[Acute skin reactions in rats after irradiation with reactor neutrons]

The paper is devoted to a study of acute radiation reactions of the depilated thigh skin of outbred rats after their irradiation at various doses with gamma quanta and neutrons of a BR-10 reactor with the mean energy of 0.85 MeV. A scale, developed for the assessment of a degree of severity of radiation reactions permitted quantitative interpretation of the obtained results. The RBE of neutron irradiation was 4.2.