title: [Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident and Tokaimura criticality accident].
abstract: It is clear from inspection of historical incidents that the scale of disasters in a nuclear power plant accident is quite low level overwhelmingly compared with a nuclear explosion in nuclear war. Two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by nuclear blast with about 20 kt TNT equivalent and then approximately 100,000 people have died respectively. On the other hand, the number of acute death is 30 in the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident. In this chapter, we review health hazards and doses in two historical nuclear incidents of Chernobyl and Tokaimura criticality accident and then understand the feature of the radiation accident in peaceful utilization of nuclear power.
authors.affiliation: Radiation Protection Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Takada
mesh_terms: D047852:Chernobyl Nuclear Accident; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D011874:Radiometry