Title: A semiotic analysis of the newspaper coverage of Chernobyl in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Finland
Author: REBECCA KAUFMANN / HENRI BROMS
Reference: Semiotica. Volume 70, Issue 1-2, Pages 27–48, October 2009
doi: 10.1515/semi.1988.70.1-2.27
Keywords: news, media coverage, U.S.A, Soviet Union, Finland
Abstract: As a disaster, Chernobyl invaded the minds of the world’s citizens unlike any other. More than a volcano, a stock market crash, or a student riot, Chernobyl received news coverage second only to that received by out and out war. As the co-Director of the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media adduced: Ά nuclear accident is … a unique news event. Nothing else, short of a nuclear war, resembles it’. The American, Soviet, and Finnish press approached the uniqueness of the Chernobyl disaster in very different ways. While the American and Soviet news coverage lost perspective of what was truly at issue — a tragic nuclear accident — the Finnish news coverage threw few stones and tried to report the facts.
URL:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/semi.1988.70.issue-1-2/semi.1988.70.1-2.27/semi.1988.70.1-2.27.xml
Title: Overexposure: the Chernobyl photographs of David McMillan
Author: Anne Marie Todkill
Reference: CMAJ May 29, 2001 vol. 164 no. 11 1604-1605
Keywords: photography, memory, Canada, museum
Abstract: Winnipeg photographer David McMillan has visited the Chernobyl evacuation zone six times since 1994, recording the solitary decay of this modern Pompeii in a series of images that now form part of the permanent collection of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa.
URL: http://www.cmaj.ca/content/164/11/1604.full.pdf
http://www.dsmcmillan.com/chernobyl/photographs/
Author: L.L. Zdorenko, K.N. Loganovsky
Reference: Український медичний часопис (Ukrainian Medical Magazine), 2002
Keywords: mental working capacity, mental fitness, clean-up workers, Chernobyl accident, acute radiation sickness, organic mental disorders
Abstract: Mental working capacity in the remote period after the Chernobyl accident in liquidators with organic mental disorders (n=106), including patients who had been diagnosed with acute radiation sickness (n=48), was assessed with clinical, psychometric and psychophysiological methods. Mental working capacity is significantly reduced due to motivation disturbances as a result of personality, emotional-volitional and cognitive disorders against the background of organic brain damage of combined genesis. The level of mental working capacity in the remote period of acute radiation sickness is determined with its severity degree (36%), social-economic factors (27%), psychopathology (15%), somatoneurological pathology (13%) and age (9%). Social-economic factors are the main causes defining the reduction of mental working capacity in the examined liquidators (60%). It is necessary to create the state system of social-psychological rehabilitation for optimisation of mental working capacity in persons exposed as a result of the Chernobyl accident.
URL: http://www.umj.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/archive/30/pdf/741_rus.pdf?upload
Author: T.S. Mel’nikova, V.N. Krasnov, M.M. Yurkin et al.
Reference: Журн. невропатол. и психиатр. им. С.С. Корсакова. (journal of neuropathology and psychiatry named after S.S. Korsakov), 2010
Keywords: liquidators of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident, psychoorganic syndrome, EEG coherence analysis
Abstarct: The group of liquidators of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident (n=170) with nonpsychotic mental disorders of exogenicorganic origin was studied. Patients were stratified into five groups on the basis of dominating symptoms in different stages of disorders: group 1 included patients with the prevalence of asthenic symptoms (n=104); group 2 — with the prevalence of autonomous disorders (n=37); group 3 — with the marked neurotic-like symptom complex (n=10); group 4 — with depressive symptoms (n=10); group 5 — with disturbances of cognitive function. The control group included 150 healthy people. Recording and mapping of coherence (COH) of the brain electrical activity was conducted using the apparatus-software complex for topographic mapping of brain electrical activity NEURO-CM (Russia) with the bandwidth from 0 to 40 Hz and the time constant of 0,3 sec. The EEG record was carried out monopolar from symmetrical cortical zones (10—20% scheme). Changes of COH were characterized by staging in patients compared to the controls. In the initial stage of disease, the integrative links were decreased in the temporal cortical zones of the left hemisphere. The reduction of functional activity in temporal-central cortical zones was found that might be the consequence of mesodiencephalic dysfunction. In the later stages, temporal zones of the right hemisphere were mostly affected. The parallel reinforcement of functional activity of occipital zones, in particular, the increase of “long links” with frontal areas, was noted in the overall formation of the psychoorganic syndrome. This phenomenon may be considered as a compensatory mechanism when the phylogenetically older cortical zones, which are more resistant to pathological changes, become leaders in the realization of integrative brain activity during the development of a pathological state.
