Chernobyl—A Canadian Technical Perspective,” Nuclear Journal of Canada, Vol. 1, no. 3 (September 1987).
V.G. Snell and J.Q. Howieson, “Chernobyl—A Canadian Technical Perspective—Executive Summary,” Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, AECL-9334, January 1987.
see V.G. Snell and J.Q. Howieson, “Chernobyl—A Canadian Perspective,” Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, PA-10, December 1986.
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Snell, V.G. (1988). The Cause of the Chernobyl Accident. In: The Social Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19428-5_1
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