カテゴリー「ecology・environment」
Title: Post-Chernobyl investigations of radiocaesium activity concentrations in Adriatic Sea pilchards
Author: Zdenko Franić, Branko Petrinec1, Gina Branica, Gordana Marović, Dragan Kubelka and Zrinka Franić
Reference: Radiat Prot Dosimetry (2012) 151 (2): 314-322.
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncs012
Keywords: 134Cs, 137Cs, Adriatic Sea
Abstract: Investigations in the post-Chernobyl period (1986–2009) of radiocaesium activity concentrations in Adriatic pilchards are presented. Compared with pre-Chernobyl period, the Chernobyl nuclear accident caused increase of 137Cs activity concentrations in pilchards. By fitting the measured 137Cs activity concentrations to the theoretical curve was estimated to be 1.5±0.4 y for 1986–90 and 5.8±0.4 y for 1991–2009 and the bimodal behaviour for the ecological half-life of 137Cs in pilchards has been observed. Estimated annual effective doses received by 134Cs and 137Cs intake due to consumption for an adult member of Croatian population are small. Collective dose for the 1986–2009 period was 4.9+0.3 person-Sv. The observed 134Cs/137Cs activity ratio in pilchards was similar to the ratio that has been found in other environmental samples. The concentration factor for pilchards was roughly estimated to be 93.7±39.2 l kg−1, which is consistent with the values observed elsewhere.
URL: http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/content/151/2/314.full.pdf+html
Author: Affiliate “Belarusian branch of the Russian-Belarusian- information center on the consequences of Chernobyl catastrophe” RSRUE “” Institute of Radiology” Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus
Reference: Let us revive our Native Land together!
Keywords: thyroid cancer, cardiovascular diseases, neuropsychiatric disorders
Abstract: -Ecologic consequences, medical consequences…
Maps of deposition of iodine-131 and the number of thyroid cancer cases registered in the country, suggests that almost the entire population of Belarus has undergone “iodine shock”. In all categories of the victims of the Chernobyl accident, increases in the incidence of thyroid cancer, cardiovascular diseases, neuropsychiatric disorders are detected, which, however, in the current medical concepts, are not concerned with radiation…
-Socio-economic damages…
URL: http://www.rbic.by/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=107&Itemid=12
Author: G.M. Rumyantseva
Reference: Психиатрия и психофармакотерапия. (Psychiatry and psychopharmacotherapy), 2001
Abstract: Describes the characteristics and aftermaths of anthropogenic catastrophes in various aspects. Full text in Russian available on web.
URL: http://old.consilium-medicum.com/media/psycho/01_04/118.shtml
Author: V.G. Bebeshko, D.A. Bazyka, A.Yu. Romanenko, K.M. Loganovsky
Reference: Journal of AMS of Ukraine, 2011
Abstract: Article by Ukraine’s leading experts. Comprehends aspects of radiation safety, health protection, ecology, neuropsychiatry, immunology etc. Full text available in Ukrainian on web.
URL: http://archive.nbuv.gov.ua/portal/chem_biol/jamn/2011_2/Bebeshko.pdf
Author: A.K. Napreenko, K.N. Loganovsky
Reference: Поліграфкнига (Polygraph book), 1997
URL: http://medlib.org.ua/catalog.html?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=15&sobi2Id=16928
Title: Chernobyl’s Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts and Recommendations to the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine
Author:
Reference: The Chernobyl Forum: 2003–2005, Second revised version
Keywords: health effects, socio-economic impacts, environment, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
Abstract: The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 was the most severe in the history of the nuclear power industry, causing a huge release of radionuclides over large areas of Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Now, 20 years later, UN Agencies and representatives of the three countries have reviewed the health, environmental and socio-economic consequences.
URL:http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Booklets/Chernobyl/chernobyl.pdf
Title:Chernobyl Stories and Anthropological Shock in Hungary
Author: Harper, Krista M.
Reference: Anthropological Quarterly. Jul2001, Vol. 74 Issue 3, p114-123. 10p.
Keywords: Chernobyl disaster, Anthropological Shock, Hungary
Abstract: The Budapest Chernobyl Day commemoration generated a creative outpouring of stories about parental responsibilities, scientific knowledge, environmental risks, and public participation. ! examine the stories and performances elicited by the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1996. In these “Chernobyl stories” activists criticized scientific and state paternalism while engaging in alternative practices of citizenship. The decade between the catastrophic explosion and its commemoration coincides with the development of the Hungarian environmental movement and the transformation from state socialism Chernobyl Day 1996 consequently became an opportunity for activists to reflect upon how the meaning of citizenship and public participation had changed in those years as well.
URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/anthropological_quarterly/toc/anq74.3.html
Reference: Ministry of Emergency, Republic of Belorussia (department of liquidation of consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe)
Keywords: Gomel, Bretsk, contamination of land, medical consequences
Abstract: Topic: Contamination and zoning of the territories of Belorussia, medical consequences. According to the insufficient protecting measures, thyroid cancer incidents began to be detected from 1990, especially among children, in Belorussia, under the influence of radionuclide iodine. In comparison to the pre-accidental period, the incidence of thyroid cancer grew 33.6 times, in children, and 2.4-7 times in adults. The highest number of patients with thyroid cancer appeared in the inhabitants of the Gomel and Bretsk regions.
URL: http://www.chernobyl.gov.by/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=105&Itemid=54
Reference: WHO Chernobyl Forum, 2003-2005 second, revised publishment
Abstract: 1. Chernobyl’s Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-economic impact
Main results of studies of the Chernobyl Forum
Preface: The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
Medical consequences: Report from the Forum’ Expert Group
Environmental implications: Report from the Forum’ Expert Group
Socio-economic consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
2. Recommendations to the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine
Recommendations relating to health and medical research
Recommendations for monitoring the environment and its Rehabilitation and Research
Recommendations for Economic and Social Policy
URL: http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/chernobyl_digest_report_RUS.pdf
Title: Prevention of health disorders in youth of premilitary age and inductees from the technologically-contaminated districts of the Bryansk region.
Author: Agafonova, Irina Vitalyevna
Reference: Moscow, 2008
Keywords: prevention, health disorders, youth of premilitary age, inductees, physical health, psychological health, technologically-polluted areas, Bryansk region
Abstract: Objective: ecological and hygienic substantiation of preventive measures, to strengthen the physical and psychological health of premilitary and military ages (inductees) under the impact of technological environment with ecological and social issues.
URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/profilaktika-narushenii-zdorovya-doprizyvnikov-i-prizyvnikov-iz-tekhnogenno-zagryaznennykh-r
