Doses and risks from the water use received by the population of southwest areas of Bryansk region

Title: Doses and risks from the water use received by the population of southwest areas of Bryansk region

Author: Katkova M.N.

Reference: Journal: Radiation and Risk (Bulletin of the National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry), Year: 2008, Volume: 17, Issue: 1

Keywords: exposure dose, water use, risk, radionuclides of 90 Sr and 137Cs,   Chernobyl accident

Abstract: In the present work the estimation of risk for the population of southwest areas of Bryansk region exposed to radiation fallout after Chernobyl accident is carried out. The life risk of disease for the population of the specified areas is estimated by a cancer through a dose received from water use. The basic ways of radionuclide receipt in an organism of inhabitants of southwest areas of Bryansk region on a water chain are: an external exposure from polluted flood-land of water body, consumption of water from the sources of the drinking water supply located in the polluted zone, and consumption of fish caught from a local water body. As object of research the population living in area of Lake Kozhanovskoe is accepted. The contribution of radionuclides o f⁹ Sr and ¹³⁷Cs in a total dose from water use is estimated. Priority sources of risk for the population from water use to which it is necessary to pay special attention at carrying out of protective actions in the specified territories are revealed.

URL:http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/dozy-i-riski-ot-vodopolzovaniya-poluchaemye-naseleniem-yugo-zapadnyh-rayonov-bryanskoy-oblasti

A person’s psychological status as a subject of investigation in the analysis of people’s mentality condition in an ecological ill-being region

Title: A person’s psychological status as a subject of investigation in the analysis of people’s mentality condition in an ecological ill-being region

Author: Sarayeva, Nadejda Mihailovna

Reference: Journal: Proceedings of the Russian State Pedagogical University. A.I. Herzen, Year: 2008 Issue: 62

Keywords: psychological status of a person, a region of ecological trouble

Abstract: The article substantiates application of the concept “a person’s psychological status” and characterises the structure of the psychological status as a system property of the “person – environment” system for the analysis of the condition of people’s mentality in an ecological illbeing region.

URL:http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/psihologicheskiy-status-cheloveka-kak-predmet-issledovaniya-pri-analize-sostoyaniya-psihiki-lyudey-v-regione-ekologicheskogo

Estimation of the ratio of 90Sr and 137Cs activities in the Chernobyl depositions in the territory of the Russian Federation

Title: Estimation of the ratio of 90Sr and 137Cs activities in the Chernobyl depositions in the territory of the Russian Federation

Author: Ermilov A.P., Ziborov A.M.

Reference: Journal: Radiation and Risk (Bulletin of the National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry), Year: 2001 Issue: 12

Keywords: contamination, cesium-137, strontium-90

Abstract: Correlative relationship between activities of ⁹⁰Sr to ¹³⁷Cs in condenses of the Chernobyl fallouts on April 26, 1986 was detected. The ratio was estimated with the use of data of the Institute of Global Climate and Ecology of the State Committee of Hydrometeorology and Russian Academy of Sciences. The data derived from measurements of ⁹⁰Sr, ¹³⁷Cs and ^239+240Pu in soil samples taken in Bryansk, Kaluga, Oriol and Ryazan regions in 1992. The contribution of the condensation of 90Sr in the soil samples of the Chernobyl fallout in Russia was found to be governing factor when specific activity of ¹³⁷Cs was > 2000 Bq/kg.

URL:http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/otsenka-otnosheniya-aktivnosti-90sr-k-aktivnosti-137cs-v-chernobylskih-vypadeniyah-na-territorii-rossiyskoy-federatsii

A social and psychological phenomenon of South Ural population’s permanent residence in the radiation-dangerous zone

Title: A social and psychological phenomenon of South Ural population’s permanent residence in the radiation-dangerous zone

Author: A. Abdullin

Reference: Journal: Proceedings of the Russian State Pedagogical University. A.I. Herzen, Year: 2006 Vol: 6 Issue: 14

Keywords: environmental pollution, radiative-dangerous zone, radiation factor, psychological addiction, permanent residence on the contaminated territories, South Ural

Abstract: The study of the social and psychological factors of permanent residence of South Ural population in the polluted environment has revealed a tendency of psychological adaptation of the local population to the radiation factor.

URL:http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/sotsialno-psihologicheskiy-fenomen-postoyannogo-prozhivaniya-naseleniya-yuzhnogo-urala-v-radiatsionno-opasnoy-zone

Уроки и выводы из аварии на Чернобыльской АЭС

Author: B.I. Chernichko

Reference: Journal:Стратегия гражданской защиты: проблемы и исследования (Strategies for Civil Protection: Issues and Research), Year: 2012 Vol: 2 Issue: 1

Keywords: environmental consequences, lessons and conclusions of the accident

Abstract: The international society evaluates the Chernobyl accident as one of the most severe disasters in the history. In the emergency, tasks of civil defense were: liquidation of fire at the power plant, organization and management of radiation surveillance, alert the people living around the plant and in the 30- kilometer zone, evacuation of the population and farm animals, sanitation and medical examination of the population, decontamination of roads, buildings and equipment of the nuclear power plant, radiation safety of personnel involved in the accident, maintenance of monitoring, providing protective measures for food, raw products, fodder, water sources, farm animals, and plants.

URL: http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/uroki-i-vyvody-iz-avarii-na-chernobylskoy-aes

Value and structure of radiation dose for emergency workers as a function of the radiation emergency mitigation phase and activity

Title: Value and structure of radiation dose for emergency workers as a function of the radiation emergency mitigation phase and activity

Author: Meshkov N.A.

