[Dosage loads on the bone marrow in exposure to ionizing radiation]

The authors made calculations of the expected dose loads on the bone marrow in the population of several regions due to the disaster release of radionuclides at the Chernobyl Atomic Station as well as in professional groups subjected to ionizing radiation, in particular, those working with radium light-compounds of permanent effect. The dose loads were largest in the population of the Byelorussian ecological region. Persons working in conditions of ionizing radiation showed a functional insufficiency of hemopoiesis in correspondence with the doses but there was no synchronicity in the responses of the bone marrow and peripheral blood.