Intellectual development, mental and behavioural disorders in the children whose mothers were exposed to pathogenic radioecological and psychosocial factors as a result of Chernobyl accident at the different stages of pregnancy

Title: Intellectual development, mental and behavioural disorders in the children whose mothers were exposed to pathogenic radioecological and psychosocial factors as a result of Chernobyl accident at the different stages of pregnancy

Author: Igumnov S.A., Drozdovitch V.V.

Reference: Journal: Radiation and Risk (Bulletin of the National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry), Year: 1999 Issue: 11

Keywords: intellectual development, mental disorders, behavioral disorders, children, mothers, the impact of pathogenic factors, the impact of radio-ecological factors, the impact of psychosocial factors, pregnancy

Abstract: The study examined psychological development in 187 children at the age of 6-7 and 10-11, who had suffered prenatal radiation exposure at the time of the Chernobyl accident in 1986.

URL:http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/intellektualnoe-razvitie-osobennosti-psihicheskih-i-povedencheskih-rasstroystv-u-detey-materi-kotoryh-podverglis-vozdeystviyu

Main results of the scientific researches in the field of the radiobiology and of the radioecology for 2004

Author: Naidich V.I.

Reference: Reference: Gazette “РАДИАЦИОННАЯ БИОЛОГИЯ. РАДИОЭКОЛОГИЯ “ (Radiation Biology, Radioecology), 2005

ISSN: 0869-8031

DOI:

Keywords: radiobiology, radioecology

URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16080632

The system of protective measures and technological methods of crop management on agricultural land affected by radioactive contamination after the Chernobyl accident

Title: The system of protective measures and technological methods of crop management on agricultural land affected by radioactive contamination after the Chernobyl accident

Author: Ratnikov Alexander Nikolayevich

Reference: Moscow, 2002

Keywords: farmland, crop production, vegetation, protective measures, technological methods, radioecology, ecosystem

Abstract: The aim of the thesis was; radio-ecological substantiation of plant growing on the contaminated areas. Assessment of the effectiveness of protective measures in the radioactive contamination of agricultural land, providing mitigation in the current radiation situation

URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/sistema-zashchitnykh-meropriyatii-i-tekhnologicheskie-priemy-vedeniya-rastenievodstva-na-sel

Consequences of the Chernobyl accident: 20 years later (from international forum of IAEA in Vienna, 2005)

Author: Balonov M.I.

Reference: Bulletin “РАДИАЦИЯ И РИСК” (Radiation and risk), 2006

ISSN: 0131-3878

Keywords: radiation level in environment, radioecology

Abstract: The Chernobyl Forum (September, 2005) concluded that in 20 years after the Chernobyl accident along with reduction of radiation levels and accumulation of humanitarian consequences severe social and economic depression of the affected regions and associated serious psychological problems became the most significant problems. The majority of the 600000 emergency and recovery operation workers and five million residents of the contaminated areas in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine received relatively minor radiation doses which are comparable with the natural levels. An exception is a cohort of several hundred emergency and recovery operation workers who received high radiation doses, of whom 28 died in 1986 due to acute radiation sickness and it consequences. Except dramatic increase in thyroid cancer morbidity in those exposed to radioiodine in their childhood and some increase in leukaemia and solid cancer morbidity among emergency and recovery operation workers with high radiation dose no evident growth of radiation-associated cancer diseases and leukaemia was detected in other groups of population. Radiation levels in the environment have reduced by a factor of several hundred since 1986, this ensures that the majority of the previously contaminated land in now safe for life and economic activities. Despite unprecedented scale and character of the Chernobyl accident its consequences for health and life of the affected population are significantly less compared with A-bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Findings of research of consequences of the Chernobyl accident made invaluable contribution to the development of nuclear technology and safety, radioecology, radiation medicine, radiological protection and social sciences. The Chernobyl accident initiated development of the global nuclear safety and radiation protection regime.

URL: http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=11730468

OVERCOMING THE EFFECTS OF THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION ACCIDENT, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF RADIATION CONTAMINATED TERRITORIES

Author:  Sednev V., Ovsyanik A.

