The assessment of individual doses of thyroid cancer of the population of Kaluga region as a result of direct effects of the Chernobyl accident, methodical and programmatic explanation
Author: E.K. Yaskova
Reference: Dissertation, candidate of biology, Obninsk, 2001
Keywords: exposure dose
Abstract: Review of this literature shows that, although 15 years have passed since the Chernobyl accident, the problem of adequate assessment of the level of exposure of the thyroid with radioactive iodine in the population living in the territory of the former USSR, is still quite urgent. This explains the large flow of scientific publications, presentations and discussions on this subject in recent years, as correct assessment of the initial dose-step in addressing many of the medical, epidemiological, social and other problems. In the Kaluga region the initial dose assessment was made in 1986 immediately after the primary direct measurements collected as a result of radiological survey of the population in May of the same year. In the absence of reliable information about the required environmental parameters of the formation of exposure, dose calculation was carried out by a conservative scheme based on the following assumptions: a single fallout on April 27, the earliest starting date of grazing (until April 27), the presence of countermeasures, from May 10 .. .. The aim of this work – revaluation of individual thyroid doses to the population of the surveyed areas of Kaluga region, taking into account new data on factors of the formation of exposure.