THE VARNA CONTRIBUTION IN ESTABLISHING THE RADIATION SITUATION IN OUR BLACK SEA AREA DURING THE ACCIDENT IN THE CHERNOBYL NPP AND IN THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF VARNA Cover Image

ВАРНЕНСКИЯТ ПРИНОС В УСТАНОВЯВАНЕ НА РАДИАЦИОННАТА ОБСТАНОВКА В ЧЕРНОМОРСКИЯ НИ РАЙОН ПО ВРЕМЕ НА АВАРИЯТА В ЧЕРНОБИЛСКАТА АЕЦ И В КУЛТУРНОТО НАСЛЕДСТВО НА ВАРНА
THE VARNA CONTRIBUTION IN ESTABLISHING THE RADIATION SITUATION IN OUR BLACK SEA AREA DURING THE ACCIDENT IN THE CHERNOBYL NPP AND IN THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF VARNA

Author(s): Veselin Trakiyski
Subject(s): History, Geography, Regional studies, Regional Geography, Recent History (1900 till today), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Съюз на учените - Варна
Keywords: accident at a nuclear power plant; radiation situation; X-ray meter-radiometer; Black Sea coast

Summary/Abstract: This text is a modest attempt to pay the deserved and necessary respect to the Bulgarian scientists, designers, military engineers and technicians, as well as to the staff of the Nuclear Instrument and Dosimeter Factory in Pleven and the respective Institute, for the unique created by them for its time X-ray meter-radiometer RR-51M, which was used to measure urgently to clarify the radiation situation in a vast territory of the former Soviet Union, which included the territories of Ukraine, Belarus, and the western part of the Russian Federation after the unfortunate Chernobyl accident at the V. I. Lenin nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986 and to the chemists servicemen from the Chemical Service of the Navy of the People‘s Republic of Bulgaria for the same activity at our Black Sea coast.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 4-14
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bulgarian