(full text in Russian available on web)
URL:http://www.mediasphera.ru/uppic/Zhurnal%20nevrologii%20i%20psikhiatrii%20imeni%20S.S.%20Korsakova/2010/2/3/NEV_2010_02_019.pdf
Author: N.V. Denisyuk
Reference: Український медичний часопис (Ukrainian Medical Magazine), 2006
Keywords: ionizing radiation, Chernobyl accident, ultrasonic Dopplerography, cerebrovascular pathology
Abstract: Clinical-angioneurological peculiarities of chronic cerebrovascular pathology in remote period after radiation exposure to doses ranged from 0.025 to 3.5 Sv were determined on the basis of comprehensive clinical and neurophysiological investigations, as well as qualitative and quantitative estimation of the ultrasonic Dopplerography parameters in 100 men exposed to ionizing radiation as a result of the Chernobyl accident (liquidators; main group), 135 patients with cerebrovascular pathology (comparison group) and 63 healthy men (control group). A target artery (left internal carotid artery/ICA) and the dopplerographic marker of the radiation brain injury in dose range 0.3–3.5 Sv (reduction of the systolic circulation in the left ACI) were revealed. Disturbances of the cerebral hemodynamics in remote period after radiation exposure are etiologically heterogenous; along with general risk factors (age, alcohol abuse, tobacco smoking, somatic pathology) a role of radiation factor was determined at doses exceeded 0.3 Sv. A dose–effect relationship was revealed towards the reduction of the systolic circulation in the left ICA in liquidators irradiated by 0.3–3.5 Sv and without bad habits and liver pathology.
URL:http://www.umj.com.ua/article/445/xronicheskaya-cerebrovaskulyarnaya-patologiya-u-uchastnikov-likvidacii-posledstvij-avarii-na-chernobylskoj-aes-v-otdalennyj-period-posle-oblucheniya
Author: K.N. Loganovsky, K.Yu. Antipchuk, G.Yu. Kreinis et al.
Reference: 2010
For detailed information on the article contact the National Scientific Center for Radiation Medicine of Ukraine. The center’s home page is: http://www.national.rcrm.net.ua/index.php/en/
Author: A.K. Guskova, I.N. Shakirova
Reference: Журн. невропатол. и психиатр. им. С.С. Корсакова. (journal of neuropathology and psychiatry named after S.S. Korsakov), 1989
URL: http://www.kgmu.kcn.ru:8888/cgi-bin/irbis64r_01/cgiirbis_64.exe
Author: A.K. Guskova, G.D. Baisogolov (English version available)
Reference: U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. AEC-tr-7401. Biology and medicine
USAEC translation series AEC-tr-7401 (published in Russia in 1971)
Abstract: This book from the 1970’s is still regarded valid and well known among experts all over the world. The author was once the chief doctor of the Moscow Hospital No.6.
URL:http://books.google.co.jp/books/about/Radiation_Sickness_in_Man.html?id=lHobHAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
Title: The problem of thyroid cancer in Russia after the Chernobyl accident：evaluation of radiation risks, observation period 1991-2008
Author: Ivanov V.K., Tsyb A.F., Maksyutov M.A., Tumanov K.A., Chekin S.YU., Kascheev V.V., Korelo A.M., Vlasov O.K., Schukina N.V.
Reference: Journal “Radiation and Lisk” 2010, Vol.19 No.3
Keywords: Chernobyl accident, territory contaminated with radionuclides, Population, thyroid cancer, incidence of disease, crude incidence rate, standardized incidence ratio, excess relative risk
Abstract: Joint analysis of thyroid cancer incidence in Bryansk, Kaluga, Oryol and Tula oblasts from 1981 through 2008 was made for the first time. The average size of population of the oblasts in those years was 5.1 million people. According to data of the National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry 9120 thyroid cancer cases were detected for that period. Mean-rayon thyroid doses were used for the analysis. Affected rayons of Bryansk, Kaluga, Oryol and Tula oblasts were arranged into 4 groups in accordance with radiation dose:
URL: http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/problema-raka-schitovidnoy-zhelezy-v-rossii-posle-avarii-na-chernobylskoy-aes-otsenka-radiatsionnyh-riskov-period-nablyudeniya-1991-2008
