[IMAGE] RUSSIAN RESEARCH CENTER "KURCHATOV INSTITUTE" 
  
Hypertext Data base: Chernobyl and its consequences .(Project "Polyn").

   
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Dear Colleagues.

   
   
   We are glad to present a hypertext data base describing an accident at
   Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. As a platform of this data base a
   recent official version of events published in 1992[20], has been used
   as well as materials of Chernobyl Kurchatov Institute Expedition and a
   number of publications in scientific press and mass media.
   
   "POLYN" is a Russian word and means "Chernobyl'". After an accident
   all works in a 30-km zone were named after this word, so we keep it as
   a name of our data base.
   
   This data base is not an official publication but an initiative work
   of our group. If "Polyn" is useful for anybody , it will be pleasure
   for us. Any ideas, remarks and corrections are welcome.
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   Your possible choice:
     * Introduction 
     * Copyright 
     * Contents 
     * Literature 
       
   
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Data Base Administration Group:

   
   
   Since June of 1986 we had started a work aimed to provide an
   information support of decisions made by specialists of our institute
   during liquidation of consequences of Chernobyl Accident. In general,
   our activity was focused on the following issues:
     * Data Base of Radioactive Samples measurements collected in 30-km
       zone and at the destroyed block.
     * Bibliographic Data Base of scientific publications.
     * Images of the Block and maps.
     * Distributed Data Bank of Scientific Russian Organizations involved
       in Chernobyl activity.
       
   
   
   Since the 1993 year we had started a new work to unify all of the
   available information resources in a universal form. This data base is
   an attempt to achieve this goal.
     * Olga Zimina (liai@chern1.msk.su) has an experience in the data
       base design and its management. She is a designer of PC/AT version
       of 30-km zone contamination data base and applications for it.
     * Natal'ya Sergeeva (liai@chern1.msk.su) has an experience in design
       and management of bibliographic data bases. She is designer of
       Bibliagraphic data base of publications in scientific reports,
       periodics and mass media.
     * Pavel Khramtsov (dobr@kiae.su) is a head of this group.
       
   
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