move from the dirtier to the cleaner areas;
work in the following sequence;
remove debris and rubbish;
decontaminate rooves and the rest of buildings;
remove 5 to 10 centimetres of soil for solid waste disposal.
The soil removed from the plant area would be replaced by concrete. This would enable further work to be done. Walls would be sprayed with plastic and polymer adhesives which would form a protective film.
There was obviously a large decontamination problem in the 30 km control zone. There would be a considerable redistribution of nuclide deposition over the first year because the current distribution was loose and liable to move. The deposition of activity took 4 years to stabilise in the pine needles in pine forests. Sampling would lead to the construction of a map of the distribution of the activity. aim was to restore the land to agricultural use but not with food going directly into the food chain. Substances would be introduced to the soil (lime, mineral fertilizers, solvents, to prevent nuclide movement.
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Academician V I Trefilov (Vice-Chairman Ukrainian Academy of Sciences - and Head of Physical Technical and Mathematical Science Section. He also covers some areas in USSR Academy of Sciences) provided an additional non-scheduled account of the post-accident activities of the Government organisation of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. A Government Commission and a daily operational group were set up, both headed by the Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian Council of Ministers.
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Priority tasks were:
Health of the population;
Localisation of the effects of the accident;
Guaranteeing the continued economic activity of the republic.
Factories, plants and a large number of industrial activities carried on around Pripyat were forced to stop and their production had to be replaced by other installations. There were many complex problems related to the evacuation of the population which had to be solved.
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