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Development and implementation of a unified Belarus-Russian concept for managing resettlement and exclusion territories for providing human protection

UDC 574::539.1.04
Authors Podolyak Aleksandr Grigor'evich, PhD in Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor
Sedukova Galina Valer'evna, PhD in Agricultural Sciences
Lozovaya Zoya Vyacheslavovna, PhD in Agricultural Sciences
Isachenko Sergey Aleksandrovich
Abstract Purpose. Development of a Unified Belarus-Russian Concept for managing resettlement and exclusion territories in terms of securing human protection in the aftermath of the Chernobyl NPP nuclear accident.
Methods. Radiation data collection and analysis; analysis of the existing database on the basic aspects related to securing the safety of living in contaminated areas; analysis of the existing and forecasted levels of radioactive contamination of bordering territories including residential areas, forests and agricultural lands; modelling radiation dispersion in case of wildfires in the areas of radioactive contamination.
Findings. Provisions have been developed in terms of three major directions of the Unified Strategy: health and daily life safety of the residents of Belarus and Russia who live in the areas neighbouring the exclusion and resettlement zones; sustainable socioeconomic development of the areas affected by radioactive contamination; interaction between Russia and Belarus in terms of emergency prevention, preparedness and response in the bordering territories with high levels of radioactive contamination.
Keywords radioactive contamination, concept, ressettlement zone, exclusion zone, radiation protection of population
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