Health effects of Chernobyl.

Health effects of Chernobyl.

there may be an argument for a carefully trained and experienced small cadre of specialists to do the work. The existing procedures have many faults, some of which I highlighted earlier this year (21 May, p 1421). The working party has answered criticisms of delay in dealing with HM(61)112 procedures by setting indicative time limits which it hopes will keep cases to a maximum of eight months f...

Debate over health effects of Chernobyl re-ignited.

1424 www.thelancet.com Vol 375 April 24, 2010 For the birth defects study see Pediatrics 2010; 125: 836–43 Calls have been made for comprehensive studies into the continuing health eff ects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster after a rise in birth defects was identifi ed in one of the regions most aff ected by the catastrophe. A study by Wladimir Wertelecki of the University of Southern Alabama, ...

Effects of the Chernobyl Catastrophe

On Saturday, April 26th, 1986 at 1:23 am, Block 4 of the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl exploded. The plant was located approximately 100 km north of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, near the border with Belarus. 180,000 kilograms of highly radioactive material is inside the reactor at the time an amount equal to 1,000 Hiroshima bombs. About 1019 Bq of radioactive material – consisting of at least...

Chernobyl Accident: Exposures and Effects

Burton Bennett, André Bouville, Per Hall, Mikhail Savkin, Hans Storm 1 United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, Vienna International Centre, P.O. Box 500, A-1400 Vienna, Austria 2 National Cancer Institute, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, EPS-7094, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA 3 Department of Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institute, S-17177 Stockholm, Sweden 4 State ...

Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident and Special Health Care Programmes