ICRP International Commission on Radiological Protection, 59–63, 66, 67, 69, 71, 96, 165, 184, 302, 335, 417, 427, 443, 453, 454, 456, 458, 600
IFHD International Federation for Human Rights, 533
IMCC International Medical Commission-Chernobyl [p. 188
IPHECA International Project on Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident—WHO, 297, 298, 557, 567, 568, 585, 596
IPSN Institut de Protection et de Sûreté Nucléaire French (Institute of Protection and Nuclear Safety) [p. 178–181, 183, 184, 539
IRSN Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire. French. (Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety), 179–181, 184–187, 241, 265, 277, 294, 298, 432, 451
JCE Joint Committee of Experts, 234
JCR Joint Research Centre European Commission, 256–259
JÜLICH Research Centre for Radioprotection (Germany), 161, 207, 239, 240, 243, 244, 248, 269, 287, 365, 389, 394, 395, 399, 401
LCRM Local Centre for Radiological Monitoring of food products (Belarus), 114, 206, 207, 233, 264, 266, 267, 270, 272, 273, 275, 279, 283–286, 305, 306, 325, 342, 348
LOS ALAMOS The Los Alamos National Laboratory—LANL is a laboratory of the United States Department of Energy, managed by the University of California, situated at Los Alamos, in New Mexico. It is the biggest institute and the largest employer in New Mexico, with nearly 10,000 employees from the University of California and about 3000 more on contracts. Los Alamos is one of the two American laboratories, along with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where secret research into nuclear weapons is undertaken, 422, 423, 444, 451
MES Ministry for Emergency Situations, 220
MINZDRAV acronym for Russian Ministry of Health, 200, 218,
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MUTADIS A scientific research group specialising in the social management of risk and in the management of high risk activities. It intervenes in both public and private organisations but particularly in the nuclear domain, 282, 284
NASB National Academy of Sciences in Belarus, 235
NAS SSRB National Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Belarus 235
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, 307, 504
NCRP USA. National Council on Radiation Protection, 60–62
NCRP (Belarus), 160
NEP New Economic Policy, 126
Network Sortir du Nucleaire, 533, 535
NRPB National Radiological Protection Board [p. 62
OCHA Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 413, 417, 421, 422, 425, 444, 463, 558
OPRI Office de Protection contre les Rayonnements Ionisants France. (Office for Protection against Ionising Radiation), 180, 181, 183
OSCE Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, 169, 219, 222, 232, 265, 476, 477, 526, 527
PACE Parliamentary Assembly Council of Europe, 502, 503, 504, 512
PSR/IPPNW Physicians for Social Responsibility / International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Nobel Peace Prize 1985, 140, 265, 556, 557
RERF Radiation Effects Research Foundation—Foundation for research into radiation effects at Hiroshima, 53, 74
SCPRI Service Central de Protection contre les Rayonnements Ionisants France (Central Service of Protection against Ionising Radiation), 71, 180
SCSNT State Committee for Science and new Technology, 198 199
SMW Swiss Medical Weekly, 186, 240, 248, 386, 389, 434, 526
TACIS Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States. European Commission—Euratom Regulation n° 99/2000. The aims of Tacis were “to support the process of transition to market economies and democratic societies in the countries of Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia”. TACIS worked in a number of domains but particularly for the support and promotion of a culture of nuclear safety, 166, 206, 239, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 283, 285, 548
TDR Tropical Diseases Research, 563
TSI Télévision Suisse Italienne (Swiss Italian Television), 66, 71, 138, 167, 418, 538
UkrAm Ukrainian project—the counterpart to BELAM in Belarus, 246
UN United Nations, 10–12, 22, 23, 35, 49, 58, 59, 62, 63, 70, 74, 81, 118, 131, 132, 153, 158, 165, 169, 173, 182, 206, 230, 233, 262, 265, 283, 297, 315, 357, 372, 412, 414, 416–422, 424–426, 443, 444, 449, 455, 461–463, 467, 470, 472, 490, 498, 500, 505, 508, 509, 511, 516, 521, 531, 533, 536, 541, 543, 554, 563, 567, 568, 583, 588, 593, 594, 597, 600
UNDP United Nations Development Programme, 11, 51, 265, 277, 278, 282, 291, 358, 463
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, 265, 277, 278, 291, 489
UNSCEAR United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, 11, 51, 58, 62, 63, 68, 72, 74, 101, 153, 165, 182, 183, 199, 206, 230, 287, 289, 415, 417, 420, 423–425, 427–429, 431, 443–445, 449–451, 461, 463, 557, 568, 596
WHO World Health Organisation, vii, 10, 11, 12, 13, 22, 51, 58, 59, 62–64, 67, 71, 72, 74, 96, 101, 117, 126, 155, 158, 165, 168, 234, 287, 297, 298, 300, 301, 335, 358, 386, 412–422, 430, 436, 437, 454, 455, 460, 461, 463, 485, 490, 536, 537, 540, 541, 543–547, 554–570, 572, 573, 580–585, 588–597
WILPF Woman’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 536, 556, 557
WOMEN against nuclear power (Finland), 536
Women for Peace Amandamaji (Finland), 535
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