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Published on: December 14, 2017
Dosimetric support of the International Programme on the Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident (IPHECA) pilot
I A Likhtarev1, L N Kovgan, V S Repin
1Department of Dosimetry and Radiation Hygiene, Ukraine Scientific Centre for Radiation Medicine, Kiev, Ukraine.
Abstract:
The problem of post-Chernobyl dosimetry is unique in its complexity in the history of radiation medicine and radiation protection. This is because the early experience of mass exposure of people (bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Windscale and South-Ural accidents, exposure of inhabitants of Nevada in the United States of America, the Semipalatinsk area in the former USSR, the Marshall Islands, and the Goiånia accident in Brazil, and others) differed both in the much simpler structure of the irradiation source and in the number and characteristics of exposed persons. It is obvious that post-Chernobyl dosimetry, both as an independent problem, and as a tool for epidemiological studies, requires significant expertise and economic and technical expenditures. Extensive and deep research has been carried out in Ukraine for the past 10 years. This article reviews the main results of these studies.
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