Prevention of health problems in youth of premilitary age and inductees from the technologically-contaminated districts of the Bryansk region.

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

Scientific-technical basis of forest management on the radioactive polluted territories

Title:Scientific-technical basis of forest management on the radioactive polluted territories

Author: Bovkunov, Vladimir Mikhailovich

Reference: Bryansk, 2000

Keywords: radionuclides, forest management, Bryansk region

Abstract: The purpose of the study. To develop and validate the scientific and technical basis of forest management activities in the forests, contaminated with radionuclides as in the example of Bryansk region that was contaminated due to the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/nauchno-tekhnicheskie-osnovy-lesoustroistva-na-radioaktivno-zagryaznennykh-territoriyakh

Evaluation and prediction of radiation-ecological state of the natural environment in the area of the Chernobyl contamination: the case of the Bryansk region.

Title: Evaluation and prediction of radiation-ecological state of the natural environment in the area of the Chernobyl contamination: the case of the Bryansk region.

Author: Starodubov, Alexey Valeryevich

Reference: Moscow, 2007

Keywords: area of long-term radioactive contamination, Bryansk region, safe living conditions, population, prediction, natural environment, plutonium, americium, cesium, strontium

Abstract: The main objective of the work is to establish a scientific and methodological framework for assessing and predicting the radiation situation in the area of long-term radioactive contamination by the fragmentation fission products and trans-uranic elements of Chernobyl genesis (for example, the south-western part of the Bryansk region) necessary to ensure safe living conditions of the population and planning household activity.

URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/otsenka-i-prognozirovanie-radiatsionno-ekologicheskogo-sostoyaniya-prirodnoi-sredy-v-zone-ch

The possibility of recreational use of forests on the radioactively contaminated areas of Bryansk region

Title: The possibility of recreational use of forests on the radioactively contaminated areas of Bryansk region

Author: Levkina, Galina Valeryevna

Reference: Moscow, 2000

Keywords: Bryansk region, recreational forest management

Abstract: The purpose of the study – to evaluate the possibilities and determine the features and limitations of the recreational forest management on the radioactively contaminated areas of the Bryansk region.

URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/vozmozhnosti-rekreatsionnogo-ispolzovaniya-lesa-na-radioaktivno-zagryaznennykh-territoriyakh

Growth, reproductive success and reproductive prospects of English oak in the contaminated plantations areas of Bryansk region, in the areas of broadleaf forests

Title: Growth, reproductive success and reproductive prospects of (English) oak in the contaminated plantations areas of Bryansk region, in the areas of broadleaf forests

Author: Shlapakova, Svetlana Nikolayevna

Reference: Bryansk, 1999

Keywords: English oak, Bryansk district, reproductive ability

Abstract: The aim of the research; to learn the nature of the variability of growth and generative processes in English oak at different stages of ontogeny in Bryansk district, a zone of broadleaf forests under the influence of radioactive contamination for reforestation measures using its own forest seed base.

URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/rost-reproduktivnaya-sposobnost-i-perspektivy-vosproizvodstva-duba-chereshchatogo-v-radioakt

Variability of Norway spruce reproductive and growth processes in various areas of chronic radioactive contamination of Bryansk region Chernobyl zone’s broad-leaved forests.

Title: Variability of Norway spruce reproductive and growth processes in various areas of chronic radioactive contamination of Bryansk region Chernobyl zone’s broad-leaved forests.

Author: Alyeshin, Igor Vladimirovich

Reference: Bryansk, 2006

Keywords: Bryansk region, spruce, dendrology, ecology

Abstract: The purpose of the study – to study the variability of reproductive and growth processes of Norway spruce in various areas of chronic radioactive contamination of Bryansk region Chernobyl zone’s broad-leaved forests.

URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/izmenchivost-reproduktivnykh-i-rostovykh-protsessov-eli-evropeiskoi-v-razlichnykh-zonakh-khr

Features of physical development and functional state of the child and adolescent population of Bryansk region in areas with abrupt changes in ecosystem composition of the environment

Title: Features of physical development and functional state of the child and adolescent population of Bryansk region in areas with abrupt changes in ecosystem composition of the environment

Author: Korsakov Anton Vyacheslavovich

Reference: Bryansk, 2006

Keywords: Bryansk region, population, physical development, functional status, child population, adolescent population

Abstract: The purpose of the study – to study the effect of the emergency radioactive, man-made (technogenic) toxic-chemical and combined radiation-toxic pollution of the environment on physical development and functional state of Bryansk region’s child and adolescent population.

URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/osobennosti-fizicheskogo-razvitiya-i-funktsionalnogo-sostoyaniya-detskogo-i-podrostkovogo-na

Methodological principles for the establishment of a regional system for the environmental monitoring of radiation-affected territories of Bryansk’s Polesia and the population being affected by the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

Title: Methodological principles for the establishment of a regional system for the environmental monitoring of radiation-affected territories of Bryansk’s Polesia and the population being affected by the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

Author: Tcelousov Anatoli Gennadyevich

Reference: Bryansk, 1997

Keywords: radiation-ecological monitoring, Polessie/ Polesia, Bryansk

Abstract: [Findings; 1. Formation of external and internal doses of exposure of the citizens living in the contaminated areas is dependent on radio-ecological characteristics of places of settlement.
2. External radiation dose depends on length of stay and mode of behavior in the contaminated areas. One of the critical population groups that is exposed to a greatest external radiation, are people working in the open air, especially forestry workers, who live in wooden houses…]

URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/metodicheskie-printsipy-sozdaniya-regionalnoi-sistemy-kompleksnogo-radiatsionno-ekologichesk

Estimation of doses received in a dry-contaminated residential area in the Bryansk region, Russia, since the Chernobyl accident

Title: Estimation of doses received in a dry-contaminated residential area in the Bryansk region, Russia, since the Chernobyl accident

Author: K.G. Andersson, J. Roed

Reference: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Volume 85, Issues 2–3, 2006, Pages 228-240

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2004.08.019

Keywords: Radiation dose; Radiocaesium; Urban; Chernobyl; Preparedness; Dry deposition

Abstract: In nuclear preparedness, an essential requirement is the ability to adequately predict the likely consequences of a major accident situation. In this context it is very important to evaluate which contributions to dose are important, and which are not likely to have significance. As an example of this type of evaluation, a case study has been conducted to estimate the doses received over the first 17 years after the Chernobyl accident in a dry-contaminated residential area in the Bryansk region in Russia. Methodologies for estimation of doses received through nine different pathways, including contamination of streets, roofs, exterior walls, and landscape, are established, and best estimates are given for each of the dose contributions. Generally, contaminated soil areas were estimated to have given the highest dose contribution, but a number of other contributions to dose, e.g., from contaminated roofs and inhalation of contaminants during the passage of the contaminated plume, were of the same order of magnitude.

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X05002183

Gamma-dose rates from terrestrial and Chernobyl radionuclides inside and outside settlements in the Bryansk Region, Russia in 1996–2003

Title: Gamma-dose rates from terrestrial and Chernobyl radionuclides inside and outside settlements in the Bryansk Region, Russia in 1996–2003

Author: Valery Ramzaev, Hidenori Yonehara, Ralf Hille, Anatoly Barkovsky, Arkady Mishine, Sarat Kumar Sahoo, Katsumi Kurotaki, Masafumi Uchiyama

Reference: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Volume 85, Issues 2–3, 2006, Pages 205-227

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2004.04.014

Keywords: Chernobyl accident; Cesium; Terrestrial radionuclides; Gamma-dose rates; Effective doses

Abstract: In order to estimate current external gamma doses to the population of the Russian territories contaminated as a result of the Chernobyl accident, absorbed gamma-dose rates in air (DR) were determined at typical urban and suburban locations. The study was performed in the western districts of the Bryansk Region within the areas of 30 settlements (28 villages and 2 towns) with the initial levels of ¹³⁷Cs deposition ranging from 13 to 4340 kBq m⁻². In the towns, the living areas considered were private one-story wooden and stone houses. DR values were derived from in situ measurements performed with the help of gamma-dosimeters and gamma-spectrometers as well as from the results of soil samples analysis. In the areas under study, the values of DR from terrestrial radionuclides were 25 ± 6, 24 ± 5, 50 ± 10, 32 ± 6, 54 ± 11, 24 ± 8, 20 ± 6, 25 ± 8, and 18 ± 5 nGy h⁻¹ at locations of kitchen gardens, dirt surfaces, asphalt surfaces, wooden houses, stone houses, grasslands inside settlement, grasslands outside settlement, ploughed fields, and forests, respectively. In 1996–2001, mean normalized (per MBq m⁻² of ¹³⁷Cs current inventory in soil) values of DR from ¹³⁷Cs were 0.41 ± 0.07, 0.26 ± 0.13, 0.15 ± 0.07, 0.10 ± 0.05, 0.05 ± 0.04, 0.48 ± 0.12, 1.04 ± 0.22, 0.37 ± 0.07, and 1.15 ± 0.19 μGy h⁻¹ at the locations of kitchen gardens, dirt surfaces, asphalt surfaces, wooden houses, stone houses, grasslands inside settlement, grasslands outside settlement, ploughed fields, and forests, respectively. The radiometric data from this work and the values of occupancy factors determined for the Russian population by others were used for the assessments of annual effective doses to three selected groups of rural population. The normalized (per MBq m⁻²¹³⁷Cs current ground deposition) external effective doses to adults from ¹³⁷Cs ranged from 0.66 to 2.27 mSv y⁻¹ in the years 1996–2001, in accordance with professional activities and structures of living areas. For the areas under study, the average external effective doses from ¹³⁷Cs were estimated to be in the range of 0.39–1.34 mSv y⁻¹ in 2001. The average external effective doses from natural radionuclides appeared to be lower than those from the Chernobyl fallout ranging from 0.15 to 0.27 mSv y⁻¹.

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X05002171