* Portugal 1998

[Source: Nuclear Energy Agency (2000), as presented by THE ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NUCLEAR POWER: A Study Conducted at The University of Chicago, August 2004, p. 2-5]

1986

Mean individual dose to Portugese from Chernobyl accident (over 50-year period) is projected to be 0.4 microSieverts. The collective dose to Portugese over the same period is projected to be 4 person-Sieverts. These are by far the lowest such Chernobyl dose projections for any European nation. The projections take into account inhalation from the passing cloud, ingestion through the food chain, and external irradiation from deposited radioactivity, and are based on the MESOS dispersion model developed by Helen ApSimon of Imperial College, as applied by W. Nixon, of the Safety and Reliability Directorate of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority. [Ref: Nuclear News, "Chernobyl doses across the continent", January 1987, p. 62]