タグ「Ukraine」
Title: CHERNOBYL: THE FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
Author: Zbigniew Jaworowski
Reference: International Journal of Low Radiation 2006 – Vol. 3, No.4 pp. 319 – 324
DOI: 10.1504/IJLR.2006.012006
Keywords: Belarus; Chernobyl, health consequences, irrational fear, radiophobia, Russia, Ukraine, UNSCEAR, contamination
Abstract: People living in contaminated regions of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine ‘need not live in fear of serious health consequences’ and UNSCEAR forecasts that ‘generally positive’ prospects for the future health of most individuals should prevail.
URL: http://ecolo.org/documents/documents_in_english/cherno-zbigniew_fear-06.htm
Title: Selective monitoring for a Chernobyl effect on pregnancy outcome in Kiev, 1969-1989
Author: Buzhievskaya TI, Tchaikovskaya TL, Demidova GG, Koblyanskaya GN.
Reference: Hum Biol. 1995 Aug; 67(4):657–672
Keywords: Pregnancy, Ukraine
Abstract: The aim of this investigation was to determine the frequency of adverse pregnancy outcomes in Kiev during the period surrounding the Chernobyl accident on April 26, 1986. Additional effective equivalent doses resulting from the catastrophic irradiation in 1986-1991 was 8.04 mSv for Kiev inhabitants. We retrospectively analyzed the archives of the two largest obstetric hospitals between 1969 and 1990. Spontaneous miscarriages, congenital anomalies, and perinatal mortality varied during the two decades without any pronounced changes in any direction. Additional longterm follow-up is needed to determine mutagenic or carcinogenic effects.
URL:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/41465414?uid=25665&uid=3738328&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=3&uid=67&uid=25664&uid=62&uid=5911992&sid=21102514197077
Title: Female reproductive function in areas affected by radiation after the Chernobyl power station accident
Author: Kulakov VI, Sokur TN, Volobuev AI, Tzibulskaya IS, Malisheva VA, Zikin BI, Ezova LC, Belyaeva LA, Bonartzev PD, Speranskaya NV, et al.
Reference: Environ Health Perspect. 1993 Jul;101 (Suppl 2):117–123
Keywords: female reproductive function, Belarus, Ukraine
Abstract: [This paper reports the results of a comprehensive survey of the effects of the accidental release of radiation caused by the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in April 1986. The accident and the resulting release of radiation and radioactive products into the atmosphere produced the most serious environmental contamination so far recorded. We have concentrated on evaluating the outcomes and health risks to women, their reproductive situation, and consequences for their progeny. We have concentrated on two well-defined areas: the Chechersky district of the Gomel region in Belorussia and the Polessky district of the Kiev region in the Ukraine….]
URL:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1519931/
Title: Elevated Minisatellite Mutation Rate in the Post-Chernobyl Families from Ukraine
Author: Yuri E. Dubrova, Gemma Grant, Anatoliy A. Chumak, Vasyl A. Stezhka, Angela N. Karakasian
Reference: Am. J. Hum. Genet. 71:801–809, 2002
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/342729
Keywords:Germline mutation, minisatellite, Ukraine
Abstract: Germline mutation at eight human minisatellite loci has been studied among families from rural areas of the Kiev and Zhitomir regions of Ukraine, which were heavily contaminated by radionuclides after the Chernobyl accident. The control and exposed groups were composed of families containing children conceived before and after the Chernobyl accident, respectively. The groups were matched by ethnicity, maternal age, parental occupation, and smoking habits, and they differed only slightly by paternal age. A statistically significant 1.6-fold increase in mutation rate was found in the germline of exposed fathers, whereas the maternal germline mutation rate in the exposed families was not elevated. These data, together with the results of our previous analysis of the exposed families from Belarus, suggest that the elevated minisatellite mutation rate can be attributed to post-Chernobyl radioactive exposure. The mechanisms of mutation induction at human minisatellite loci are discussed.
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929707603668
Title: Chernobyl’s Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts and Recommendations to the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine
Author:
Reference: The Chernobyl Forum: 2003–2005, Second revised version
Keywords: health effects, socio-economic impacts, environment, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
Abstract: The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 was the most severe in the history of the nuclear power industry, causing a huge release of radionuclides over large areas of Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Now, 20 years later, UN Agencies and representatives of the three countries have reviewed the health, environmental and socio-economic consequences.
