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

Chernobyl: An Unbelievable Failure to Help

Title: Chernobyl: An Unbelievable Failure to Help

Author: Rosalie Bertell

Reference: International Journal of Health Services March 2008, Vol. 38(3), pp. 543-60.

Keywords: The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), United Nations, International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA), World Health Organization (WHO)

Abstract: The disaster at the Chernobyl power reactor near Kiev, which began on 26 April 1986, at 1:21 AM, was one of the worst industrial accidents ever suffered in the world. Yet the global community, which is usually most generous in pouring out aid to a stricken community, has been slow to understand the scope of this disaster and to reach out to the most devastated people of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. It is the purpose of this discussion to probe the causes of the confusion of perception and failure of response to the needs of these victims. Clearly the problem is one of communication, and the true picture has not been well communicated to concerned people of all countries and faiths.

URL: http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Chernobyl/CaUFtH.html

International assessments of impacts of the Chernobyl accident: the Chernobyl forum (2003-2005) and UNSCEAR (2005-2008) 　

Author: Balonov M.I.

Reference: St. Petersburg Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene named after Professor PV Ramzaev

ISSN: 1998-426X

Keywords:  CHERNOBYL,   DOSE,   POPULATION,   HEALTH EFFECTS,   ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT キーワード：放射線量、民衆、健康、環境への影響

Abstract:Radiological consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl NPP were recently revisited by the UN Chernobyl Forum (2003-2005) and UNSCEAR (2005-2008). For the first time environmental impacts were considered in detail, including radioactive contamination of terrestrial and aquatic environments, application and effectiveness of countermeasures and effects on biota. Updated dosimetric data were presented for more than half a million of emergency and recovery operation workers, about 100 million inhabitants of the three most affected countries, Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, and for 500 million inhabitants of other European countries. Several hundred of the emergency workers received high radiation doses; of whom 28 persons died in 1986 due to acute radiation sickness. Children at the time of the accident, who drank milk with high levels of radioactive iodine, received high doses to the thyroid. Since early 1990s there was the dramatic increase in thyroid cancer incidence among them. Also in 1990s there was some increase of leukaemia in most exposed workers. The UN Chernobyl Forum concluded that severe social and economic depression of the affected regions and associated psychological problems of the general public and the workers had become the most significant problem. The vast majority of the population need not live in fear of serious health consequences from the Chernobyl accident.

URL: http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=16516276

Radiation-induced effects on plants and animals: findings of the United Nations Chernobyl Forum.

• Title: Radiation-induced effects on plants and animals: findings of the United Nations Chernobyl Forum.

Author: Hinton, Thomas G / Alexakhin, Rudolph / Balonov, Mikhail / Gentner, Norman / Hendry, Jolyn / Prister, Boris / Strand, Per / Woodhead, Dennis

Reference: Health physics, 93 (5), p.427-440, Nov 2007

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Abstract: Several United Nations organizations sought to dispel the uncertainties and controversy that still exist concerning the effects of the Chernobyl accident. A Chernobyl Forum of international expertise was established to reach consensus on the environmental consequences and health effects attributable to radiation exposure arising from the accident. This review is a synopsis of the subgroup that examined the radiological effects to nonhuman biota within the 30-km Exclusion Zone.

URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18049219?dopt=Abstract