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The UNSCEAR 2020 Report
On 11 March 2011, at 14:46 local time, a 9.0-magnitude
earthquake occurred near Honshu, Japan, creating a devastating
tsunami that left a trail of death and destruction in its wake.
The earthquake and subsequent tsunami, which flooded over
500 km² of land, resulted in the loss of more than 20,000 lives
and destroyed property, infrastructure and natural resources.
They also led to the worst civil nuclear accident since the one
in Chernobyl in 1986. The loss of off-site and on-site electrical
power and compromised safety systems at the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) led to severe core damage to
three of the six nuclear reactors on the site; this resulted in the
release, over a prolonged period, of radioactive material into the
environment.
In May 2011, the Committee embarked upon a two-year
assessment of the levels and effects of radiation exposure
from the FDNPS accident. It reported its findings to the General
Assembly in October 2013 (A/68/46) and with a detailed
annex A “Levels and effects of radiation exposure due to the
nuclear accident after the 2011 great east-Japan earthquake and
tsunami" with the supporting scientific data and evaluation. The
report was published in April 2014.
The Committee maintained an awareness of new information
that became available subsequently (reviewed in White Papers
published in 2015, 2016 and 2017) and in 2018 decided to
prepare an update to its assessment. The UNSCEAR 2020 Report
uses the most recent detailed information and analyses available
a decade after the accident to validate and, where necessary,
revise the estimates of doses to the public and workers.
While self-standing, this report is intended to be read in
conjunction with the UNSCEAR 2013 Report and the subsequent
White Papers and does not repeat all the information available
in these publications. All reports can be downloaded at
www.unscear.org.
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Main objectives of the report
Summarize all of the information available since
2012 and assess its implications for the UNSCEAR
2013 Report
Validate and revise estimates of doses to the
public, based on more detailed analyses of the
available information
Set out an improved appraisal of the uncertainties
Better address issues and objectives not fully
addressed in the UNSCEAR 2013 Report
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