The Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity (in the original French, Commission de Recherche et d'Information Indépendantes sur la Radioactivité, or CRIIRAD) is a French
NGO
A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an independent, typically nonprofit organization that operates outside government control, though it may get a significant percentage of its funding from government or corporate sources. NGOs often focus ...
which specializes in the analysis of
radioactivity
Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation. A material containing unstable nuclei is conside ...
in the environment. It was created in the aftermath of the
Chernobyl catastrophe
On 26 April 1986, the no. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded. With dozens of direct casualties, it is one of only ...
on April 26, 1986. It revendicates "being independent from nuclear exploitants, the state and all political parties".
The CRIIRAD has an analysis laboratory, equipped for identification of
radioactive contamination
Radioactive contamination, also called radiological pollution, is the deposition of, or presence of Radioactive decay, radioactive substances on surfaces or within solids, liquids, or gases (including the human body), where their presence is uni ...
(food, water, etc.), which has been delivered the technical qualification certificate by the Health minister. It operates both in France and abroad, and is funded by its investigations (more than a thousand studies since its creation) and its memberships' adhesions. As all other French NGOs, it is regulated by the 1901 law on
non-profit organizations
A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, not-for-profit organization, or simply a nonprofit, is a non-governmental (private) legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public, or so ...
.
Among other studies by the CRIIRAD, its investigations on the contamination of the French territory following the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe are the most known, although it also studied the consequences of the
Marcoule nuclear power plant, the
Fukushima I nuclear accidents
The Fukushima nuclear accident was a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan, which began on 11 March 2011. The cause of the accident was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which ...
, and published an atlas of radioactive contamination in Europe and France.
See also
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Yury Bandazhevsky
Yury Bandazhevsky ( / Juryj Bandažeŭski, / Yuri Ivanovich Bandazhevski; born January 9, 1957, in Belarus), former director of the Medical Institute in Gomel (Belarus), is a scientist working on consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. He was t ...
(a Belarusian scientist, repressed by the Belarusian state, who has been supported by the CRIIRAD)
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List of Chernobyl-related articles
This is a list of Chernobyl-related articles.
Disaster and effects
* Comparison of Chernobyl and other radioactivity releases
** Comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents
* Chernobyl disaster
* Effects of the Chernobyl di ...
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Michèle Rivasi
Michèle Rivasi (9 February 1953 – 29 November 2023) was a French politician who served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 until her death in 2023, for Europe Écologie–The Greens. She was previously a member of the Frenc ...
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Nuclear waste management in France
External links
official websiteFukushima contamination in France - What are the risks?
Aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster
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Nuclear energy in France
Environmental organizations based in France
Nuclear safety and security
Anti-nuclear organizations
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