Reference: Gazettes “Пожары и ЧС”,Академия ГПС МЧС России, 2010

ISSN: 2071-9116

Keywords:   RADIATION-CONTAMINATED AREAS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS,   THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFFECTED AREAS ,   THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFFECTED AREAS

Abstract:The article assesses the outcome of the work done to eliminate on the consequences of Chernobyl accident and its impact on human health, environment and socio-economic development of territories. A quarter-century on people still need clear understanding of health, environmental and socio-economic of the disaster in obtaining answers to outstanding questions

URL: http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=16223613

Chernobyl Catastrophe and Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Common Features and Significant Differences

Author: Nazarov A.G., Letov V.N.

Reference: Kamerton, Moskva, 2009

ISSN: 1995-4301

Keywords: radio-ecological consequences, medico-biological analysis

Abstract: The article presents the comparative analysis of medico-biological radio-ecological consequences of the two largest radiation catastrophes of the XXth century: atomic bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and the catastrophe in the IVth power-generating unit in Chernobyl.

URL: http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=12924434

Radioecology and Chenobyl

Author: R.M. Aleksakhin, N.I. Sanzharova, S.V. Fesenko

Reference: Rosenergoatom, 2006 No.4 pages 43~49

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Keywords: radioecology, environment, economy, decontamination, liquidation

Abstract: According to the author, the most important question concerning the Chernobyl disaster was and has been ecology, specifically decontamination and liquidation. The article describes actual methods of decontamination. Comparison of the effect of radioactive contamination among former USSR countries. Historical view of the Chernobyl disaster.

URL: http://www.rosenergoatom.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosenergoatom/site/resources/9fdedd0048e9a7c392acfa44d49284f5/web_rea_04_2006.pdf (full article available)

Aquatic radioecology post Chernobyl—a review of the past and a look to the future

• Title: Aquatic radioecology post Chernobyl—a review of the past and a look to the future

Author: Hilton, J.

Reference: Studies in Environmental Science, 68, p.47-73, Jan 1997

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0166-1116(09)70082-2

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Abstract: The dynamic nature of environmental pollution following the Chernobyl accident has highlighted a number of limitations to the models of radionuclide transport in aquatic systems which were developed under the pseudo-equilibrium conditions following the atmospheric testing of atomic weapons. Much of the work has concentrated on caesium and has highlighted the importance of specifying the chemical form of the caesium and the rate of transfer between different physico-chemical forms.

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166111609700822

Main investigation results on the forest radioecology in the Kyshtym and Chernobyl accident zones.

• Title: Main investigation results on the forest radioecology in the Kyshtym and Chernobyl accident zones.

Author: Tikhomirov, F A / Shcheglov, A I

Reference: The Science of the total environment, 157 (1-3), p.45-57, Dec 1994

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Abstract: As a result of the long-term studies of radionuclide migration in forest ecosystems in zones of radioactive contamination after the Kyshtym and Chernobyl accidents, the following trends were revealed: (1) High retention capacity of stand canopy with respect to radioactive fallout. This leads to high doses absorbed by apical and leaf meristems, beta-radiation giving the main part of the dose; (2) Fast self-decontamination of crowns during the growth period and relatively slow decontamination in the phase of physiological rest, regardless of amount of atmospheric precipitation.

URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7839123?dopt=Abstract

An extended critical review of twenty years of countermeasures used in agriculture after the Chernobyl accident

• Title: An extended critical review of twenty years of countermeasures used in agriculture after the Chernobyl accident

Author: Fesenko, Sergey V. / Alexakhin, Rudolf M. / Balonov, Mikhail I. / Bogdevich, Iossif M. / Howard, Brenda J. / Kashparov, Valery A. / Sanzharova, Natalia I. / (…) / Zhuchenka, Yury

Reference: Science of The Total Environment, 383 (1-3). 1-24

doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.05.011

Keywords: Chernobyl NPP, Agriculture, Consequences, Countermeasures, radioecology

Abstract: A wide range of different countermeasures has been used to mitigate the consequences of the Chernobyl accident for agriculture in affected regions in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The paper comprehensively brings together key data on countermeasure application over twenty years for all three countries and critically evaluates the response to the accident with respect to agriculture. The extents of countermeasures implementation in various periods following the ChNPP accident are documented.

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969707005505