Technical report on the geomatics work carried out for the EUNUPRI study at the University of Geneva (in French):
To be quoted as:
Deriaz, Bastien. 2019. Cartographie des impacts d’un accident nucléaire majeur en Suisse. Rapport de stage, certificat complémentaire en Géomatique sous la supervision de Gregory Giuliani. University of Geneva, Institute Biosphère, Sortir du Nucléaires. January 2019. 39 p.
Etude 2015
Version française:
Etude sur la vulnérabilité de la Suisse en cas d'accident nucléaire majeur sur le territoire national : Analyse stratégique et comparaison internationale.
The 2015 Study:
English version
The Vulnerability of Small Countries in the Event of a Major Nuclear Accident in Their Territory: Strategic Analysis and International Comparison. 2015
THE EUROPEAN NUCLEAR POWER RISK study: EUNUPRI–2019
Authors:
– Frédéric-Paul Piguet, Institut Biosphère, Geneva
– Pierre Eckert, Geneva
– Claudio Knüsli, IPPNW (Suisse), Luzern
– Bastien Deriaz, Institute for environmental sciences, University of Geneva
– Walter Wildi, Department F.A.-Forel, University of Geneva
– Gregory Giuliani, Institute for environmental sciences, University of Geneva
EUNUPRI_2019 discusses the probability of a major accident in a nuclear power plant and, by simulation of such an accident, it evaluates the harm to people. The Western European nuclear power plants (NPPs) under scrutiny are Beznau, Gösgen, Leibstadt and Mühleberg in Switzerland and Bugey in France.
Below, simulation (48 h) of a Major Accident at The Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant, January 19 2017 (EUNUPRI_2019)
Français:
Analyse du risque d'accident nucléaire
L’Institut Biosphère et ses parte-naires ont évalué les risques des réacteurs nucléaires dédiés à la production d’énergie. EUNUPRI_2019 est une analyse scientifique du risque d’un accident nucléaire majeur dans la perspective du corpus légal. Cette synthèse porte sur 5 centrales en Suisse et en France (voir résumé français de EUNUPRI_2019). C’est la seconde étude de l’Institut Biosphère sur ce sujet après l'étude 2015.
English:
Risk assessment of nuclear power plants
The Institut Biosphère and his partners had assessed the risk of nuclear power plants. The European Nuclear Power Risk study 2019 (EUNUPRI_2019) is a scientific analysis of the risk of a major nuclear accident from the perspective of prescriptive laws. It analyses 5 NPPs in Switzer-land and France (see the English version of the article).
RESULTS
We found between 20,000 and nearly 50,000 radio-induced cancer cases on average, depending on the specific NPP, and between 7,500 and 18,500 radio-induced cardiovascular cases (myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular disease) are estimated as late effects of ionizing radiation. Furthermore, the number of people who should be evacuated and resettled could, on average, reach 250,000 for the smaller NPP (Beznau) and up to 500,000 for Leibstadt.
A peer-reviewed report
To be quoted as:
Piguet Frédéric-Paul, Eckert Pierre, Deriaz Bastien, Knüsli Claudio, Wildi Walter, Giuliani Gregory. 2019. "Modeling of a Major Accident in Five Nuclear Power Plants From 365 Meteorological Situations in Western Europe and Analysis of the Potential Impacts on Populations, Soils and Affected Countries". Institut Biosphère. Strategic Study n°2. Final version B, 27 August 2019. 42 p.
VIDEOS
Simulation of a major nuclear accident in one reactor of the below NPPs:
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