Chernobyl: Assessment of Radiological and Health Impacts – 2002 Update of Chernobyl: Ten Years On

Title: Chernobyl: Assessment of Radiological and Health Impacts – 2002 Update of Chernobyl: Ten Years On

Reference: NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT [PDF-993K] Jul 2008

Keywords: children

Abstract: Early in the development of the Chernobyl accident, it became obvious that the radioiodines were contributing significant thyroid doses (Il90), especially to children, and the then Soviet authorities made every effort not only to minimise doses, but also to record the thyroid doses as accurately as possible. The results of these measurements and dose reconstruction assessments indicated that some groups in the population received high doses to their thyroids, and that an increase in thyroid abnormalities, including cancer, was a very real possibility in the future. This was particularly true for children in the contaminated regions in Belarus, northern Ukraine and the Bryansk and Kaluga regions of the Russian Federation. These were not inconsequential thyroid doses and, as early as 1986, it was predicted by experts from the Soviet Union that the thyroid would be the target organ most likely to show evidence of radiation effects, especially an increased incidence of benign and malignant tumours.

URL: http://www.energie-fakten.de/pdf/chernobyl-nea-oecd-2005.pdf

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