United States-Russian workshop on the stochastic health effects of radiation
In August 1988, two years after the Chernobyle accident, the United States and the Soviet Union signed an agreement to sponsor a Joint coordinating Committee on Civilian Nuclear Reactor Safety, (JCCCNRS). The Soviet Union agreed to provide some information on late effects of radiation exposures and to attempt to add some new insights into low dose and low dose rate radiation consequences. At that time, it had just been revealed that significant radiation exposures had occurred in the South Ural Mountains, associated with the early years of operation of the MAYAK nuclear complex. The need to be able to better predict the long term consequences of overexposures, such as occurred with the Chernobyl accident, was a major factor in organizing this workshop. We decided to invite a small number of experts from the Soviet Union, who had direct knowledge of the situation. A small group of American experts was invited to help in a discussion of the state of knowledge of continual low level exposure. The experts and expertise included: Aspects of bask theoretical radiobiological models, studies on experimental animals exposed to chronic or fractionated external or internal radiation, studies on populations exposed to chronic intake and continual exposures, workers exposed to low or high continual levels of radiation. The intent was to begin a dialog on the issue of a better understanding of the dose rate effect in humans. No detailed conclusions could be reached at this first interaction between out two countries, but a model was prepared which seems to support a range of what are known as low dose and dose rate effectiveness factors. A beginning of an evaluation of the role of radiation dose rate on leukemia risk was also accomplished.
- Research Organization:
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 103518
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9206470-Summ.; ON: DE95017178; NC: NONE; TRN: 95:020484
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: United States/Russia workshop on the stochastic health effects of radiation, Davis, CA (United States), 15-19 Jun 1992; Other Information: PBD: [1992]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
United States-assisted studies on dose reconstruction in the former Soviet Union
The U.S.-Russian radiation health effects research program in the Southern Urals