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Mortality among personnel who worked at the Mayak complex in the first years of its operation
N A Koshurnikova1, G D Bysogolov, M G Bolotnikova
1Public Health Ministry of the Russian Federation, Biophysics Institute Branch NI, Chelyabinsk-65, Russian Federation.
Health Physics
|July 1, 1996
Abstract:
Epidemiological studies revealed increased cancer mortality among persons who began working at the Mayak complex during the period 1948-1958. Estimation of cancer risk was carried out for the sites of cancer that showed increased mortality and dependence on dose of external gamma- or internal alpha-irradiation.