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Title: JCCRER Project 2.3 -- Deterministic effects of occupational exposure to radiation. Phase 1: Feasibility study; Final report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/676938· OSTI ID:676938
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  1. Inst. of Biophysics, Ozyorsk (Russian Federation); and others

Phase 1 of Project 2.3, a short-term collaborative Feasibility Study, was funded for 12 months starting on 1 February 1996. The overall aim of the study was to determine the practical feasibility of using the dosimetric and clinical data on the MAYAK worker population to study the deterministic effects of exposure to external gamma radiation and to internal alpha radiation from inhaled plutonium. Phase 1 efforts were limited to the period of greatest worker exposure (1948--1954) and focused on collaboratively: assessing the comprehensiveness, availability, quality, and suitability of the Russian clinical and dosimetric data for the study of deterministic effects; creating an electronic data base containing complete clinical and dosimetric data on a small, representative sample of MAYAK workers; developing computer software for the testing of a currently used health risk model of hematopoietic effects; and familiarizing the US team with the Russian diagnostic criteria and techniques used in the identification of Chronic Radiation Sickness.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety, and Health, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
FG01-96EH96046
OSTI ID:
676938
Report Number(s):
DOE/EH/96046-T1; ON: DE99000953; BR: HA0114000; TRN: 99:001177
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: [1998]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English