URL:http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Booklets/Chernobyl/chernobyl.pdf
Title: Chernobyl’s Sixth Sense: The Symbolism of an Ever-Present Awareness
Author: Sarah D. Phillips
Reference: Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 29, Issue 2, pages 159–185, December 2004
doi: 10.1525/ahu.2004.29.2.159
Keywords: Chernobyl, Ukraine, memory, symbol, museum
Abstract: [This article examines the symbolic life of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. I argue that Chernobyl symbols serve as a set of resources: they produce memory, and they are the grounds for making a new society. My analyses are based on representations of Chernobyl in academic and popular discourse, literature, and museums. Through discussions of embodiment and collective memory, I argue that Chernobyl has produced a sort of sixth sense or “awareness-plus” among those who share the experience of the disaster.]
URL:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/ahu.2004.29.2.159/abstract
Title: Coming to Terms with the Soviet Myth of Heroism Twenty-five Years After the Chernobyl’ Nuclear Disaster: An Interpretation of Aleksandr Mindadze’s Existential Action Movie Innocent Saturday
Author: Johanna Lindbladh
Reference: The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol 30, No 1 (2012)
Keywords: Russia, Ukraine, Soviet Union, film, reception, Chernobyl’, nuclear accident, Mindadze, Innocent Saturday, myth of heroism, existentialism, Bakhtin, non-alibi in Being
Abstract: This essay presents an analysis of the Russian director Alexandr Mindadze’s feature film Innocent Saturday, released precisely 25 years after the Chernobyl’ accident in Ukraine. In a comparative study between the Russian-speaking and non-Russian-speaking reception of the film, I will show that the philosophical dimension, depicting Chernobyl’ not as a “great” historical, technological event, but in terms of how it affected peoples’ minds and feelings, constitutes the main theme in the Russian reception, but is more or less absent in the non-Russian-speaking reception. Building upon this divergence in reception, I will further explore the theme of Soviet heroism in a hermeneutical analysis of the film. My conclusions are that Mindadze, in depicting a hero who “does not escape”, points towards the existential impossibility of “escaping from your own self”, thus challenging not only the rules of an action movie, but also the Soviet myth of heroism, still a politically intense debate in the former Soviet Union.
URL: http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/2002/1965
Title: An Illustrated Guide to the Post-catastrophe Future
Author: Sarah D. Phillips, Sarah Ostaszewski
Reference: The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol 30, No 1 (2012)
Keywords: Chernobyl, Pripyat, tourism, revitalization, satire, visual anthropology, Ukraine
Abstract: This article is a satirical consideration of real and hypothetical projects to “revitalize” parts of the 30 kilometer zone of alienation around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. This tongue-in-cheek treatment reveals that projects for “redevelopment” and “exploitation” of the contaminated zone are about many things: money, ideology, memory, fantasy, safety, power, ethics, and the value of life itself.
URL: https://www.scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/2005
Title: CHERNOBYL: BACK TO LIFE: rehabilitation of contaminated territories.
Author: Wozniak VY, Khachaturova A.T .
Reference: (M: MOSKOMPLEKT, 1993. – 208 C) Social and Human Sciences. Domestic and foreign literature. SERIES 2: ECONOMY. 1995 №1, 110-114
ISSN: 2219-8504
Keywords: Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine, social and environmental impact, radioactive contamination
URL: URL: http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=8385064
Title: Strontium-90 concentrations in human teeth in South Ukraine, 5 years after the Chernobyl accident
Author: Y.D. Kulev, G.G. Polikarpov, E.V. Prigodey, P.A. Assimakopoulos
Reference: Science of The Total Environment, Volume 155, Issue 3, 28 October 1994, Pages 215-219
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0048-9697(94)90500-2
Keywords: Radiostrontium; Chernobyl accident; Human teeth
Abstract: Approximately 1000 human teeth, collected in South Ukraine, in 1990–1991, were measured for 90Sr concentration. The teeth were grouped into 18 samples according to the age and sex of the donors. Measured levels of 90Sr concentrations were lower by a factor of 10 than measurements taken in the mid-1960s and mid-1970s. An interesting feature of the data is a 3-fold enhancement of contamination levels in the 25–45 year-old age group of the male population. A possible explanation for this anomaly is that this age group contains a significant number of men who were mobilized immediately after the Chernobyl accident for clean-up operations within the 30-km zone around the damaged nuclear power plant.
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0048969794905002
