Strategy for population protection and area rehabilitation in Russia in the remote period after the Chernobyl accident

Title: Strategy for population protection and area rehabilitation in Russia in the remote period after the Chernobyl accident

Author: Balonov MI, Anisimova LI, Perminova GS

Reference: J Radiol Prot 19:261–269, (1999)

doi: 10.1088/0952-4746/19/3/304

Keywords : population, contamination, protection, radionuclides

Abstract: The report presents the history of the development of criteria for radiation and social protection of the Russian population residing in the areas contaminated with radionuclides after the Chernobyl accident, in the remote time periods after the accident. The tendencies for reduction of standards with time are shown, and their causes are analysed. It is noted that the optimization principle was not applied in the explicit form for population protection. The current radiation situation in the contaminated areas of Russia is described, and the future situation is forecast. Main pathways of external and internal population exposure are described. Modern possibilities for reduction of the population exposure dose are discussed. The authors propose promising criteria and methods for population protection and rehabilitation of contaminated areas in Russia.

ＵＲＬ: http://iopscience.iop.org/0952-4746/19/3/304/

Content of Radionuclides of Chernobyl Origin in Food Products for the Belarusian Population

Title: Content of Radionuclides of Chernobyl Origin in Food Products for the Belarusian Population

Author: Vladimir P. MATSKO and Tetsuji IMANAKA

Reference: Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, July 2002

Keywords: Belarus, food, population, radionuclides

Abstract: Recent data on radionuclide contents of Chernobyl origin in food products and drinking water for the Belarusian population are reviewed. Strontium-90 and Cesium-137 are main radionuclides contributing to internal irradiation to the population. Contamination levels in food products from the social sector of agriculture (collective farms, agricultural co-operatives) are found to be generally below the current legal admissible level of RAL-99 that are defined to make internal dose of the population less than 1 mSv/yr. On the other hand, exceedings of RAL-99 are often found in food products from the private sector, especially in settlements of Gomel region where the contamination is the most serious in Belarus. Special attention should be paid to the non-farm products in the contaminated areas: mushrooms, berries, fish and meat of wild animals. For example, about 37,000 Bq/kg of 137Cs in fresh mushroom was registered in a settlement of Gomel region, which corresponds to 100 times of RAL-99 values. Concerning drinking water, the situation is quite good and no execeedings have been registered for the last 10 years.

ＵＲＬ：http://www.rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NSRG/reports/kr79/KURRI-KR-79.htm

Chromosome analysis of peripheral lymphocytes from persons exposed to radioactive fallout in Norway from the Chernobyl accident

Title: Chromosome analysis of peripheral lymphocytes from persons exposed to radioactive fallout in Norway from the Chernobyl accident

Author: A. Brøgger, J.B. Reitan, P. Strand, I. Amundsen

Reference: Mutation Research 361 (1996) 73-79

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0165-1161(96)90241-1

Keywords: Chromosome aberration; Chernobyl fallout; Radiation burden; Norwegian population

Abstract: Chromosome analysis of peripheral lymphocytes from two Norwegian populations (44 reindeer herding South samis from Røros and Snåsa, 12 sheep farmers from Valdres) exposed to fallout from the Chernobyl accident were made. The doses from caesium through the years 1987–1991 were calculated based on whole-body measurement of ¹³⁴Cs and ¹³⁷Cs giving a total cumulative mean internal dose of 5.54 mSv for the total group of 56 persons. Chromosome aberrations were within the normal range when compared with historical controls with the exception of dicentrics (0.3% per cell, which is a 10-fold increase) and rings (0.07% per cell). A dose-dependent increase in dicentrics and rings based on caesium exposure was not observed.

ＵＲＬ： http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165116196902411

Distribution of individual and collective exposure doses for the population of Belorus in the first year after the Chernobyl accident

Title: Distribution of individual and collective exposure doses for the population of Belorus in the first year after the Chernobyl accident

Author: Savkin M.N., Titov A.V., Lebedev A.N.

