ANALYSIS OF THE SAFETY OF THE BURIAL GROUNDS
OF DECONTAMINATION WASTE OF CHERNOBYL ORIGIN 
IN THE TERRITORY OF BELARUS

V. V. Skurat, N. M. Shiryaeva, N. K. Myshkina, 
A. A. Gvozdev, G. Z. Serebryanyi, and N. B. Golikova

UDC 504.064.36:621.039.76

Unsatisfactory conditions of storage of decontamination 
waste (DW) in the storages formed in the territory of Belarus after 
the Chernobyl accident require the evaluation of the level of protection 
of the environment and population. The potential hazard of the decontamination 
waste burial grounds (DWBGs) has been evaluated based on the use of 
a generalized multichamber model that was verified by comparing the 
calculation results and the results obtained by the American (GW SCREEN) 
model. The characteristics of the 24 largest and most hazardous DWBGs 
are given and the evaluations of their safety are presented. The zones 
of influence of these storages, whose size varies from 100 to 330 
m, have been determined. The reliability of the prediction evaluation 
of a possible hazardous radioactive contamination of water near the 
storages has been verified using the Dudichi DWBG as an example

Institute of Radioenvironmental Problems, National Academy 
of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus; email: air@sosny.das-net.by. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 75, No. 5, 
pp. 158-164, September-October, 2002. Original article submitted 
January 23, 2002.

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