Reference: Journal: Radiation and Risk (Bulletin of the National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry), Year: 2009 Volume: 18 Issue: 1

Keywords: Chernobyl disaster,   radionuclides,   volumetric activity,   entering organism,   liquidators,   the nature of work being performed,   137Cs content in organism,   Radiation doses,   radiation dose structure

Abstract: There was performed a research of the radiation dose size and radiation dose structure of those who participated in the elimination of the Chernobyl disaster consequences. It was established that the levels of ⁹⁰Sr, ¹³⁷Cs and ²³⁹Pu received by means of inhaling by the «liquidators» worked at the Chernobyl atomic power station site in June and July of 1986 did not exceed the limits set by radiation standards-76/87 of that time. The average radiation doses of the «liquidators» in 1986, 1987 and 1988 were 186, 98 and 47 mGy, respectively. The most dangerous exposure to radiation was received by those who participated in the decontamination of the third power generating unit of the Chernobyl atomic power station in June and July of 1986, their radiation doses being from 205,0±10,0 to 242,0±5,6 mGy. The body burden structure of the «liquidators» participated in the elimination in 1986 consisted of exposure radiation dose of external gamma irradiation (86 %), external beta irradiation (10 %) and internal irradiation caused by inhaling radionuclides (4 %). It was established that body burden was influenced by the following factors: the level of air and area radioactive contamination, duration of work in the contaminated areas, the nature of work being performed and personal protective equipment efficacy.

URL:http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/velichina-i-struktura-doz-oblucheniya-likvidatorov-v-zavisimosti-ot-etapa-likvidatsii-posledstviy-radiatsionnoy-avarii-i-vida-rabot

Draft resolution of the UN General Assembly. Reenforcement of international cooperation and coordination of efforts to study, mitigate and minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster

Reference: Journal: Радиация и риск (Radiation and Risk) (Bulletin of the National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry), Year: 2005 Issue: S2

Keywords: United Nations, international cooperation, consequences of the Chernobyl disaster

Abstract: Strengthening of coordination in fields of humanitarian aid and disaster relief provided by the United Nations, including special economic assistance.

URL:http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/proekt-rezolyutsii-generalnoy-assamblei-oon-ukreplenie-mezhdunarodnogo-sotrudnichestva-i-koordinatsiya-usiliy-v-dele-izucheniya

Problems of industrial risk, security in technosphere and technological future: views, ideas and thoughts of Academician V.А. Legasov

Author: A.A. Bykov

Reference: Strategies for Civil Protection: Issues and Research, Year: 2011 Vol: 1 Issue: 1

Keywords: technogenic risks, safety of the technosphere, future of technology

Abstract: Legasov, who once, in 1988, after the Chernobyl accident, tried to commit suicide, now evaluates features and problems of modern technology.

URL:http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/o-problemah-tehnogennogo-riska-bezopasnosti-tehnosfery-i-tehnologicheskom-buduschem-vzglyady-idei-i-mysli-akademika-v-a-legasova

Dosimetric data of the All-Russia Medical and Dosimetric State Registry for emergency workers

Title: Dosimetric data of the All-Russia Medical and Dosimetric State Registry for emergency workers

Author: Pitkevich V.A., Ivanov V.K., Tsyb A.F., Maksyutov M.A., Matyash V.A., Shchukina N.V.

Reference: Journal: Radiation and Risk (Bulletin of the National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry), Year: 1995, Issue: S2

Keywords: dosimetric data, liquidators

Abstract: This issue presents first a detailed description of dosimetric data registered in the All-Russia Medical and Dosimetric State Registry (ARMDSR) for emergency workers at the Chernobyl NPP. In dosimetric fields of the ARMDSR for emergency workers the data on absorbed doses of external radiation of persons are received from oficial documents given to emergency workers by organizations after carrying out dosimetric monitoring in the zone of emergency works. On the basis of ARMDSR data on radiation doses for 125771 emergency workers (79,1 % from the total number – 159027 men) all possible statistic characteristics are developed which allow to estimate degree of reliability of obtained information.

URL:http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/dozimetricheskie-dannye-rossiyskogo-gosudarstvennogo-mediko-dozimetricheskogo-registra-dlya-likvidatorov

Ecological problems of Chernobyl

Author: Slinchak　A.I.

Reference: Journal: Journal of the Pskov State University. Series: Natural and physical and mathematical sciences, Year: 2007, Issue 2

Keywords: radioactive contamination, iodine, cesium-137, strontium-90

Abstract: [… The dynamics of radioactive contamination of the affected areas are divided into four periods:

1 – April-July 1986, the condition of radiation contamination was constituted, mainly short-lived radionuclides such as iodine-131, iodine-133, iodine-135, lanthanum-140, barium-140, molybdenum-99, tellurium-132, and neptunium-239; radionuclides with a half-life of 1 year; 2 – 1986-1987., Along with the long-lived radionuclides, were present, in appreciable quantities, radionuclides serenium-144, ruthenium-106, cesium-134, and curium-242; 3 – Since 1988 the radioactive situation has been constituted mainly by radionuclides cesium-137 and strontium-90, and in the evacuation zone; plutonium-238, plutonium-239, plutonium-240 and plutonium-241; 4 – contamination of soil, except those specified in the third period of radionuclides, will be determined by the daughter isotope Pu-241 – americium-241. ..]

URL: http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/ekologicheskie-problemy-chernobylya