The lessons of Chernobyl : 25 years later / Elena B. Burlakova and Valeria I. Naydich, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burlakova, E. B. (Elena Borisovna), 1934-

Naĭdich, V. I. (Valerii︠a︡ Iosifovna)

Series:

Nuclear Materials and Disaster Research

Nuclear materials and disaster research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986.

Radiation--Health aspects--Ukraine--Chornobylʹ.

Radiation.

Radiation--Environmental aspects--Ukraine--Chornobylʹ.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Includes Mortality of The Chernobyl Emergency Workers: Dose Dependence & Groups of Potential Risk; Clinical Immunological Disorders in Children from Various Observation Cohorts Subject to Radiation Factor at Various Oncogenesis Stages 3. Methods of Individual Retrospective Physical Dosimetry in the Problem of Assessment of Uncontrollable Irradiation Consequences; Medical Protection in Radiation Accidents: Some Results & Lessons of the Chernobyl Accident; Chromosome Aberrations Level as an Indicator of Morbidity among Chernobyl Liquidators; Molecular-Cellular Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident; Long-term Medical Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident in Armenia. Assessment of Life Quality & Accelerated Biological Aging of Accident Liquidators; The Immunity State of the Chernobyl Accident Consequences Liquidators with Cardiovascular System Diseases; Late Consequences Hematopoiesis after Acute Radiation Syndrome (Ars); Analysis of the Frequency of Occurrence of Malignant Formations & Immune Status Monitoring in Liquidators of the Chernobyl Accident Consequences for their Early Diagnosis & Risk Group Identification; Long-term & Transgeneration Molecular & Genetic Effects of Prolonged Radiation Exposure in Nuclear Industry Employees.

Contents:

Intro

THE LESSONS OF CHERNOBYL

Contents

Preface

Mortality of the Chernobyl Emergency Workers: Dose Dependence and Groups of Potential Risk

Abstract

Introduction

Materials and Methods

Cohort Description

Registration of Causes of Death in RNMDR

Statistical Methods

Method for Identifying Groups of Increased Radiation Risk

Results

Identification of Groups of Potential Radiation Risk

Conclusion

References

Clinical Immunological Disorders in Children from Various Observation Cohorts Subject to Radiation Factor at Various Oncogenesis Stages

Results and Discussion

Methods of Individual Retrospective Physical Dosimetry in the Problem of Assessment of Uncontrollable Irradiation Consequences

Large-Scale 131I Activity Monitoring in Thyroid Gland (TG) of among Popualtion of Contaminated Territory of Kaluga Region during the Early

Period after the Chernobyl Accident (May, 1986) and Assessment of Individual Absorbed Doses in TG

Individual Internal Dose Assessment of the Whole Body by Long-Term Massive Monitoring (1986-1994) of 137Cs Activity in the Organism of Contaminated Kaluga and Bryansk Regions Residents

Development and Application of Physical Instrumental and Calculation Methods of Retrospective Dosimetry Among the Population of the Territories Contaminated Following the Chernobyl Accident

The Results of Application of Retrospective Dosimetry Method in the Territories Near the Semipalatinsk Test Site: The Example of the First Nuclear Test in the USSR on August 29, 1949

Medical Protection in Radiation Accidents: Some Results and Lessons of the Chernobyl Accident.

Abstract

Chromosome Aberrations Level as an Indicator of Morbidity among Chernobyl Liquidators

Molecular-Cellular Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident

Long-Term Medical Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident in Armenia Assessment of Life Quality and Accelerated Biological Aging of Accident Liquidators

1. The Study of Sickness Rate in Liquidators

2. Assessment of the "Life Quality" of Liquidators

3. Accelerated Biological Aging of Liquidators

The Immunity State of the Chernobyl Accident Consequences Liquidators with Cardiovascular System Diseases

Late Consequences Hematopoiesis after Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS)

Analysis of the Frequency of Occurrence of Malignant Formations and Immune Status Monitoring in Liquidators of the Chernobyl Accident Consequences for Their Early Diagnosis and Risk Group Identification

1. Malignant Neoplasms Frequency of Occurrence and Structure in Liquidators of the Chernobyl Accident Consequences

2. Characterization of the Immune Status of Liquidators of the Chernobyl Accident Consequences

2.1. IS of Liquidators with Further Established MN Diagnosis (Group 1)

2.2. IS of the Liquidators with Established MN Diagnosis

2.3. IS of the Liquidators with Premalignancy

2.4. IS Features in Liquidators with Digestive System MNs.

2.5. IS Features of Liquidators with MNs of the Respiratory System

2.6. IS Features of Liquidators with Prostate Gland MNs

3. IS Characterization for SDR Group of Non-Participants in

Liquidation of the Chernobyl Accident Consequences

Long-Term and Transgeneration Molecular and Genetic Effects of Prolonged Radiation Exposure in Nuclear Industry Employees

