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10 years after Chernobyl, radiation exposure, health effects, safety aspects; 10 Jahre nach Tschernobyl, Strahlenbelastung, Gesundheitseffekte, Sicherheitsaspekte

Abstract

This report sums up the various conferences and symposia which were prompted by the tenth anniversary of the accident in the nuclear power plant of Chernobyl. It was shown that by the accident up to now 31 casualties among the emergency and rescue personal at the site. Offsite no increased number of casualties caused by the accident was observed up to now. In the countries with the highest impact Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, however, an increased number of infant thyroid cancer is observed which is substantially higher than after the nuclear detonations over Japanese cities. Contrary to often published media reports, however, up to now no increases in leukemia or other malignant deceases were observed, neither in the population of the concerned regions nor among the liquidators. The high {sup 137}Cs activity concentration in the environment close to the power plant result in exclusion zone even today. The deposition values in Kiev, however, amount to only 30 kBq/m{sup 2}, in large areas of Ukraine they are below the average values in Austria of 22 kBq/m{sup 2}. For these areas as well as those outside the former Soviet Union the average doses were less than 1 mSv in the first year,  More>>
Authors:
Publication Date:
Nov 01, 1996
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
OEFZS-4785
Reference Number:
SCA: 560180; 560101; PA: AIX-28:073926; EDB-97:146807; NTS-98:006549; SN: 97001879328
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Nov 1996
Subject:
56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, APPLIED STUDIES; RADIATION DOSES; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; AUSTRIA; CESIUM 137; CHERNOBYLSK-4 REACTOR; ENVIRONMENT; IODINE 131; MILK; NEOPLASMS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; THYROID
OSTI ID:
548131
Research Organizations:
Oesterreichisches Forschungszentrum Seibersdorf GmbH (Austria)
Country of Origin:
Austria
Language:
German
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: ISSN 0253-5270; Other: ON: DE98604903; TRN: AT9700648073926
Availability:
INIS; OSTI as DE98604903
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
49 p.
Announcement Date:
Dec 11, 1997

Citation Formats

Mueck, K. 10 years after Chernobyl, radiation exposure, health effects, safety aspects; 10 Jahre nach Tschernobyl, Strahlenbelastung, Gesundheitseffekte, Sicherheitsaspekte. Austria: N. p., 1996. Web.
Mueck, K. 10 years after Chernobyl, radiation exposure, health effects, safety aspects; 10 Jahre nach Tschernobyl, Strahlenbelastung, Gesundheitseffekte, Sicherheitsaspekte. Austria.
Mueck, K. 1996. "10 years after Chernobyl, radiation exposure, health effects, safety aspects; 10 Jahre nach Tschernobyl, Strahlenbelastung, Gesundheitseffekte, Sicherheitsaspekte." Austria.
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title = {10 years after Chernobyl, radiation exposure, health effects, safety aspects; 10 Jahre nach Tschernobyl, Strahlenbelastung, Gesundheitseffekte, Sicherheitsaspekte}
author = {Mueck, K}
abstractNote = {This report sums up the various conferences and symposia which were prompted by the tenth anniversary of the accident in the nuclear power plant of Chernobyl. It was shown that by the accident up to now 31 casualties among the emergency and rescue personal at the site. Offsite no increased number of casualties caused by the accident was observed up to now. In the countries with the highest impact Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, however, an increased number of infant thyroid cancer is observed which is substantially higher than after the nuclear detonations over Japanese cities. Contrary to often published media reports, however, up to now no increases in leukemia or other malignant deceases were observed, neither in the population of the concerned regions nor among the liquidators. The high {sup 137}Cs activity concentration in the environment close to the power plant result in exclusion zone even today. The deposition values in Kiev, however, amount to only 30 kBq/m{sup 2}, in large areas of Ukraine they are below the average values in Austria of 22 kBq/m{sup 2}. For these areas as well as those outside the former Soviet Union the average doses were less than 1 mSv in the first year, a value which is less than one third of natural annual radiation exposure. Since the reactor accident the activity concentration has significally decreased resulting in an exposure as consequence of the reactor accident of less than 0,8 % of the exposure in the first year. In Austria the exposure in 1996 amounts to less than 0,3 % of natural radiation exposure. (author).}
place = {Austria}
year = {1996}
month = {Nov}
}