UNSCEAR 2008 Report to the General Assembly with Scientific Annexes Volume II, Annex D: Health effects due to radiation from the Chernobyl accident (Advance copy)

Title: UNSCEAR 2008 Report to the General Assembly with Scientific Annexes Volume II, Annex D: Health effects due to radiation from the Chernobyl accident (Advance copy)

Reference: SOURCES AND EFFECTS OF IONIZING RADIATION UNSCEAR 2008  [PDF-6MB]Apr 2011

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Abstract:… In the former Soviet Union, the contamination of fresh milk with 131I and the lack of prompt countermeasures led to high thyroid doses, particularly among children. In the longer term, mainly due to radiocaesium, the general population was also exposed to radiation externally from radioactive deposition and internally from consuming contaminated foodstuffs. However, in part because of the countermeasures taken, the resulting radiation doses were relatively low (the average additional dose in 1986–2005 in “contaminated areas”6 of the three republics was about equivalent to that from a computed tomography (CT) scan in medicine), and should not lead to substantial health effects in the general population that could be attributed to radiation exposure from the accident. Even so, the severe disruption caused by the accident, confounded with the remarkable political changes that took place in the Soviet Union and the new republics, resulted in major social and economic impact, and great distress for the affected populations….

URL: http://inst.nuc.berkeley.edu/NE104/Radiation%20Risks/Advance_copy_Annex_D_Chernobyl_Report.pdf

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