Radioecology Project Synthesis Report

Ten years after the Chernobyl accident, the "Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire" (IRSN) and "Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit" (GRS) decided to start an initiative, called the “French-German Initiative for Chernobyl” (FGI), to evaluate the consequences of the accident. The French-German Initiative for Chernobyl consists of three parts: the project 1 “Shelter”, the project 2 “Radioecology”, and the project 3 “Health consequences”. According to the general agreement between IRSN for France, GRS for Germany and the Chornobyl Centre for Ukraine as the beneficiary, the radioecology project started at the end of 1998. Its purpose was to collect, validate and secure existing data and create a database which could be used for further investigations, too.