Retrospective Dose Assessment for the Population Living in Areas of Local Fallout from the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site Part I: External Exposure
| Autor: | Konstantin GORDEEV, Sergey SHINKAREV, Leonid ILYIN, André BOUVILLE, Masaharu HOSHI, Nickolas LUCKYANOV, Steven L. SIMON |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Radioactive Fallout
Radioisotopes Radiation Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Environmental Exposure Radiation Dosage Models Biological Risk Assessment Whole-Body Counting Kazakhstan Radiation Monitoring Risk Factors Body Burden Humans Soil Pollutants Radioactive Computer Simulation Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Relative Biological Effectiveness Nuclear Warfare Retrospective Studies |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Radiation Research. 47:A129-A136 |
| ISSN: | 1349-9157 0449-3060 |
| DOI: | 10.1269/jrr.47.a129 |
| Popis: | A short analysis of all 111 atmospheric events conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS) in 1949-1962 with regard to significant off-site exposure (more than 5 mSv of the effective dose during the first year after the explosion) has been made. The analytical method used to assess external exposure to the residents living in settlements near the STS is described. This method makes use of the archival data on the radiological conditions, including the measurements of exposure rate. Special attention was given to the residents of Dolon and Kanonerka villages exposed mainly as a result of the first test, detonated on August 29, 1949. For the residents of those settlements born in 1935, the dose estimates calculated according to the analytical method, are compared to those derived from the thermoluminescence measurements in bricks and electron paramagnetic resonance measurements in teeth. The methods described in this paper were used for external dose assessment for the cohort members at an initial stage of an ongoing epidemiological study conducted by the U.S. National Cancer Institute in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Recently revised methods and estimates of external exposure for that cohort are given in another paper (Simon et al.) in this conference. |
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