Characterization of RRHT Registrants' Genetic Material

Molecular Genetic Studies Using DNA Samples from RRHT

Analysis of the Immune Homeostasis Changes in RRHT Registrants

Analysis of Genotypic Dependence of Chromosome Aberration Frequency in Human Lymphocytes Irradiated In Vivo and In Vitro

Appendix

Genetic Effects of Bystander Factors from Serums of Affected by the Chernobyl Accident Populations

Study of Effects of Blood Sera from People, Affected by the Chernobyl Accident on Micronuclei Frequency in HPV-G Cells

Study of the Effects of Blood Sera from People, Affected by the Chernobyl Accident on Metabolic Activity of HPV-G Cells

Discussion

The Effect of Chronic Radiation Exposure of ChNNP Exclusion Zone on the Morfofunctional State and Reactivity of Organs and Tissues of Laboratory Animals

Results and Disscusion

Haematological Blood Indices of Male Rats in Generations

State of Genome in Blood Cells

Calcium and Phosphorus Exchange in Blood Serum of Male Rats in Generations

State of Testes and Epididymides of Rats in Generations

State of Endocrine System of Male Rats in Generations.

The Effect of Ecological Factors of ChNPP Exclusion Zone on

Tumorigenesis and Course of the Tumor Process of Af Mice

Participation of the Lipid Peroxidation Processes in the Mechanism of Wild Rodent Adaptation to Radioactive Contamination of the Chernobyl NPP Zone

Test-Objects and Ecological Consequences

The Effect of the Radioactive Contamination of the Environment on Characteristics and Composition of Lipids in Wild Rodent Tissues

Estimation of Long-Term Biological Consequences of Wild Rodent Inhabiting under Unfavorable

Radioecological Conditions

Response of the Plant World on Chronic Irradiation in the Zone of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station

The Impact of Radionuclide Contamination of Environment on Plants

Relative Biological Efficiency of Acute and Chronic Irradiation

Inner and Outer Irradiation of Plants

Teratogenicity in Plants in the Zone of Chronic Irradiation

Tumor Formation in Plants

Radioadaptation

Mutagenous Impact of Irradiation in Low Doses on Plants

Induction of Genome Instability in Plants

Collection of Chernobyl's Mutants of Winter Wheat

Microevolution Processes

Reparation

Effects of Low Dose Chronic Radiation and Heavy Metals on Plant-Pathogen Interactions

Decrease of Plant Disease Resistance under

Low Dose Chronic Irradiation

Biochemical Mechanism of Decreasing in Plant

Disease Resistance

Changes in Population Structure of P. Graminis in 10-Km ChE Zone

Pollutants and Virus Distribution in Cenoses

Changes in the Development of Virus Infection

References.

A Change in Efficiency of Protective Measures for Reduction of 137Cs Accumulation by Agricultural Plants in Various Periods after the Chernobyl Accident

The Effect of Protective Measures on 137Cs Accumulation in Agricultural Plants from the Soil after the Chernobyl Accident

Dynamics of 137Cs Uptake to Crop Products

Dynamics of 137Cs Delivery to the Forage Products

The Effect of Protective Measures on Dynamics of 137Cs Uptake by Plants

Regularities of 137Cs Transfer to Plants

Simulation of 137Cs Transfer to Plants

Assessment of the Role of Natural Processes, Protective Measures and Radioactive Decay in Reduction of 137Cs Accumulation by Agricultural Plants

Forecasting of 137Cs Contamination Levels of Cultivated Lands, at Which Products Meeting Standards May be Obtained, with Respect tTo

Protective Measures

Forecasting of 137Cs Contamination Levels of Plough Filed, at Which Crop Products Meeting Radiological Standards May be Obtained

Forecasting of 137Cs Contamination Levels of Cultivated Lands, at Which Forage Meeting Radiological Standards May be Produced

The Role of Trace Elements in Radiation Protection of Crop Plants and Animals on Radionuclide Contaminated Territories of Polessye

General Trends in Radioactive Contamination of the Marine Environment from the Black Sea to Antarctic Ocean

Background and Overview of Results

Black Sea: Radionuclide Inputs, Balance and Temporal Trends

Black Sea - Mediterranean Transfer

Transatlantic - Antarctic Survey

Acknowledgments

Problems of the Long-Term Radiation Exposure of Aquatic Biota within the Chernobyl Accident Exclusion Zone

Results and Discussion.

Radiation Dose and Chromosomal Aberration Rates.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographikcal references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62417-543-0

OCLC:

833311427