Some results of long-term investigation population exposed as a result of release of radioactive wastes into the Techa River in Southern Urals
- Ural research Center for Radiation Medicine, Chelyabinsk (Russian Federation)
This paper describes results of a long-term investigation of a population exposed to radioactive waste release in 1949-1956 into the Techa River in the Southern Urals. Systematic measurements of radionuclide concentration in the river waters, sediments, and floodplain soils and measurements of exposure gamma dose rates as well as studies of the radionuclide composition in the contaminated areas began in the summer of 1951. As a result of the contamination, 124,000 residents were exposed to radiation and 28,100 received significant doses in terms of health effect potential. Covered results include the following: estimation of external radiation doses; content of strontium-90 in humans and estimation of radionuclide ingestion rates; age-dependent model of strontium metabolism in the human body; evaluation of doses of internal irradiation; distribution of exposed population according to accumulated doses. 11 refs; 15 figs.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 377115
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-CR-121087; CONF-9206470-; ON: DE96010893; TRN: 96:003720-0004
- 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: Jun 1992; Related Information: Is Part Of United States-Russian workshop on the stochastic health effects of radiation; Goldman, M.; Petojan, I.; Buldakov, L.A. [and others]; PB: 201 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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