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More than 36 years have passed since the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. During these years, a huge number of articles, books, films devoted to this human-made disaster have been published in scientific journals and mass media. The article presents the memoirs of the author – a participant in solving the problems that arose during the liquidation of the consequences of the accident. Specialists of the Institute of Radiation Hygiene worked in the contaminated territories of the Bryansk region, Belarus together with the sanitary and epidemiological service, conducted training seminars for various groups of the public in order to educate and teach the rules of behavior in the current situation. Specialists of the Institute compiled reports on the radiation situation based on data from all sanitary and epidemiological services in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on the radioactive state of environmental objects. Based on scientific data, Methodological guidelines and recommendations on the prevention of radiation anxiety, on the work of specialists with medical doctors and other group of population were prepared. Texts of lectures on the effects of radiation on health were written and published in the Znanie society. |