Reference: Journal: Radiation and Risk (Bulletin of the National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry), Year: 1996 Release Number: 7

Keywords: individual doses, collective dose, Belarus

Abstract: The paper presents results of reconstruction of absorbed internal and external exposure doses for the population on the contaminated areas of Belorus in 1986 on the basis of statistical analysis of the database on radiation monitoring of environmental media, foodstuffs and individual exposure. Consideration is given to the areas with ¹³⁷Cs soil contamination density of above 0.185 MBq/m² (5 Ci/km²). A model of basic distributions is proposed which can be used to estimate distribution of absorbed doses for evacuated population and those living permanently on these areas during 1986 with allowance for taken protection measures. The obtained results are compared to the prompt assessments made earlier which were used for decision making and with the features of formation of the radiation situation of the territories adjacent to Russia.

URL:http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/raspredelenie-individualnyh-i-kollektivnyh-doz-oblucheniya-naseleniya-belorussii-v-pervyy-god-posle-chernobylskoy-avarii

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

Analysis of radiational and chemical risks for the areas affected by accidents in the Southern Urals and Chernobyl

Title: Analysis of radiational and chemical risks for the areas affected by accidents in the Southern Urals and Chernobyl

Author: Katkova, Margarita Nikolayevna

Reference: Obninsk, 2009

Keywords: cesium-137, strontium-90, radiation risk, chemical risk, accident in the Southern Urals (Chelyabinsk region, v.Novogorny), Chernobyl nuclear power plant, population

Abstract: The purpose of the research:  analysis and evaluation of radiation and chemical risks to the population in the areas affected by the massive radiation accidents at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (south-west of the Bryansk region) and in the Southern Urals (Chelyabinsk region, p.Novogorny).

URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/analiz-radiatsionnykh-i-khimicheskikh-riskov-dlya-territorii-podvergshikhsya-vozdeistviyu-av

Methodological principles of ecological risk assessment in the Republic of Belarus after the Chernobyl accident

Title: Methodological principles of ecological risk assessment in the Republic of Belarus after the Chernobyl accident

Author: Saltanova, Irina Vladimirovna

Reference: Minsk, 2005

Keywords: Belarus, methodological principles, ecological risk, population

Abstract: Research aim: Justification of methodological principles of integrated environmental risk assessment, resulting from man-made activities for measures planning to minimize human impact on the population in multivariate exposure of environmental pollutants through the analysis of radiation-chemical environment using risk assessment techniques.

URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/metodologicheskie-printsipy-otsenki-ekologicheskogo-riska-na-territorii-respubliki-belarus-p

Socio-stress disorders and premises of adult population rehabilitation in the long-term period of the Chernobyl disaster

Title: Socio-stress disorders and premises of adult population rehabilitation in the long-term period of the Chernobyl disaster

Author: Bronsky, Vladimir Ivanovich

Reference: St. Petersburg, 2005

Keywords: rehabilitation, social-stress disorders, population, long-term period, evacuees

Abstract: The purpose of the study: justification of social-stress concept and development on its basis a system of measures aimed at reducing the morbidity, rehabilitation and improvement of quality of life of the various contingents of adult population affected by the Chernobyl disaster.

URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/sotsialno-stressovye-rasstroistva-i-predposylki-reabilitatsii-vzroslogo-naseleniya-v-otdalen

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

Retrospective evaluation of irradiation doses of the population in the territories contaminated by the radionuclides from the Chernobyl accident

Title: Retrospective evaluation of irradiation doses of the population in the territories contaminated by the radionuclides from the Chernobyl accident

Author: Sokolov, Victor Vasiliyevich

Reference: Tula, 2002

Keywords: geosystems, landscapes, population , forest, radionuclides

Abstract: The aim of this work was to establish a new and refinement of existing patterns of formation of dose-forming fields and retrospective assessment of radiation exposure during external and internal exposure of the population living in areas contaminated by Chernobyl fallout radionuclides in the landscape-geochemical conditions in the central regions of Russia, for effective environmental monitoring and assessment non- epidemiological morbidity of the population .

URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/retrospektivnaya-otsenka-doz-pri-obluchenii-naseleniya-na-territoriyakh-zagryaznennykh-radio